EST. 2021
The fragrance your guests ask about
Hand-poured in New York
Made by hand in small batches
MEET THE MAKER
I built LORUVE because I needed it to exist.
Scent changes the woman, not the room. When the fragrance is exactly right, something shifts in you, and in everyone who walks through your door.
I love to gather people. To create evenings worth staying for. I built this library because I wanted every room I inhabit, and every room I open to the people I love, to smell like nowhere else on earth.
Not decoration. Activation.
Fanny, Founder of LORUVE
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The LORUVE library is a fragrance wardrobe. Each scent is a specific expression of you, for a specific room, a specific evening, a specific version of yourself you want to step into.
Crafted by Hand
Every candle poured, wicked, and finished in our New York studio.
Made in Small Batches
It is the only way to guarantee every candle burns the way the first one did.
Complimentary Shipping
Complimentary on orders over $200.
Our Guarantee
Every candle is made to perform from the first burn to the last. If it doesn't, we make it right.
You've curated everything else. Don't leave this to chance.
Scent Notes
Marigold opens with the kind of warmth that does not exist in cities, lifted by bergamot into something bright and unforced. Cyclamen moves through the middle, soft and specific. Buchu keeps the air green and slightly wild, the opposite of arranged. Cedar from something old and rooted. Vetiver underneath, warm and mineral and completely without urgency. The fragrance for the morning you stood in the middle of something beautiful and did not reach for your phone. The women who find this one are not looking for pleasant. They are looking for alive.
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It is a Tuesday morning and the garden has been awake for hours before you.
The villa sits on a hillside above a valley that has been growing things since before anyone thought to write it down. Your room faces east, which you discovered on the first morning when the light came through the shutters at an angle that made everything look like it had been arranged by someone who understood exactly what morning light should do to a space. You have since left the shutters open. You have since started waking before the alarm, which has never happened to you in a city.
The garden is through the low stone arch at the end of the terrace. You go there before breakfast because it is the most beautiful place you have ever had access to at this hour and you are not willing to waste a single morning of it. Marigolds along the south wall, the kind of orange that does not exist in cities. Cyclamen in the shade of the fig tree. Bergamot coming up the hill on whatever passes for a breeze at this hour, which is less wind and more the air simply changing its mind about where it wants to be.
Cedar from the old hedges. Vetiver from the earth underneath, warm and mineral and completely without urgency. Buchu giving the air a green, slightly wild quality that keeps everything from feeling composed or performed.
You stand in the middle of it with your coffee and you do not take a photograph. You have learned, this week, that some things are only fully experienced when you are not simultaneously documenting them. The garden does not need your record of it. It has been here since before your grandmother was born and it will be here long after you have gone back to the city and started checking your inbox before your coffee again.
For now you are simply here, in the light, in the warmth, in the most alive version of a morning you have ever been offered. You accept it without condition.
Frequently Asked Questions
Start with the Fragrance Discovery Set. It exists for exactly this moment, to take the decision off the table before you commit to a full candle. Find what moves you first.
The 2.5 oz burns for approximately 15 hours. The 8 oz for 40 hours. The 14 oz for 60 hours.
An olive oil wax blend, vegan, sustainably sourced, and renewable, with a trace amount of ultra-refined food-grade paraffin for optimal burn performance. 100% cotton wicks. Phthalate-free fragrance oils. A reusable matte glass jar. Hand-poured in New York.
Unlit candles in original condition can be returned within 30 days of delivery for a full refund. Fragrance Discovery Sets and gift sets are final sale.
Most orders arrive within 4 to 8 business days. Orders are processed within 1 to 5 business days, followed by 1 to 3 business days for standard domestic delivery. During periods of high order volume, this window may extend. We will notify you if your order is affected.
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