The Bathing Garden got so extremely popular it is hard to get ahold of anything these days. As soon as she lists new stock it´s wiped clean pretty much within a few hours.
I placed this order in March and just didn´t get around to posting about it. Most of the new blends are really yummy and her quality is never slacking no matter how busy she is.
-TBG Peppermint Bubbles in the bedroom (24W hot plate, 2 cubes). This was a very light sweet minty scent. I wish the throw was stronger but it was really subtle.
-CFTKR Pina Colada in the first floor (24W hot plate). This is a good light-medium scent...a blend of pineapple and coconut however it has a certain note to it that I don´t like. Overall not a fave.
-HHS Granmas Zucchini in the kitchen (tea light). An awesome scent...a very creamy rich zucchini bread. I prefer it in blends but it´s great on its own nonetheless. It gave a good medium throw and lasted well through 5-6 hours.
-TBG Pistachio Cream Egg in the living room (2 cubes, tea light). This is the pistachio coconut fluff scent some vendors carry and it´s one of my favorite scents out there. However it is so strong (from any vendor) that it gives a slightly bitter taste (!!!) to the air. Super strong and long-lasting!
-JLCCW Serendipity Sugar Cookie Dough (2 pcs, 24W hot plate). Sweet crispy cookies and serendipity mingle ever so delightfully in this blend I came up with. It was awesome, strong and long-lasting. JLCCW is awesome but it is impossible to place any orders with her right now as she´s swamped until at least July =( Good that I still have a fair amount of her tarts here!
-Lil´Kitchen Candles Birthday Serendipity in the living room (24W hot plate). As always a fantastic blend with a strong throw and great lasting power. I am really sad Lil´Kitchen Candles closed for good but oh well =(
-Ollie´s Soaps Eucalyptus Spearmint in the bedroom (2 chill pills, 24W hot plate). A good standard cologne-y bedroom scent. Had a good strong throw and good lasting power!
-Granny´s Kountry Candles Windowpane in the first floor (24W hot plate). I can´t remember this scent at all. I do believe it was very light and unremarkable
-The Bathing Garden Apple Hearts in the kitchen (tea light). I just love this scent, it´s awesome! Tart green apple with a super sweet caramel and marshmallow or something along those lines. I normally can´t do apple but I love this blend! Strong throw, awesome staying power!
-IHeartwax Strawberry Serendipity in the living room (tea light). Another amazing blend from IHeartWax. I am not a strawberry person for the most part but this scent was great, threw well and lasted through a whole 8-hour tealight.
-BSF Blueberry Zucchini Bread in the living room (24W hot plate). I love my BSF loaves. They are made of a harder wax but with a soap cutter these are a breeze to cut. I sliced of a nice sliver and the scent was fantastic. Did I mention I don´t usually dig blueberry scents too much either? Haha! This was great and strong and I am happy I got that whole loaf!
-Lil´Kitchen Candles Waffle Cone Serendipity in the living room (24W hot plate). This was a very sweet scent I really enjoyed. For the size of the cookie the throw could´ve been a bit better though.
LKC closed her shop for good due to health problems of her kids. I am really sorry that we can´t purchase her beautiful wax anymore but I still have a big stash to hold me over for a long time (especially those loaves!). I wish her all the best for her future endeavors!
-Granny´s Kountry Candles Rosemary in the bedroom (24W hot plate). This was one of the most amazing herbal scents I have used in a long time. It was fresh, invigorating and strong without being overpowering. I totally loved this tart and got a bunch more tarts in this scent. Highly recommended (in the summer 2013 section in her shop - I might want to add that the new bunch I got smells slightly different cold)
-CFTKR Hey Sugar in the first floor (24W hot plate). I love this scent! It´s sweet and citrusy without any kind of pungent note to it. I got a big bag in this recently and just love this scent! It was medium strong and lasted well through 5-6 hours.
-BSF Captain Crunch Berries Cereal Type in the kitchen (tea light, 2 tarts). This was a good berry scent however it has a note to it I don´t quite like so overall I am a bit split about this scent. Throw was impeccable and lasting power as well.
-TBG Blackberry Jam Butter Cookies in the living room (2 cubes, tea light). This was really good. I think that this is the usual perfumey BJBC scent mixed with her more tart blackberry jam, at least that´s how it smells to me as the perfume note is not strong and there is a tart note that smells familiar to me from TBG. Anyway, this was great, threw strong and lasted pretty much through most of the day.
