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5 Best Candles That Smell Like Love Spell, So Your Room Smells Like the Mist for Hours

October 17, 2026 by MBur Candle Co.

If you are looking for candles that smell like Love Spell, you want the peach and jasmine from that Victoria's Secret mist to stay in the room for hours. A spray fades in minutes. Two of the five candles below keep that scent in the air on 100% beeswax with phthalate-free fragrance, and the one ranked first shares the two notes at the center of the mist.

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Our top pick is Retail Therapy. It sets peach and jasmine over dark berries and a warm amber base, which is the same fruity-floral shape that made Love Spell a classic. The other picks cover a softer bedroom option and the small shops that pour direct dupes, but if you stop reading here, start with Retail Therapy from MBur's hand-poured beeswax candles.

Why a spray fades fast and a candle keeps going

Love Spell is a body mist, and mists are mostly alcohol. Alcohol evaporates quickly, and it carries the lightest notes away first. Peach and cherry blossom are the brightest parts of the formula, so they are the first to leave the air.

A candle releases scent on a slower clock. The flame warms a pool of melted wax, and the fragrance in that pool rises into the room for as long as the wax stays liquid. The bright notes and the warm base notes keep arriving together, hour after hour.

Beeswax adds time to that. It has the highest melting point of any candle wax, so it melts slower and burns longer. That is why MBur's 12 oz size runs 80+ hours. Once you know a candle can hold the scent, the next question is which candle carries the right notes.

What Love Spell smells like, note by note

Love Spell opens with peach, cherry blossom, and white jasmine. Under those sit cherry, red apple, white woods, tamarind, and a light musk. The effect is sweet fruit up front with a soft, clean floral finish.

Victoria's Secret sells Love Spell mainly as a mist and a lotion. A branded Love Spell candle is generally not part of its regular lineup. That means every Love Spell candle you find is a candle maker's own reading of the scent.

Shops that pour a direct copy usually buy a fragrance oil sold as "Love Spell type." Each shop then sets its own ratios. One version leans into peach, while another leans into cherry blossom or musk.

So the core to look for is peach and jasmine over tart fruit, finished with a soft warm base. A candle with that structure reads as Love Spell in a room, even without the name on the jar. That gives you a clear test for every pick below.

How these five are ranked

Each pick is ranked on how closely the scent tracks Love Spell's peach and jasmine heart and how cleanly the candle burns. Clean burning matters here because soot adds a smoky smell that flattens bright fruit. The first two picks are where both line up.

The 5 best candles that smell like Love Spell

1. MBur Retail Therapy: the closest match on beeswax

Spray Love Spell on your wrist and the first thing you get is sweet peach. A minute later, a white floral note rises under it and the fruit softens. That handoff from fruit to flower is the part people miss once the bottle runs dry.

Our Retail Therapy beeswax candle makes the same handoff across a whole room. Its notes are Red Currant, Black Currant, Jasmine, Peach, Black Tea, Amber, Anise, Tonka Bean.

Peach and jasmine are the two notes it shares directly with the mist. The currants do the job that cherry and red apple do in Love Spell, adding a tart edge so the sweetness stays bright. Amber and tonka bean sit where the musk and white woods sit, giving the scent a warm finish.

Black tea and anise set this candle apart from a typical dupe. They lay a darker line under the fruit, which pulls the scent toward perfume and away from candy. A candy smell is the most common complaint buyers have about Love Spell copies, and this blend is built to avoid it.

Best for: the living room, or the bedroom you light most nights.

Size to pick: the 12 oz size ($65). Its two wooden wicks melt a wider pool faster. A wider pool puts more fragrance into the air, so the scent reaches the far side of the room.

"I burn it in my room and my living room and it fills my space SOOOOO nicely. ... Theres nothing I hate more than a candle that can't fill the room and baby this is NOT that. This candle permeates every corner of the room."

