You don’t know candles until you know Cire Trudon candles. The grandaddy of home scent, Cire Trudon dates back to 1643. All these centuries later, it still wears the gold medal for chicest scented candle, bejewelling marble mantle pieces and making decadent hallways of even the most unappealing homesteads. Cire has had a pretty good innings; there was the on screen debut alongside Kirsten Dunst in Sofia Coppola’s 2006 fantastical biopic, Marie Antoinette. Without Cire, those dramatic Versailles drawing rooms would have been nothing. Kind of. 

Now the brand joins forces with tongue-in-cheek accessories designer, Yaz Bukey to bring forth one of its most desirable glass jars yet. The Parisian-based designer found inspiration for this limited edition in a fictional 50s rockabilly girl on the back of her boyfriend’s motorcycle. ‘I wanted it to smell like leather, lipstick and hairspray’, Bukey said, quite a fabulous cry from the bergamot and citrus classics the brand is known for then. Each glass is completed by a plexiglass lid featuring her own signature pink pout motif. And in case you wondered what a concoction of leather, lipstick and hairspray smells like in reality – it’s actually pretty delicious. Violet, feminine and almost edible. 

Traditionalists rest easy: Cire Trudon is a brand proud of its heritage and so stamps it, quite literally, all over each glass. Every pink and red Bukey-approved label has been made by Glosset, France’s oldest champagne producer (it makes Cire look like a baby next to its 1534 birthday) and every vessel is still hand blown, just like back in 1643.

Yaz Bukey for Cire Trudon Scented Candle, £85, at Avenue 32