-I Heart Wax Serendipity Marshmallow in the living room (24W hot plate, 2 tarts). I think I didn´t post all my hauls from this new vendor yet...oh my! Will do so today! Her tarts are awesome! They are quite a bit bigger than FP but they are less than $3 per 4-pack I believe (that´s if she didn´t raise her prices). I was one of her first customers and I have returned a few times as her tarts are strong and awesome! Serendipity Marshmallow was amazing! Strong, sweet and gooey. I love this scent and have repurchased it in multiples already!
-HHS Granmas Sweet Zucchini Cakes in the living room (24W hot plate, 3 paws). I don´t think I picked up a specific cake note but this was just an awesome sweet granmas zuke bread blend. It smelled wonderful and lasted all day long! Love it!
-Front Porch Pink Coconut Cream in the bedroom (2 tarts, 24W hot plate). I just didn´t care for this scent at all. It had that weird greasy undertone some FP bakery tarts tend to have and that really throws me off. 2 tarts gave a medium strong throw and lasted till I poured them out lol
-Granny´s Kountry Candles Black Jellybean Thief in the first floor (24W hot plate). This smelled so good cold, like a sweetened up licorice scent. It did have a light throw though (I didn´t give it any cure time at all though). Overall a good scent, I hope the other pcs I got have more throw.
-The Bathing Garden Pink Bunny Ears in the kitchen (2 cubes, tea light). This is a blend of serendipity and coconut cream pie. It smells yummy cold but I got a very light throw only and normally TBG are great in a tea light warmer. I will let this cure for a longer while though, maybe it will improve after all
-Heavenleigh Apothecary Serendipity Funnel Cake in the living room (24W hot plate). This scent is awesome! The funnel cake has that creamy cinnamon note that I actually like and the serendipity adds a yummy decadent note. This was really strong and lasted all day long (the cinnamon started to overpower the serendipity after 5-6 hours though).
-Haley´s Heavenly Scents Granmas Amish Zucchini in the living room (about 2 grubby hearts) in a tea light warmer. Awesome, amazing, fantastic! I love the Granmas blends, they are so delicious! This one had that sweet almond raisin note that you can find in most AFB scents. Strong throw, great lasting power. HHS just is an awesome vendor IMO
-Sassy Girl Aroma Her Day (whole huge chunk) in the living room (24W hot plate). This was a great scent, a blend of pink sugar and birthday cake. I got a good strong throw and wonderful lasting power out of this chunk. SGA has awesome tarts and I wlll definitely order again, soon!
-Granny´s Kountry Candles Nectarine & Mint in the bedroom (24W hot plate). This was a nice fresh fruity scent with a good throw and it stayed almost all day long!
-Ten Digit Creations Laundry Day in the first floor (24W hot plate). This is an amazing laundry scent. It doesn´t have that wet linen smell some laundry scents tend to have. It´s just a pure clean scent with a strong throw and amazing lasting power.
-TBG Blackberry Hearts (2 cubes, tea light) in the kitchen. Shannon´s blackberry scents are amazing, very fresh and tart, not perfumey. This was a tart and sweet scent and had a really nice throw. I enjoyed it and would definitely repurchase.
-Pics, Petals & Scents Serendipity in the living room (24W hot plate). I think I used 2 tarts and got a light throw from this. I prefer Serendipity blended anyway so next time I will mix it with something.
-Heavenleigh Apothecary Serendipity Italian Biscotti in the living room (24W hot plate). One of my favorite blends from HA. A nice crisp italian cookie blended with my all-time fave scent Serendipity. Great strong throw and lasted through most of the day!
I really wanna catch up on posting hauls but I surely don´t wanna brag about them but I really just want to get them posted =X Anyway, I hauled some TBG clamshells recently so here are my hauls.
Shannon finally got Serendipity (as per my recommendation). Her serendipity smells good albeit a bit on the lighter side. It comes in 2 blends: Serendipity Cream Pie (with coconut cream pie) and Pink Bunny Ears (with red velvet cake).
-Butterfly Lane Scents Peppermint Marshmallow in the bedroom (24W hot plate). This was really sweet with very little mintbut the throw was not really that impressive. I used quite a few slivers and I could not get a scent.
