September 13, 2012
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HELP!! Voting is closed
So I’m thinking about putting an order in today to get my candle-making supplies. I’m only going to buy a few things, just to test it out, but I need some help…I’m going to run a little contest.
I’m having trouble deciding which scents I want to try out. I’m going to list a few categories with some scents associated with each and I want everyone to vote on which scents they think I should try. Everyone who comments with their suggestions will be put into a pool and I will randomly select one winner to receive a free sample of each scent with free shipping! Yay!! I will also take the scent most voted for in each category as the scents I will order. One entry per person, and spam does not count. So, here we go:
Autumn Scents
Apple Cinnamon: hot baked apples sprinkled with cinnamon
Autumn Harvest: nice fall blend of orange, grapefruit, and clove
Butternut Pumpkin: a blend of butternut squash, pumpkin puree, cinnamon, clove, and vanilla
Hazelnut Coffee: a rich, full bodied aroma accompanied by the buttery appeal of freshly roasted European hazelnuts and a touch of indulgent cream
Caramel Toffee: sweet creamy blend with light hints of butter and vanillaWinter/Holiday Scents
Sweet Holiday Blend Coffee: spice blend of cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, and ginger wrapped around a buttery almond accord with a sweet vanilla and maple dry down.
Spruce Orchard: blend of citrus, pine, and rosemary on a light woody background
Sweet Snow: a soft mint with a vanilla background
Victorian Christmas: top notes include fruity aspects with fir needle, mid-notes of warm baked apple and cinnamon with base notes of warm, sweet woodsy scents and patchouli
Hansel & Gretal’s House: a rich base of cocoa and vanilla bean supports mid notes of nutmeg, honey, ginger, and clove with top notes of lemon and orange
Christmas Cookie: French vanilla with butter, spices, and milkFruity Scents
Coconut Hibiscus: light floral notes of hibiscus, violet, and peony are blended on a base of creamy vanilla and sweet coconut
Tropic Wind: an exotic fruity salad with tropical oranges, ripe melons, fresh peaches, shredded coconut, and apples
Monkey Farts: vanilla base notes support mid notes of kiwi, strawberries and bubble gum, with top notes of juicy grapefruit and fresh bananas
White Nectarine & Pink Coral: the luscious fruitiness of sweet peach, pineapple chunks, and orange slices blended with enchanting floral notes of honeysuckle, rose and jasmine on a dry down of soft, soothing musk
Coconut Lime Verbana: juicy citrus fruits such as lemon and lime on a delicate heart of creamy coconut and fresh florals. Vanilla notes and sandlewood round out the blendFresh Scents
Cotton Bouquet: a sweet floral with jasmine, violets, and lavender with a smooth woody background
Country Breeze: a complex blend of sharp green notes with a hint of ozone on a strong rose background
Rainforest Blossoms: green ozonic top notes with a clean linen and wild rose floral heart ending with damp earth, moss, and woodland musk
Rain: a blend of rose and lily of the valley on a strong musk background
Spring Rain: clean refreshing blend with light fruity tones enhanced with hints of florals and spices**Please note that these scent names are provided by the website I’ll be getting my scents from. I’m still going to research more places to get fragrances, provided this test run goes well. I may or may not change the names to my own choosing once I make the candles and see what they smell like once burned.
***I will end this contest at 10am my time tomorrow morning, which is central time.
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Okay folks, voting is closed!! Watching a movie while I do administrative work (heh, sounds official, doesn’t it?
), meaning tallying votes and finding a random generator to pick a winner! I will post results later today, and thank you everyone for your participation!!
Comments (44)
Apple Cinnamon, Hansel & Gretal’s House, Coconut Lime Verbana and Rain
Autumn Harvest, Victorian Christmas, Cocanut Hibiscus, & Cotten Bouquet.
OH GOD YESSSSSSSSSSS.
Sweet Snow, Coconut Hibiscus, White Nectarine and Pink Coral, Coconut Lime Verbana… and any of the Fresh ones. I like floral-y scents
(Christmas/Autumn scents give me headaches so I chose not to vote in those categories)
LOL Monkey farts! I love autumn scents, they are my favorites.
Hazlenut Coffe, Hanzel and Gretal’s House, Coconut Lime Verbana, Spring Rain.
I want to eat these scents
Victorian Christmas, Hansel and Gretal’s House, Hazelnut Coffee, White Nectarine and Pink Coral and Country Breeze
Cotton bouquet or butternut pumpkin.
I am excited to hear how your candles turn out.
I personally love coconut and the fresh scents are wonderful as well.
Had to lol at the “monkey farts” one. Who named that one?
@BoulderChristina - Is that one your vote?