Verified buyer, Retail Therapy

2. MBur Do Not Disturb: the softer version for a small bedroom

Plenty of Love Spell fans still wear it. If you spray it before bed, a room that smells louder than your wrist gets in the way of the scent you chose.

Our Do Not Disturb beeswax candle takes the same fruit and flower idea and keeps it quiet. Its notes are Pear, Bergamont, Peach Blossom, Amber, Jasmine, Vanilla, Sandalwood.

Peach blossom and jasmine carry the Love Spell connection. Pear brings the crisp fruit that red apple brings to the mist. Sandalwood and amber give a soft woody base close to Love Spell's white woods, and vanilla lets the finish settle gently.

Best for: a small bedroom, or a room you light a few nights a week.

Size to pick: the 5 oz size ($32). One wooden wick fills a small room well, and 40 hours covers many nights of winding down.

"I love the scent of this candle. It is lovely not overpowering. It's soothing fragrance more than covers my bedroom and bathroom."

Verified buyer, Do Not Disturb

3. Wickedly Sweet Creations Inspired by Victoria's Secret Love Spell Candle

Known for: a small shop that hand pours its candles and names this one directly after the mist. The scent is built around peach and cherry blossom, the two brightest notes in Love Spell.

Shops like this one work from a type oil and set their own ratios. Read the listing for the wax used and ask whether the fragrance is phthalate-free before you order.

4. Scented Designs Love Spell Soy Candle

Known for: a handcrafted soy candle with a fuller floral heart. It pairs peach and apple with grapefruit on top, over cherry blossom and hydrangea. The grapefruit makes it read brighter and more citrus-forward than the mist itself.

Soy is a plant wax, and many soy candles on the market are soy blends. The label is where you confirm what you are burning.

5. It Is What It Is Candles Love Spell Candle

Known for: an indie candle sold on nostalgia and romance. The listing leans on the memory of the mist and pitches it as a scent for a date night in.

As with any dupe, the exact balance of peach, blossom and musk depends on the oil the shop buys. Ask about the fragrance before it goes in your cart.

Candle	Format	Scent direction	House style
MBur Retail Therapy	Beeswax candle, 5 oz or 12 oz	Peach and jasmine over currants, black tea and amber	100% beeswax, wooden wicks, hand poured in NYC
MBur Do Not Disturb	Beeswax candle, 5 oz or 12 oz	Peach blossom and jasmine over pear, vanilla and sandalwood	100% beeswax, wooden wicks, hand poured in NYC
Wickedly Sweet Creations	Hand-poured candle	Peach and cherry blossom, sold as inspired by Love Spell	Small-batch shop
Scented Designs	Soy candle	Peach, apple and grapefruit over cherry blossom and hydrangea	Handcrafted
It Is What It Is Candles	Candle	Sold as a romantic Love Spell dupe	Indie shop, nostalgia-led

Why the wax under the fragrance changes what you smell

Fragrance oil rides inside the wax, and the wax decides how evenly and how cleanly it reaches the air. Two candles with the same oil can smell different once lit.

Paraffin, the most common candle wax, starts as crude oil. Refineries pull fuel and lubricants out of that oil, and paraffin is the wax left at the end. In plain terms, paraffin is petroleum waste.

When paraffin burns, it can leave a black ring of soot on the jar. Research has shown that paraffin candles release benzene, toluene and formaldehyde as they burn. If you want background on fine particles in a home, the EPA's guide to indoor particulate matter explains where they come from.

Soot also changes the smell. A smoky edge sits on top of the fragrance and dulls bright fruit first. For a scent built on peach and blossom, that is exactly the part you would lose.

Beeswax is a single natural wax, a byproduct of honey production, with no paraffin in it. It burns with the cleanest flame of any candle wax and gives off a light close to natural sunlight. MBur pours only 100% beeswax.

The fragrance matters as much as the wax. Many candles use toxic fragrances containing phthalates, chemicals added to help scent last. MBur uses only phthalate-free fragrance and no chemical dye, so what reaches the air is the peach and jasmine you came for. With the wax settled, the remaining choice is scent and size.

