Monday, August 25, 2014

Swift & Supersonically Snappy Short Review #33: Aunt Smellman's Peppermint

I often like to fall asleep with a wonderful peppermint scent melting in the background. It's quite peaceful and dreamy.
Peppermint - A true pure peppermint.
Aunt Smellman's Peppermint
Cold Rating5/10
Lit Rating: 4/10
Throw Rating4.5/10
Overall Rating: 4.5/10; sweet peppermint as opposed to a stronger and more menthol-y one, which I don't care for quite so much. Reminded me of one of those candies you'd get at a restaurant on cold sniff. Pretty colored wax. Throw wasn't terribly strong. It was sort of noticeable, but not like other peppermint scents I have melted in the past. Warm sniff was even sweeter than cold sniff. Needed pink, LOL. Very crumbly wax that broke apart when I pushed it into the warmer. I HATE CRUMBLY WAX. Love ordering from sales. Melting through my entire stash as quickly as possible. Problem wax buyer. Needing to make a document with all my reviews. Needing to update reviews. NEEDING TO FOCUS. Waxidents.

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Lightning Round Reviews #24: Jaimie Lauren Cupcakery and Confections in Wax Super Post

JLCCW (Jaimie Lauren Cupcakery and Confections in Wax) closed to focus on her family almost a year ago. I totally get this, family comes first! I can usually get over vendors closing, but I must admit, I was sad about her closure! Well, I thought we were saved because she was planning on re-opening in the fall this year. Naturally, I went through a melting spree of her tarts, assuming I could get more. Well, she's not going to be reopening, as it turns out, so I am left with tons of melts to review for you! I wish her the best and hope that, when things calm down, she will open again, she has one of my favorite spicy scents ever.
JLCCW's Legally Blonde Noel
Cold Rating7/10
Lit Rating: 6/10
Throw Rating6/10
Overall Rating6/10; her version of legally blonde is a pretty one, and when it's mixed with vanilla bean noel, it's not half bad! It's not all that strong, but it's nice enough. Sweet and slightly creamy. Lasted for about 4 hours.
JLCCW's Melon Ball Fizz
Cold Rating6/10
Lit Rating: 6/10
Throw Rating: 4/10
Overall Rating5.5/10; nothing fancy about this scent, either. I think melon ball fizz works better as a mixer as opposed to a stand alone scent. It was okay, just a basic melon scent, and also nothing fizzy about it. Lasted 3.5 hours.
JLCCW's Monkey's Delight Aloha Pineapple
Cold Rating5/10
Lit Rating: 3/10
Throw Rating4/10
Overall Rating4/10; this blend I didn't care for. I think this was a random scent I asked Jen to make for me (I asked her to give me whatever she had or whatever she wanted). The monkey's delight wasn't particularly tropical, but did have banana for sure. When it mixed with the pineapple, it was cloyingly and artificially sweet and I didn't like it one bit. I only melted it for 2 hours.
JLCCW's Pink Sugar Cookie Dough
Cold Rating6/10
Lit Rating: 3/10
Throw Rating6/10
Overall Rating5/10; I did not care for this one while melting. It had a very weird, off smell to it that was almost rancid note.It had medium strength but I couldn't get over that weird scent, so I dumped it after 30 minutes. It's gotta be the sugar cookie dough. :/
JLCCW's Pink Toasted Marshmallow
Cold Rating7/10
Lit Rating: 7/10
Throw Rating7/10
Overall Rating7/10; a decent pink marshmallow! I didn't get anything particularly toasted about this, but it was nice nonetheless. Good throw, lasted 5 hours. I wish it had more pink, though!
JLCCW's Pink Wicked Watermelon
Cold Rating6/10
Lit Rating: 6/10
Throw Rating6/10
Overall Rating6/10; pretty good, but not as juicy as other watermelon scents I have smelled. This wasn't my favorite watermelon blend, but it was a solid medium all around. Lasted 5.5 hours.
JLCCW's Toasted Marshmallow Pink Sugar Legally Blonde
Cold Rating8/10
Lit Rating: 8.5/10
Throw Rating7/10
Overall Rating8/10; one of the best things about JLCCW is that she let people blend scents (up to 3, I think). This was spectacular! It was really nice to see a fruity scent like legally blonde mixed with pink sugar marshmallow! It was pretty strong on cold sniff, and decent enough while melting. Lasted 6 hours!
JLCCW's Vanilla Pear
Cold Rating5/10
Lit Rating: 5/10
Throw Rating5/10
Overall Rating: 5/10; this was pretty generic, actually, nothing too special about it. The pear was more of a muddled fruitiness and the vanilla was sort of sweet. Really nothing strong or wonderful, just sort of there. Lasted 3 hours in the bathroom.

