You might have noticed a number of candles in your girlfriend’s home and wonder just quite what that’s all about. You may even have bought candles as a present for your girlfriend in the past and not really known why she wanted them. The fact is women love candles for many reasons, and this is why they are great gifts for a girlfriend, as we shall explain below. Reducing stress and relaxing can be easily achieved through the right kind of lighting in a room. Having the ‘big light’ on can sometimes be too harsh and it is much nicer to create ambient lighting through a few lamps and some candles. Even when not in use, candles are decorative and look nice placed around the home either freestanding or in different dishes. For decorative purposes, we absolutely love the Blossom Floating Candles and Flower Floating Candles, which look beautiful floating in a shallow decorative dish of water.

Large pillar candles of different heights also make for great decoration clustered together in the middle of a table. Our set of three Mooncandles is the ideal present for a girlfriend for creating ambient lighting and being decorative. These real wax candles don’t require any flames, but instead are powered by LED light technology and two AAA batteries (per candle). They are great for use over an evening’s relaxing or at a dinner party as they can be set on a four or eight hour timer and can be controlled by remote control, with different brightness settings and modes.

Another way of creating ambient lighting is through changing colours, which can soothe. The Magic Love Candle is lovely combined with other romantic gifts for your girlfriend. This heart-shaped candle changes colour when lit from white through to various shades of red, using LED technology inside the candle. A similar idea is the Colour Changing Magic Candle which uses the same technology to change through different colours when lit.

Scented candles are another way to relax and can make great stocking filler Christmas presents for a girlfriend or additional gifts for Valentine’s Day or her birthday. Their fragrance can help to keep a home smelling lovely, as well as disguise other odours such as cooking smells. The Aroma Glamorous Candle is infused with essential oils and is a sweet pale pink colour with a vintage decoration which will fit in nicely with other home décor.

We also have Scented Flower Tealights, which feature eight different flower designs and look beautiful with our other flower design candles such as those mentioned above and also the trio of larger Rose Cupcake Candles. You could combine these different coordinating gifts as one present for your girlfriend or just buy some for each special occasion so she has a constant supply of her favourite item.

As well as creating a relaxing environment in a living or dining room, women also love to have candles in the bathroom, so rather than wrapping these presents for your girlfriend, you could run her a relaxing bath and place them all around the room as a special treat.