-La Dolce Vita Lavender Sage in the first floor (4 cubes, 24W hot plate). Another great fresh herbal scent from La Dolce Vita. Had a good throw and stayed all day long.
-The Bathing Garden Secret Garden (2 cubes) in the kitchen (tea light). This was an überstrong green apple scent. It supposedly has mint but I can´t really detect that. It made me nauseous so I had to pour it out after a short while. I won´t be melting this again.
-Lil´Kitchen Candles 16 Candles in the living room (tea light). A blend of birthday cake and something sweet (maybe cotton candy or frosting?). I used 3 hearts and got a nice light-medium throw from this.
-Front Porch Lemon Bread in the living room (1 loaf, 24W hot plate). I barely could smell anything which is a huge disappointment. FP usually is a solid strong quality tart maker but this particular scent had almost no throw.
-Sassy Girl Aroma Lemon Cookie Bread in the living room (24W hot plate). I used the whole huge chunk and got a medium throw from this. It smelled really good but I would have preferred a stronger throw.
-The Bathing Garden Frozen Hearts (2 cubes, 24W hot plate) in the bedroom. This was a light minty scent with a sweet note. I did like this but the throw was very light and overall it was rather meh.
-La Dolce Vita Spearmint Eucalyptus (last 4 cubes) in the first floor (24W hot plate). I really enjoyed this crisp herbal scent of this tarts. The throw was good and the staying power as well.
-Lil´Kitchen Candles Ice Cream Scoop Bread in the kitchen (both tarts, tea light). This was really good, a very sweet ICSB scent with good throw and lasting power.
-JLCCW Serendipity Jaimie in the living room (tea light). This is a very sweet Serendipity blend however the throw in the tea light warmer wasn´t really the greatest...IMO these do better in a 24W hot plate.
-HHS Serendipity Noel in the living room (24W hot plate). One of my favorite Serendipity blends. It´s sweet and creamy and gave a good throw using 2 of those humongous tarts =)
-CFTKR Sugar Milk and Cookies in the living room (2 tarts, 24W hot plate). This was another awesome scent. A sweet cookie with the sweet milk scent from CFTKR. This had a strong throw and great staying power!
-Heavenleigh Apothecary Serendipitous in the bedroom (24W hot plate). This smelled so good in the cup but it did have next to no throw at all. so far I haven´t had the best luck with the wax from HA!
-CFTKR Fairy Garden in the first floor (24W hot plate). A really good citrus-floral blend. It´s a lovely choice for the spring. This was only about medium strong which is great with me as it probably would have cause a headache if it was stronger. Lasted through most of the day.
-The Bathing Garden Blue Raspberry Hearts in the kitchen (2 cubes, tea light). This is a refreshing blue raspberry scent (it has an almost menthol-y quality to it) layered over a sweet marshmallow. I wasn´t sure if I was going to like this but it was pretty good when warmed up.
Throw was medium and lasting power was good!
-Granny´s Kountry Candles Simmering Ribbon Melt (bakery) in the living room (tea light). This is basically wax brittle made from whatever is left over when pouring the simmering melts. I got this bakery variety as a freebie last time and it was nice on cold sniff and pretty strong hot but most of GKC´s bakery scents have a weird undertone I just can´t stand. I can´t put my finger on it, maybe a slight perfume-y note or something. Anyway...not a favorite!
-HHS Granmas Toasted Marshmallow (2 tarts) in the living room (24W hot plate). First off the color was a bit weird for this scent lol but I felt it was a refreshing change from the usual white, pink and brown colors most zuke bread/marshmallow blends have...the throw was strong and the scent was amazing! A sweet fluffy creamy zucchini bread. Awesome! Lasting power was good, about 6-7 hours I´d say.
-Front Porch Mexican Fried Pink Ice Cream in the living room (24W hot plate, 2 tarts). I didn´t care too much for this on cold sniff (it has that weird buttery undertone that I don´t like) but it was really nice when warmed up. A sweet creamy scent with a hint of pink sugar.
March already! Yay! January and February are possibly my least fave months (together with July, it´s just too hot!)... so I am happy they´re over!
