I've been working my way through my ten randomly selected Yankee Candle wax tarts over the past couple of weeks and Christmas Cupcake is the third one I have tried. Yankee Candle's wax tarts come in a very wide range of scents from fresh and floral scents to food and festive scents - there is something to suit everybody I reckon. The tarts are circular chunks of wax which have no wick, to burn these you pop them into a tart or oil burner and light a tea light underneath. As the flame from the tea light starts to melt the wax tart a fragrance is released to scent your home. These are a great way of trying a fragrance before splashing out on a much larger ...  Read the complete review

On the run up to Christmas I decided that I really must invest in some Yankee Candle products. Course as most of us are very aware of by now although called the Yankee Candle company they actually do wax tarts, electric diffusers, even now scented stuff to pop in drawers and the likes....thankfully and the range is absolutely gianormous! Over the past few months, albeit late I have become rather a fan of the range and now, near where I live Weston Super Mare pier stocks them in their gift shop and its a huge range too! This little wax tart is only about the second or third I have purchased so far from the range and I sniffed about in store and ...  Read the complete review

This review was posted on ciao in July 2011 though I must have forgot to crosspost so here is the original review with a couple of tweaks! Yankee Candle is an American company who specialise in delicious scented candles for your home. ~Christmas Cupcake~ Christmas Cupcake is a seasonal version of Vanilla Cupcake (see recent review). It can be appreciated in various sized candle jars, tealights and samplers. The best way to experience Christmas Cupcake is in wax tart form. A wax tart is a small tart shaped peice of essential oil infused wax. It comes individually wrapped and can be split and used over a period of time. A tart should be ...  Read the complete review

I bought the Christmas Cupcake wax tart last year in the Boundary Mill January sale, for a bargainous 50p. I probably wouldn't have chosen it at full price, since I'd already used the Vanilla Cupcake scent from Yankee Candle and found it to be too sweet and sickly, and that word cupcake made me fear that this would be the same. The candle is an off-white colour and the label depicts an assortment of cupcakes topped with red and green sweets, as well as one cupcake that has been shaped into a snowman. I bought this in the form of a wax tart. Rather than having a wick, wax tarts are just a disc of fragrance infused wax, which you melt in a tart ...  Read the complete review

** My review is based on my experience using the votive version of this fragrance ** [it didn't seem worth it to request a new entry for the same fragrance] - - - - - - - - - - - - - Scentsational - - - - - - - - - - - - - CHRISTMAS CUPCAKE smells like - surprise - a vanilla cupcake, with a rich butter-cream overtone. The butter-cream note is strong enough to carry whilst the votive is still wrapped. There's nothing else to add - it is a simple fragrance, but lovely and edible. It reminds me of the little butterfly cupcakes we used to eat at friends birthday parties as children. CHRISTMAS CUPCAKE is ...  Read the complete review