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Yankee Candle Black Coconut
by xxfoxyredxx
The one little luxury I do like to treat myself and my home to are Yankee candle products. I like my home to smell fresh and inviting and with two hammies and a lovely cat and my liking of spicy foods I do find that air freshener doesn't always cut it.
I tend to always buy the Yankee Candle Wax tarts cos about £1.20 each they ... don't break my budget and this one when I spotted recently in Homebase for about a pound so I couldn't resist cos I had never even heard of it before!
The Packaging:
This tart comes in a see through plastic wrapper and on the front of it there is a picture shown of a lovely tropical sunset and we are clearly told what it is and then on the back of it we are shown how to use the tart via diagrams, we are told that weight of it which is 32g, that we should get 8 hours burn time from it and contact details for the manufacturer are clearly stated.
Using The Tart:
Well this is a thick round, disc of very black wax with fluted edges to it and all you do to use it is to pop it into an oil burner with preferably an unscented tealight under it then the wax simply wax into a pool of liquid.
These are easy to snap if you wanted to only burn a little, you can mix the scents by popping in another piece of another tart to blend the scents, me I'm a purist and I like to burn one at time!
This is a lovely, relaxing and rather tropical scent. It really does smell of sweet and of slightly creamy coconuts in a a really natural way. it takes just a few minutes of burning of this one to get the aroma of it and I found this to burn on and off well over 8 hours though I burnt it over a few days and of course once the tealight is put out the wax hardens for use next time. I can detect a slight fragrance of vanilla to it but not too much it gets sickly for me this is just a nice and rich coconut aroma fragrance and once I extinguish it I can smell this lingering all through my large flat for a good hour or so afterwards.
I really do like this one, it isn't too much or too feminine its just really fresh and a scent that is uplifting and refreshing and I would spend a bit more and buy this in a votive or candle in the future!
Available from a variety of places such as Clinton cards, Homebase and online from Amazon and the suchlike and of course from Yankee Candle themselves!
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Yankee Candle Siberian Silver Fir
by Stewwydablue
I think my Yankee bubble has burst. I've found a Yankee scent that I can't wax lyrical (excuse the pun!) about. I want to like it, I want to love it, but after scorching lots of nostril hairs whilst stood over the thing sniffing like a drug addict extra from an episode of The Bill, I can't say that there is much smell to this scent from ... Yankee. There are a few positives though, and I'll try to expand on these below.
For those that don't know, Yankee make candles, tarts and reed diffusers all with scents made from natural ingredients. This particular review is about the tart version of Siberian Silver Fir. A tart is a wax block which melts and releases its scent when placed in a tart burner - a bit like an oil burner but with a deeper well to contain the melted wax. When all the scent has gone, you will be left with a wax disc - these can just be thrown away when there's no more smell emitting from them.
This particular scent has hints of pine tree and a fresh outdoors smell - lots of fresh air and a touch of ozone which reminded me of the Sparkling Snow Yankee scent. The pine also brought to mind clean wooden floors - I do like a shiny piece of laminate! It's a very refreshing smell, don't be tricked into thinking it might be like some of their other wintry / christmas scents that are full of heavy warm spices. It certainly woke me up when sniffed just out of the wrapper. The only problem is, it's not very strong when melted and doesn't fill the room like all of the other scents I have tried to date have. It would make a good sock drawer scenter, but to be honest a sprig of lavender picked from the garden would do the same job for free.
Also, I've got issues with the 8hr claim from Yankee - normally their tarts still give off a noticeable scent long after the 8hrs that they say they will, but with this one I couldn't tell after about an hour on entering the room that the tart was being melted. If you get up very close to it you can detect it, but it's weaker than Reading FC's defence - a big shame as I do like the scent, it's just not strong at all.
In defence of the scent, it is possible that the tart we had was old and therefore may have lost its scent - I have looked on the Yankee website and this scent is no longer sold so that could be a possible explanation. It is available as a small candle on a website called Yankeescents4u.com and also as a tart on ebay - expect to pay around £7.50 for the candle and about a pound for a tart off ebay.
For its lack of strength, I can't give the full five stars and instead award a very average 3 stars.
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