-TBG Jack Frost (2 cubes, 24W hot plate) in the bedroom. One of my favorite sweet peppermint scents, the TBG version is very strong and lasts all day long! Awesome!
- TBG Cinderella Would Be Jealous in the first floor (2 cubes, 24W hot plate). This is TBG´s version of the Lush Snowcake scent. A great sweet almond frosting scent with a slightly perfumey note. This had medium strength and good staying power.
-Lil´Kitchen Candles Lemon Lush Noel in the kitchen (tea light). An awesome sweet lemon bakery scent I truly enjoyed. Had a good throw and lasted well through a tealight (8 hours).
-Beaux Savons Frais Serendipity in the living room (tea light). A good basic serendipity scent with good throw and lasting power.
-Front Porch Scoopable Wax in Pink Serendipity and Zucchini Bread Cupcakes in the living room (24W hot plate). While this isn´t exactly soft wax I had no problem scooping out the wax at all. I just took a metal spoon and it was pretty easy. I think once you start digging in the jar it get even easier as the risk of spreading wax crumbles around is getting lower the more wax you have used up. Awesome combination! The serendipity and the creamy buttery zuke bread cupcakes just mix so well together! The throw was strong and lasted all day long.
-Front Porch Caramel Vanilla Buttercream Cupcakes brittle in the living room (about 3-4 slices) in the living room (24W hot plate). This is probably one of my top favorite scents from FP. It is soooooooooo yummy!! This is one of the first caramel scents I actually enjoy! The thick decadent buttercream scent just blends in perfectly! Awesome! Strong throw and great lasting power..I am so glad I got a big bag of brittle in this!
Finally Shannon from TBG came out with new blends! I was soooo excited when I spotted them in her Etsy store (btw, she´ll open her actual website soon!). I ordered a few of her older blends in the previous weeks, stocking up on my favorite scents like Blackberry Jam & Lemon Curd but I wasn´t finding more to buy from her so I was happy to see her new bundles (I got a Valentine´s Day bundle, a scrub bundle and 4 individual raspberry cheesecake tarts).
The tart bundles was 9 + 1 free for $30 and she sent me an additional clamshell =) The scrub bundle was four 8oz scrubs for $32 and she sent one 4oz scrub for free =)
Btw the blue raspberry scent has a weird fresh note to it (as in cool and minty perhaps?) but I melted one of them (blue raspberry hearts) and it smelled pretty good warm!
Strawberry hearts is the prettiest tart ever! That´s why I took a closeup =)
-Sniff My Tarts Peppermint Candies in the bedroom (1 tarts, 24W hot plate). This smelled like really strong pure peppermint to me. It did scent my bedroom nicely but after 5-6 hours the scent was pretty much fizzled out.
-CFTKR Crystal Sunshine in the first floor (24W hot plate). This was a good fruity slightly floral scent with a medium throw and and solid staying power (most of the day).
-TBG Raspberry Hearts in the kitchen (2 cubes, tea light). This is a blend of strawberry passion and raspberry white cake. I got mainly the raspberry which is TBG´s typical raspberry scent I really like. It was super sweet and strong and lasted through the whole 8-hour tea light.
-Lil´Kitchen Candles Ice Cream Scoop Bread (both tarts) in the living room (tea light). A good sweet ICSB scent. I prefer this scent in blends (especially with Serendipity) as it tends to have a lighter throw on its own. I did enjoy this though!
-LSC Serendipity Scone in the living room (24W hot plate). This is a great creamy serendipity blend and I truly love it! I got a good throw and good staying power and I am happy that I have one more cup of this scent!
-HHS Granmas Serendipity in the living room (24W hot plate). Another great strong Serendipity blend. The toasted marshmallow added a nice creamy sweetness and the lasting power was great, too!
-FussAssMcGee Cucumber Mint in the bedroom (2 cubes, 24W hot plate). This was a good strong fresh scent...after a while the cucumber came out a bit more than I necessarily like but all i all a good relaxing scent with great throw!
-Heavenleigh Apothecary Easter Bunny Burps in the first floor (2 cubes, 24W hot plate). This is the standard Bunny Burps scent, a fresh green mix. It wasn´t really strong though so I didn´t get much out of this. To be fair I have to say this didn´t really get much cure time and it´s soy so it will probably get stronger.
