Swift & Supersonically Snappy Short Reviews #45: Candles From The Keeping Room Edition!

There are just so many reviews waiting to be published! So much wax, so little time to write a bajillion reviews!! It seems like I have been neglecting my CFTKR stash, so I have been melting that a lot lately. Here are a ton of reviews for you all, numericals only!

Ambrosia - A wild and strong blend of oranges and sweet cherry, coconut, toasted marshmallow with just a hint of vanilla! The perfect me up for those hot summer days on the beach.

Candles from the Keeping Room's Ambrosia
Cold Rating: 4/10
Lit Rating: 3/10
Throw Rating: 3/10
Overall Rating: 3/10

Bliss - a refreshing, exhilarating and blissfully tranquil. Fresh ozone mixed with ruby red grapefruit, mandarin orange, hints of lemon with just a touch of green.

Candles from the Keeping Room's Bliss
Cold Rating: 5/10
Lit Rating: 7.5/10
Throw Rating: 7/10
Overall Rating: 6.5/10

Blue Cotton Candy - An airy sweet cotton candy fragrance with fruity notes of strawberry and raspberry, laced with caramel swirls and hints of nutty almond sweetened with vanilla

Candles from the Keeping Room's Blue Cotton Candy
Cold Rating: 7/10
Lit Rating: 7/10
Throw Rating: 7/10
Overall Rating: 7/10

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Candles from the Keeping Room's Cardamom Cedar Blossom
Cold Rating: 6/10
Lit Rating: 6/10
Throw Rating: 5/10
Overall Rating: 6/10

Cherry Lime Cotton Candy - a yummy cotton candy with cherry and a splash of a sweet and sour lime..this is very good,a good thrower

Candles from the Keeping Room's Cherry Lime Cotton Candy
Cold Rating: 7/10
Lit Rating: 8/10
Throw Rating: 7.5/10
Overall Rating: 7.5/10

Cinnamon Strudel - a sweet cinnamon bakery aroma..like a cinnamon coffee cake with the sweet brown sugar crumbles on top.

Candles from the Keeping Room's Cinnamon Strudel
Cold Rating: 5/10
Lit Rating: 5/10
Throw Rating: 5/10
Overall Rating: 5/10

Cinnamon Sugar Cookie - this is a CFTKR blend, our sweet yummy frosted sugar cookie mixed with gooey Cinnamon. Great scent for the cookie and cinnamon lover

Candles from the Keeping Room's Cinnamon Sugar Cookie
Cold Rating: 6/10
Lit Rating: 6/10
Throw Rating: 5/10
Overall Rating: 5/10

Coconut Pear - Rich, sweet coconut with lingering tones of vanilla and musk blended with luscious ripe pear sparkle with a tiny hint of green.

Candles from the Keeping Room's Coconut Pear
Cold Rating: 5/10
Lit Rating: 4/10
Throw Rating: 3/10
Overall Rating: 4/10

Cranberry Noel - a wonderful aroma of spiced cranberry and vanilla bean noel..turns the cranberry into almost a designer.

Candles from the Keeping Room's Cranberry Noel
Cold Rating: 7/10
Lit Rating: 7/10
Throw Rating: 7/10
Overall Rating: 7/10

Cranberry Pomergrante - Precious pomegranate seeds and tart cranberries permeate this exotic citrus scent. Crisp and complex, this fruit is sure to awaken your senses.

Candles from the Keeping Room's Cranberry Pomegranate
Cold Rating: 7/10
Lit Rating: 8.5/10
Throw Rating: 8.5/10
Overall Rating: 8.5/10

Frosted Lime Cookie Snaps - a super blend from CFTKR, a sweet bakery lime mixed with a sweet sugar cookie..very yummy..has a snap to it.

Candles from the Keeping Room's Frosted Lime Cookie Snap
Cold Rating: 6/10
Lit Rating: 6/10
Throw Rating: 4/10
Overall Rating: 6/10

Golden Sands - A version of this popular Y scent! Ah, so relaxing! Your private beach awaits, where time stops so you can breathe in the soft breezes of soothing sandalwood, luminous orange flower and warm tonka beans. The orchestration of white citrus, orange flower, star anise, soft breeze, soothing sandalwood, Tonka beans and exotic musk will lull you into an exotic vacation without leaving your house!

