This year I will burn a candle and bask in the fragrance of spiced apple.

You mean to say that you were "baffled." Spiced apple is a made-up name for a fragrance, and doesn't necessarily refer to any actual food. When people make desserts using apples, they most commonly use cinnamon or nutmeg to spice the apples. Perhaps that is what fragrance manufacturers use to make a "spiced apple" fragrance. I look into it.

I've looked around, and i do see cinnamon mentioned frequently in pages about "spiced apple" fragrance. Unsurprisingly, people who are offering candles or other products with a "spiced apple" fragrance are not telling what they use to make the fragrance.

I have no doubt that some idiot will come along to claim that there is such a food as "spiced apple." Don't believe it. People in the West make apple pies, apple dumplings, baked apples--any number of apple dishes. But apart from noting, once again, that cinnamon and nutmeg are two spices frequently used in dishes containing apples, there really is no such food as "spiced apple." It's just a gimmick of fragrance manufactureres.

Many thanks!