-Lil´Kitchen Candles Waffle Cone in the kitchen (both tarts, tealight). I really enjoyed this sweet lavender scent. It was about medium strong and lingered for a good while before it died down (after about 6 hours I´d say).
-TBG Apple Hearts (2 cubes) in the living room (tealight). I am really not a big fan of apple scents but this was such an awesome sweet scent! It smelled like a tart green apple with a very sweet topping of marshmallow and toffee. It had a good throw even without curing a long time so I bet it´ll be kick-butt after a few more weeks!
-HHS Granma´s Blackberry Jam Butter Cookies in the living room (1 big heart, 24W hot plate). I didn´t like this scent as the blackberry was kinda perfumey =( But the throw was really strong and long-lasting!
-CFTKR Pink Sugared Serendipity (2 squares) and Ice Cream Scoop Bread (2 slices) in the living room (24W hot plate). For some reason I could neither smell the serendipity part nor the ICSB..just pink sugar and it did cause a slight headache. The whole scent was overpowered by the HHS scent in addition. I love Carol´s Serendipity blends but not the Pink Sugared Serendipity as the PS is too strong for my taste.
-FussAssMcGee Sweet Dreams in the bedroom (2 cubes, 24W hot plate). A good laundry detergent/lavender scent. I really enjoyed this and it was pretty strong and lasted well through the day.
-CFTKR Chubba Dubba in the first floor (24W hot plate). This was a great sweet citrus scent with maybe a green note. It was medium strong and had mediocre staying power. Not the best from CFTKR but the scent was good.
-TBG Pirate Punch in the kitchen (2 cubes, tealight). I couldn´t smell this much but I got a whiff of this here and there. It was a fruity scent with a hint of maybe rum? Nothing I´d repurchase.
-HHS Granmas Pink Zucchini Bread (2 tarts, 24W hot plate) in the living room. The pink note was very strong and perfumey whereas the zuke bread didn´t come through well enough for my taste. It was ok but not my favorite blend.
-Front Porch Loopy Serendipity in the living room (24W hot plate). Awesome scent though a bit strong on the fruit loops. This threw really well and smelled amazing. Good lasting power, too! Love this!
-CFTKR Rosemary Mint in the bedroom (24W hot plate). I don´t know why I didn´t really care for this scent so far? It was awesome, herbal, refreshing and strong. I still think I like the Aveda Rosemary Mint type better (also from CFTKR) but this was great and I will reorder this !
-CFTKR Biolage (2 tarts, 24W hot plate) in the first floor. A good fresh shampoo scent but it is on the border of giving me a headache as there might be something slightly floral in it? Was strong and threw really well though
-TBG Green Tea & Cherry Blossom Kiwi in the kitchen (2 cubes, tealight). Another great fresh fruity scent from TBG. The cherry blossom note didn´t come through too much (thank God, I am not into cherry blossom scents at all) so overall this was great and a very unique typical TBG scent!
-JLCCW Serendipity Birthday Cake in the living room (2 cupcakes, 24W hot plate). As always this was absolutely fantastic and I can´t get enough of this stuff! Soft moist white cake smothered with sweet buttercream and blended with Serendipity. <3!!
-Front Porch Lemon Sugar Cookie Dough Bread (2 tarts, 24W hot plate) in the living room. This scent was awesome! Sweet lemon blended with FP´s famous SCDB! It was really strong and lasted all day long!
-Scentsy French Lavender in the bedroom (3 cubes, 24W hot plate which is a no-no with Scentsy but seems to work for me). This was pretty strong by Scentsy standards (I am so not a fan of Scentsy and thinking of purging my stash from that brand). It was a very cologne-y lavender so it was not exactly what I was looking for (in the bedroom I prefer herbal authentic lavender). Yea, but strong and long-lasting so no complaints about that.
-CFTKR Berry Bellini in the first floor (24W hot plate). A good fresh tart berry drink scent. There was no effervescence though. It was about medium strong and lasted fairly well. I liked it, it smelled clean.
-TBG Sugar Plum Fairy (2 cubes, tealight) in the kitchen. This scent was really awesome! A very fresh tart citrus-based plum scent without any spice or Xmas-y notes. Pretty refreshing, strong and with amazing lasting power. I really love TBG in the kitchen as it´s one of the few brands that will perform perfectly in about any warmer.
