36 Best Fall Candles To Add To Your Collection

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With autumn right around the corner, it’s time to prepare for fall weather and pumpkin spice everything. And, what’s a better way to ring in the new season than with some of the best smelling candles? Because everybody loves a good fall scented candle, right?

Lighting a warm, delectable, strong scented candle can enhance the feeling of your home during the fall and set the mood for the coziest of vibes. Here’s a list of some of the best smelling fall candles to add to your collection to make your space smell like a welcoming autumn oasis. 

Fall Candle Scents to Add to Your Home

Pumpkin Spice

The infamous scent of pumpkin spice is a no brainer when it comes to fall candles.

Best Fall Candles - Sweet Water Decor Pumpkin Spice

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Pumpkin Spice

Sweet Water Decor

To add a little bit of pumpkin, spice and everything nice to your home this fall, try out this Pumpkin Spice candle. This candle combines pumpkin, clove, buttercream, cinnamon, embers and vanilla for the perfect fall blend that transports you to the coziest autumn oasis — sipping a hot coffee while cuddled up with a blanket and good book, or baking a pumpkin pie on a crisp day. 


Best Fall Candles - Coco Benjamin Pumpkin Pecan Waffles

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Pumpkin Pecan Waffles

CoCo Benjamin

Another pumpkin option to make your home smell like Halloweentown is a candle flavored like Pumpkin Pecan Waffles. This scent is everything yummy and sweet, blended into a unique, sugary autumn confection. Made with natural essential oils and soy wax blend, this strong scent combines pumpkin spice, maple syrup, golden waffles and brown sugar. This candle takes basic pumpkin spice to the next level. 


Best Fall Candles - Yankee Candle Spiced Pumpkin

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Spiced Pumpkin

Yankee Candle

The spiced scent of a baking pumpkin pie is embodied in this candle with notes of clove, nutmeg, and cinnamon.


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Pumpkin Spice

Hyde & Eek!

Happy harvest indeed! Pumpkin spice is the warm aroma of your favorite spiced cookie, with just a hint of pumpkin for added seasonal delight.


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Pumpkin Spice

Love & Linger

With the spice coming from an enticing blend of clove, maple, and cinnamon, this candle is sure to bring about feelings of nostalgia.


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Hello Pumpkin

AOOVOO

This isn’t your typical pumpkin spice candle. The hints of green apple and pineapple, combined with cinnamon and pumpkin, make this a refreshing twist on a classic.


Best Fall Candles - Volupsa Spiced pumpkin Latte

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Spiced Pumpkin Latte

Volupsa

A warm and spicy candle that burns for over 100 hours in the 18oz size (goodbye expensive candles!), this pumpkin latte delight conjures up note of vanilla, marshmallow, and of course, our favorite spiced pumpkin.


Best Fall Candles - Anthropologie pumpkin Spice & Black Walnut Candle

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Pumpkin Spice & Black Walnut

Anthropologie

Who said that our pumpkin candles only had to smell like pumpkin spice? This pumpkin-shaped candle provides not only the rich, enticing scent of patchouli, cinnamon, and amber, but it provides your home with a touch of fall decor, too!


Red Apple Spice

Another signature fall scent to elevate your space is red apple. This scent will bring the most autumnal aroma to your home that smells just like a day at the apple orchard, your grandma’s apple pie or sipping on fresh apple cider.

Best Fall Candles - Yankee Candle Red Apple Wreath

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Red Apple Wreath

Yankee Candle

Yankee Candle’s Red Apple Wreath is a sweet option that combines the scents of apples, cinnamon, walnuts and maple. This strong scented candle will be sure to set the mood in your space, get you feeling festive and can be used throughout both the fall and winter season.


Best Fall Candles - Nest Apple Blossom

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Apple Blossom

NEST New York

A more expensive, luxurious option is this Apple Blossom candle from NEST New York. The hefty price tag is worth it, though. This scent combines red apples, white amber and cedarwood and will transport you to luscious fall foliage and the simple moments of the season. This candle would make a great holiday gift or housewarming present.


