It’s as basic as basic gets: once the decorative pumpkins are out, it’s time to light the fall candles. The trick is to pair each one of these Bath & Body Works fall candles with a very *specific* fall parenting moment for the right pumpkin and crunchy leaf vibes.Shutterstock
Smelling like a bakery right in the middle of Stars Hollow, the Old Fashioned Cider Donut candle is one to light when your kids have lost interest in the homemade pumpkin bread and now you have to hand-wash all of your bread tins by yourself.
Autumn Chai sounds like a perfect tea, but it’s also the perfect candle to light on that once-every-few-months morning where you wake before everyone else and get a whole hot beverage in your system before anyone wakes up demanding pancakes.Bath & Body Works
The Fall Festival candle smells like pumpkin and maple butter and your dreamy expectations of a day at the fall festival with your family. So light it once everyone’s home because it’s still 90 degrees and they’re hot and tired and nobody wants to look at a pumpkin.
A classic, right? The Pumpkin Spice Latte candle is the one you want burning when your kids have 800 after-school activities and you don’t have a single chance to swing through a drive-thru for your own PSL. Now you have to sit through soccer practice uncaffeinated.Bath & Body Works
I just love the name: Leaves. This is the candle to light when A) it’s still 100 degrees outside and you’re craving crisp, fall air and also B) when your kids won’t stop describing their Minecraft village to you and you have to mentally escape to your cottage in the woods.
Have I mentioned the heat enough? Burn the Sweater Weather candle when you’re going pumpkin picking, but realize everyone’s going to get heat stroke in the matching corduroy jumpers with the scarecrow appliqués so you have to settle for stretched-out tank tops.Bath & Body Works
OK, the Pumpkin Bonfire candle is the one to burn on a Friday night when you’re hoping for some quality family time around the fire pit, but all the leaves are too wet and the mosquitos are still out and “Can’t we just play on our iPads instead?”
Fresh Fall Morning smells really crisp and light, so burn this one when the whole family, for once, is in pure zen mode and snuggled up in blankets on the couch, content to watch Freeform’s 31 Days of Halloween lineup or a Gilmore Girls marathon.Bath & Body Works
I know you had big plans for hearty school morning breakfasts — brown sugar oatmeal and pumpkin waffles and pecan french toast casserole — but just pass out the Pop-Tarts and burn the Pumpkin Cinnamon Bun candle instead. Magic.
