Lola James Harper’s Scented Candles

With descriptions like quick journal entries, each product is named after a visited place

Smell is a powerful way we mentally transport back to places and people we’ve visited. Rami Mekdachi is aware of this—thanks to his longtime experience with studying how fragrance can embody not only a brand’s story but also philosophies and lifestyles. Mekdachi started out as a perfume developer at L’Oreal in 1998 before working on candles and fragrances for Colette, Chloé, Lacoste, Roger Vivier and …

A Scented Candle Inspired by the Aurora Borealis

From hygge experts Skandinavisk for the upcoming AW16 collection

Spreading the uniquely Scandinavian warmth of “hygge” via elegant scented candles, Skandinavisk has an exceptionally striking new design for their AW16 collection that caught our eye. Named “Nordlys” (Danish and Norwegian for the Northern Lights), it’s inspired by one of nature’s greatest paintings in the sky that the Arctic Region gets to witness. “With Nordlys, the ambition was to create a fragrance truly indefinable but …

Mirka Mora + Gorman Artist Collaboration

The 88-year-old Australian icon has her paintings translated into delightfully bold fabrics

Perhaps little known outside of Australia, Mirka Mora’s art is legendary Down Under—specifically in Melbourne, where her gloriously busy paintings and mosaics adorn laneways, restaurants and (of course) gallery walls. The French-born artist (to a Romanian Jewish mother and Lithuanian Jewish father) migrated to Melbourne in 1951 and—along with her husband—founded one of the first commercial galleries in the city, along with three cafes and …