-Front Porch Strawberry Blueberry Bread in the living room (24W hot plate). This was gross, the blueberry note made this smell like worn socks (sorry!) so I had to pour it out almost instantly (as in when it started to throw). I used something else (don´t remember what lol).
-Butterfly Lane Pink Cupcake in the living room (24W hot plate). I think these need a longer cure time, this one was super light, I just got a bit of pink sugar and a weird funnel-cake with cinnamon note so after a few hours I replaced it, too. I think I used some Serendipity blend from PPS instead of it.
-Lasting Scent Candles Cozy Comforter in the bedroom (24W hot plate). This was a weird scent, it was on the one hand some kind of fresh laundry detergent scent but it also had a powdery and a floral note. It was really strong and lasted all day long but when I went to the bedroom to sleep at night it did cause a headache so I poured it out and replaced it with something fresh. Not a fan but not that bad either.
-The Bathing Garden Pixie Dust (2 cubes) in the first floor (24W hot plate). This was super duper strong, a very green fresh citrus-based scent. Amazing and I really enjoyed it but it was almost too strong, might use only 1 cube next time!
-Scentsationals Cupcake in the kitchen (2 cubes, tealight). I really loved this scent, it smells a lot like the usual birthday cake scent many vendors carry. It was not as strong as I am used to from Scentsationals but it was an amazing scent.
-Lil´Kitchen Candles Birthday Serendipity (6 little hearts) in the living room (24W hot plate). AMAZING, awesome, just wonderful stuff. It was about medium strong and lasted through a good amount of hours (6-7 perhaps). I think after curing for longer (this was poured just about 10 days or so ago) this will be even stronger!
-Front Porch Angie´s Famous Cupcakes (2 tarts) and Serendipity (4 heart tarts) in the living room (24W hot plate). This was an amazing mix! The cupcake scent was similar to my beloved birthday cake scent as it was rich and creamy and the serendipity worked perfectly with it! Loved this strong and long-lasting combo!!
-Pics, Petals & Scents Aromatherapy Relaxation (2 sticks) in the bedroom (24W hot plate). This was a great relaxing lavender blend with a strong throw and great lasting power till late night and probably beyond.
-Granny´s Kountry Candles Citrus Linen H2O in the first floor (24W hot plate). I think this was my favorite scent of the day and one of the best I ever tried from Granny´s. A super strong, super lasting fresh citrus laundry scent. It was beyond amazing. I need to check with Wendy if she has more of this stuff!!
-The Bathing Garden Vintage Circus in the kitchen (tealight, 2 cubes). I recently got this scent as I never tried it before except in scrub form and I kinda liked it. However I am not a fan of this scent in wax at all. It´s a mix of blue cotton candy and the BBW type Winter Candy Apple which is a very perfumey soapy apple scent. I don´t like the body care and I didn´t like it in wax form either. The throw was strong and it lasted well but just not something I can see myself reaching for in the future.
-CFTKR Caramel Sticky Buns (2 tarts) in the living room (24W hot plate). A very good sweet bakery scent with a cornbread-note in my opinion. Lasted many hours and was really strong.
-Butterfly Lane Lemon Bread (3 big slices) in the living room (24W hot plate). This was really weak and it had a weird undertone to it. Not digging this.
-CFTKR Burnt Cream in the bedroom (24W hot plate). I just don´t care so much for this scent. It was a chocolatey note and something burnt about it (hence the name I guess lol) and I am just not a fan. It was strong though and lasted until I poured it out to replace it with something enjoyable.
-LSC Pink Sheets in the first floor (24W hot plate). I got only a light throw and what I smelled was really perfumy. I didn´t leave this in the warmer for long as I just didn´t like it.
-TBG Vanilla Layered Strawberry Kiwi (2 cubes, tealight) in the kitchen. This was really awesome! A nice sweet fruity blend. It was strong and lasted well. I just love TBG´s fruity scents, they are generally the best!
-Butterfly Lane Zucchini Cupcakes in the living room (24W hot plate). This wasn´t really strong, I couldn´t smell much except for the occasional whiff of zucchini bread. A bit of a disappointment.
-Front Porch Orange Marmalade Marshmallow in the living room (24W hot plate). This one was good and pretty strong. A nice sweet fluffy orange scent. Didn´t last longer than 4-5 hours though.
