At Midnight Muse, we believe stories are best savored by candlelight. Whether you’re deep in an epic fantasy or giggling through a chaotic romantic comedy, there’s a scent that can elevate your reading ritual.
Below are five of our favorite Midnight Muse pairings, perfectly matched mood-for-mood, spark-for-spark. Light one, crack the spine, and let the worlds melt together.
✧ 1. Love Potion + That Time I Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf by Kimberly Lemming
Fragrance Notes:
Top: Sun-ripened Summer Fruit
Heart: Jasmine
Base: Sugared Violets
Bold. Bubbly. Bewitched. Love Potion is flirty chaos in a jar — just like Kimberly Lemming’s laugh-out-loud fantasy romance. This is a pairing for readers who love magic with a side of mischief and a heavy pour of heart.
📚 Perfect for fans of: Cozy smut, chaotic good witches, and love spells gone sideways.
🕯 Burn while reading to enhance: Swoony snark, hilarious banter, and enemies-to-lovers perfection.
✧ 2. Thieves Guild + Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Fragrance Notes: Gunpowder, Amber, Madagascar Vanilla, Cedarwood, Musk
Mysterious and smoky with a rogue’s charm — Thieves Guild was made for heists and heartache. Pair it with Six of Crows and lose yourself in the grimy, glittering alleys of Ketterdam, where every scent has a secret.
📚 Perfect for fans of: Found family, morally gray characters, and sharp wit with sharper knives.
🕯 Burn while reading to enhance: Late-night plotting, stolen glances, and dangerous deals in dark corners.
✧ 3. Wand Shop + The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
Fragrance Notes: Cedarwood, Mahogany, Oak Moss, Amber
Whimsy meets wonder in this soft, grounding scent that smells like dust on spellbooks and sunbeams through stained glass. Wand Shop pairs beautifully with the tender, magical world of The House in the Cerulean Sea.
📚 Perfect for fans of: Heartwarming stories, gentle magic, and queer found-family fantasy.
🕯 Burn while reading to enhance: Slow wonder, quiet hope, and the kind of magic that lingers.
✧ 4. Midnight Hour + The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
Fragrance Notes:
Top: White Peach
Heart: Moonflower, Marshmallow Petals
Base: Charred Suede, Vanilla Oud, Velvet Smoke
Sultry and spectral, Midnight Hour is a scent for souls caught between shadows and stars. Light it while reading Addie LaRue and feel time blur around you — bittersweet, haunting, unforgettable.
📚 Perfect for fans of: Lyrical prose, immortal loneliness, and bittersweet romances that span centuries.
🕯 Burn while reading to enhance: Wandering hearts, stolen names, and midnight promises never kept.
✧ 5. The Poet + The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Fragrance Notes:
Top: Italian Bergamot
Heart: Amber
Base: Lime
A fragrance for the romantic intellectual, The Poet is crisp, melancholic, and a little indulgent. Pair it with the dark academia classic The Secret History and lean into obsession, beauty, and ruin.
📚 Perfect for fans of: Moody scholars, ancient Greek, and morally questionable aesthetics.
🕯 Burn while reading to enhance: Autumn leaves, secret societies, and prose so pretty it aches.
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Because when scent meets story, magic happens.