Candles from the Keeping Room's Golden Sands
Cold Rating: 6/10
Lit Rating: 6/10
Throw Rating: 6/10
Overall Rating: 6/10

Grapefruit Mango - Grapefruit mango fragrance begins with top notes of Japanese grapefruit, ruby red grapefruit, and mango; followed by middle notes of cucumber and honeydew melon; and sits on a dry down of vanilla

Candles from the Keeping Room's Grapefruit Mango
Cold Rating: 6/10
Lit Rating: 5.5/10
Throw Rating: 6/10
Overall Rating: 6/10

Holiday Relish - this is our signature scent, a CFTKR blend..sweet orange, sugared cranberries...and a big blast of citrus juice..this is a strong scent, and is excellent.

Candles from the Keeping Room's Holiday Relish
Cold Rating: 7/10
Lit Rating: 7.5/10
Throw Rating: 8/10
Overall Rating: 7.5/10

Hot Toddy - hot toddy is a well-balanced blend of Fuji apple, bergamot, lemon wedge, cinnamon stick, granulated sugar, zesty clove, hot apple cider, nutmeg, and vanilla bean.

Candles from the Keeping Room's Hot Toddy
Cold Rating: 8/10
Lit Rating: 10/10
Throw Rating: 8.5/10
Overall Rating: 9/10 (slightly rounded up)

Kringleberry - A very-merry-festive fragrance oil with the aroma of fresh cut evergreens, and juicy apples,  delicate white winter florals, sprigs of bright-and-cheery hollyberry, and fruity cranberries and red currants

Candles from the Keeping Room's Kringleberry
Cold Rating: 6/10
Lit Rating: 6/10
Throw Rating: 6/10
Overall Rating: 6/10

Lemon Meringue - one of our best lemons, sweet and true with sweet meringue and hint of pie crust.

Candles from the Keeping Room's Lemon Meringue
Cold Rating: 7/10
Lit Rating: 7/10
Throw Rating: 5/10
Overall Rating: 6/10

Lime Leaf and Lily - The fragrant leaves of the Kaffir Lime from Tropical Thailand are often used to give Thai foods a unique and fresh flavor. This exquisite green fragrance with the delicate aroma of white Lilies to create a complex, fresh scent that's bursting with spring!

Candles from the Keeping Room's Lime Leaf & Lily
Cold Rating: 9/10
Lit Rating: 10/10
Throw Rating: 9/10
Overall Rating: 9/10

Rainbow Cotton Candy - Here is a fabulous fruity cotton candy blend.Take an escape everyday with this refreshingly-familiar scent of raspberry, fresh squeezed oranges, strawberries and bananas and blended with sweet cotton candy.... More rewarding than a pot of gold.

Candles from the Keeping Room's Rainbow Cotton Candy
Cold Rating: 8/10
Lit Rating: 9/10
Throw Rating: 8.5/10
Overall Rating: 8.5/10

Stress Relief - You will love this version of this popular BBW Type. Relax and think clearly. Blends of Eucalyptus Essential Oil clears the mind while blends of Spearmint Essential Oil uplifts to help improve concentration. Relieve stress after a long day, with this aromatherapy blend of lavender and sage, eucalyptus and spearmint, fresh ozone and dry down woods.

Candles from the Keeping Room's Stress Relief
Cold Rating: 7/10
Lit Rating: 5/10
Throw Rating: 5/10
Overall Rating: 5/10

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!!!

Swift & Supersonically Snappy Short Review #16: Orchid Lake Candles' Lemon Lavender

As I astutely mentioned in my last post, summer is upon us, rearing its ugly, hot, annoying head like a malfunctioning dryer stuck in a garage. Or a sauna. Minus the smelly feet. (....where do I come up with this crap? LOL)

Orchid Lake Scents' Lemon Lavender
Cold Rating: 5.5/10
Lit Rating: 3/10
Throw Rating: 3/10
Overall Rating: 3/10; one of my favorite scent combinations ever. Unfortunately, this scent shot just couldn't muster any throw. Also, not strong while warming, only bare medium on cold sniff. Lemon smelled sweet on cold sniff, but weak. Some one ounce scent shots perform better than other one ounce scent shots. Not being able to smell anything makes me angry. Buying wax faster than I can melt it. Waste is bad, mmmkay?? Orchid Lake is now Wilma Handmade. The Flinstones. Dirty feet. Smelly feet. Horrible garage smells. Full circle.

Lightning Round Reviews #14!

I CAN ALMOST THROW AWAY ALL MY MISCELLANEOUS MELTS! WOOHOO!!

Hearts & Tarts Cherry Cookie (Frosted Sugar Cookie Cherry Bomb???)
Cold Rating: 6.5/10
Lit Rating: 3/10
Throw Rating: 2/10
Overall Rating: 3/10; this scent cold smells awesome, very nice. On warm throw, I got basically nothing. No throw, no scent, and this was a hand-sized cookie. Sadness. Not a repurch.

