The Packaging

I believe in sustainability, but I also believe in quality and integrity. I call luxury what I consider a higher standard for myself; I hope you share this belief. I don't make deity heads, cutesy baby elephants, polychrome or printed candy jars, or street-fair Mason jar candles. I don't use paper labels that may peel off, or the golden crests you may see around that look fancy, but they peel off just as much. I also don't use inexpensive, foggy, dirty-on-the-inside, really, glass bottles dressed with tassels and paper labels as diffusers, and I don't use alloys; I use real aluminum where needed, or steel alloys for our engraved escutcheons.

I pour my Luxury Scented Candles into crystal of exceptional clarity and transparency. I don't use simple glass jars like other "luxury" brands use. All my candles, in their various sizes, are poured on crystal. My fragrances are formulated with rare materials; why should they be poured into cheap materials? 

I use new, high-reflective index glass for my reusable room spray bottles. High-reflective index glass contains oxides that enhance its strength and transparency, and, above all, its clarity. "Recycled" glass in the fragrance industry is just a fancier denomination for plain, jar-type entry-level glass, spray-painted or decorated with paper labels. The spray paint, by the way, helps hide imperfections, color variation, wobbling, and inclusions in the glass. I don't like any of that.

My Limited Edition Diffusers formulas are poured into sophisticated crystal block decanters, and their Limited Edition Candles counterparts are poured into exceptional sommerso crystal bowls. Sommerso crystal is not painted; it's dyed during the making, a process far more complex and far more luxurious than painting.

By the way, paint will melt if you wash your candle jars in the dishwasher, and will peel off if you brush it with a sponge. Glass paint is probably one of the least sustainable materials used in the fragrance industry.

You know the corks and screw caps you see in diffuser bottles from other brands? I seriously dislike -hate- them. It's a pet peeve the size of a Great Dane. For my caps, I source semiprecious stones, amber, marble, and other rare materials from around the world. I then get them cut to my specifications for their specific purpose: to decorate my caps, making them objects you want to keep rather than use as projectiles to the trash can.

My foiled and plated labels contain real gold, as do my gold-plated candle lids, and my lids are designed and developed to be sufficiently safe to double as coasters. They are electroplated, not painted. For electroplating, gold color plating must contain real gold.

Interested in recycling, like I am? Our crystal and glass vessels and bottles are not only recyclable -all glasses and crystals are, no miracle there- but they can be upcycled for a new use in life, the thought process behind a beautiful vessel is to keep it, and not use it as a projectile -again- towards the trash can.

My Travel Tins are customized in my signature Prussian blue color. They are made of aluminum rather than a tin alloy, which, along with their paint, provides additional thermal insulation from your furniture or any surface you place them on. I do suggest placing your candle tin on a coaster made of wood, stone, or any fire-retardant material for additional protection. 

My aluminum Travel Room Spray bottles come with removable spray caps, giving the bottles a second life. Please refer to the product page for instructions on refilling or upcycling, or contact me at cs@rhr.luxury.

My customized boxes in my signature Prussian blue color and any additional paper packaging are recyclable -no miracle there, either, but worth clarifying- including any printed material found inside. The papers I use may contain up to 30% recycled cotton, and the inks I use are prepared with up to 30% less water, and vegetable and mineral dyes, not chemicals.

I am a certified scuba-diver and I have seen what we do to the oceans. I care about the environment just as much as you do. But my commitment to luxury and quality is just as important. Above all, I believe in integrity, calling things for what they are, without euphemisms or vague or insufficient descriptions, without make-believe. When I started on this journey, I didn't see anyone "moving the needle" in the world of luxury home fragrance.

I decided to do something about it. 

RHR