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Yankee Candle Tropical Fruit
by Chippytarka
Afew years ago I purchased a a pack of candles from QVC. I have bought these candles before on a trip to New York from a Yankee candle outlet at some fantasic prices, so I was aware how good their candles were and had no qualms on buying the pack, containing a medium sized jar Tropical Fruit candle.
Who is Yankee ... Candles?
Yankee Candle is an American company who specialise in home and car fragrances. It started when a young gentleman named Mike Kittredge made his mother a candle as a gift from broken up crayons. When a neighbour saw what he made Mike was convinced by the neighbour to sell the candle them and with that profit he managed to make his mother another one and a spare one to sell. And so it all began...
The company has over 150 different fragrances in products for the home and car such as wax tarts, different sized candles ranging from tumbler candles, small, medium and large glass jars, tealights, plug ins, reed defusers, car air freshners. The list goes on and on.
What does the candle look like?
Im going by a medium sized candle in my description, but whether its a small or large jar, it will look the same. Only difference you will have on look is if its a different product eg wax tart, tumbler.
The candle is in a well made, durable and good quality glass jar. It has a slightly smaller rim compared to the the size of the rest of the jar, and this is where the lid sits on top.The glass lid fits into the jar perfectly.Its easy to hold, slightly rounded with the word ' Yankee Candle ' etched into it. Overall the feel of the candle is weighty and very much high quality.The label is simple, on the front with teh relevant picture on it depicting what the scent is. So with this Tropical Fruit fragrance, the label has various fruits on it such as lime,mango, lemons etc.Bright and vibrant, but simple.A good tip is you dont have to have the label on it, it can peel away. Good feature if you wanted to reuse the jar once the candle has finished, for something else.
How do you use their candles and how long does the fragrance/candle last?
The candle itself is a pillar box red colour with a slight marbled effect in the wax itself.
How do you use the candle?
If this candle is a wax tart ( like in the above picture ), take off the plastic wrapping. You can put the whole tart into the dish area of a lit tart/oil burner. O you can break up, or crumble it into it, which ensures the fragrance is realised quicker because it melt quicker. When the tart has lost it fragrance, you can remove it once cooled down, but not completely set just alittle soft and dispose. Or if its cooled down completely and hard, and the warmer has a removable top on it, that the tart sit in then place it in the frezzer and leave for awhile. It will pop out with ease.
If its an actual candle you will use-Trim wick to around 3mm.This stops the flame from giving off black smoke. When burning for the first time,allow the wax to completely melt from one side of the candle to another, so the effect of tunnelling doesnt occur This is when the wax stays solid around the edges, but the middle burns down, creating a hole, crater effect. So depending on the size of the candle you may need to burn for afew hours. Once lit, enjoy the beautiful aromas......
Here is an idea on how long the candles will burn/give off fragrance and cost:
The small sized candle between 25-40 hours of fragrance. Around £7-9.00
The medium sized candle between 65-90 hours of fragrance. Around £15-17.00
The large sized candle between 110-150 hours of fragrance. Around £20.00
The votives lasts up to 15 hours of fragrance. Around £1.50/1.80
The wax tarts up to 8 hours of fragrance. Around £1.00/1.30
The small glass tumblers between 35-45 hours of fragrance ( 2 wicks ) Around £10.00
The large glass tumblers up to 85 hours of fragrance ( 2 wicks ) Around £18-20.00
What does Tropical Fruit smell like?
Just as it suggests. It reminds me fruit flavoured sweets, chews. Theres a hint of berries, mango but still has a slight freshness to it.I dont find it sickly sweet and its not clawring or overpowering. Smells good enough to eat! The fragrance floats and sits in the gently. Its quite long lasting, and even with the lid on I can get a gorgeous whiff!
Would I buy again?
Most definetly. Yankees products are amazing quality. Just make sure you get them at a good price. They are alot more readily available now in stores and online, unlike afew years ago where you had to really dig about for them. What I would say inn regards to this fragrance is, if you like sweet, fresh, fruit and deep aromas, this is for you.If not, why not try another fragrance such as:
Clean Cotton
Vanilla Lime
Honey & Spice
Blissful Autumn
Camomile Tea
Sparkling Lemon
Vanilla Cupcake
Too many to list!