@Nushirox2 - Haha, don’t they sound delicious?
@olwd - Did you want to make a vote so you can be entered in the contest? And I’m not sure who named it, lol, it was the name given to the scent on the website
Butternut pumpkin, sweet snow, tropic wind, spring rain!
They all sound like they would smell so good. I hope it works out well!
I liked Spruce Orchard & Cotton Bouquet the best, or at least they sound the best! I remember in the 70″s we used to make sand candles. A large container was filled with damp sand & you scooped out a bowl shape and poked 3 holes in to form tripod legs. Suspend 1-3 wicks & fill with melted wax. When hard the candle lifts out of the sand & the sand forms a crust like container that supports the candle. I had a friend that took it one step further & sculpted holders out of wax & sand mixed, blending in chunks of colored glass. He’d make towers & castles & waterfall the wax down the sides. When the candles burned the colored glass would glow. Anyways, your post took me right back to the hotplates in his parent’s basement! Those were the days! Ü
apple cinnamon, spruce orchard, Monkey farts, country breeze
I’m so in on the butternut/pumpkin and hansel & gretel scents!!!
Spruce Orchard. ^_^
Perhaps we can do a trade sometime?
“Sweet Snow
: a soft mint with a vanilla background.”~That sounds lovely.
For the holidays – Sugar Cookie if you can find it
@meatloafpriest - There is a scent called Christmas Cookie: french vanilla with butter, spices, and milk. I’ll add that one and that can be your vote =]
@crazy2love - Excellent!
@LKJSlain - I’m sure we can
all of them! but if i have to pick on Sweet Snow!
Which supplier are you using? I’ve tried several and consider LSCS the best… Reasonable prices and good service. Once, when a shipment of apothecary jars came with one jar broken, they sent me a replacement, no questions asked.
@TheSchizoidMan - I have two main suppliers I’ve been looking at..that one and candlescience.com.
Considering I have one whole closet dedicated to candle storage, I vote: Apple Cinnamon, Christmas Cookie, Tropical Wind and Spring Rain.
I’m going to have to go with Sweet Snow! It sounds lovely!
apple cinnamon, christmas cookie, butternut pumpkin, and hazelnut coffee :3
I like hazelnut coffee and Christmas cookie.
Monkey farts? LOL!
[Country Breeze: a complex blend of sharp green notes with a hint of ozone on a strong rose background]
What does that mean? Sharp notes? Ozone? *scratches head*
@In_Reason_I_Trust - Sharp, as in strong, I would say..like it really hits you. Ozone..not sure, exactly. If that one wins I’ll have to figure it out at that time
I actually giggled out loud when I saw the name Monkey Farts 
Autumn harvest, sweet snow, white nectarine and pink coral, country breeze.
Victorian Christmas or Spring Rain. Those just sound amazing.
Caramel toffee, christmas cookies, coconut hibiscus, spring rain!
Tropic Wind, cotton bouquet, rainforest blossoms, rain, and spring rain
White Nectarine and Pink Coral, Coconut Lime Verbana, Butternut Pumpkin and Hansel and Gretal’s House all sound wonderful to me!!
Victorian Christmas sounded good until the last one, I dislike patchouli very much, it makes me gag.
i’ll go with Spruce Orchard and Rainforest Blossoms please but don’t enter me in the contest. i would wear them haha.
Hansel & Gretal’s HouseThe overall description was just too intriguing to pass up. It’s a good thing you’re ordering and not me, because… I might very well want to buy a good third to a half of these scents.
Hazelnut Coffee.. I abuse caffeine so of course I will pick that one.
Perhaps, if you went to school, making decisions would not be so difficult now, would it? This is what you get for dropping out of kindergarten. Just because you failed kindergarten is no excuse.
Perhaps even a scent that smells like a job would be enough to get you to go out and look for one instead of relying on the State, no?
@CanuckFascist - Haha. I’m studying psychology in college and I have a 3.5 GPA, thanks =] And if you knew anything about selling, having a contest such as this is a way to bring interest to the product.
Coconut Hibiscus & Christmas Cookie ^-^
Victorian Christmas.
I just recent bought a body wash that has patchouli scent mixed in and I’ve got to say that I’m kind of in love with it at the moment.
Aw,so sweet of you!! Caramel toffee, hazelnut coffee and lime verbana(sp) all sound wonderful!
It was so hard to pick, but I choose Butternut Pumpkin.
Sweet Snow. It sounds uplifting and non-cloying. I dislike and never buy overly sweet smelling candles like vanillas and pumpkin pies, but the mint I think would help the soothe the vanilla. I am actually very interested in what that would smell like.
Apple Cinnamon, Spruce Orchard, Coconut Lime Verbana and Spring Rain.