Hearts & Tarts Sour Watermelon Candy
Cold Rating: 6/10
Lit Rating: 7/10
Throw Rating: 6/10
Overall Rating: 6/10; a very lovely sour watermelon candy! I like this, it's pretty awesome. Repurch!

Hearts & Tarts Pink Sugar + Shayz Scentz' Pink Nog
Cold Rating: 6/10
Lit Rating: 6/10
Throw Rating: 6/10
Overall Rating: 6/10; super pink sugar plus a tiny bit of noggy spice. I blended and it was pretty nice, but not a repurchase of either scents. I can get pink sugar elsewhere and didn't really care for pink nog by itself.

Hidden Gems Wax's Down by the Bay
Cold Rating: 5.5/10
Lit Rating: 6/10
Throw Rating: 6/10
Overall Rating: 6/10; my first melt from this company, from the Simply Sensational Sampler. I made the mistake of melting this in the kitchen, and I'm sure it would have performed much better in a smaller space. It was a nice floral and beachy scent. Perfect for the end of summer. Possible purchase?

BeauxSavonsFrais' Wildberry Mallow Fried Ice Cream
Cold Rating: 6/10
Lit Rating: 5/10
Throw Rating: 5/10
Overall Rating: 5/10; I didn't like the fried ice cream part of this scent when warming, but the wildberry mallow is awesome. Throw could have been a bit bigger. Not a purch.

Pics, Petals & Scents Cherry Koolaid
Cold Rating: 3/10
Lit Rating: 3/10
Throw Rating: 3/10
Overall Rating: 3/10; I didn't like this AT ALL. Ew. It smelled light cherry cough syrup and luckily it wasn't strong. Yikes. Not a repurchase.

Crabby Candle Co.'s Bailey's In Bed
Cold Rating: 5/10
Lit Rating: 5/10
Throw Rating: 5/10
Overall Rating: 5/10; there was an overly chocolate note in this, though it did smell like Bailey's Irish Cream. Okay, but not a repurchase. Middle of the road, IMO.

Crabby Candle Co.'s Cactus & Sea Salt

Cold Rating: 6/10
Lit Rating: 6/10
Throw Rating: 6/10
Overall Rating: 6/10; so, so good. Definite repurchase. The cotton candy from BL meshed so well with pink sugar...so lovely and just what I needed!

Can-Do-Candles China Rain
Cold Rating: 6.5/10
Lit Rating: 6.5/10
Throw Rating: 7.5/10
Overall Rating: 6.5/10; awesome throw on this. Very rainy and lovely. Good on cleaning day!

Can-Do-Candles Sugar Beans
Cold Rating: 5/10
Lit Rating: 6/10
Throw Rating: 6/10
Overall Rating: 6/10; this is a pretty good VBN dupe, but not my favorite. That being said, the throw on this was good, and it was nice!

Sugar Pie Scents' Cactus & Sea Salt
Cold Rating: 6/10
Lit Rating: 6/10
Throw Rating: 6/10
Overall Rating: 6/10; a pretty good version of cactus and sea salt! I shoulda melted this in a smaller room, though. Oh well!

Have a good week friends!

Lightning Round Reviews #13!

I'm almost out of these damn empties. Good golly, they are strewn about the house.

Butterfly Lane Scents' Hillbilly Homebrew
Cold Rating: 6/10
Lit Rating: 5/10
Throw Rating: 5/10
Overall Rating: 5/10; this smelled great cold, but fizzled fast once being warmer. This was about a year old, so maybe that's why, but it smelled better cold.

Butterfly Lane Scents' Pink Cotton Candy

Cold Rating: 8/10
Lit Rating: 7/10
Throw Rating: 7/10
Overall Rating: 7/10; so, so good. Definite repurchase. The cotton candy from BL meshed so well with pink sugar...so lovely and just what I needed!

Butterfly Lane Scents' Pink Cotton Candy

Cold Rating: 8/10
Lit Rating: 8/10
Throw Rating: 7.5/10
Overall Rating: 8/10; a fabulous blend of pink sugar and serendipity! STRONG! Huge bundt cakes. Love this scent. Unable to get more since BL is always closed it seems like. :(

K's Kreations Loopy Coconut Cookie Bread
Cold Rating: 6/10
Lit Rating: 5.5/10
Throw Rating: 6/10
Overall Rating: 6/10; good, but not a repurchase for me. The fruit loops and coconut went well together, and the cookie bread is a fan favorite from K's, but too bready for me.

