Dried Botanical Glass Candle

A candle poured into a glass vessel wrapped in dried botanicals — the leaves are pressed against the glass so the light comes through them once the flame catches. Unlit it reads as a decorative object. Lit, it's the best thing on the table.

Two sizes, and the difference is more than height. The 6-inch is a two-wick pour at 24.33 ounces, which gives you an even melt pool edge to edge and about 85 hours. The 7.5-inch runs a single wick through 32.09 ounces and burns roughly 155 hours — nearly double, so it's the one to choose if a candle is going somewhere you'll light every night.

Fragrance arrives assorted between gingerbread and spiced pomander balsam. Both are four inches across, which means they group well: the tall one behind, the shorter in front, on a console, a coffee table, or a mantel.

Why Katie loves it: "Scent and light are the two things that change a room instantly, and this does both. I keep one in the entry from November on. It smells like the season without smelling like a candle store."