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Yankee Candle Barrtlett Pear
by catsholiday
Yankee Bartlett Pear
I now have quite a collection of candles and tarts in my drawers and from time to time select one to to and enjoy from the collection. I do like the tarts as I have three wax burners and I break the tarts into three and burn them in different rooms so that the scent gets carried through the bottom part of ... our house.
This was from the Simply Home range from Yankee and I bought this from B&Q I think who sell this range.
We have three cats who refuse to use the vast outdoors for their toilet which means we have a box of litter in the room where people come into the house or next to it as this is our U room. I hate the idea that visitors or anyone in fact has to smell litter and so burn candles in this room.
I don't like the smell of stale cooing in the kitchen and in winter I am reluctant to open windows to ket out our heat and so once again candles and tarts help get rid of stale food smells.
We sit in a small room when there is just the two of us and the cats join us in there and this is the other room that I like to have a candle burning just to create a pleasant ambience for us.
I find by breaking the tarts into three I get the same amount of scent spread in the three rooms and each bit lasts the same time as a full tart in one burner.
I have had a number of scented candles over the years and do like the wonderful scents that fill my rooms and I am working my way through the entire Yankee range slowly.
I am sure that everyone on ciao and Dooyoo is well aware that the tarts have no wick and gave off their scent by being melted in a burner with a tea light candle underneath.
Yankee Candles the company originated in the USA. But have quickly become a household name over here . They offer a huge range of home fragrance products from sprays, reed diffusers through to all kinds of shapes and sizes of scented candles. They are often found in garden centres and gift shops so it is a case of keeping your eyes open. We do actually have a big Yankee Candle shop in the Westfield Centre in Derby but I rarely go in there as I find them very expensive so tend to see if I can get bargains elsewhere. It is also worth noting that www.yankeedoodle.co.uk often has them at discounted prices if you want to order a few.
I have to cut the very tightly sealed plastic wrap from the outside then as I took the tart out I had a good sniff. There was definitely a strong pear fruity smell. This was a sweet pear scent, no sharpness in my view but also quite freshly fruity.
I popped the tart thirds onto my three burners thenput a lighted tea light underneath and waited. The tart began to melt quite quickly . My burners are all quite dark but I could still see that the wax was a pretty dark green colour when melted as opposed to the lighter colour when tart shaped.
As the tart melted the scent became stronger and sweeter. It was quite a freshly fruity true pear aroma but not really that strong I felt. I was actually a bit disappointed with how well the scent traveled in the room and also how long the tart remained giving off the scent.
As far as tart experiences go this is one of the less impressive ones as it really is not a very strong scent and the trat didn't last more than one tea light burning four hours.
Please remember that even though tea lights have the wax safely within their aluminium foils they can still create a massive amount of heat that will damage furniture as I discovered to my cost when I got scorch marks on a wooden table. I now put my burners either on the tiled surfaces or on a couple of drink mats that are heat proof just in case. Another thing to be wary of is that you should NOT ever move a burner with melted wax as they are very hot and melted wax can cause nasty burns on skin or melted wax spilling can also cause wax stain damage or burns on carpets and other furnishings. Always put any burners out of the reach of children and never leave them in rooms unattended as candles can obviously cause fires. Someone I know put a tea light on their TV and left it, it melted the TV top and fell into the inside and set their room on fire so please be VERY careful they are to be treated as mini fires.
Having given all the dire warnings I am a big fan of candles and especially the scented ones as they give off lovely fragrances and also add atmosphere to a room with gentle flames flickering in their containers. They are a lovely addition to a room's ambience but just need to be treated with good sense.
I was not that thrilled with my Bartlet pear tart , I liked the smell but although it smelled natural and fresh of pear the smell didn't carry as much as some other Yankee tarts I have had.
So, no thank you Yankee candles this is one that I will not be buying a second time as there are too many others to try and this is not a favourite by a long way.
Yankee Candles make their candles and scents in many forms such as wax tart, votive and various sized candle jars , car fragrances and more. The tarts are a fairly cheap way of trying a fragrance and often I find them stronger than the candles anyways so I tend to buy these. They range in price but usually are around £1.10 or £1.25 but you can sometimes get them for half price so it is worth looking around.
Thanks for reading. This review may be posted on other sites under my same user name.
İCatsholiday
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