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Your house can smell like Kensington Palace with royal-inspired fragrance line

Your house can smell like Kensington Palace with royal-inspired fragrance line

Daily Mirror20-05-2025
The new line of home fragrances features candles, diffusers and wax melts are inspired by historic royal palaces and their gardens to fill your home with luxurious floral scents
One of the first things you notice when you enter anyone's house is how it smells, which is why we all love nothing more than a great home fragrance that keeps things smelling fresh and welcoming. If you've ever wondered what royal abodes smell like, this brand new fragrance line from Freckleface is the perfect way to bring a touch of royalty to your home, with some lovely floral scents that are perfect for summer.
Created in collaboration with Historic Royal Palaces, the independent charity caring for some of the UK's most iconic heritage sites, the new collection was inspired by the history of several royal palaces and their gardens, including Kensington Palace, Tower of London and Hampton Court Palace. The new range was launched just in time to coincide with the Chelsea Flower Show, and includes everything from candles and wax melts to reed diffusers and scented ceramics.
Each item in the new Historic Royal Palaces collection is handcrafted and sustainably made, and comes in three distinct scents. You can choose from:
Royal Bouquet – Fresh orange blossom with subtle hints of florals and aromatic myrtle
Royal Garden – Rose and hydrangea with vanilla
Royal Nights – Oud with fresh citrus and notes of bergamot
The floral-based scents make this home fragrance collection perfect for the spring and summer months, helping bring a feeling of outdoors inside. One of the top picks from the range is the Historic Royal Palaces Large Candle which is priced at £42 and has a length burn time of up to 40 hours.
Each candle is made from 100% vegan soya wax and is paraffin free, with the natural wax ensuring it always burns cleanly and consistently. You can choose which of the three scents you'd like your candle to come in, or alternative if you're struggling with which to pick, the Candle Discovery Set is £45 and gets you all three scents in a slightly smaller size, with each having up to 20 hours of burn time.
If you've ever wondered which candles the royals themselves burn at home, we've also got the inside scoop. Kate Middleton reportedly loves Jo Malone's Orange Blossom cologne so much that she made it the scent of her wedding. British Vogue reported that Princess Kate arranged for Jo Malone's Orange Blossom Scented Candles to be placed around Westminster Abbey during the ceremony.
Meghan Markle, on the other hand, was noted in The Cut as loving the Bassett Rose Water Candle from Soho House. The candles are hand poured in England, and have notes of lemon, geranium and guaiac woods.
However if you prefer something that releases scent constantly rather than relying on lit candles, the £46 Historic Royal Palaces Reed Diffuser allows your home to be constantly filled with one of the three scents from Freckleface's collection. The large 200ml bottle provides you with enough scent to last up to six months, and are perfect for placing next to the bed or in a small cloakroom.
Other options include the more affordable Scented Ceramic for £14.50, which is ideal for hanging on your wardrobe or placing anywhere from drawers and suitcases to your car, or the £16 Wax Melt Set. The set gets you nine individual wax melts – three of each scent – with each wax melt offering up to 20 hours of scent release.
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