Nette x Crown Affair Candle Gives Rich Lady's Garden

I am picky about candles. It's not enough to just smell them; I need a scent that envelops me without being too overwhelming. Frankly, most candles fail to strike this exact balance. But the new Take Your Time candle, a collaboration between award-winning clean fragrance brand Nette and cult favorite hair care line Crown Affair, delights me. [It is a blend of yuzu, apple, lemon blossom, black tea, and freshwater lotus, with woody notes of cedarwood, sandalwood, and amber rounding out the whole experience. Take Your Time combines the fresh and sexy signature scent of Crown Affair with the elegant coziness that is Nette. The finished candle will be available today, October 5, at Sephora and on Monday, October 8, on the Nette and Crown Affair websites.

The collaboration began when the brand founders admired each other's work. Nette founder Carol Han Pyle told Marie Claire that she exclusively uses Crown Affair products for her hair. Similarly, Crown Affair founder Diana Cohen has been burning Nette's chic, sustainable candles in her home since their debut in December 2020. Coincidentally, Cohen had always hoped to someday turn the juicy signature scent that scents all of Crown Affair's products, from shampoo to finishing sprays, into a home fragrance.

“The process was quite complex, but I had the help of a wonderful French perfumer, Laurent Le Guernec, who was able to create a scent for me that would be a perfect fit for my home.”

[6 The team did not want to deviate too much from the Crown Affair fragrance, as it is, in her opinion, “the perfect” scent. All that remained was to make a few adjustments to make the scent more suitable for a home environment. To achieve this, cedarwood, sandalwood, and amber were added to the base, with a hint of green apple to enhance the sweetness of the top notes.

“Home fragrances last longer and fill an entire room, while body fragrances are designed to be more personal and close to the skin,” Cohen explains of this adjustment. Home fragrances create a specific ambiance of coziness, calmness, and freshness. Body fragrances, on the other hand, express personal style and mood.”

Of course, Take Your Time is not the only Nette candle that Cohen has recently become obsessed with. 'I love a candle called Laide Tomate,' he says. 'Cause it's honestly the best tomato scent I've ever experienced. I also love the magician. There's something really cozy about it.” She added that her favorite of the fragrance collection is Nette Coco Fleur.

As for Pyle's favorite Crown Affair products, she loves The Cleansing Scrub and The Renewal Mask. She said, “I use them all, but those two are non-negotiable. 'The scrub gives me a deeper clean without feeling stripped, and the grainy texture is very satisfying on my scalp.' The mask is a luscious formula and leaves my hair feeling and smelling amazing.”

Lucky for us, we no longer have to wait for wash day to indulge in Crown Affair's scented spa vibe; check out the Nette x Crown Affair Take Your Time candle and both founders' top picks below.