K's Kreations Strawberry Bliss + Orchid Lake Candles Serendipity
Cold Rating: 8/10
Lit Rating: 8/10
Throw Rating: 8/10
Overall Rating: 8/10; AMAZING combo! Loved this! It was like a super sweet, strawberry serendipity. YUM!

Lasting Scent Candles Buttermint Candy
Cold Rating: 4/10
Lit Rating: 4/10
Throw Rating: 4/10
Overall Rating: 4/10; not very strong, and also not very good. Something in this was not right, and it didn't smell overly like buttermint candies. Maybe I just waited too long to melt it? Either way, not a repurchase.

Lasting Scent Candles Serendipity
Cold Rating: 7/10
Lit Rating: 7/10
Throw Rating: 7/10
Overall Rating: 7/10; great serendipity blend! Wish it had more cherry, but overall, medium high scent all around.

Lasting Scent Candles Snow Flurries
Cold Rating: 6/10
Lit Rating: 3/10
Throw Rating: 3/10
Overall Rating: 3/10; the cold sniff scent alone was enough to put this at a 3, math be damned. EW. It smelled like a nice vanilla mint scent on cold sniff, perhaps with wintergreen, but when warming, YUCK. It smelled musty and gross. Not a repurch!

Lasting Scent Candles Spring Mountain Mint
Cold Rating: 6/10
Lit Rating: 5.5/10
Throw Rating: 6/10
Overall Rating: 6/10; very strange and earthy mixed with mint, water, and dirt, in my opinion. It was good and mediumly strong, but weird. Not a repurch.

Lasting Scent Candles Sweet Potato Muffins
Cold Rating: 6/10
Lit Rating: 5.5/10
Throw Rating: 6/10
Overall Rating: 6/10; interesting scent, very sweet from the brown sugar note. Decent, but not my favorite. Smelled like butter, too. This was a sample and I'm not sure if I'd buy it on my own.

Orchid Lake Candles Pear Noel
Cold Rating: 6/10
Lit Rating: 6/10
Throw Rating: 6/10
Overall Rating: 6/10; this was decent, had that great pear smell mixed with caramelly and velvety VBN. Very nice. Not a repurchase, though, it was too sweet.

Up The Creek Scents' Hillbilly Brew Noel
Cold Rating: 5/10
Lit Rating: 4/10
Throw Rating: 4/10
Overall Rating: 4/10; I loved UTC's vanilla bean noel straight, but when mixed, it wasn't pleasant to my nose. It wasn't overly strong, though, so there's that. Not a repurchase.

Up The Creek Scents' Vanilla Bean Noel
Cold Rating: 7/10
Lit Rating: 8/10
Throw Rating: 8/10
Overall Rating: 8/10; luscious, caramelly, delicious! Strong, wonderful. Loved this dupe. Definite repurchase!

Lightning Round Reviews #10!

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE LIGHTNING!!!!!!

Rosegirls Lavender Swizzle Sticks
Cold Rating: 7/10
Lit Rating: 6/10
Throw Rating: 6/10
Overall Rating: 6/10; I like Rosegirls' lavender scent, and the swizzle sticks sweetened it a bit, but it wasn't super strong, not that lavender has to be when you're sleeping. Overall, I liked this, but not a repurchase. I'll stick with lavender and peppermint.

BeauxSavonsFrais Watermelon Patch (dupe)
Cold Rating: 6.5/10
Lit Rating: 7/10
Throw Rating: 6/10
Overall Rating: 6.5/10; awesome watermelon scent, just wish it would have been a hair stronger. I've never smelled the Scentsy scent named for this one, so I can't compare, but this was a nice and sweet watermelon.

Candles from the Keeping Room's Candy Corn Brickle
Cold Rating: 6/10
Lit Rating: 6.5/10
Throw Rating: 8/10
Overall Rating: 7/10; I wasn't convinced on cold sniff, but the throw on this scent was insane. This is such a buttery, sweet candy scent that almost comes off as frosting-y. Not a repurchase, but it was excellent.

Long Cane Primitives Pink Vanilla Bean Noel
Cold Rating: 5.5/10
Lit Rating: 5.5/10
Throw Rating: 4.5/10
Overall Rating: 5.5/10; another scent with a small throw. This smelled great when I took it out of a round robin box, but didn't smell super good when warming. Something was off about it, there was hardly any pink, and it had picked up a weird smell in the box, I think. Oh well, I won't be basing my opinion of LCP on this one tart.

