Cowboy Scented Candle | Tomato Leaf + Basil

Cowboy from Nose Dive skips the leather saddle, campfire smoke, and obligatory glass of whiskey and heads straight for the dirt. Tomato leaves crushed between your fingers. Basil growing somewhere nearby. Wet soil, wild herbs, twigs, and whatever that particular green smell is when you’ve been outside long enough to stop noticing it. Bergamot gives the whole thing a little brightness before musk and patchouli settle underneath. It’s earthy and green and oddly nostalgic, especially burning in the kitchen with dinner going and the windows open. Maybe the West was never supposed to smell like a cologne. Maybe it smelled like somebody’s backyard in July.

The Details

• Cowboy Scented Candle by Nose Dive
• Green, earthy, herbaceous fragrance
• Top: Tomato Leaf, Dewy Notes, Citrus, Bergamot
• Middle: Basil, Green & Wild Herbs, Floral Notes
• Base: Moist Earth, Musk, Twig, Patchouli
• Founder particularly recommends burning it while cooking with the windows open
• Handmade by Nose Dive
• Made in the USA
• Nose Dive is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota

About the Brand:  Nose Dive

Smell is an extremely unreliable way to time travel, but unfortunately it works. One second you’re standing in your kitchen; the next, something smells exactly like a hotel you stayed in twelve years ago and suddenly your brain has abandoned whatever it was supposed to be doing. Nose Dive, an independent LGBTQ+ owned fragrance studio founded in Minneapolis in 2025, builds handmade scents around this peculiar phenomenon:  rain through an open window, a baggy sweatshirt, late checkout, one more drink with people you love. They make fragrances for memories you may not have realized you were keeping.