Bring Home the Scents of the Season with Yankee Candle's Farmer's Market - New Candle Line is a Feast for the Senses.

SOUTH DEERFIELD, Mass. -- Yankee Candle (NYSE:YCC) invites you to celebrate the sights and scents of your local farmer's market at home everyday with its fresh new candle line, Farmer's Market(TM).

Inspired by the seasons' changing harvests, including fresh mandarin oranges, juicy cranberries, ripe apples and richly textured pumpkins, Farmer's Market captures Yankee's authentic Housewarmer(R) fragrances in a new true-to-life "visual" form. Jar candles appear to be filled to the brim with succulent, fresh-picked fruits, vegetables and other natural foods that celebrate not only the scents of the season, but now also the rich and colorful sights of the season.

"Farmer's Market gives us a great opportunity to bring a new visual appeal to our best-selling Housewarmer candle fragrances while maintaining the high quality our customers have come to expect from Yankee Candle," said Rick Ruffolo, Senior Vice President, Brand, Marketing and Innovation. "Yankee Candle's fragrances are known worldwide for being true-to-life and, with this innovative new candle line, we have added yet another dimension to our customers' sensory experience."

Utilizing a proprietary combination of paraffin and clear wax technologies, Yankee Candle Farmer's Market(TM) candles are designed to glow when lit. Specifically developed to provide both a fragrant and clean burning experience, the center of the candle releases the famous Yankee(R) fragrance while the outer layer - brimming with treasures from the season's harvest - remains intact, so your jam jar is always full!

Debuting in fragrances including Berry Crumble, Mandarin Cranberry and Cinnamon Apple Berry, Farmer's Market candles will feature an ever-changing variety throughout the year (ideal for year 'round gift-giving), bringing home the season's best scents, picked fresh just for you.

The Farmer's Market Candle Line

--Clear Wax Jam Jar Candles: 9 oz., $14.99; 16 oz., $21.99

--Swirl(R) Candle: Two of your favorite Farmer's Market fragrances swirled together! - 11oz., $17.99

--Samplers(R) Votive Candles: A 4-pack of votive candles topped with treasures inspired by the season's harvest. - $9.99

--Tarts(R) Wax Potpourri: A 3-pack of Tarts wax potpourri in bakery fresh shapes filled with the season's treasures. (For use in wax potpourri burners only.) - $7.99

About Yankee Candle

The Yankee Candle Company, Inc., is the leading designer, manufacturer, wholesaler and retailer of premium scented candles, based on sales, in the giftware industry. Yankee has a 36-year history of offering distinctive products and marketing them as affordable luxuries and consumable gifts. The Company sells its products through a North American wholesale customer network of approximately 17,000 store locations, a growing base of Company owned and operated retail stores (387 located in 42 states as of June 12, 2006), direct mail catalogs, its Internet Web site (www.yankeecandle.com), international distributors and to a European wholesale customer network of approximately 2,300 store locations (through its distribution center located in Bristol, England).