Bought a new scented candle this afternoon, room's going to be smelling like a bamboo forest. Looking forward to a change of smells.
Was going to buy a 100-pack of tea candles... the wax melteter PU gave me three years ago has been one of the most-used gifts ever, get a nice pack of melting wax, and the tealight candles last forever, so not only is using a melter classier, nicer, safer way to do candles in the room, it's also more efficient fiscally.
The places I've bought candles at are Wegman's and TJ's, surely there's a better class of the candles, but I haven't needed them. Lighting a couple of candles on a cold winter night as it storms outside, the wind is howling and shaking the building, but it's warm indoors, that's one of the best warm evenings I can have.
The part that I hate the most about larger candles is how hard it gets to light them once you're more than half-way through the candles. You need to turn it around and put the lighter deep into the hole, it melts the wax and drips it on your hands, or the fire burns your thumb either way it's no good story.
Scented candles are not for making the room smell better, they're mostly about the air of clean fresh air, a little bit of sexy warmth in the room, that an active process of air purification is happening inside. It's not equivalent to spraying your room with a spray or lighting tonne of incense. Incense sticks kill everything inside your room with their thick billowy sticky smells, everything in your room will forever smell like them including your clothes. That's great for some people, others are just fine with it, I don't like things going that way.
Someday I may spend twenty bucks on getting a Yankee candle, or one of them fancy ones at BB&B or Bed & Body Works. Until then, my low-key functional approach to the candles has served me well.
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