My JLCCW stash is almost gone, and when Jen said she wasn't going to reopen, I made it my mission to finish off what I had left so I didn't hang onto it like I was doing. The notion of doing that is silly, and I am trying to retrain my wax thinking when it comes to hoarding scents I love!

Thursday, August 14, 2014

Swift & Supersonically Snappy Short Review #32: iheartwax's Blonde Moment

I am a big fan of the perfect 10 in wax, as elusive as it is. Behold!!!
**Blonde Moment**- Iced champagne mixed with rich sweet raspberry and cranberry.
iheartwax's Blonde Moment
Cold Rating10/10
Lit Rating: 10/10
Throw Rating10/10
Overall Rating: 10/10; the best blonde moment I have tried thus far. Deliciously sparkling, fruity, and fun. Almost like an overflowing and bubbly glass of champagne with fruits. No floral from the raspberry as found in other versions of that smell. Do you really know what a cranberry smells like? THANKSGIVING. Sweet, strong, delightful. Perfect for a summer day! Wish it lasted all day, but I will take 5-6 hours! Impeccably strong. Cheaper grubbies than anywhere else per bag. Ability to blend multiple scents in said bags. Not being able to order whenever I want and running out of this scent. Spending tons of money on wax again. I did so well for a while there! Cute colors and vibrant wax. Purple is not used enough in wax. Adorably simple label. Nice handwriting from the vendor!

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Swift & Supersonically Snappy Short Review #31: K's Kreations' Sweet Orange Salsa

Does anyone actually make a salsa with orange in it? If it was like a fruit salsa, it'd be good, but orange in salsa? WEIRD.
A sassy, saucy combination of Valencia orange, tangerine, tart cassis, neroli, ground pepper, fiery chili pepper, sheer musk.
K's Kreations' Sweet Orange Salsa
Cold Rating6/10
Lit Rating: 2.5/10
Throw Rating3/10
Overall Rating3.5/10; had potential to be great but ultimately failed. Hardly any warm sniff scent and barely enough throw to smell above the warmer. In fact, I didn't pick up any of the notes listed above while melting, not even orange! Sad when scents don't live up to their potential. It had a strange plastic-y fruit smell. Lasted an hour before I just cut my losses. Compelling scent and blend that I'd love to try from another vendor. Rainbow theme and labels prevalent from K's, and if you know me, you know I love anything with rainbows! Orange tree in the backyard finally having oranges sweet enough to use. Learned how to make our own salsa, it's always better to make it yourself!

Monday, August 11, 2014

Swift & Supersonically Snappy Short Review #30: Daphne's Divine Scents and Aromas' Cactus & Sea Salt

Fresh is great and fresh is good and fresh make the house just like it should!
Daphne's Divine Scents and Aromas' Cactus & Sea Salt
Cold Rating8.5/10
Lit Rating: 7.5/10
Throw Rating7.5/10
Overall Rating7.5/10; probably my top favorite fresh blend. Watery, ozone-like, damp in a good way, green, all around fantabulous. Super strong on cold, a tiny bit lighter while warming, but the throw was pretty great! Cute little sun shapes again. Tiny bits of glitter make for a fun waxing experience. Melted 2 tarts one time, 3 tarts the second time, both performed very well! Lasted 5ish hours in the bathroom. COME BACK, LINDSEY/DAPHNE'S!!!

Sunday, August 10, 2014

Swift & Supersonically Snappy Short Review #29: Rosegirls Dunk My Donut

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, donuts...
Rosegirls Dunk My Donut
Cold Rating7.5/10
Lit Rating: 8/10
Throw Rating7/10
Overall Rating7.5/10; great spicy bakery scent! Another example of how I am slowly being turned into a bakery nut. Nothing exclusively "donut" about this per se, but definitely a bakery scent, nonetheless. Cakey, sweet, cinnamony, delicious. Lasted 6 hours in the bathroom. Strong enough to smell in other parts of the house. Loving donuts in all aspects of life. Not enough non-chain donut restaurants around my direct house-al area. Coffee and donuts. Coffee scents in was are not my favorite. Addiction to coffee. Not being able to find the coffee creamers you want!

Thursday, August 7, 2014

Swift & Supersonically Snappy Short Review #28: Butterfly Lane Scents' Candy Corn

The Fall Slut will be ashamed of me once again, unfortunately. ;)
Butterfly Lane Scents' Candy Corn
Cold Rating6/10
Lit Rating: 5.5/10
Throw Rating5.5/10
Overall Rating5.5/10; nondescript buttercream scent. Nothing that resembles candy corn on the tip of my nose, but rather a sweet, but also buttery scent. Also, not too terribly strong all around, but not weak, either. Unfortunately, nothing too terrible great. Better scents from BL out there. Cute pumpkin shape. Shapes > scent shots. No scent description. Melting more wax than necessary. Fall is coming. NO ONE REALLY LIKES CANDY CORN, don't lie!!!

