The Top 10 Yankee Candle Fall Fragrances

Fall is here! Consult Stoney's guide to fall fragrances before your next trip to Yankee Candle.

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Fall is in the air! That’s right, folks – it’s time to get out the pumpkin decorations, fire up your favorite chili recipes, and watch Dead Poets Society on repeat. Wait, what? I’m the only one that does that last one? Okay, okay…point taken. I get it. Nonetheless, before you know it, it’ll be time to get that fragrance game on point with the spirit of the season. Y’all know that I’m a big time Yankee Candle guy, so this is where my area of expertise comes in handy – allow me to share my personal favorite fall scents from the greatest candlemaker in the world to help get your home ready for autumn.

The Top 10 Yankee Candle Fall Fragrances

10. Moonlight Harvest – Am I the only one in the world that actually liked this scent? I mean, it came out one fall and then BOOM – gone forever. It was on the clearance racks the very next semi-anny. It was a fan-fuckin-tastic early fall fragrance…heavy on the ‘harvest’ scent, but it had the slightest little undertow of a musky Midsummer’s Night-esque scent in there too. Perfect for making love under the stars or in the back of your 1996 Chevy Blazer.

9. Ciderhouse – Ciderhouse is great because of how the fruit and the spice fragrances balance each other. It is heavy on the apple, but it has just the slightest hint of spice to make this a tremendous transition from the summer into the fall – burn this thing from the last week of August through Labor Day and you are going to be in the fall spirit in no time.

8. Fall Festival – I’m a big fan of Fall Festival and believe it has its place among the grand pantheon of Yankee Candle’s fall fragrances. It’s a little bit spicy like Harvest, with that traditional autumnal fragrance profile. But, it has a little more sweet to it as well – like a creamy sweet pumpkin scent or something. It’s a nice hodge podge of what makes the fall lines from Yankee Candle so great. I have yet to attend a festival that smells like this, though. Just saying.

7. Woodland Road Trip – full review – This is a newer fragrance, but I’ll be damned if it wasn’t the highlight of the 2021 class of fall candles. It’s been a hot minute since something came out and immediately contended among the fall heavyweights. Listen – Yankee Candle does fall like nobody else. That’s not easy to do. Woodland Road Trip smells like warm sunshine with a cool fall breeze and the ripe smells of an Earth that is beginning to cool off for the season. I tell you hwhut, it damn well smells just like a ride in the car right up through Gatlinburg, Tennessee…in the heart of the Smoky Mountains.

6. Autumn Wreath – I swear Autumn Wreath smells just like a combination of all of the other fall fragrances from the Yankee Candle catalogue. There’s an inherently Earthy scent to it, but the more it lingers, the more the smells of cinnamon and apples hang in the air.

5. Harvest – If you could capture the essence of a good pumpkin patch without worrying about driving to an actual pumpkin patch, wouldn’t you do it? I think all of us would. We all love a good pumpkin patch. Harvest is one of the heavy hitters of the Yankee Candle catalog, and for good reason. It is one of the quintessential fall fragrances.

4. Farmer’s Market – full review – The reason I like Farmer’s Market so much is that there’s a nice little hint of fresh fruit in it that makes it smell above and beyond the traditional harvest-style fall fragrances. The Farmer’s Market I usually go to can smell like garbage water sometimes. So, smelling this candle gives me hope that a beautiful market exists in the world that smells like this and maybe one day when I retire, I can spend my golden years chasing it down.

3. Autumn Leaves – full review – In case I haven’t established this already, I’m more of a fan of the Earthy and leafy scents in the fall than I am the overbearing pumpkin scents. Give me some shit that smells kind of like dirt, and I’ll be a happy camper. That’s why I like Autumn Leaves so much – it doesn’t try to be too sweet. It knows exactly what it is – dead ass leaves – and it stays in its lane. For that reason, I burn it every September.

2. Apple Pumpkin – If you were to boil the fall down to two scents, I think you’re going with apple and pumpkin. So, what did the geniuses at Yankee Candle do? They combined ’em. So simple, yet it has never been done before (I can’t confirm that with facts – it’s just a hunch). That makes Apple Pumpkin one of the most consistent and steady fall fragrances out there.

1. Autumn Woods – Believe it or not, Autumn Woods was the candle that started it all for me. Back on that fateful September day in 2006, when I walked into the Yankee Candle in Providence Marketplace here in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, it was this very candle that I walked out with. To this day, it remains my favorite. Part of that, I’ll admit, is that there’s a certain nostalgia in looking back upon the start of my journey as a Yankee Candle fan. But, mostly, it’s just a damn good fall fragrance. It smells like the wind, blowing through a deciduous forest in the fall, catching Earthy scents in its breeze, and carrying them directly to your living room.

Stoney Keeley is the Editor in Chief of The SoBros Network, and a Dogs Playing Poker on velvet connoisseur. He is a strong supporter of Team GSD, #BeBetter, and ‘Minds right, asses tight.’ “Big Natural” covers the Tennessee Titans, Nashville, Yankee Candle, and a whole wealth of nonsense. Follow on Twitter @StoneyKeeley

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