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Best Cedar Fig Candles for Christmas: Pick the Holiday Scent She Will Actually Burn

October 25, 2026 by MBur Candle Co.

If you are searching for the best cedar fig candle for Christmas, you are probably shopping for someone with good taste and a full shelf. You want a scent that says December without smelling like a cookie aisle. Cedar fig is the right instinct, as long as both the fig and the cedarwood are really in the blend and the wax can last through a month of holiday evenings.

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Our top pick is Touch Grass, because it sets green fig and black currant over a cedarwood and amber base, which gives the fruit enough weight to feel like winter. It is poured by MBur, where every candle in our pure beeswax candle collection is made by hand in New York City with wooden wicks and phthalate-free fragrance, so the scent she unwraps on Christmas morning burns clean every night after.

Why cedar and fig belong together at Christmas

Fig gets marketed as a late summer scent, so it is fair to wonder whether it belongs next to a tree. The answer depends on which part of the fig a candle leans on, and on what sits underneath it.

A fig leaf blend is light and creamy, close to green stems and warm skin. Fig set over dark wood and resin sits lower in the room. That extra weight is what lets it share space with a tree and a pot of something simmering on the stove.

Cedarwood carries the other half. It smells dry and clean, like a freshly sharpened pencil or the inside of a cedar closet. Next to fig, it pulls the sweetness down so the fruit never turns syrupy.

Together they give you the season through wood and warmth. That suits people who find pine candles too sharp and bakery candles too sweet. The real question is which candle actually puts both halves in the jar.

Touch Grass, the fig and cedarwood candle at the top of this list

Think about your sister coming home after a long December shift. The radiator has run all day, and the apartment feels close and stale. She wants the room to smell like a walk through a cold garden before she sits down for the night.

That is the moment our Touch Grass pure beeswax candle was made for. It opens green and sharp, then settles into dark fruit over warm wood as the wax pool spreads.

The official notes are Fig, Black currant, Galbanum, Coconut, Davana, Cedarwood, Amber, Orris, Tonka bean. A few of those deserve a plain explanation, because they are the reason this blend feels wintry.

Galbanum is a gum resin from a plant in the fennel family. It smells bitter and green, like a stem snapped in half, and it keeps the fig from going sweet. Davana is an herb grown in southern India, and its oil smells fruity and a little like dark liquor, which deepens the black currant.

Orris comes from the root of the iris and adds a soft, powdery finish. Underneath, cedarwood and amber hold everything in place, with tonka bean rounding the base. Tonka smells close to vanilla with a hint of almond, so the end of the evening feels warm.

That base is why Touch Grass reads as Christmas even though it starts in the garden. The fig gets you in the door, and the cedarwood keeps you there.

The picks, matched to the person opening the box

Touch Grass leads because it is the one MBur candle built around fig and cedarwood together. Everything below adjusts the size or the scent to the person you have in mind, so every pick still lands on a clean, hand poured beeswax candle.

Best overall, for the host who has everyone over: Touch Grass, 12 oz

Picture your aunt on Christmas Eve, with the oven door open and cousins coming in with wet boots. She lights the candle on the sideboard before anyone arrives. By the time the coats are off, the living room smells like fig and cedarwood.

The 12 oz Touch Grass ($65) has two wooden wicks and burns 80+ hours. Two flames melt a wider pool of wax, and a wider pool releases more fragrance into the air. That is what a big room full of people needs.

Those 80 hours matter for a host. They cover every gathering from the first week of December through New Year's Day, with quiet nights left over once the guests go home.

For the friend in a small apartment: Touch Grass, 5 oz

Your friend in the studio reads on the couch most nights with one lamp on. She can cross her whole place in six steps, so a single flame is plenty.

The 5 oz Touch Grass ($32) has one wooden wick and burns 40 hours. In a bedroom or a small apartment, one wick fills the space with scent. The slow beeswax burn lets her stretch it across the whole month.

“Candle burned slowly and was exactly the amount of hours the company said it would burn. I was able to enjoy it for days even though it was the smaller size.”

Portia Darby, MBur customer

That steady burn comes from the wax itself, which we will get to below. First, one more scent for a very different kind of holiday person.

For the early riser who lives for Christmas morning: Sunday Reset, 12 oz

Some people are up before the kids, standing at the counter with coffee while the tree lights blink in the next room. For that person, a bright, cool scent fits the hour better than deep fruit.

Our Sunday Reset beeswax candle keeps cedar at its center and wraps it in the smells of a holiday kitchen. Its notes are Peppermint, Clove, Cedar, Patchouli, Vanilla, Eucalyptus. The peppermint lands first, cold like a candy cane, and then clove and cedar warm the room the way a clove-studded orange does on a mantel.

The 12 oz Sunday Reset ($65) has two wooden wicks and burns 80+ hours. That carries her from Christmas morning into the first weeks of January. It suits the person who treats the new year as a clean start and wants the kitchen to feel that way too.

For the couple who already has everything: one of each

When you are shopping for two people, give them a scent for each end of the day. Touch Grass covers the evening, with fig and cedarwood for the couch and a movie. Sunday Reset covers the morning, with peppermint and cedar for coffee.

Both share cedar, so they feel like a matched set on the shelf. Choose the 12 oz size of each if they host, and the 5 oz if they live in a smaller place.

