Fill your home with one of these 11 great-smelling candles (including Taylor Swift’s favorite) — they’re all under $50

Updated Feb 28, 2025 1:11 am ET


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Great-Smelling Candles under $50
Graphic by Abby Kass; photos Amazon and Bath & Body Works

We are in an era when you can find a scented candle for just about every mood and occasion, from lavender candles for a relaxing bath to crackling fire candles to feel cozy during a dinner party. And after you’ve decided on a candle’s scent, there are other details to consider, like whether it’s a quality and clean-burning candle. This includes features like whether it’s made with soy wax, all-natural wicks and if non-toxic fragrance oils are being used. So how do you narrow down the perfect candle for you?

Here are several best-selling and highly-rated candles that customers continue to come back to over and over again. You’ll for sure find your new favorite below.

  1. Pink Sands is a well-loved Yankee Candle that evokes a tropical beach vacation and has over 110 hours of burn time. Plus, it’s over 50% off right now.

>> Buy Yankee Candle Pink Sands for $14.99 on Amazon

  1. Mahogany Teakwood Intense is a best-seller for a reason! The large, three-wick candle has a high concentration of rich fragrance oils to fill the room with notes of dark oak and frosted lavender.

>> Buy Mahogany Teakwood Intense for $16.95 on Bath & Body Works

  1. Taylor Swift could choose just about any candle for her home, but her favorite one to light is Tree House by Byredo. The 2.5-ounce candle fills your room with woodsy notes that linger long after the candle is burned.

>> Buy Byredo Tree House for $50.00 on Nordstrom

  1. NEST New York’s 8-ounce glass jar candles are ultra-popular and come in a ton of different scents. The Bamboo candle has notes or greens along with florals including lush jasmine and hyacinth.

>> Buy Nest New York Bamboo for $48.00 on Amazon

  1. A calming bedtime routine is one that allows you to truly relax, and the Serenity+Calm candle with a lavender thyme scent can help you slowly unwind before falling asleep.

>> Buy Chesapeake Bay Serenity+Calm Lavender Thyme for $11.89 on Amazon

  1. After a long day, relieve some stress with a three-wick aromatherapy eucalyptus and spearmint candle that can burn for up to 45 hours.

>> Buy Eucalyptus Spearmint for $15.95 on Bath & Body Works

  1. Voluspa’s luxe candles offer a clean-burning coconut wax hand poured into decorative amber glass. This warm and spicy scent has notes of amber, sandalwood, cedar and vanilla.

>> Buy Voluspa Baltic Amber for $22.00 on Nordstrom

  1. Cobalt blue glass jars give Capri Blue candles a vibrant look and will add a luxury scent of tropical fruit and sugared citrus to the room..

>> Buy Capri Blue Volcano for $21.95 on Amazon

  1. This pretty handmade ceramic jar candle gives you a beautiful mix of classic rose and rich oud blended together in a 100% soy wax base that’s free of paraffin and additives.

>> Buy Annex Canal Rose for $30.95 on Amazon

  1. WoodWick’s hourglass candle captures the ambiance of a warm crackling fire and not just in the scent of exotic woods and amber but with its signature wooden wicks.

>> Buy WoodWick Fireside for $16.87 on Amazon

  1. Get into your cozy Vanilla Era with this 50-hour candle by Boy Smells that is a coconut and beeswax blend featuring notes of white tulip, cashmere wood, vanilla and coffee.

>> Buy Boy Smells Vanilla Era for $48.00 on Amazon

Lauren Wilrich

Lauren Wilrich

Author McClatchy Commerce

Lauren is a Commerce Updates Editor at McClatchy. She is based in Houston, Texas, and holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Dallas. Lauren has written for women’s accessories and home goods brands and has edited commerce content for numerous publications with a focus on home and kitchen gadgets, health, and beauty verticals. When she’s not editing, she can be found enjoying Houston’s restaurant scene and attempting DIY arts and crafting projects.

Abby Kass

Abby Kass

Editor McClatchy Commerce

Abby Kass is a Commerce Content Editor at McClatchy covering kids/babies, pets, beauty, and more. With more than seven years experience writing and editing shopping content, Abby has a strong understanding of how important commerce content really is and its important value to readers. She loves browsing online and finding innovative, unique, and just down-right cool products. Before McClatchy, Abby started her career working for Parents Magazine where she fell in love with writing about products. She then spent six years at BuzzFeed falling deeper into the shopping world writing more than 1,500 product roundups and reviews. She sees shopping as a sport and has worked hard at mastering it in order to help make people’s lives easier as they find cool and useful products.