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-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 =(
-Heavenleigh Apothecary Pink Lavender Serendipity in the bedroom (24W hot plate). This was a really nice scent. A mix of a sweet lavender and serendipity. Throw was medium and lasted well!
-La Dolce Vita Cotton Blossom in the first floor (4 cubes, 24W hot plate). This is a BBW dupe and it´s a very nice sweet perfumey cotton laundry scent. Throw was only light-medium though even with 4 cubes.
-BSF Creamy Coconut in the kitchen (tea light). I used 2 of these mini bundt cakes and I totally hated the scent. Of course it was strong, all scents I hate are (or seem at least) strong to my nose. It was just gross and confirmed my belief that most coconut scents (as stand-alones) are yuck!
-LSC Amaretto Buttercream Cookie in the living room (tea light). This was awesome! A sweet almond scent with a crunchy cookie bakery note. This had a solid medium-strong throw and lasted until the tea light died out (about 8 hours).
-Iheartwax Serendipity Marshmallow in the living room (24W hot plate, 2 tarts). I melted this again as this is such an awesome scent! Sweet marshmallow and rich serendipity in perfect harmony and with a strong throw. Fantastic!!
-CFTKR Sweet Lemon Zucchini & Ice Cream Scoop Bread in the living room (24W hot plate). I mixed a slice of ICSB and the lemon scent and it was an amazing sweet lemon bakery scent. I loved this and will blend this combo again! Throw was strong and it lasted really well!
Before Carol closed her site for her yearly checkups and restocks I placed couple of orders. Her tarts are just among my faves and her line of scents is extremely extensive.
I forgot to take individual pics of the items in order 2 except for the freebies =X
-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!
-Heavenleigh Apothecary Pink Sugar Vanilla Bean Noel in the bedroom (ended up being the whole clamshell, 24W hot plate). I first put 2 cubes and got nothing, added 2 more and the scent was light and after 2 more it was decent. The blend was really nice but it was just way too weak.
-CFTKR Floridian Dreams in the first floor (24W hot plate). I truly enjoyed this medium strong tropical citrus blend. Lasted really well but started to smell really off when the scent was gone (after about 6-7 hours).
-Ollie´s Soaps Neapolitan Ice Cream in the kitchen (tea light, 3-4 scoops). This was super strong and wafted through my whole house. It smelled so authentic! I could smell the soft ice-cream-drenched wafer with vanilla, chocolate and strawberry ice cream scoops. Awesome!
-Front Porch Serendipity Cupcakes (2 tarts) in the living room (24W hot plate). This had almost no throw which was a shame as it was soooo delicious on cold throw and I actually had requested the scent for a while. =/
-Beaux Savons Frais Serendipity, Ice Cream Scoop Bread and Loopy Lemon Cream Noel in the living room (24W hot plate). This was a good scent..the Loopy Lemon Cream Noel was pretty non-existent in the blend as it was such a tiny sample tart but the ice cream scoop bread serendipity smelled awesome. Medium throw and good lasting power.
-HHS Jack Frost in the bedroom (24W hot plate). This was a good fresh peppermint scent with good throw and lasting power.
-CFTKR Farmhouse Treats in the first floor (24W hot plate). This is a mix of all things being prepared in a farmhouse kitchen (bread, cookies, jam, jelly etc.). This was an extremely light scent with a very weak throw. What I could smell was just a sweet scent without any dominant bakery notes. I somehow liked this but I would want it way stronger!
-Granny´s Kountry Candles Orange Chiffon Cake in the kitchen (tea light). This had a very light throw and it was such a normal boring orange bakery scent anyway.
-Lil´Kitchen Candles Sugar Cookie Dough Bread and Serendipity Noel in the living room (24W hot plate). This was a good combination, a sweet bakery with a hint of serendipity. It was medium-strong and stayed really well.
-Front Porch Buttercream Drizzled Bread and Marshmallow Serendipity in the living room (24W hot plate). Another good blend...a creamy soft serendipity scent with a good throw and decent staying power.
-JLCCW Serendipity Jaimie in the living room (tea light). I used one cupcake and it gave off a light-medium throw. This is a very sweet serendipity but it´s not my fave from JLCCW.
And here is yet another haul from CFTKR...judging by the amount I have I would say she should be my favorite vendor. Carol definitely is along with The Bathing Garden and Front Porch. But I have so many fave vendors it´s hard to narrow them down.
It´s getting slightly more difficult to order stuff from Carol as her popularity just got boosted so much. She will soon close for almost a month and you bet her first days of reopening will be totally super busy. I am planning on a small order on Tuesday as she´ll be restocking couple of scents I have been waiting for.
As always I got a nice bunch of samples, yay! Some even bunny-shaped <3
-Streetman Candles Vanilla Bean Noel in the bedroom (24W hot plate). This is one of the best VBN scents in my opinion. while I am otherwise not really a big fan of Streetman this scent is really nice. It has a light-medium throw and lasts through most of the day usually.
-Pics, Petals & Scents White Tea & Ginger in the first floor (24W hot plate). This is different from other WT&G scents as it definitely has a slightly spicy note. It is good nonetheless but I prefer the B&BW version which e.g. HHS carries. This threw nicely strong all day long!
-CFTKR Crunch Berry Crisp in the kitchen (tea light). I normally don´t use CFTKR in tea light warmers but actually they perform pretty nicely that way. This was a strong sweet berry scent. I didn´t get much of the bakery note but it was a nice scent all in all.