Who you are shopping for	Candle	Size	Wooden wicks	Burn time
The host with a full house	Touch Grass	12 oz	Two	80+ hours
The friend in a small apartment	Touch Grass	5 oz	One	40 hours
The early riser	Sunday Reset	12 oz	Two	80+ hours
The couple who has everything	Touch Grass and Sunday Reset	12 oz or 5 oz	Two or one	80+ or 40 hours

Why the wax matters on a gift she will burn all December

A Christmas candle often burns most nights for a month. It burns in a closed room, with the windows shut against the cold. So what the wax is made of matters more for this gift than for almost any other.

Start with where most candle wax comes from. Refineries break crude oil into fuels and lubricants, and a waxy residue is left near the end of that process. That residue is bleached and sold to candle makers as paraffin, which makes paraffin a petroleum byproduct poured into a jar.

Research has shown that burning paraffin candles releases benzene, toluene, and formaldehyde. Published research on scented candles and indoor air quality keeps that question in view, which is why the label is worth reading before you wrap anything.

Soy sounds like the easy fix, and it is a step up. Many soy candles are still blended with paraffin, though. Many also use toxic fragrances containing phthalates, chemicals added to help a scent cling and last.

Beeswax is a single ingredient. Honeybees make it to build their comb, and beekeepers collect it as a byproduct of honey. It reaches the candle without chemical processing, so the jar holds wax and fragrance and nothing else.

Beeswax also has the highest melting point of the common candle waxes. A harder wax melts more slowly under the flame, which is why the 12 oz size runs 80+ hours. Its natural golden color means MBur adds no chemical dye.

The light is part of the gift, too. Beeswax gives off a glow closest to natural sunlight, soft and warm beside the tree lights. MBur pairs it with phthalate-free fragrance, so the scent she smells comes from the blend you chose.

The wooden wicks add the sound. A wooden wick crackles softly as it burns, close to a small fire in the next room, and it burns wide and even across the wax. That leaves only the last few doubts people raise before they check out.

The doubts that come up right before you buy

But fig feels like a summer scent.

In a light fig leaf candle, it can. Touch Grass sets its fig on cedarwood, amber, and tonka bean, and that base is what carries it into December. As the room warms, the wood comes forward and the fruit sinks into it.

But she already owns a lot of candles.

If her shelf is full of paraffin and soy jars, a pure beeswax candle with a crackling wooden wick will stand apart from all of them. So the question becomes which room you picture her lighting it in. Choose the 12 oz for the living room and the 5 oz for her bedroom.

But I am not sure she likes fruity scents.

Then give her the cedar without the fig. Sunday Reset keeps cedar at the heart and builds around it with peppermint and clove, which reads as classic Christmas to most people.

But her living room is big and open.

That is exactly what the 12 oz size is for. Two wooden wicks melt a wide pool, and a wide pool sends scent across an open floor plan and into the next room.

How to wrap it so the gift feels as good as it smells

MBur candles already arrive wrapped with care, and customers notice. One shopper put it this way.

“I love the package and how carefully everything was wrapped. Im saving the wrapping paper to utilize during the xmas holiday.”

Jason H., MBur customer

A few small touches make it feel personal:

Tie a sprig of fresh cedar to the box with plain twine. She smells real wood before she opens it, which sets up the candle inside.
Write the room on the gift tag. A line like “for the living room on Christmas Eve” tells her where it belongs and when to light it.
Add the first burn tip to the card. Let the melted wax reach the edge of the jar the first time she lights it, because beeswax tends to follow the shape of its first melt for the rest of the candle.
For a couple, set both candles in one box, with Touch Grass marked for night and Sunday Reset marked for morning.

Questions shoppers ask about cedar fig Christmas candles

What does a cedar fig candle actually smell like?

Most smell like soft green fruit over dry wood. Touch Grass adds black currant and galbanum on top for a sharper opening, like a garden after rain. It finishes on amber and tonka bean, so it smells fresh when first lit and warm by the end of the evening.

What size candle should I give as a Christmas gift?

Choose by the room she will use it in. The 12 oz size, with two wooden wicks and 80+ hours, suits a living room or a room she lights most nights. The 5 oz size, with one wick and 40 hours, suits a bedroom or a small apartment. Every scent in the MBur beeswax candle collection comes in both sizes.

Will a fig candle work for someone who loves classic Christmas scents?

If she leans toward peppermint and spice, Sunday Reset is the fit, with cedar at its center plus clove and peppermint. If she likes wood and warmth with a little fruit, Touch Grass is the one to wrap.

How do I make a beeswax candle last through the holidays?

Let the first burn run until melted wax reaches the edge of the jar. Before each later burn, trim the wooden wick to about a quarter inch and break off any black char. Keep the candle away from drafts so the flame stays steady and the wax melts evenly from top to bottom.

The cedar fig candle to give this Christmas

A good cedar fig Christmas candle needs real fig and real cedarwood in the scent, poured in a clean wax that lasts the season. Touch Grass does both. The size simply follows the room she will light it in.

For most people on your list, give the 12 oz Touch Grass. It is the candle she will reach for on the nights the house feels fullest, when family is in the kitchen and the tree is lit. Its two wooden wicks spread fig and cedarwood across the whole room, and its pure beeswax carries that scent for 80+ hours of burn.