Which pick fits your room

A big or open living room

Choose Retail Therapy in the 12 oz size. The two wooden wicks build a full melt pool quickly, which is what an open space needs. The currant and amber base also holds up in a larger room where lighter scents thin out.

A small bedroom you wind down in

Choose Do Not Disturb in the 5 oz size. One wick is plenty for a small room. The scent stays soft enough to fall asleep to.

You still wear Love Spell

Do Not Disturb sits under the perfume instead of over it. Its peach blossom and jasmine echo what is on your skin, so the room and your wrist smell like one scent.

You light a candle every night

Go with the 12 oz size in either scent. At 80+ hours, it covers weeks of evenings and keeps the scent part of your routine.

But I want the exact Love Spell formula

No candle sells the official Love Spell formula. Every version, including the direct dupes, is one maker's reading of the scent. What you can choose is the reading that fits you.

Retail Therapy keeps the peach and jasmine that define the mist. It adds depth that holds up across a long burn, so the scent at hour 30 matches the scent at hour one.

But the dupes I have tried smelled like candy

A candy smell usually comes from sweet fruit with nothing underneath it. Retail Therapy puts black tea and anise under the peach. Those darker notes give the sweetness something to rest on, so it reads as perfume.

But will it fill the room the way the mist does?

A mist fills a room for minutes, and a candle fills it for the whole burn. Pick the size for your space, and let the first burn melt all the way to the edge of the jar. The verified buyer quoted above burns Retail Therapy in two rooms and says it reaches every corner.

Giving one to a Love Spell fan

A Love Spell candle makes a thoughtful gift for the friend who wore the mist through school. The scent does most of the work, so presentation can stay simple.

Write a short note that names the connection: the peach and jasmine from the mist she used to wear.
Choose the 12 oz size if she lights candles most nights, and the 5 oz size for a small bedroom.
Add a first-burn tip to the card. Let the first burn run until the melted wax reaches the edge of the jar, which sets an even burn for the life of the candle.
Keep the candle upright and wrap it in paper so the wooden wicks arrive straight.

Questions people ask about Love Spell candles

Does Victoria's Secret make a Love Spell candle?

Love Spell is sold mainly as a body mist and lotion, and a branded candle is generally not part of the regular lineup. That makes every Love Spell candle an interpretation. The closest beeswax match on this list is Retail Therapy, which shares the peach and jasmine at the center of the mist.

Which MBur candle smells the most like Love Spell?

Retail Therapy is the closest, because it has peach and jasmine over tart currants. If you want a quieter version for a bedroom, Do Not Disturb carries peach blossom and jasmine with a softer vanilla and sandalwood base.

I love how creamy Love Spell gets after an hour. Is there a warmer pick?

Try Room Service, our bestseller. Its notes are Saffron, White Tea, Purple Peonies, Orchid, Tobacco, Vanilla, Almond Milk, Tonka Bean. The flowers keep it floral, and the vanilla and almond milk give it the creamy finish you are describing.

Will a beeswax candle really fill my whole room?

Yes, when the size fits the room. The 12 oz size has two wooden wicks for larger spaces, and the 5 oz size has one for smaller rooms. A full first burn matters most, since it sets the melt pool for every burn after. You can compare both sizes across the MBur beeswax candle collection.

Our pick

The scent you loved in that mist comes down to peach and jasmine over tart fruit and a soft base. A candle holds that in the air for hours, and on beeswax it does so without paraffin soot dulling the fruit.

Our pick is Retail Therapy in the 12 oz size. Light it in the room where you spend your evenings, because it brings back the scent you wore and keeps it there all night. It shares peach and jasmine with Love Spell, burns 80+ hours on two wooden wicks, and is poured in 100% beeswax with phthalate-free fragrance.

One verified buyer put it plainly: "This candle permeates every corner of the room." Order it this week if you want your room smelling like that mist the next time you have a night in.

Get the 12 oz Retail Therapy beeswax candle for the room you spend your evenings in