Peau de Soie
Désir No. V · French for silk skin · White floral · citrus
Silk skin: the candle that comes closest to being worn. Light it after a bath.
If you leave the scent to us: Madurai jasmine (Madurai, Tamil Nadu) × Lemon myrtle (Bundaberg, Queensland). Or compose your own from twenty-four materials, twelve from India and twelve from Australia, and choose your wax: soy, the coconut and rapeseed house blend, beeswax, or granulated sand.
₹2,400 in India · A$48 in Australia, taxes and delivery included. Made to order, 3–5 days.
A note from the house
The closest a candle comes to being worn. Light it after a bath and the room smells the way skin does in the heat: Madurai jasmine, opened in the evening, kept bright by lemon myrtle.
Made most often as a gift to oneself.
— Désir · Gurgaon
The story
Madurai malli is the jasmine of temple garlands and wedding hair, picked in the evening when it opens. It is a skin scent, warm and slightly animal.
Lemon myrtle is a Queensland rainforest leaf that smells more of lemon than lemon does. It keeps the jasmine from ever becoming heavy.
Light it after a bath. It is the closest a candle comes to being worn.
