Friday, January 4, 2013

Review: The Scented Princess' Sugar Mint Serendipity

(...this scent deserved a post allllllllllllllllll on its own.)

Thanksgiving: a time to celebrate family, togetherness, stuffing one's face, and mauling your fellow bretheren for a 32" flat-screen TV.
 ...too soon??

Seriously though, one of the best times to shop is the time between Thanksgiving and New Years. Now, I don't actually venture out into the physical world on Black Friday, only because:
  1. I fear angry mobs. Except flash mobs...those seem like fun!
  2. (related to #1) Claustrophobia has followed me into adult life, therefore, being in tight spaces with angry mobs is 10 times worse than normal shopping.
  3. LOUD NOISES.
  4. I am perpetually afraid that hot, scalding coffee will be thrown in my face because I grabbed the last mini cake pop maker.
  5. There is no amount of goods that could convince me to wake up at 2am voluntarily after Thanksgiving. Not a flat screen TV for $60, not 2/$20 candles, not nothin'.
  6. I don't like that Black Friday shopping cuts into family time. BE TOGETHER FOR ONE FREAKING DAY WITHOUT FEELING LIKE YOU HAVE TO BE THERE.
...rant over. Sorry, I got a little sidetracked!

Dawn, the owner of The Scented Princess, is reeeeeeeeeally, really ridiculously good at blending scents. She also had a Black Friday sale (SEE, you thought I was rambling for no reason!), and well, her 2-pack of tarts were buy one get one free (in the same scent).
...and when I say tarts, read JUMBO tarts, not little scalloped melts...like, really big tarts.
Anywho, clamshells were a bit discounted if I'm not mistake, so I chose the above scent after hearing about it from a YouTube user (not sure who, I just remember someone, somewhere had this scent and raved about it). As a side note, I love Dawn's labels: if I had to own something, anything, and I got to choose what I wanted it to look like, it would be pink (OR GOLD), sparkly, with zebra of cheetah print.
LOOK AT ALL THE SPARKLY HEARTS ON TOP!!!!11ZOMG~~~!!1
The word "rules" is used so often that it has lost meaning...but there really is no other word to describe this scent. IT RULES. It's got an obvious heavy top-note of serendipity/cherry/powdered sugary sweetness, with a nice mintiness, too. The thing is...I'm not a fan of sickeningly sweet scents, but serendipity is the exception. It's amazing, and it might just be because I love cherry now, but it's my all-time favorite scent. Blending it with sugar mint takes it to a whole different level, though. This one is a winner, and I might have to hoard my last 4 cubes. :)

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The Scented Princess' Sugar Mint Serendipity
Cold Rating: 8/10; mostly straight serendipity with a hint of mint, but right off the bat, it's strong.
Lit Rating: 8.5/10; WOW! Very pungent cherry aroma, in the best way possible; when mixed with a mint scent, it gets elevated to something grand!
Throw Rating: 8.5/10; I had some friends come over while I was melting this last night and they said they could smell it all the way outside..
Overall Rating: 8.5/10; almost perfect! I would have like just a skosh more mint, but hey, that's not a complaint, I'm mainly trying to fill this voided space with words. Simply wonderful! Serendipity fans are in for a treat if they blend it with sugar mint!

6 comments:

  1. I'm highly impressed by her dupes on top of her scent blends! She seems like such a sweetheart from what I've seen. Unfortunately due to me recently cleaning out my bank to pay school bills, I have to pick only one vendor to make an order from until the first week of February. It's so hard to decide!

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    1. What are your choices?? Don't wanna make your decision harder, but I saw Butterfly Lane just opened back up, too! AGHHHH!! I say Tiffany's, though, you've been talking about it for a while! Or, if you need to restock your bank account, CFTKR reopens in the middle of the month! OR Beauxsavonfrais, they open on Valentine's Day!

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    2. Right now it's between CFTKR, Tiffany's, Scented Princess, Front Porch, and the Bathing Garden. I'm surprised I was able to narrow it down this much, but I'm still having trouble deciding. Gah, if I didn't have to leave my college town for the winter break (yay dorms for closing down and kicking you out!) I would've been able to work this entire time and have a bit more than I do right now. :)
      I melted the Scented Princess Dark Kiss (bbw dupe) the other day and oh my goodness it was spot on! I agree with you on her labels. They're so awesome!

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    3. If you like samplers, go with CFTKR or Tiffany Candles! Tiffany has new a sampler pack for their open, and CFTKR has a ton of different samplers, which are all available to view online right now! The Scented Princess is usually pretty fast, but her tarts do need to cure a few weeks! Let me know what you decide! :D

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  2. I'm not familiar with this vendor but wow, this scent sounds awesome.

    ~Deb

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    1. She's usually really fast and seems to be a new master of blending. This scent is fab!

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