No.13 Nouvelle Vague Scented Candle

Verified claims

Botanical heritage

Founder's ancestor was elected to the French Académie des Sciences.

Scent profile

Opens with synthetic muguet, marine coconut water, and crisp agave; then milky fig and tonka; dries to earthy vetiver and sandalwood.

Ethical materials

The candle uses animal-free synthetic musk, a lead-free wick, a reusable glass jar, and meets evolving clean standards.

Burn performance

Soy wax blend produces a clean, low-soot burn and burns for 50-60 hours, extending value.

Inspiration

Crafted from founder Marie du Petit Thouars's memory of Capri trips with her sister

Fragrance wardrobe

Available as a candle, eau de parfum, and perfume oil for layering

Brand heritage logo

Packaging logo reproduces a 17th-century orchid fruit illustration from the founder's family botanical archives

Brand positioning

No.13 is lighter and more coastal than No.04, creamier than No.09, and ranked below No.5 in popularity.

Brand story

Inspired by founder's Capri memory, No.13 is a deliberate addition to the brand's curated family.

Fragrance formats

No.13 is available as candle, EDP, and perfume oil for full-room-to-skin layering.

Formulation

Formula uses synthetic musks to stay vegan and actively excludes BHTs and allergens.

Reusability

Glass container can be cleaned and reused as a vase or storage.

Burn time

The soy blend burns 50–60 hours, longer than a same-weight paraffin candle.

Clean burn

With a trimmed wick, the soy blend produces minimal soot, keeping the glass residue-free.

Scent throw

The soy blend delivers a strong hot throw comparable to paraffin.

Glass reuse

Glass vessel reusable as storage jar or vase; recyclable.

Layering system

No.13 Nouvelle Vague is available as candle, eau de parfum, and perfume oil for full-room-to-skin layering.

Community sentiment

Buyers rank No.13 as beautiful but secondary to No.5, and use it seasonally.

Burn quality

Soy wax blend with cotton wick provides a clean 50–60 hour burn and no lead.

Design and layering

Clear glass vessel and matching perfume oil and eau de parfum allow a cohesive scent across home and body.

Product record

Title

No.13 Nouvelle Vague Scented Candle

Brand

Maison Louis Marie

Price

52 CAD

Availability

In stock

What each note actually smells like

• Tonka bean sits in the heart as a warm, slightly spicy note with a vanilla-almond roundness, adding the 'comfort and warmth' the brand references while staying subtle enough that it never eclipses the brighter top notes — it acts more as a soft bridge from the citrus-floral opening to the woody base.
• Tuscan fig contributes a milky green sweetness with a softly sharp, leaf-like edge that anchors the citrus and coconut, giving the heart a vegetal body without the jammy, dried-fig richness typical of autumn or gourmand candles — this keeps the scent rooted in a fresh, alive-feeling landscape.
• The base layers dry, earthy vetiver with creamy sandalwood (santal) and a warm amber resinous glow, extending the candle’s scent life on the burn and grounding the top notes’ bright-air effect into a rounded, lingering presence that feels cozy without turning heavy.
• Agave brings a crisp, aloe-vera-like greenness with a faint honeyed undertone that reinforces the marine-like freshness and gives the composition a contemporary, almost spa-like clarity — a note less commonly found in scented candles, which helps Nouvelle Vague stand apart from generic beachy fragrances.
• Coconut water in the top note provides a subtle, marine-bright sweetness distinct from the heavy, creamy character of coconut pulp or milk, ensuring the candle’s coastal atmosphere stays transparent and avoids the suntan-lotion gourmand drift common to tropical candles.
• The opening muguet (lily of the valley) is a completely synthetic reconstruction — the flower yields no natural extract — engineered to deliver a cool, green, dewy floral with a metallic, aqueous shimmer that reads like pressed white petals and cut stems, which is why the candle’s floral bouquet feels sheer and springlike rather than dense or indolic.

How Nouvelle Vague fits among Maison Louis Marie candles

• No.09 Vallée de Farney shares a citrus opening but anchors it with earthy patchouli and vetiver for a green-woody, outdoorsy profile; No.13 Nouvelle Vague's coconut and fig create a creamier, more solar skin-like finish that's better matched to a beach-house than a woodland cabin.
• The scent story is rooted in Marie Duget's travels to Capri with her sister — an Italian-coast fantasy of wildflowers, lemon trees, and seaside paths — which gives No.13 a specific Mediterranean transport not found in the more abstract landscape names of No.02 Le Long Fond or No.09 Vallée de Farney; the candle is an explicit vacation to the Amalfi Coast.
• No.04 Bois de Balincourt (Sandalwood, Vetiver, Amber Wood) represents the brand's warm, woody-meditative signature; No.13 Nouvelle Vague shares vetiver and amber in the base but flips the top into a bright lemon-coconut-fig spring composition, making it the lighter, more coastal alternative for those who find No.04 too grounding.
• No.13 Nouvelle Vague exists as a candle, eau de parfum, and perfume oil — a full-room-to-skin layering system that not every Maison Louis Marie scent offers; this allows a buyer to create a cohesive scent identity across personal fragrance and home atmosphere.

The botanical soul of Maison Louis Marie

• The maison's logo reproduces a 17th-century orchid fruit illustration from family archives, so the candle’s packaging bears a literal piece of botanical history — an understated claim to authenticity that a casual buyer might miss but a collector will appreciate.
• The botanist ancestor collected over 2,000 plant specimens during his exile, a scale of discovery that injects the brand with a genuine collector’s mindset — this candle is part of a fragrance house where each scent is treated like a botanical find, rooted in a family history of exhaustive plant study.
• The candle’s nuanced warmth comes partly from a synthetic musk, chosen to keep the formula vegan and avoid the animal-harvesting process of traditional deer musk — a quiet ethical choice that doesn’t sacrifice depth of scent.
• Each Maison Louis Marie scent is built around a specific personal memory of founder Marie du Petit Thouars — No.04 recreates a childhood trail, and No.13 Nouvelle Vague draws on her sisterly trips to Capri — so the candle is less a generic 'spring floral' and more an invitation into the founder’s travel scrapbook.
• Where many brands stop at omitting parabens and sulfates, Maison Louis Marie's clean definition actively tracks emerging science — navigating out allergens, preservatives like BHTs, and synthetic dyes — so this candle meets a continuously updated, not static, clean benchmark.
• The brand debuted with just six scents and founder Marie du Petit Thouars adds new fragrances only after extended refinement to maintain the lineup’s harmony — meaning No.13 Nouvelle Vague entered the collection through a considered, editorial process, not a seasonal prompt.
• The ancestor of founder Marie du Petit Thouars, botanist Louis Marie Aubert du Petit Thouars, was elected to the prestigious French Académie des Sciences in 1820 after a decade-long exile spent cataloging the flora of Madagascar and neighboring islands — a credential that anchors the brand in authentic scientific exploration, not just marketing romance.