Harlem Candle Co. Langston Candle from The Met Museum

The worn vintage leather of his favorite armchair; aromatic tobacco, laced with a hint of clove and vanilla, from the pipes of neighborhood men; the smell of ambery incense, recalling his many visits to churches in Mexico. A dramatic heart of heady jasmine and a warm background of resinous sandalwood round out Harlem Candle Co.’s deeply personal blend evoking the American Renaissance man, Langston Hughes.