Scented Candles

hazzie123

Does anyone know which are the best scented candles to buy?

I have bought 3 packs of candles,one is rose scent,vanilla scent and the other one was festive spice.
All three smell lovely when fresh out the box but as soon as you light them the smell dissapears?

I`ve even let them burn for half an hour and walk out the room and leave it for five mins and walk back in and still cant smell anything.

To me this is just wasting my money.

I do prefer the festive spice ones.

Peem

I've found this with scented candles in the past.

Apparently, some companies scent the top of the candle so it smells good in the shop or when you open the packet, but there's not a lot of scent in the candle itself (if any)

I decided I was wasting my money - now I'm allowed 2 Diptyque candles a year. (£29.00 each:eek: :eek: ). I feel I get more for my money as the smell is beautiful. (and the glasses and labels are gorgeous too),

There's a brand called True grace (I think, possibly something similar) which is supposed to be very good too. I've only read about these but I think they're "only" £15 ish.

mrs_baggins

I havent tried them but I read somewhere (maybe here I dont know) that the yankee doodle candles are the best ones for scent. They seem to sell them a lot in garden centres and dept stores. Thye are more expensive than my usual ones though! I may treat myself!

tiff

I buy Yankee candles (I get Diptyque candles as presents sometimes) and Yankee are the only ones I will buy. They do loads of different ones, I've tried quite a few now and they are all strong smelling. They come in glass jars, small, medium and large. Large is £16. They also do candle "tarts", these you put on the top of an oil burner with a tea light underneath and the wax melts and gives off the fragrance.

Spiced pear, macintosh, christmas eve, mistletoe and holiday sage are my favourites so far.

jcr16

i hardly buy candles anymore. i used to light them all the time. how do the room scent air freshers ones u can buy fair. are they just scented on the top. as in the shops they smell lush.

CarolnMalky

Yankees are superb, as are partylite..the only two brands we buy now, it works out more cost effective buying good ones that work, than buying cheapish ones that are rubbish.
Carol

RibenaBerry_2

I've had this problem. Saw Yankee Candles on QVC. They said that the problem was that a lot of companies just dip their candles in scent. When the top is burning/exposed it smells nice but, after that has gone, there isn't really much 'scent'- just a tiny bit at the side. They said that their candles have scent throughout.

Might just be falling for the sales pitch, but I've bought one and burnt it for about 5 hours. Smelt great the whole time. Thought the smell had gone, but left the room and came back, then realised that I had just got used to it!

organic_wanabe

If you want cheap but nice - I quite like the Ikea vanilla ones at £1 each. Of course, I would love all (or any) of those above as a gift (maybe OH is reading this at work!).

I usually get Clinique Aromatics Candles for Christmas (£20 for a box of 3 small ones) and I always pop one in my suitcase when I'm going on holiday. It scents the clothes beautifully and is handy if the hotel room smells less than fresh due to smokers, etc.

tiff

tiff wrote:

I buy Yankee candles (I get Diptyque candles as presents sometimes) and Yankee are the only ones I will buy. They do loads of different ones, I've tried quite a few now and they are all strong smelling. They come in glass jars, small, medium and large. Large is £16. They also do candle "tarts", these you put on the top of an oil burner with a tea light underneath and the wax melts and gives off the fragrance.

Spiced pear, macintosh, christmas eve, mistletoe and holiday sage are my favourites so far.

Forgot to say the candle tarts are only 89p each but are only supposed to burn for around 8 hours each. You then stick the burner in the freezer when you want to change the tart and the wax will slide off the top of the burner. The tarts are good if you want to try lots of different fragrances.

Peem

Here's a link to some stuff about the true grace candles

http://www.thecandlecollection.co.uk/index.php?manufacturers_id=126

I'm interested in these cos they say they're natural wax and I've heard that a lot of scented candles are some sort of petroleum derivative (sorry, can't be any more technical than that:o )

dunno what the Diptyque and Yankee ones are - they could of course be natural also.

mrcow

tiff wrote:

They also do candle "tarts", these you put on the top of an oil burner with a tea light underneath and the wax melts and gives off the fragrance.

Here's my tip......break one of these tarts into two and just use half at a time. It will still last just as many burns as you have to replace them after a few burns anyway (I have one burning in my downstairs loo right now and it's infiltrated the entre downstairs!).

It just means that you have the fresh scent for longer as it lasts twice as long.