What We're Giving: Courtnay

Courtnay picks our sparkly and special gifts for her Grandma, sister and mom!

1. For my lovely gramamma, Yiye, Isa's Restoratives Lilac Rouge, $22.00, some of Catbird's Travel Candles, $12.00, for her porch (especially when the Southern Spring comes back) and finally, the Up in The Air Gold Bottom Dish, $42.00, so she can stow her finger's worth of amazing rings.

2. For my ever picky (yet classy as a mofo) younger sister, it's a grab bag of the Gold Sparkler Star Bobby Pin, $18.00, Roberts Florentine Rosewater, $10.00, and Deborah Lippmann's Cleopatra in New York, $16.00, a representation of her ever-evolving commitment to simple beauty.

3. I'd love to give my amazing momma John Derian's Rose With Ant Plate, $48.00 - a lovely reminder for when winter has taken all the flowers away. Add onto that, a dedication to my mom's spirit, the Slip Into The Darkness Gift Set, $132.00 (perfect for the gothic Southern narrative embedded in our veins).

Holiday Scents

Our house line of candles has been getting some love around the web. Read what Into The Gloss and Closet Vanity have to say about it.

Campfire in particular makes a fantastic holiday scent. It's a bit unexpected (no pine! no cinnamon!), yet it's warm and earthy and super smokey. It's also a completely unisex scent, making it a great thing to stock up on for those extra gifts you always need.

Catbird Campfire Candle: Full Size $32 or Travel Tin $12

What We Love Today: Catbird Fleurs de Nuit candle

Tonight's a night for the heady scent of summer peaking, breaths before the fall.

Catbird candles, $32 online and in store

Spotted, in the wilds of Williamsburg

My eyes were flicking about this photo, left right, up down, black white, etc, hungry for the textures and the light. And then, look there! In the foreground, glows a Catbird candle.

photo from Kelly Framel/The Glamourai on Style Like U

Catbird candles, $32 online and in store

Candle Loyalty Card

Look what we came up with for those of you with addictive personalities. (Finally it pays off!) 

In store only. Catbird Candles, $32

Invincible Summer

 

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer

         -Albert Camus

{1} Polly Wales Green Sapphire Band  {2} Pendleton Beaded Suede Toss Pillow and Suede Sham  {3} Nars Soft Touch Shadow Pencil  {4} Catbird Seven Seas Candle  {5} Alexander Wang x Linda Farrow Sunglasses   {6} Julie Nolan Astrological Cuff 

Six Scents

Tarot Deck: incense, turkish rose & pencil shavings

Campfire: woodsmoke, saddle leather & honey

Fig Leaf: white fig, dandelion & cedar
Fleurs de Nuit: night blooming jasmine, honeysuckle & cactus blossom

Seven Seas: mint, sea spray & heliotrope
Pomelo Blossom: asian lime, ginger & eucalyptus

A signature matchbox tucked into the clever carton,
designed especially for us by our Brooklyn box maker.

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it's forever. - Carl Sagan
(Carl Sagan gave me a piggy back ride when I was in nursery school. True story.)

Also available in a generously portioned travel size.

The Catbird candles are FINALLY here. This project has been well over a year in the making and was an absolute team effort. I, for one, am pleased as punch-flavored soy wax. They smell and look uh-mazing. Designed, poured and packaged in New York and made with domestically grown soy beans. 

All six scents are in store now and will soon be are now available on line. Full size $32 / Travel size $10.

Wholesale available - as well as special pricing for restaurants. Please email with inquiries.

Woohoo!!!

https://catbirdnyc.com/shop/home.php?cat=410

Tar Beach

This post is brought to you by the letter "ahhhhhh" and the song Mozambique, by the great topical songwriter, Bob Dylan. In lieu of the pool that we might have if we traded our beloved city for the suburbs we all came from, we offer you votive receptacles in swimming pool shades.

Sweet, like mead and mink

Gucci is sponsoring the restoration of La Dolce Vita, and this morning I'm wondering if the vivacious Anita Ekberg would've smelled more like Tocca's Stella or Cleopatra when that little white kitten (or, Marcello) nuzzled in her neck. I'm going to mull it over today with our resident nose, Joanie, who, by the by, has been working her little nostrils into a heavenly fatigue, helping Rony with the Catbird signature candle line. It's coming, and it's going to be grand.

Seda France candles, $29

I'll be unpacking our Seda France order this morning (always a delight- each slash of the box cutter releases the best smells), plucking out my personal favorite (hyacinth), then heading home to light it up while I continue to reorganize my apartment. I am a serious wild woman.