Scented Candles - Take Me AWAY!

Executive Summary about Scented Candles by M J Plaster

Scented candles

If it’s the dead of winter and you’ve already suffered through 73 days of snow cover, light a piña colada candle or a seaside candle and pop in your favorite Beach Boys CD. Light a pumpkin candle to evoke the Harvest Moon and the bounty of autumn. Holidays are incomplete without candles. If you think back to your favorite holiday gatherings, your mind will probably wander to your favorite scents. From pumpkin pie to peppermint ice cream to vanilla, the scents of the holiday season are everywhere.

Simulate the scent of a Frazier fir with candles. Feel free to light several complementary scents at once. Each season contains a wealth of pleasing smell. The holiday season probably provides the most scent. Recreate the memories of Christmas past with gingerbread, vanilla, cinnamon, eggnog, clove, nutmeg, pine, peppermint candles. The scents don’t compete, because they occur naturally, and you’ve smelled them from infancy. Perhaps you’ve created an indoor sunroom. Add lavender-scented candles to that lavender room, rose-scented candles to a pink room, new-mown grass-scented and rain forest candles to a green room, vanilla or gardenia to a white room, and seaside to a blue room.

If the odor is overpowering, turn on the kitchen fan, spray a little odor neutralizer in the air, and light citrus-scented candles to replace cooking odors with the clean scent of fruit.

If your mind can imagine it, you can create it with scented candles for mere pennies!

Strongly Scented Candles: Use your mouth, nose and eyes to tell

Executive Summary about Scented Candles by Lisa Robbin

Triple scented, heavily scented, strongly scented - these are all phrases candle manufacturers are using to tout their claim that their candles have more “smell” for your buck. That means, in most cases, buying the candle first. So what can you do if you’re eager to try a new candle scent or candles form a new company? Fragrance and color, which are also wax additives mind you, can further affect the burn and, obviously the fragrance, of the candle mix. Depending on the wax blend, however, a candle may or may not be able to hold that much fragrance without leeching or burning improperly. Leeching occurs when the oils from the fragrance or coloring seep from the candle. Ask questions about how the candle is made, or visit the website of the candle maker. When you smell the candle, can you taste it? This works for food scents as well as other non-food fragrances.

Now look at the candle. With the obvious exception of novelty candles (like “snow” candles), a well-made candle should be smooth, with no pockets, bubbles or mars. The candle will burn too slow, and eventually drown out if the wick is too small. Cotton wicks burn hotter than zinc cored wicks, and nearly all metal cored wicks in the US are zinc, not lead. Soy and gel candles both burn slower than traditional paraffin and can hold more fragrance. A recent addition to the candle market, resin-based candles, hold even more fragrance such that scent throw on a cold candle can be significant even from a few feet away.

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