The Candle Scents Blog

Scented Candles On Pintrest = WOW

I recently discovered Pintrest and WOW am I impressed. Pintrest allows you to gather and pin your favorite sites and photos onto a board. I just created a board for all of my favorite Candle Scents. If you've got scented candles on Pinterst leave me a comment so I can "pin" you!

My Quest To Find The Yankee Candle World Journeys Collection

I am obsessed with finding the entire line of the Yankee Candle World Journeys Collection. This collection came out in July of 2008 (I found the press release) and is still abundantly available at the Yankee Candle Outlet stores and places like TJ Maxx and Marshall's.

These widely sound after candles have exotic fragrances that are nothing short or amazing. So far I have found Pacific Coconut, Vera Cruz Vanilla and Danish Butter Cookie which is one of my favorites.

Here is the entire line up of the World Journeys Collection. Which ones are on your list?

Australian Oasis, Brazilian Passion Fruit, Canary Island Banana, Caribbean Trade Winds, Christmas in Paris, Danish Butter Cookie, Egyptian Cotton, French Lavender, Greek Fig & Black Currant, Himalayan Air, Indonesian Ginger, Italian Christmas Biscotti, Japanese Blossom, Madagascar Spice, Malaysian Palm, Mediterranean Cypress, New Zealand Wild Berries, Pacific Coconut, Rose of Morocco, Royal Frankincense, Siberian Silver Fir, Sicilian Orange, Spice Island Holiday, South African Vineyard, Tahitian Tiare Flower and Vera Cruz Vanilla.

5 Ways To Hide Your Candle Addiction From Your Husband

It's no secret that I love buying candles and I "think" I have my addiction under control. But sometimes...when there is a sale at Yankee Candle or a new scent at Bath and Body Works or I have a really great coupon I splurge a little. Then of course I get the "look" from my husband, that "why the heck to you need another candle" look. If he only knew!

So I've come up with a list of 5 ways to hide your candle addiction from your husband. Try one the next time there is a sale on retired candles at TJMaxx.

1) The refrigerator - Put tarts and votives (not glass) in a Tupperware container in the back of the fridge. That container can sit there for eternity because no man is going to venture into the back of the refrigerator for anything! Men like to look in the refrigerator but they can rarely find anything.

2) The laundry room - Men never go in the laundry room unless they are looking for clean clothes. So my advice is to keep a steady stream of clean clothes available and use the laundry room as candle storage central.

3) Your teenage daughters room - Not a place anyone wants to go, and there is a chance that your daughter might discover your candle stash and keep them for herself. But a great place to store candles in a pinch.

4) The basement - This can be a good or bad place depending on how much time your husband spends in the basement and whether or not it's finished. Mine loves it down there. But if you have a really large basement there are plenty of spots that you can probably get away with hiding some candles in. Just be careful if you hide them too good, it might be years before YOU remember where they are stashed.

5) In plain sight - This one works. I mean how many men are really going to notice an extra candle on the shelf. Now if over time you go from 10 to 300 candles it might became a tad more obvious, for example, they might say..."somethings changed in the dinning room"...but trust me adding a few is a breeze.

And last...one tip on where NOT to hide candles. Do not keep candles in the car on a hot, hot, hot day for prolonged periods of time. While they won't really melt your car will be perimated with the smell of pumpkin, apple cider or oatmeal cookies which is a dead giveaway that something may be in the car that's not supposed to be!

PS - My husband really is pretty supportive of my candle addicition, but there are days when I'd really rather he not know that I bought a few "extra" boxes of tea lights.

Candle Addiction

 

I'm not sure exactly when my candle addiction started. About last August or so I walked into the Yankee Candle store (while trying to lure my daughter away from Build-A-Bear) and got a whiff of their Fall line. So I immediately scooped up a Harvest and Macintosh...but there were many more that I wanted. Buttercream, Blueberry Scone, Pumpkin Pie...are you hungry yet?

So my addiction begins...luckily (or not so luckily) we have a Yankee Candle Outlet about 45 minutes away. It's the like Disney World for candle addicts. Tarts are 12 for $10 and if you have a coupon you get another 20% off.  Oh and the Country Kitchen line is amazing! Last trip I got small jars of Coffee Bean, Fudge Ripple and French Vanilla!

Then there's the huge selection of retired scents that Yankee Candle would love you to own like Blueberry, Roasted Coffee, Winterland and once of my favorites Carmel Pecan. You can also get new scents like Pink Sands and Country Lemonade!

I won't overload you anymore with their amazing line up, but I will leave you with a warning. If you pick up a Yankee Candle you won't ever just own one. Kind of like Lay's Potato chips, only a bit more expensive.  You are also likely to start cheating on Yankee Candle with other brands to feed your addition. I even made a list of the brands I like best.