Monday, July 29, 2013

Project Wax #2, Update #3!

As I mentioned, I had a slip-up on my Project Wax box last week when Beezy Tarts restocked. Karen did the same thing, it turns out! Oh well, I'm not going to beat myself up about it. I'm venturing way outside of my comfort zone in this box because some of the scents are not up my alley (and are staying that way, LOL!).
Can-Do-Candles Pink Sugar Beans: 2/10, no scent whatsoever while warming, a small bit on cold sniff. SAD.
Candles from the Keeping Room's Blonde Moment: 7/10, nice mildly effervescent tart, fruity and fun, great for summer!
Candles from the Keeping Room's Coconut Cabana: 5/10, just average, not super strong, nice coconut smell but was few and far between.
Candles from the Keeping Room's Fresh Picked Strawberry: 6/10, I can see why some people think this smells like nail polish remover, it is a bit astringent, but sweet enough to keep me interested. Don't let this deter you, it's not picked up by everyone's nose. I enjoyed this, Josh did too!
Candles from the Keeping Room's Pink Fruity and Bright: 7/10, another wonderfully fruity smell mixed with something sweet. Would walk in and out of the room and smell this a lot! Liked it enough to purchase it!
Candles from the Keeping Room's Strawberry Dew: 6/10, very bubbly soda smell mixed with sweet strawberry. I enjoyed, but would have likes a bit more throw.
Candles from the Keeping Room's Sugar Cookie Noel: 7.5/10, LOVELY! I really liked this one a lot, very sweet and smelled like fresh cookies. So good.
Candles from the Keeping Room's Sun and Sand: 6.5/10, good dupe, very summery, smells like suntan lotion!

Daphne's Divine Scents and Aromas Pistachio Pudding Cake: 7.5/10, lovely, sweet cake mixed with pungant pistachio! Yum! Super strong on cold sniff and while warming, decent throw!
My Candle Box's Sweet Lavender Mallow: 4.5/10, not very strong, light throw, sweet marshmallow mixed with a minuscule lavender.
Sugar & Spice Gourmet Soy Candles Waikiki Shores: 6/10, decent summertime Hawaiian fruit smell with hints of greenery, decent throw, not overly sweet!
Sugar Pie Scents Cactus & Sea Salt: 7/10, very strong and fresh, lovely smell, should have melted this sooner because of #2 cups (VENDORS: PLEASE INVEST IN #5 OR HIGHER CUPS, IT DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN MY OPINION!!!). Love this scent.
Ten Digit Creations Pear & Vanilla Bean: 6/10, sweet, juicy pear mixed with vanilla bean, loved this, not overwhelming, just enough sweetness and throw to smell it at all times.
Tiffany Candles Raspberry Lemonade: 7/10, we both LOVED this one! Tart enough to off-set the sweetness of the scent, not overly floral berry smell, medium-high throw! Repurch!
Two Timing Tart's Hedonistic Self-Indulgence: 7/10, caramel meets coffee meet cloying sweetness. I enjoyed this, Josh did not, he thought it was overwhelming. Sexily caramelly. Medium-high throw, as well.
Candles from the Keeping Room's Tropical White Musk: 5/10, this was so, so, so strong, but unfortunately I hated this scent. Nothing tropical about musk and patchouli mixed together. Gave me a HUGE headache, but can't deny its performance.
Lasting Scent Candles Blackberry Cotton Candy: 6.5/10, decent blackberry that wasn't too floral, nice sweetness from the cotton candy, but not overly cloying (my favorite word, apparently).
The Scented Princess' Absolutely Fabulous Cake Serendipity: 6/10, coconut and cherry cake, essentially, not too buttery, still not my favorite blend.
Front Porch's Pink Peppermint: 9/10, finished 4 pack, my favorite pink peppermint blend, but the pink sugar is subdued in this. Peppermint blast!

Candles from the Keeping Room's Vanilla Bean Fluff Noel: 9/10, so amazing, caramelly, delicious, makes the entire house smell because the throw is off the charts!

Candles from the Keeping Room's Coconut Milk & Lavender: 6/10, finished bag, very much smells like lotion, a bit too much for me, but the throw was nice.

