If you miss Bath & Body Works Carried Away and want it as a candle, the closest match we can point you to shares five of its notes outright: pear, bergamot, jasmine, vanilla, and sandalwood. Shared notes are the honest test of any dupe, because your nose reads notes, and a label that says “inspired by” tells it nothing.
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Our top pick is Do Not Disturb, since it carries the pear and jasmine heart of Carried Away over a warm vanilla and sandalwood base, the same shape the original had. It belongs to our line of 100% beeswax candles with wooden wicks, hand poured in New York City, and the ranking below sets it against four other candles so you can see why it comes out first.
Why Carried Away is so hard to find as a candle
Carried Away lived mostly in the body care aisle. Bath & Body Works sold it as a fine fragrance mist and a body lotion, and it never held a steady place on the candle wall. Fans are left with a scent they remember and nothing to light.
Getting it back means matching the notes one layer at a time. A skin mist and a candle release scent in different ways. On skin, your body heat lifts the fragrance off the surface. In a candle, the pool of melted wax around the flame does that job, and heavier notes like vanilla need a hot, steady melt pool to come through.
The notes you are actually trying to match
Carried Away is a fruity floral built in layers. The opening is raspberry, pear, Amalfi lemon, bergamot, and mandarin orange. The heart is freesia, tuberose, jasmine, and violet, and the base settles into vanilla, sandalwood, and musk.
Most people remember the pear and the soft white flowers. Top notes hit first and fade fast, while the heart is what stays on a scarf for an hour. The vanilla base is what you caught on your sleeve the next morning.
The mix-up that sends shoppers to the wrong candle
Because Carried Away opens on raspberry and pear, plenty of shoppers reach for a plain berry or orchard candle. Then they wonder why it smells flat. The jasmine and freesia in the middle give Carried Away its perfume feel, and without a white floral note and a warm base, a fruit candle reads as candy.
So the match you want has fruit up top, white flowers in the middle, and warmth underneath. That shape is the standard every candle on this list gets judged by.
How we ranked these five, and what puts one on top
The ranking asks one question. How close does the candle get to the Carried Away shape, and how plainly does the maker tell you what you are burning? Our two picks lead on both counts, so they sit at the top.
The three brands after them are names Carried Away fans already run into while searching. Each one is described by its house style, so you know where it sits in the category as you shop.
1. Do Not Disturb: the closest candle to Carried Away
Think back to a day when Carried Away was part of your routine. You misted it before heading out, and by evening the fruit had faded, but a soft pear and white flower scent still sat on your collar. That warm, quiet stage is the part most fans miss, and a candle can hold it for a whole evening.
Our Do Not Disturb beeswax candle is built on that stage. Its notes are Pear, Bergamot, Peach Blossom, Amber, Jasmine, Vanilla, Sandalwood. Five of those seven appear in Carried Away, and the other two fill the same roles the original gave to freesia and musk.
Bergamot is the bridge you might not expect. It is the oil pressed from the rind of a tart Italian citrus, the same oil that turns black tea into Earl Grey. In this candle it gives the pear a clean lift, so the fruit reads fresh instead of sugary.
Wax: 100% beeswax | Wick: wooden (one on the 5 oz, two on the 12 oz) | Fragrance: phthalate-free | Burn time: 40 hours (5 oz) or 80+ hours (12 oz) | Dyes: none
- Standout feature: shares five notes with Carried Away, including the pear and jasmine at its heart
- Best for: the bedroom, where you want the soft vanilla stage of Carried Away as the last scent of your day
- Price: the 12 oz, 80-hour size is $65
Pick the 12 oz size for the bedroom, because a candle you light most nights needs two wooden wicks to build a full melt pool. That wide pool is what carries the jasmine and vanilla out past the nightstand.
2. Retail Therapy: for the raspberry side of Carried Away
Some fans chase the first spray, that burst of dark berry before the flowers open. If that is your memory of Carried Away, start with our Retail Therapy beeswax candle. Its notes are Red Currant, Black Currant, Jasmine, Peach, Black Tea, Amber, Anise, Tonka Bean.
Currant does the job raspberry did in the original, dark and juicy with a tart snap. Jasmine is the floral thread that ties it back to Carried Away. Tonka bean gives a warm, almost vanilla finish, which keeps the fruit from tipping into candy.
Black tea and anise add a dry edge underneath. That edge is why the sweetness stays grown up, the same way the sandalwood kept Carried Away from smelling like a lollipop. Customers who burn it describe how far the scent travels.
“This scent has me in a chokehold. 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.”
Tiffany Gordon, verified buyer
Wax: 100% beeswax | Wick: wooden (one on the 5 oz, two on the 12 oz) | Fragrance: phthalate-free | Burn time: 40 hours (5 oz) or 80+ hours (12 oz) | Dyes: none
- Standout feature: currant and jasmine recreate the berry-into-flowers opening of Carried Away
- Best for: a smaller room you use a few evenings a week, like a home office or a reading corner
- Price: the 5 oz, 40-hour size is $32
Pick the 5 oz size for a smaller room, because one wooden wick fills a compact space with currant and jasmine without crowding it. The scent stays bright from the first evening to the last.
3. Kringle Candle
Known for: layered fruit and floral blends from a New England candle maker.
Kringle Candle has a house style that leans toward multi-note fruit and floral scents. Carried Away fans who browse the brand are looking for the same thing they loved in the mist, with fruit on top and flowers underneath.
Why it ranks below our picks: you shop it one scent at a time and do the matching to Carried Away on your own. Our two picks have already done that matching, and each one prints its full spec line on the product page.