Monday, August 4, 2014

Swift & Supersonically Snappy Short Review #27: Vintage Chic Scents' Sunny Side of the Street

Josh and I went to Palm Springs over the weekend to "help my mom and her husband house-sit for a family friend." Okay, okay, to relax and use the pool and air conditioner.
To say it was hot would be an understatement.
I shoulda brought my warmer.
This scent, including Lemon Custard, Buttery Cake and Coconut Cream, is proof that life can be so sweet on the sunny side of the street. Created by Hanna.
Vintage Chic Scents' Sunny Side of the Street
Cold Rating: 6/10
Lit Rating: 7/10
Throw Rating6.5/10
Overall Rating6.5/10; Who is Hanna? Because she's a genius. This scent was great! Buttery cake is definitely the main note with hints of coconut and lemon. My only complaint is that it could have been stronger while throwing. Melted this 2 times, 3 cubes each time. The plastic did have that icky, stunky (stinky + skunky) smell, so I moved it to a bag when I received it in the mail. Loving Vintage Chic lately. Her blends are so unique that it's even fun to order outside my comfort zone. Creative scent descriptions and themed wax. Vibrant colors. Wax buyers turned vendors. Frequent restocks to keep customers happy. Roses, clamshells, scent shots, OH MY! Love the embeds and the idea of collecting them for a bracelet. Wanting to wear more jewelry. Wanting to wear more makeup. VCS making me feel.....more girly? I feel pretty, oh so pretty??

Saturday, August 2, 2014

Lightning Round Reviews #23: More Bathroom Melts!

The warmer in my bathroom, my very first wax warmer, died the other day. May it rest in sweet smelling peace. I had to move my kitchen warmer into the bathroom because I melt so frequently in there now that I feel like having a handle on my bathroom warmer benefits me.....it makes sense in my mind.

