True to its commitment to sustainability, Carrière Frères has launched innovative and ground-breaking refills for scented candles!
Unique and 100% compostable, the new container consists of a biodegradable and recyclable vegetal ‘skin’ that holds the 100% vegetable scented wax refill – made from organic European rapeseed.
Carrière Frères X The Museum
In collaboration with the Paris National Museum of Natural History, Carrière Frères presents an exceptional collection of candles inspired by some of the rarer specimens found in the plant kingdom.
The Museum of Natural History is famous for its huge collection of remarkable and unusual botanical and zoological illustrations, lithographs and vellums, dating from the early 17th Century to the mid 19th Century.
In this collaboration, Carrière Frères brings these fascinating and extraordinary plants to life, taking us on a historical, geographical olfactory journey.
ARTEMISIA ABSINTHIUM – ABSINTHE
Absinthe or common wormwood (Artemisia absinthium L.) is a perennial shrub native to continental, temperate zones in Europe, Asia and North Africa. Known since Antiquity, its medicinal use is recorded in Ancient Egypt in the Ebers Papyrus (between 1,600 and 1,500 B.C.); later Pythagoras (570-490 B.C.) and Hippocrates (460- 377 B.C.) wrote about absinthe alcohol and its stimulating effects on human health and creativity. The Ancient Greeks drank wine made from its extract, and in the 18th Century, the public could taste it distilled with green aniseed and fennel.
Called ‘the alcohol that made one mad,’ absinthe was reputed to provide creative powers, and before being banned was the infamous muse that inspired writers Emile Zola and Paul Verlaine, painters Vincent Van Gogh and Edgar Degas.
FRAGRANCE
A plant with an intense vegetal aroma that unveils a green and aromatic fragrance softened by a woody base note.
BURN TIME
The 185g candles will burn for 45-50 hours. Please follow the instructions enclosed with your candle to get the most out of it.
REFILL INSTRUCTIONS
1. Never burn the refill in its packaging.
2. Before adding a refill, you need to remove any wax residue left in the glass container of your Carrière Frères scented candle. To do so, place the glass container in the freezer for a few hours. This will make it easy to remove any wax residue. You can also rub the glass with a wet soapy cloth.
3. Remove the wick and the metallic wick tab.
4. Once the container is empty and clean, remove the refill from its packaging by turning it upside down.
5. Place the scented refill into the Carrière Frères glass container.
6. Reuse your candles’ glasses indefinitely!
ABOUT THE BRAND
In 1884, the Carrière brothers took over the French Royal Wax Manufacturer (now known as Cire Trudon) with the intention to modernise it, while still preserving its historical savoir-faire.
With the industrial revolution well underway, access to electricity was becoming more widespread, and therefore candles weren’t as much of a necessity as they had been in the past. So, the Carrière brothers came up with a new way to keep candle use alive – candles as decorative objects! They create tapered and pillar candles for aesthetic use, for dinner settings or festivities, and they quickly became popular. At the 1889 Exposition Universelle (which the Eiffel Tower was built for) the brothers were awarded a gold medal for their vision and craft.
Inspired by the discoveries of 18th-century botanists and explorers, the Carrière Frères packaging and fragrances draw upon the natural biodiversity of the plant kingdom. In each and every scented candle or spray, perfume and botanical essences become one: composed like a periodic table, the Carrière Frères line honours scents extracted from herbs, roots, flowers, fruits or trees.
Each candle is made according to ancient expertise and handcrafted in the Trudon workshop in Normandy; the candles’ perfume coming from a blend of natural raw and synthetic materials. Since 2022, each of their candles and botanical palets are formulated with 100% vegetable wax, from European organic rapeseed.