List this way:

Ava's Country Cupboard
-I Dream in Pink (3 scallop tarts)* (one tart swapped out with LSC's candy cane kisses due to horrible scent)
-Mulled Cider (6 gingerbread men)
-Sleigh Ride (1 tree tart, large)

Candles From The Keeping Room (all one tart unless otherwise noted)
-Bamboo and Ginger [tester]
-Blonde Moment
-Cinnamon & Spice (4 3 pie tarts)
-Coconut Cabana
-Coconut Extreme
-Coconut Milk & Lavender (4 3 tarts)
-Country Chic [tester]
-Cranberry Bundt
-Flowerbomb
-Fresh Picked Strawberry
-Green Irish Tweed
-Key Lime Cheesecake (1 large heart)
-Kiss and Tell
-Lavender Noel Zucchini (1 large heart)
-Lemon Noel
-Pink Fruity & Bright [tester]
-Poison Pie
-Strawberry Dew
-Strawberry Noel
-Suede
-Sugar Cookie Noel
-Sugared Vanilla Shortbread
-Sun and Earth
-Sun and Sand
-The Keeing Room (one huge paw print tart)
-Tropical White Musk
-Vanilla Bean Noel Fluff

Can-Do-Candles
-Apple Cinnamon (1 tart)
-Cinnamon Spice (1 tart)
-Donna's Pink Pound Cake (1 tart)
-Pink Sugar Beans (1 tart)

Crabby/Dutch Candle Co.
-Bliss (scent shot)
-Pink Dunes (scent shot)
-Pink Noel (scent shot)
-Queen Victoria (scent shot)
-Sweet Jasmine (scent shot)

Daphne's Divine Scents and Aromas
-2 small chunks in Loopy 7up Pound Cake
-2 small chunks in Pistachio Pudding Cake

Front Porch
-Blueberry Serendipity (1 tart)
-Lime Cookies (1 tart)
-Loopy Serendipity (4 tarts)
-Marshmallow (1 tart)
-Pink Peppermint (4 2 tarts)
-Pink Peppemint (shaveable wax, 1/2 way used, 8oz left)
-Pink Peppermint (squirty wax, 3/4 of the way full, about 6oz left)
-Pink Serendipity
-Pink Wildberries (4 tarts)
-Pumpkin Spice Cake (1 tart)
-Serendipity Peppermint (4 tarts) (Ew, I hate this blend. It doesn't go well at all. I melted 1 tart and am switching out the other 3 for 2 sniffin' stix from K's Kreations in Alex's Rainbow, plus 1 cupcake from SMT in Pink Keylime)
-Wildberry Marshmallow (1 tart)

Granny's Kountry Candles
-Oooey Gooey Smore's (1 smore's shaped melt)

Haley's Heavenly Scents
-Autumn Pear (scent shot)
-Blue Cotton Candy (scent shot)
-Candy Cane Noel*  (addition in place of Yankee candle that got thrown away)
-Candy Corn (scent shot)
-Harvest Spice (scent shot)
-Pink Peppermints (6 5 4 2 scalloped tarts)
-Raspberry Zinger (scent shot)
-Snowman Balls (scent shot)

Heavenleigh Apothecary
-Lemon Poppy, Wildberry Mousse, VBN (1 smiley tart)
-Sugar Cookie Crunch Fruit Loops (3 cubes chunks of wax)

Jack Be Nimble Candle Creations
-Georgia Summers
-Lime Basil
-Mango Tangerine

Jaimie Lauren Cupcakery and Confections in Wax (JLCCW)
-Apple Butterscotch Cake (1 tart)
-Gourmet Sugar Cookie (heart melt)
-Legally Blonde (1 bread loaf tart)
-Nana's Kitchen (1 tart)
-Pink Sugar + Serendipity (1 disc tart)
-Serendipity Jaimie (1 tart)

K's Kreations
-Alex's Rainbow (2 Sniffin' Stix)
-Buttercream (1 tart)
-Eskimo Kisses (1 tart)
-Puckered Up (1 bag of brittle, 8oz)
-Sea Island Grapefruit (1 tart)
-Wild Bliss (1 tart)

Lasting Scent Candles
-Almond Rum Cake
-Blackberry Cotton Candy
-Candy Cane Kisses*
-Lemon Scoop
-Pink Sands
-Sweet Snow* (addition in place of Yankee candle that got thrown away)
-Sweet Vanilla Pound Cake
-Vanilla Ice Cream Cone

Molten Melts
-Chicks Dig It (scent shot)
-Pink Lemonade (scent bar)
-Wicked Watermelon (scent shot)

Pics, Petals & Scents
-Afternoon Delight (1 hello kitty tart)
-Berry Creme Brulee (2 star tarts)
-Blackberry Jam Biscuits (1.70oz whipped wax sample)
-Blueberry Cheesecake Ice Cream Scoop Bread (1 tart)
-Lemon Frosted Birthday Cake (1.75oz whipped wax sample)
-Pineapple Paprika (1 tart)

Rosegirls
-Fairy Woods (1 chunk)
-Hazelnut Macadamia Cappuccino (1 chunk)
-Invigorating Lavender Peppermint (4 2 chunks)
-Macintosh Swizzle Sticks (1 chunk)
-Summer Lovin (1 chunk)

Sniff My Tarts
-Camp Fire Dessert Latte (1 pie tart)
-Cookies & Cream (1 cookie tart)
-Pink Keylime (1 cupcake)* (addition)
-Pink Sugar Baby (1oz. cupcake)
-Sweet Lavender Marshmallow Cake (scent shot)