Beezy Tarts Cinnamon Glazed Baklava
Cold Rating: 8.5/10
Lit Rating: 8/10
Throw Rating: 8/10
Overall Rating: 8/10; incredible! Not overly bakery, but definitely "flaky" smelling, but not in a pie crust type of way. LOVED this! Great cinnamon scent. So good!! Definite repurchase!

Can-Do-Candles Peppermint Spa
Cold Rating: 5/10
Lit Rating: 2/10
Throw Rating: 2/10
Overall Rating: 2/10; no throw whatsoever. This smelled awesome on cold sniff, but there was no throw. Two small wisps, ugh. I loved this scent, but if you get nothing...oh well. Not a repurchase unless it was stronger.

Rosegirls Cranberry Pear Torte
Cold Rating: 7/10
Lit Rating: 7/10
Throw Rating: 8/10
Overall Rating: 7/10; surprised by this one! Almost no torte smell, but the cranberry and pear are excellent together. For some reason, cranberry can come off as Christmas tree-ish, piney. I got this quite a bit while melting this. Might repurchase.

Haley's Heavenly Scents Chubba Dubba
Cold Rating: 7/10
Lit Rating: 3/10
Throw Rating: 4/10
Overall Rating: 4/10; saddened by this one. On cold, it smells incredible, like a fruity candied drink or something, without the fizziness. Warmed, barely any throw, just little fruity hints here and there. Sad. Not a repurchase, probably.

Scarlet Raine's Iced Cinnamon Rolls
Cold Rating: 5/10
Lit Rating: 4/10
Throw Rating: 4/10
Overall Rating: 4/10; this is the type of cinnamon I do not care for, it's overly sweet and not pleasing to my nose. This wasn't that great, just a basic cinnamon scent with icing and generic bakery. I can't say I am impressed by this company yet. Not a repurchase.

Scandalicious Candle Melts Easter Bunny Burps
Cold Rating: 5/10
Lit Rating: 3/10
Throw Rating: 3/10
Overall Rating: 3/10; this smells okay on cold sniff, but while warming, it wasn't strong at all. This was just one tiny butterfly tart, but I got almost no throw from it.

Beezy Tarts Mint Lavender 
Cold Rating: 6.5/10
Lit Rating: 5/10
Throw Rating: 4/10
Overall Rating: 5/10; smells really great on cold, but again, a lighter throw makes this suffer. Sad because it would have rivaled lavender peppermint from RG had it performed. Not a repurchase, and very atypical of Beezy.

Beauxsavonsfrais Sweet Lolli
Cold Rating: 5/10
Lit Rating: 5/10
Throw Rating: 5/10
Overall Rating: 5/10; your basic candied sweet tart/smarties candy scent. Nothing fancy, nothing to write home about, not even that strong. Ehh. Not a repurchase.

Can Do Candles Honey Pear Cider
Cold Rating: 7/10
Lit Rating: 8/10
Throw Rating: 7/10
Overall Rating: 7/10; if I'm not mistaken, this is a Scentsy scent. I really loved Can Do's version, it packed a punch, smelled fantastic, like sweet honey mixed with cider spiced. LOVED it, definite repurchase and one to look out for from other vendors!!

Rosegirls Americana Smoothie
Cold Rating: 6/10
Lit Rating: 7/10
Throw Rating: 6/10
Overall Rating: 6/10; strawberry, monster cookie, and marshmallow, if I'm not mistaken. This is by far the best of the Americana blends, but not my favorite scent, still. It's good, but I'll take regular ol' monster cookie fluff puffs any day. Possible repurch.

Rosegirls Pink and Blue Swizzle Sticks
Cold Rating: 6/10
Lit Rating: 6/10
Throw Rating: 6..5/10
Overall Rating: 7/10; this was just a teeny tiny chunk, but it packed a bigger punch that I anticipated. I like pink and blue sugars mixed, and Rosegirls' blue sugar isn't overly cologney. Liked this, may repurchase.

Rosegirls Strawberry Gumballs
Cold Rating: 6/10
Lit Rating: 4.5/10
Throw Rating: 5/10
Overall Rating: 5/10; I usually love Rosegirls strawberry scents, but this one was weird, and it's because of the gumball. I don't like gum scents, I'm finding, so this was a miss for me. It was a sample, but I wouldn't purchase this.

Can Do Candles Pink Coconut
Cold Rating: 5/10
Lit Rating: 6/10
Throw Rating: 6/10
Overall Rating: 6/10; a decent pink coconut scent, though this is a more buttery coconut that I like. The pink was just there slightly, it was pretty much a buttered coconut scent. Not a repurchase, but not bad.

Hope you're having an excellent weekend, friends! Will have more melts soon!