Anyways, I have lots of bathroom melts for you all today, so come along and see how they fared!
Crabby Candle Company's White Tea & Mango
Cold Rating: 6/10
Lit Rating: 5.5/10
Throw Rating5/10
Overall Rating5.5/10; had high hopes for this one and was underwhelmed to say the least. I have tried this scent from other vendors and loved it and was hoping for the same results from Crabby. Unfortunately, this was not the case. I wouldn't repurchase this. The white tea note was overwhelmed by the fruitiness of the mango. Lasted 3 hours.
Crabby Candle Company's Hawaiian Rainbow Cake
Cold Rating: 5/10
Lit Rating: 4.5/10
Throw Rating: 3.5/10
Overall Rating4.5/10; again, another underwhelming tart. I can't make vendors have good wax, I can only report with my results and hope they take our comments to heart. There was a real faint cake note in this, but pretty much it was a tropical scent that wasn't strong at all. Meh. Lasted 3 hours. I might repurchase because what I did smell I liked, just hated that it was so weak.
Crabby Candle Company's Southern Ice Tea
Cold Rating5/10
Lit Rating: 4/10
Throw Rating: 4/10
Overall Rating4/10; oddly floral. Not super strong. Unfortunately not the best tea scent I have ever smelled. Didn't care for this much, only left it in 2 hours before dumping. Not a repurchase.
Dutch Candle Company's Blue Lime
Cold Rating6/10
Lit Rating: 7/10
Throw Rating7/10
Overall Rating: 7/10; really lovely! I had my doubts about this one on cold sniff, but it really was a great little melt while warming. Pretty decent throw, could smell this in other areas of the house. Not sure what's in this, but I liked it. Fruity and fun. Lasted 4 hours. Might repurchase if I ever buy from this vendor in the future.
Dutch Candle Company's Lily of the Valley
Cold Rating6/10
Lit Rating: 3/10
Throw Rating: 2/10
Overall Rating3.5/10; rounded slightly down. I was looking forward to this scent, but upon melting, it had almost no throw and barely any scent, unless I put my nose in the warmer. Unfortunate! I probably wouldn't buy this again. I did give this company 3 tries over the years and wasn't impressed generally. Lasted 2 hours before I cut my losses and dumped it.
Febreze's Grapefruit Fizz
Cold Rating10/10
Lit Rating: 10/10
Throw Rating10/10
Overall Rating10/10; would you believe it if I told you this scent was one of the best products I have ever tried? Holy cow, this was phenomenal!! The scent by itself was decent anyways, but then add in a stellar throw and impeccable melted scent, too? Amazing! I could smell this outside the house it was so strong. General grapefruit mixes with some sort of fizziness to give it a fruity/fresh scent that I crave. So, so good. Loved it. It seemed to last forever, definite repurchase. These clamshells have 6 cubes in them and a small cut on the front of the package so people can see what it smells like. I don't like this feature, but it didn't seem to impact how well it lasted and threw. Part of me couldn't help but wonder if there were any cleaning products in this because it smelled so fresh! LOL. Wonderful!
Cactus & Sea Salt - This scent is Very Powerful. Feels like your at the ocean smelling the salty water with undertones of driftwood, green cactus and sea spray.
Front Porch's Cactus & Sea Salt
Cold Rating8/10
Lit Rating: 6/10
Throw Rating6/10
Overall Rating6.5/10; another scent that didn't perform the way I'd hope it would, but was still decent. One of my favorite fresh scents. Not as strong while melting and the throw wasn't as good as other have been. Might have been an old tart. Great for cleaning day. Fresh cactus mixed with saltiness that is really something else. Very sea-like and beautiful. Could have been stronger. Would repurchase. Lasted 5 hours.
Front Porch's Cinnamon Apple Cider
Cold Rating8/10
Lit Rating: 6/10
Throw Rating6/10
Overall Rating7/10; rounded slightly up. This smelled so good on cold sniff that I was a bit disappointed by its results while warming and for throw. It wasn't bad, just not what I wanted. It became more of a generic apple scent while melting. You win some, you lose some! Lasted 4 hours. I would probably repurchase this scent just because I can't get enough apple scents in the fall and wintertime. Not overly cinnamony for something that claims it is. Maybe I'm being overly negative about this one.
Front Porch's Loopy Lemon Cream
Cold Rating: 6/10
Lit Rating: 4/10
Throw Rating: 5/10
Overall Rating5/10; someone requested this a loooong time ago and wanted a dupe for the BSF scent Loopy Lemon Cream Noel. This is much lighter than that scent. It smelled great on cold sniff, but the throw and lit rating were not that great. It lasted a while, though the scent was minimal, about 8 hours. I probably could have dumped it after 6. I might purchase this again to compare and see if it's still just as poor performance wise. Remember, loopy is fruit loops, so if you're not a cereal fan, you won't like this anyways!
The best Marshmallow we have ever tested, just like the real gooey thing...love it and super strong scent throw!
Front Porch's Marshmallow
Cold Rating10/10
Lit Rating: 10/10
Throw Rating10/10
Overall Rating10/10; the best marshmallow scent in wax. So strong, so creamy, so good. Lasts what seems to be forever. Great all around the house. Melted 2 of these in the bathroom and 2 in the bedroom at the same time for a cloudy, pillowy marshmallow house! YUM! Sweet, delicious, fragrant, forceful. Always a repurchase, in any form or attached to any other scent!
Marshmallow Peppermint Twist- (In House Blend)- One of our best sellers, this strong peppermint blended with creamy marshmallow undertones.
Front Porch's Marshmallow Peppermint Twist & Pink Cupcakes
Cold Rating: 6/10
Lit Rating: 7/10
Throw Rating: 7/10
Overall Rating: 7/10; pretty good scent, though the cupcakes all but got lost in this, which might account for its high rating. Not that their cupcake scent is bad, just sort of buttery/buttercreamy. Lovely marshmallow and peppermint scent. Fresh. Lasted 5.5 hours, would repurchase. I melted the entire cupcake chunk, so I'd probably cut them in half next time.
Princess Gown- a perfume fragrant scent described to have floral hints of carnation, blood orange, sandalwood, vanilla, amber, with linen undertones. Very fragrant!
Front Porch's Princess Gown
Cold Rating7/10
Lit Rating: 6.5/10
Throw Rating6/10
Overall Rating6.5/10; a bit out of my comfort zone, I got this from a giveaway box. I liked it a lot, actually! Yes, it was very floral, but not something that hurt my nose. The scent was mild overall while melting and the throw wasn't in your face. Very nice flowery mix plus some small wisps of fruitiness. Repurchase for sure. Lasted 5-6 hours.

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Have a splendid weekend!

Friday, August 1, 2014

Swift & Supersonically Snappy Short Review #26: Streetman Company Store's Fresh Linen

It's the freakin' weekend, baby! WOOHOO! Thursday means laundry day around here, and yesterday was no exception. Usually, I write down my thoughts in a notebook and then write posts days later, but this sucker couldn't wait!
Streetman Company Store's Fresh Linen
Cold Rating8.5/10
Lit Rating: 9/10
Throw Rating10/10
Overall Rating9/10; incredible fresh scent! One of the best, if not THE best laundry scent I have ever melted. Smells just like clean clothes on a line mixed with a small hint of sweetness that breaks up the cloying nature of the fresh smell. So, so wonderful! Not too soapy, as other clean scents sometimes are. Fantastic and perfect throw. Lasted 16 hours in my bathroom warmer. Tarts that last forever make my heart melt. Vendors knowing what their customers love. Vendors changing their names. Vendors expanding and adding things that are non-wax related, LOVE!! 1 ounce scent shots > 2 ounce scent shots (lately). Mountains of laundry. Getting to finally do laundry again since my foot is almost healed! :)