14 Best New Beauty Products From October 2021: Our Honest Reviews

Where I live, it starts getting dark in the early afternoon, which means candles are an absolute winter necessity. I like them as fancy and fragranced as possible, which makes this launch from Salwa Petersen an easy favorite. Petersen created the candle as a scented love letter to her childhood in Chad, drawing on memories of the incenses and perfumes that surrounded her. The fair trade African shea butter base releases a smell so alluring, I wish I could bottle it as a perfume: rose, sandalwood, cloves, myrrh, jasmine, and Chadian chébé. It’s warm, rich, a little smoky, and completely irresistible. —Sarah Y. Wu, contributor