-Beaux Savons Frais Pink Bread in the living room (tea light). I got a bit of a pink sugar note with zucchini bread. This wasn´t really strong but I think BSF does better in a hot plate.
-Sassy Girl Aroma Birthday Bread in the living room (2 tarts, 24W hot plate). This was a good scent, I got mainly the rich birthday cake and it was about medium strong. Lasted through most of the day.
-Lil´Kitchen Candles Waffle Cone Zucchini (about 8 hearts) in the living room (24W hot plate). I really enjoyed this scent, it was that sweet waffle cone with creamy zucchini bread. About medium-strong and with good lasting power.
-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!
-CFTKR Eucalyptus & Thyme in the bedroom (24W hot plate). This was such an awesome pure herbal scent cold but hot there was something about it I didn´t enjoy as much as I had expected. Maybe it was even too herbal (As in with an earthy note). It was strong and lasted all day long but it was somehow not refreshing enough.
-HHS Frosted Lime Cupcakes in the first floor (24W hot plate). This was great, super strong and long lasting. The lime cupcakes scent is gentler and not as sour as the typical key lime scent so I really enjoyed this.
-Granny´s Kountry Candles Vanilla Butter Cupcakes in the kitchen (tea light). I got nothing from this cold nor warm.
-Butterfly Lane Serendipity Marshmallow in the living room (tea light). This was good and about medium strong. Lasted through about 5-6 hours.
-Front Porch Buttercream Iced Orange Danish in the living room (24W hot plate). I love this scent! Anything from FP with buttercream or cupcake is amazing and this was no exception. The orange danish was mellowed out in a nice way but the orange bakery still came through. Amazing, long lasting and medium-full strength!
-LSC Lemon Custard Cookies in the living room (24W hot plate). This was a good creamy lemon bakery scent. It was pretty strong and lasted but overall there was nothing especially remarkable about this scent.
-LSC Peppermint Snow Cookies in the bedroom (24W hot plate). This scent was good, a sweet peppermint with a light bakery note. Strength was about medium with good lasting power.
-HHS Soft Blanket in the first floor (24W hot plate). Even though this doesn´t have much in common with the YC scent Soft Blanket (which is one of the only scents I keep buying from YC in candle form) it is a nice fresh scent, a delicate citrus laundry blend. Good throw and staying power, too!
-Granny´s Kountry Candles Almond Macaroon (2 cubes) in the kitchen (tea light). This was a really weird but good scent..it was super strong...sort of like a cleanser with an almond scent? To me this had no bakery note whatsoever but as I said, more like a cleanser, shampoo or the likes. Super duper strong throw and lasted all the day (8 hour tea light).
-Happy Hippy Scents Serendipity Divine Joy in the living room (tea light). I believe Divine Joy is toasted marshmallow... this had a good throw however it did pull that vomit-y sour buttercream note I sometimes get usually from caramel or praline scents. I still somehow liked it and will try it again. The wax was total PITA to get out of my warmer when it was solid...even the freezer method didn´t work so I had to remelt it to remove it from my warmer and it had a really icky sticky texture.
-CFTKR OMG Cake in the living room (24W hot plate). I enjoyed this sweet cake scent. To me it had a raisin and slight cinnamon note but it was pretty strong and good. And I love the color =) Lasted through a good amount of hours and threw well.
-Front Porch Loopy Serendipity & Pink Sugar Marshmallow in the living room (24W hot plate). A good blend however the marshmallow and PS didn´t come through and the fruit loops note was the strongest one. Had good throw and 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.
-Heavenleigh Apothecary Girly Girl in the bedroom (2 cubes, 24W hot plate). This is a blend of Pink Sugar and buttercream..while it smelled really delicious it was a bit light for my taste as I could barely smell it. It might need more cure time though.
-HHS Toasted Iced Lemon Cookies in the first floor (2 tarts, 24W hot plate). This scent was sooo yummy however to my greatest surprise the throw was pretty light even though I used 2 pieces. A good sweet creamy lemon bakery scent but I wanted a stronger throw!
-Butterfly Lane Scents Marshmallow Latte in the kitchen (tea light). I really enjoyed this sweet creamy coffee scent. It had a good throw but didn´t last very long.
-CFTKR Baer Claw in the living room (24W hot plate). Carol´s Bear Claw scent is really good as there is less cinnamon in it than in other versions. You more get that flaky pastry scent. This was pretty strong and lasted through most of the day.
-Front Porch Pink Peaches (2 tarts, 24W hot plate) in the living room. A very sweet wonderful peach scent. This was really amazing however the throw was light-medium and the staying power was only so-so.
Here is my 2nd latest CFTKR haul lol! I was able to score some new scents I missed last time. Most are really yummy however the Cake Batter Ice Cream has no scent to it at all
which is weird...neither warm nor cold. Ice Cream Scoop Bread is very light also but it does add a nice creamy breadiness to other scents (love it with Serendipity Noel or Serendipity Marshmallow Delight!)
-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.
I think this was my smallest haul from CFTKR to date lol. I got 5 small and 1 big bag of my favorite blending scent Birthday Cake. The small bags were scents that I wanted after trying some of the samples I got with my latest bigger order.
As usual Carol was very generous with her samples! I even got a huge cuttable muffin =)
-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.
