Halloween Pumpkin Candles
It’s getting to that time of year when the nights start drawing in, and Halloween is fast approaching. Halloween pumpkin candles have become popular recently, and we’re not referring to the small tea-light ones you put inside your carved pumpkin.
There is a beautiful online collection to give your home the scent of autumn.
The leaves start to fall, and autumn colours are laid on the ground as crisp leaves we can walk through. The lovely thing about Halloween candles is their vibrant colours.
Orange/red jars have a wonderful autumnal scent to match the season, giving their surroundings a warm winter feel.
During the summer, we light candles to make the garden look pretty and keep insects at bay while we entertain friends and family, but there’s a different feel when we light candles in the winter.
Related article: Summer Scented Candles
We know that candles can improve our mood. Watching the flame flicker brings a sense of peace and calm.
Even the unscented kind can be just as calming and rewarding. Many of the tea light candles we use in small containers are unscented. Having them lit in the room on a cold winter evening can bring us into a different world of safety and warmth.
Lighting a candle during a stressful day can help shift your mood to a more positive one. Often, without even realising it, wax melts are also great for their gorgeous aroma and for bringing a chilled vibe to our day.
Other scented candles can bring back beautiful memories and positively impact our lives as the room fills with a delicate scent. We know there are always candles on sale at Christmas time with a distinctive scent for that particular season.
Those that contain wood, spices, apple cinnamon and chocolate scents are prevalent during the holiday season, but what about Halloween?
Candle fragrances for Halloween
Pumpkin caramel, gourmet spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, and pecan are typical fragrance notes in Halloween candles. This extraordinary combination of fragrances captures the atmosphere surrounding cold, spooky nights.
Halloween offers many creative candle designs alongside the rich colours of candle wax and fancy containers. Candles make beautiful gifts, too, whatever the season or occasion, and many are affordable wherever we purchase them.
Bringing Halloween to life
Halloween has been a tradition for as long as 6,000 years and has been hugely popular, especially in America. It was a time when children dressed up in their favourite spooky costumes to knock on doors for Trick-or-Treating ( my childhood misconception was that it was called trickle-treating! ).
Over the years, we have seen pumpkins sitting on windowsills with all the house lights out or carved pumpkins sitting by the front door. These days, lit pumpkins signify that the owner is happy for children to knock on that person’s door.
It is a much better way of doing things, especially for the older generation. They don’t want to keep answering the door, especially if they are not mobile enough to keep getting up and down out of their chair or are perhaps vulnerable and too scared to open the door late at night.
We see hundreds of children dressed in their favourite costumes, carrying a cauldron-shaped sweet tub, witches hat, or similar container as they knock on people’s doors for Trick or Treat and collect sweets.
Tea light candles pop inside the carved pumpkin, and they look very effective once darkness falls, especially if one has been very creative in the carving.
Nowadays, seasonal candles are sold online and in shops. Pumpkin-scented candles for the Halloween season have become very popular over the years and add an element of mystery as the scents waft through the air.
You will see many candles in the shape of witches or black cats and the traditional glass jar-styled ones.
Some clear glass candle jars are decorated with spider webs or witches, which look effective when lit.
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Of course, if you have young children who like to be involved with the tradition, you could be very creative and decorate your jars to place out for the evening.
If you are lighting a pumpkin sitting on your windowsill or outside, it’s much safer to use a tea-light candle with LED lights, which are very reasonably priced.
12pcs LED Orange Pumpkin Lanterns – 3D Halloween Flameless Tea Lights – Bat
There are vibrant colours of orange and red with many of our seasonal candles, and they make a wonderful gift whatever the season and don’t have to cost a fortune.
Let’s take a look at some of the beautiful Halloween candles that are available today.
Some decorative glass candles by Colonialcandle.com are suitable for Halloween, too.
Take a look on eBay for some more pumpkin-scented candles that are available.
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2 Comments
Vai
Thank you so much for your post on the Halloween pumpkin candles. I have never bought any type of candles for personal reasons mostly because of safety. However, I love the scents and fragrances that candles produce. I can smell the scent of lit candles in a house as soon as the door opened. I have seen people bought candles and always wondered about it, but you have bought out several reasons why? Besides the fragrances and scents, the soothing feeling calmness sound very beneficial. Love the post!
Louise Allen
Hello Vai,
Thank you for stopping by and reading my article. There are so many candles available today for so many different seasons and celebrations. I understand your reasons for not buying with regards to safety and candles. You may wish to read my article on wax melts. The benefit of a gorgeous scent with a safer candle being burned.
There’s definitely a sense of calm and relaxation when candles are lit so they are suitable all year around.