Best Fall Candles - La Jolie Muse Fresh Apple

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Fresh Apple

La Jolie Muse

Not just an apple candle, this is a combination of your favorite fruit scents—peach, pineapple, lemon, and apple—blended together with the rich musky tones of amber and sandalwood. The ideal candle for a cozy holiday party.


Best Fall Candles - Sand + Fog Apple Spice

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Apple Spice

Sand + Fog

Made with natural essential oils and a cotton, lead-free wick, this candle comes the fall fragrances of apple cider with peach, clove, and cinnamon.


Best Fall Candles - Capri Blue Apple Cider Social

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Apple Cider Social

capri Blue

Think of this like a holiday in a candle. Sweet apple and pear delicately pair with cinnamon, clove, and nutmeg, for a seasonal treat you can’t wait to light for your guests.


Best Fall Candles - King of Candle Warm Apple Cider Donut

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Warm Apple Cider Donut

King Of Candle

Does this bring back memories of apple orchard visits as a kid? Well, this fragrance is exactly that—hot apple cider and one of those soft, right-out-of-the-oven donuts.


Best Fall Candles - Threshold Honeycrisp Apple Cider

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Honeycrisp Apple Cider

Threshold

A sweet honeycrisp apple scent is paired with the spiced notes of apple cider—just like your favorite fall date.


Apple Cinnamon

Bonus: If you like the aroma of red apple, you’ll love the amped up, iconic fragrance of apple cinnamon.

Best Fall Candles - Yankee Candle Sugared Cinnamon Apple

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Sugared Cinnamon Apple

Yankee Candle

Yankee Candle has another great option: Sugared Cinnamon Apple. This satisfying fragrance will have your space smelling like a bakery or with its blend of sugar, cinnamon apples and vanilla frosting.


Best Fall Candles - Lulu Candles Apple Cinnamon

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Apple Cinnamon

Lulu Candles

With a 6oz size that can burn for an incredible 45 hours, this apple cinnamon scented candle is also made from eco-friendly soy wax!


Best Fall Candles - Ardent Flame Cinnamon Apple Crisp

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Cinnamon Apple Crisp

Ardent Flame

A candle made from 100% vegan, paraben free, soy wax sourced from American soybean farms is one that you can feel good about burning!


Best Fall Candles - Nature's Wick Cinnamon & Apple

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Cinnamon & Apple

Nature’s Wick

Apple + cinnamon + maple is the perfect combination for fall.


Best Fall Candles - Calyan Wax Co Apples & Maple Bourbon

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Apples & Maple Bourbon

Calyan Wax CO

Take the apple flavor up a notch with the sticky sweet scent of maple syrup, cinnamon leaf, and drops of orange essential oils.


Best Fall Candles - Apple Cinnamon Icing Etsy

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Apple Cinnamon Icing

Chrissy’s Soaps And More

Apple cinnamon, but make it all grown up. This candle even has real dried apple and cinnamon sticks in the wax to give you a one-of-a-kind candle from a small business.


Best Fall Candles - Threshold Warm Cider & Cinnamon

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Warm Cider & Cinnamon

Threshold

Warm cider and cinnamon? What more is there to say?


Anything Musky

For those who don’t like sweet scents, anything musky is a perfect route to take to enhance your home during the fall season.  

Best Fall Candles - Boy Smells Ash Scented Candle

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Ash

Boy Smells

Try out this Ash scented candle from Boy Smells. This candle is made from a blend of coconut wax and beeswax and smells like firewood, smoke, charcoal, palo santo and hay. This scent is warm and subtly smoky, and it fills the room when burned without the aroma being too overpowering. It’s the perfect musky fall scent option for those who aren’t fond of sweet fragrances. 


