Courtesy Le Labo

On a recent Friday in New York City, I chose to spend the night in. My boyfriend and I ordered Thai food and watched a movie, and our living room glowed with flaxen light dancing from a candle wick. Soft rain pattered against our skylight. We were snuggled under a blanket. Instead of leaning into the romance, I turned to him and said, “I’m going to be so sad when we use up this candle .” Then I blew it out.

I may have ruined the mood, but you would too if you’ve experienced how good Le Labo’s Ambroxyde 17 makes any space smell while it’s burning. I’m a proponent of using your good things every day in lieu of saving them for special occasions (as Joan Didion once said, “every day is all there is”), but when it comes to this Le Labo candle, I’m stingy. I want to savor

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