Streetman Candle Co.
-Blueberry Fritter (scent shot)
-Cherry Chapstick (scent shot)
-Chocolate Covered Banana (scent shot)
-Fresh Baked Bread (1oz. scent shot)
-Island Grapefruit (1oz. scent shot)
-Lavender Sheets (scent shot)
-Muscadine (scent shot)
-Pink Pomegranate (chunky monkey, 5oz)
-Summer Days (1oz. scent shot)
-Wake Me Up! (1oz. scent shot)

Sugar & Spice Gourmet Soy
-Strawberry Tres Leches Cake (scent shot)
-Waikiki Shores (scent shot)

Sweet Fixations
-Butterscotch Ice Cream (1 tart)
-Cotton Candy Frosting (1 tart)
-Pink Lemonade (1 tart)
-Serendipity Cake (1 tart)

Tara's Candle Cottage
-Iced Cinnamon Rolls (1 tarts)
-Peeps (1 tart)
-Simply Clean (1 tart)
-Vanilla Bean Noel (1 tart)

Tiffany Candles
-Blonde Moment (1 teddy tart)
-Caribbean Escape (1 tart)
-Lemon Pound Cake (1 teddy tart)
-Loopy Verbena (3 2 tarts)
-Melon Ball Fizz (1 teddy tart and 1 scalloped tart)
-Pink Marshmallow (1 tart)
-Raspberry Lemonade (1 teddy tart)
-Satsuma & Strawberry (1 teddy tart)
-Sweet Orange Chili Pepper (1 teddy tart)

The Bathing Garden
-Blackberry Jam & Lemon Curd (3 cubes of a clamshell)
-Cinnamon Frosting (5 2 cubes of a clamshell)
-Lemon Curd & Rose Milk (2 cubes of a clamshell)
-Serendipity Cream Pie (4 cubes of a clamshell)
-Vanilla Layered Strawberry Kiwi (6 4 2 cubes of a clamshell)

The Scented Princess
-Absolutely Fabulous Cake Serendipity (2 large scalloped tarts)
-Jena's Frosty Mint Bean (scent shot)
-Pink Sugar Pina Colada VBN (2 1 large scalloped tart)
-Serendipity VBN Fruity Rings (2 large scalloped tarts)
-Sweet Diamond Rose (1 chunky tart, large)

Two Timing Tart
-42 (3 lips)
-Daydreamer (3 lips)
-Frankly, My Dear (3 lips)
-Hedonistic Self-Indulgence (3 lips)
-Sex Kitten (6 cubes of a clamshell)
-Still Not Ginger (6 cubes of a clamshell)

Random Vendor Tarts (only 1 of each vendor)
-Aunt Nena's: Nilla Wafers
-Faerielane Fragrances: Sweet Sprite (scent shot)
-Fire Bling Candles: Pink Sugar (6 5 cubes of a clamshell)
-Lenea's Wax Creations: Honeysuckle Plumeria (3 small tart shapes)
-Leslie Leshay Candles: Cucumber Melon (1 teddy tart)
-My Candle Box: Sweet Lavender Mallow (2 flower tarts)
-Niki's Wax: Rainbow Mix  (4 2 oz. cubes)
-Scarlet Raine: Strawberry Passion (2 small strawberries)
-Sugar Pie Scents: Cactus & Sea Salt (scent shot)
-Ten Digit Creations: Pear & Vanilla Bean (1 tart)
-Up The Creek Scents: Pink Sugar (scent shot)

Week 1 = Red
Week 2 = Green
Week 3 = Blue

10 comments:

  1. Bravo for another successful week!
    ahhhh...I loved Tropical White Musk --we were melting it around the same time!

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    1. Thank you, friend! :)

      I'm trying to get into musk scents, but that was not the one for me to start with! Do you have any other suggestions? :)

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  2. Niiicceee!! <3 You're getting your collection down!! That Beezy order will have a nice new home where all the other wax was!! Yay!

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    1. I reeeeeeeeeeally tried not to break the ban, but damn, LOL! It's so hard!! :)

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  3. So many cross outs and progress! Whoohoo! I got a vbn fluff sample from cftkr and my youngest (4 yr old), took it and smells it in her room. So I won't be meltung it for a while.

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    1. You will need to get that VBN Fluff from your youngest daughter, it's amaaaaaazing!! I'm trying to make great progress! :)

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  4. You're making excellent progress! The only thing that's helping me these days is that I keep missing the notices of restocks til it's too late LOL!

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    2. Thanks Kate! :)
      That's the thing about missing restocks and not getting the notices, it's neither here nor there because we didn't know anyways! ;)

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  5. Ohhhhh...I want to try Daphne's. Maybe in the fall.

    I love CFTKR's Sugar Cookie Noel too. So good.

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