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Joya and A24 Unveil Movie-Genre Inspired Candles

The latest development in the movie-watching experience: New York City-based production agency A24 (of recent critical hits like Lady Bird and mid90s) reached out to fragrance designer Frederick Bouchardy of Joya with a simple yet innovative idea: create a line of scented candles inspired by six classic Hollywood film categories.

The candles tell the stories of Horror, Western, Thriller, Noir, Adventure, and Musical genres, designed to stand alone as well as a cohesive group. “There are things that carry through the whole collection: a couple kinds of geranium; ambers and patchouli and dank woody things… The candles have signature complementary elements,” Bouchardy said in a statement.

With scent descriptions like, “Horror: Leathery. Dank. Not Unsettling, but not settling…” or “Noir: Velvety. Dark. A little spicy. Like rose jam,” the flavors are complex, intelligent, and most of all, sensuous. Seeing how cinematic technology has come as far as it has, smell has yet to make its way into the experience… until now. Each candle comes encased in a thick-lipped glass vessel with glossy black finishing and each aroma is labeled with a color and a number to distinguish the six variations.

The candles are available online now at A24 and Joya, as well as at the Joya studio in Brooklyn.

Images: A24 and Joya.

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Daniel Arsham Proves That Candles Are a Good Gift

After years of controversy, renowned artist and architect Daniel Arsham is making the case for candles as a good gift.

Arsham’s latest project, the Arsham Studio x Joya “Exoplanet,” is a new candle set that lets you experience the solar phenomenon. Exoplanets are planets and moons that orbit outside of the sun’s solar system, so naturally little is known about them. However, Arsham spent some time at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of NASA, which focuses largely on the study of exoplanets for thorough research before approaching the design. As a result, the combination of his knowledge and fascination with the subject matter and the distinct design sensibility of Joya (acclaimed design studio and fragrance brand founded in 2006 by Frederick Bouchardy), the collaboration produced an exoplanet-inspired candle set that is truly out of this world.

Along with the candle itself comes the ritual of its assembly. Each set comes with the slip cast porcelain “Exoplanet” in 2 parts, 350g of scented, soy wax beads in an aluminum canister, two cotton wicks, and a pair of gloves. The scent was produced exclusively for this collaboration, consisting of fig leaf, coconut milk, cut grass, cyclamen, jasmine, hyacinth Cedarwood Texas, violet, rosewater, amber, incense, tonka and vanilla beans. Whoever said that candles were a poor gift clearly never had the opportunity to make their own space-inspired porcelain set, but rest assured those days are gone.

The Arsham Studio x Joya “Exoplanet” candle is available online now.

Images: Arsham Studio x Joya.

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