4. Goose Creek
Known for: a very large scent library and a familiar three-wick format.
Goose Creek built its name on choice, with enough scents to browse for an afternoon. Its three-wick candles often get compared with Bath & Body Works three-wicks, so it is a common stop for anyone shopping by memory.
Why it ranks below our picks: a big library puts the sorting on you. Do Not Disturb starts from the Carried Away shape itself, pear and jasmine over vanilla and sandalwood, so the search ends at one jar.
5. Somethin Special
Known for: hand-poured recreations of discontinued Bath & Body Works scents.
Somethin Special is the kind of small shop Carried Away fans find when they search for archive dupes. Its appeal is nostalgia aimed squarely at retired favorites.
Why it ranks below our picks: a recreation chases the memory of a body mist, which was made to sit on warm skin. Our picks are built as candles from the start, with notes balanced for a melt pool and a flame, and the ingredients listed out.
How the five compare at a glance
| Rank | Candle | Link to Carried Away | Style |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MBur Do Not Disturb | Shares pear, bergamot, jasmine, vanilla, sandalwood | Soft floral over warm vanilla. 100% beeswax, wooden wicks, phthalate-free fragrance, no dye, 40 or 80+ hours |
| 2 | MBur Retail Therapy | Currant for the berry, jasmine for the floral | Dark berry over tonka. 100% beeswax, wooden wicks, phthalate-free fragrance, no dye, 40 or 80+ hours |
| 3 | Kringle Candle | Layered fruit and floral house style | Multi-note blends |
| 4 | Goose Creek | Large library to browse | Familiar three-wick format |
| 5 | Somethin Special | Recreations of retired Bath & Body Works scents | Hand-poured nostalgia |
What the spec line tells you that a scent name cannot
A dupe name tells you what a candle hopes to smell like. The spec line tells you how it will burn, and the burn decides whether the scent actually reaches your room.
Start with the wax. Beeswax has the highest melting point of any candle wax, so it melts slowly and evenly. That is why the 12 oz size runs for 80+ hours, and why the pear and jasmine in Do Not Disturb keep coming through deep into the jar.
The wick comes next. A wooden wick burns with a wide, flat flame that helps the melt pool spread toward the edge of the jar, and it gives off a soft crackle while it burns. The 12 oz size has two of them, so a larger room fills faster.
Then the fragrance. Many candles use toxic fragrances containing phthalates, chemicals added to make a scent cling longer. MBur uses only phthalate-free fragrance oils and no chemical dye, so the candle holds the natural color of the wax.
Put those pieces together and the promise of this list holds from a new side. You get the closest Carried Away scent we know of, in a candle where every part of the burn is spelled out.
The questions that come up once you have chosen
“But I want the raspberry, and Do Not Disturb has no berry note.”
Then Retail Therapy is your candle, and the currant is the reason. It sits where raspberry sat in the original, dark and tart, with jasmine right behind it. Plenty of fans keep Do Not Disturb in the bedroom and Retail Therapy in the living room, so each room gets one half of the memory.
“But my main room is big and open.”
Size answers that. Go with the 12 oz of whichever scent you chose, because two wooden wicks melt a wider pool and push more fragrance into the air. A big kitchen and living room combined calls for the second wick far more than a bedroom does.
“But my last candle tunneled down the middle.”
Tunneling almost always starts on the first burn. Wax tends to melt only as far out as its first pool reached, so a short first light sets a narrow track for the rest of the candle's life. Burn it two to three hours the first time, until the melted wax reaches the edge of the jar, and trim the wooden wick to about an eighth of an inch before each light.
Questions Carried Away fans ask
What does Bath & Body Works Carried Away actually smell like?
It is a fruity floral. Raspberry and pear open it, jasmine and freesia fill the middle, and vanilla, sandalwood, and musk warm the base. If the floral, vanilla finish is the part you miss, Do Not Disturb carries that stage best.
Did Bath & Body Works ever make Carried Away as a three-wick candle?
It was released mainly as a body mist and lotion, so official candles were rare. That is why fans rebuild it from notes. Our beeswax candle lineup lists the full notes for every scent, which makes that matching easy.
Is there a candle with the citrus side of Carried Away?
Look at Zesty. Its notes are Ocean Breeze, Mandarin, Lavender, Jasmine, Black Pepper, Amber, Patchouli, Vanilla. The mandarin and jasmine echo the opening and heart of Carried Away, with vanilla in the base.
How long do these beeswax candles actually burn?
The 5 oz size burns 40 hours on one wooden wick, and the 12 oz size burns 80+ hours on two. Beeswax melts slowly because of its high melting point, and that holds across the line, including Retail Therapy.
Our pick: Do Not Disturb
Carried Away was pear and white flowers over warm vanilla, and the best candle match keeps all three layers. Do Not Disturb shares five of its notes, and Retail Therapy covers the berry side for anyone who loved the first spray most.
For most Carried Away fans, the one to get is Do Not Disturb in the 12 oz size. It brings back that soft, end-of-day version of the scent you remember from your collar, and it does it with Pear, Bergamot, Peach Blossom, Amber, Jasmine, Vanilla, Sandalwood in 100% beeswax burning on two wooden wicks for 80+ hours. A verified buyer put the feel of it plainly:
“I love the scent of this candle. It is lovely not overpowering. It's soothing fragrance more than covers my bedroom and bathroom.”
Dawne Forrest, verified buyer
Your bedroom is where Carried Away used to finish your day, so the sooner this candle is on the nightstand, the sooner that pear and jasmine is back in your evenings.
Bring Do Not Disturb home in the 12 oz, 80-hour size, because it is the candle you will light every night in the room where you unwind.
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