Six candles · Masculine scents only

HIS
YOURS, now

Six candles built entirely from the scents men kept for themselves. Oud, leather, tobacco, vetiver. Poured by hand in the UK, burning for over fifty hours, and made for women who were never the floral type.

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The whole
range

Six fragrances, built entirely on masculine scents. Chosen because they are the best thing in the room, not because somebody decided they were suitable for you. Each one poured by hand in the UK.

How it's made

Serious about
the boring bits

Nothing here is decorative. Natural soy wax, no paraffin and no synthetic dyes, poured by hand here in the UK and wicked so it burns level to the edge from the very first light.

Natural
soy wax

Plant-based and clean burning. No paraffin, no petroleum, no dyes.

50+ hours
of burn

Over fifty hours from a single 200g candle, scent holding to the last.

Poured
by hand

Every candle filled, wicked and finished by hand. Never machine-made.

Made in
the UK

Blended, poured and packed in the United Kingdom.

What do you
want to smell like?

Pick a mood, not a fragrance family. You already know exactly how you want a room to feel. Tell us that, and we will tell you what to light.

Nothing selected yet. Choose a mood above and we'll match you to one of the range.

Word on
the street

Nothing travels faster than a good recommendation. Somebody finds something worth having and cannot keep it to herself, and that is how everybody else ends up hearing about it. Here is what the women who already own one are saying.

The story

Nobody asked if you wanted peonies

Somewhere along the way it was decided that women should smell like a garden. Rose. Jasmine. Peony. Something sweet with a ribbon around it. Meanwhile the oud, the smoke, the leather and the vetiver that still clings to a coat three days later were quietly filed under men's, and there they stayed.

Borrowed is a home fragrance house built entirely from that shelf. Every candle we pour is a scent that was never meant for you, in a vessel that always was. Not a men’s range and not a novelty, just the fragrances you have been quietly stealing for years, finally made for your home. No apologies, no compromises, and no interest whatsoever in what you are supposed to like.

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