Best Fall Candles - Leoben Company Teakwood and Oak

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Teakwood & Oak

Leoben Company

Envision the scent of a familiar cabin home lost deep in the woods…got it? That’s what this candle smells like!


Best Fall Candles - Flamme Candle Co Vanity

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Vanity

Flamme Candle Co.

There’s just something that we love about the musky scent of tobacco in a candle. Vanity, however, softens the stronger notes with the sweet fragrance of vanilla and ginger for a highly scented aromatherapy candle.


Best Fall Candles - Bath & Body Works Mahogany Teakwood

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Mahogany Teakwood

Bath & Body Works

Bath & Body Works also has an iconic musky scent: Mahogany Teakwood. This scent is infamous for being the ideal blend of rich mahogany and black teakwood paired with dark oak, frosted lavender and other natural essential oils. This candle also comes in a high intensity version, as well as a separate scent combined with apple (aka perfect for fall). 


Best Fall Candles - Anthropologie Kindred Candle

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Kindred Candle

Anthropologie

Straight from the woods, this candle blends pine, fir, and eucalyptus into an earthy scent for fall!


Best Fall Candles - Manly Indulgence Black Tuxedo

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Black Tuxedo

Manly Indulgence

A decadent blend of vanilla, sandalwood, cedar, and clove combine to make a masculine—yet refined—candle that you will want to burn all year round.


Best Fall Candles - Northern Lights Whiskey And Tobacco

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Whiskey and Tobacco Spirit

Northern Lights

Earthy and musky, this candle brings up images of your favorite cigar lounge with fresh tobacco and a whiskey cocktail.


Vanilla

Vanilla is the perfect scent for any season, but a lot of fall candles take vanilla up a notch by adding notes of spices.

Best Fall Candles - Homesick Pumpkin Picking

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Pumpkin Picking

Homesick Candles

Homesick focuses on creating all-natural soy wax blend candles in a variety of dreamy, nostalgic scents and this one is no exception. Pumpkin Picking is an amped up vanilla perfect for autumn with mid notes of ginger, cinnamon and clove and base notes of vanilla, tonka bean and sugar. 

Bonus: this scent can be ordered on Amazon, so quick shipping will get your home smelling like a fall oasis in no time! The burn time is also almost 80 hours, so it’ll last you awhile. 


Best Fall Candles - Homelights Vanilla Cupcake

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Vanilla Cupcake

Home Lights

This isn’t your normal cupcake—this is a spiced vanilla cupcake. With hints of almond and musky amber, this vanilla candle is like an adult-themed birthday party.


Best Fall Candles - Anthropologie Bourbon Vanilla

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Bourbon Vanilla

Anthropologie

We know that vanilla candles get a bad reputation for being boring, but we think this candle is anything but!


Best Fall Candles - Yankee Candle Vanilla Creme Brulee

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Vanilla Crème Brûlée

Yankee Candle

Vanilla and toasted praline make our mouth water with dreams of our favorite dessert.


Best Fall Candles - Nest New York Madagascar Vanilla

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Madagascar Vanilla

Nest New York

This candle is everything that vanilla should be—warm, inviting, and oh-so-delicious. Coconut and vanilla bean are a fantastic pairing without being too sticky sweet, and vanilla orchid gives the candle a floral finish.


Best Fall Candles - Diptyque Vanilla

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Vanilla

Diptyque

The name doesn’t get any more simple than that! What sets this candle above, however, is the spicy notes that give this vanilla candle an almost smoky aroma.


Best Fall Candles - Ulta Black Salt Vanilla

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Black Salt Vanilla

Ulta

A unique candle that blends black lava salt, vanilla, and tiare flower into a candle you won’t soon forget!


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Vanilla Sky

Skylar

This rich vanilla and cappuccino candle is also made from sustainable soy coconut wax (hand-poured in Los Angeles!) and perfect for a night curled up with a good book.

If you’re ready to kickstart the upcoming fall season, try out the scents mentioned above to elevate your space and have the coziest fall yet! 

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