# I pit Scentsy **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 31, 2015, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-scentsy/741784 "2015-12-31T00:52:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-scentsy/741784/41 "2016-01-07T04:47:41Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Several years ago, I went to a craft show and one of the vendors, who sold homemade hand cream, smeared some on me without asking me first. That seems like a remarkably bad idea given you could be allergic. Wow. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-scentsy/741784/42 "2017-04-22T21:46:30Z")
> [@TheFaerie](#): > > A very sweet, dear friend of mine gave me some off-brand scented wax cubes in a dozen different odors and a large off-brand faux-pine scented candle for Xmas. I’m trying to figure out what to do with them. I’m allergic to the faux-pine and I don’t have any use for scented wax blocks. I’m not sure where she got the idea that I like that sort of stuff, I’ve never scented my home with anything like that and she has been to my place dozens of times. Gag. I realize this is a zombie thread, but my answer is still “re-gifting”. That’s my best guess. I’m here not because of Scentsy, but another scented candle package that I picked up at a resale shop earlier today. It was 4 candles, each of them about the size of 3 nickels stacked up, in the wrapper - and I can STILL smell them on me. :eek: Someone else is also using some kind of artificial scent, and my mailman just suggested that it might be to block out the smoke odor resulting from the fire in the next building that we had a few weeks ago. (No injuries; it was started accidentally by a tenant that the management was trying to evict anyway for other reasons.) I can’t smell it but apparently he still can. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-scentsy/741784/43 "2017-04-22T21:55:15Z")
I also had a neighbor for a while who was a Middle Eastern college student. He burned a lot of incense, and asked if it bothered me. It didn’t, because the smell always dissipates quickly, and he said that he wouldn’t do it if anyone complained (and added, “In my home culture, we always do this when we have guests.”) I replied that it’s really no different from people lighting scented candles, which I realize is more a feminine thing here in the States. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-scentsy/741784/44 "2017-04-22T21:58:10Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > I used to work upstairs from a Lush store. Maybe one bath bomb for your mother is cute at Christmas, but the store itself is absolutely rank. There’s nothing natural about such a concentration of ‘natural’ scents. It’s absolutely vile. I went inside the store but once to see what the stink was all about, and idly tried a sampler of skin cream on my hand. It was made of _garlic_. The stench didn’t come out for days. But even the garlic didn’t overpower the florid reek of concentrated oils and ‘safe synthetics’. And every Wednesday afternoon was delivery time, and the smell intensified to an unbearable degree. I pity anyone who works in one, the people who make it, the people who deliver it, and the people like me who work near one. I would cross the road in the Melbourne CBD to avoid walking past the Lush store, the smells emanating were just vile and oppressive. And yeah, you couldn’t pay me a million bucks to work in one. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-scentsy/741784/45 "2017-04-24T18:54:55Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > As long as we’re on the topic of overly aggressive scents, how about Crabtree & Evelyn? I can barely stand to walk by their outlets without puking. But…but their moist towelettes are _essential_ for clambakes! It says so right on the package! ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-scentsy/741784/46 "2017-04-26T20:39:13Z")
> [@Penfeather](#): > > The point of making your own stuff from household ingredients isn’t that it _works_; it’s that you can oh-so-casually tell people “Brake fluid? Oh, I make my own”. Reminds me of a line from an early “NewsRadio” episode when Joe says “Duct tape? Man, that stuff’s a rip-off. I make my own!” I missed this pitting the first time around but I heartily endorse it. My wife has a Scentsy lamp and I hate that thing with a passion. I call it her “stinky lamp”. A couple weekends ago the 2 year old grandson got into her stash of scented wax cubes and the whole freaking house reeked for hours. I thought he had gotten into some perfume or something. Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![slumtrimpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@slumtrimpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slumtrimpet)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-scentsy/741784/47 "2017-04-27T00:42:36Z")
The flower shop I worked in was in the same town as the Alene Candles factory. Now, flower shops are pretty smelly places - in a good way. Nevertheless, we could tell an Alene factory employee as soon as they stepped in the door. They reeked. My sister lives about 15 miles from the Yankee Candle plant. When the wind is right… ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-scentsy/741784/48 "2017-04-27T11:55:08Z")
The last time I went into a Yankee Candle store, I got a migraine. A few of those scents are just so, so heavy and there is so, so much of it. I enjoy and occasionally use a few of their candles (the apple or fruit ones) but wouldn’t light one when someone else was around unless they said they weren’t allergic and it was ok. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2023, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-scentsy/741784/49 "2023-07-16T04:51:51Z")
I’m reviving this zombie thread because at my volunteer job at the library, I thought somebody had spilled a bottle of lotion and not cleaned a lot of it up. The waxy floral scent lingered in one area of the room, and I didn’t say anything the first time I encountered it last Monday. When I detected it again on Thursday, and realized it was coming from the Woman In Charge, I said something to her. She apologized and said she wouldn’t wear it again, but ZOMG that smell followed her everywhere! I stopped by today to do a little touching-up of the self-service bookstore, and that smell was STILL there! And now it’s all over the books that she handled. Believe me, I could tell, just like we can tell when donated books came from a smoker’s house. Because of fire codes, the door to our work/storage room is supposed to be closed when no volunteers are there, but I explained the situation to the head librarian and asked if it could be left open over the weekend to air the place out. She said it could, and I hope she did. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2023, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-scentsy/741784/50 "2023-07-20T15:04:04Z")
I don’t have a problem with most scents. I don’t mind Scentsy, or candles, or laundry detergent. I can’t stand Pine sol, or strong perfumes. A woman I used to wait on at work wore some strong expensive perfume that literally took my breath away. I had to struggle to breath when she came in. Once, I had to get another co-worker to finish with her because the smell/chemical fumes triggered my asthma. I used to frequent a store that mopped at the end of the night with Pine sol. I had the same reaction to that. It’s like I can’t get a breath. I tried the homemade laundry soap during Covid. I wasn’t impressed. Clothes need detergent to get clean. I like a mild scent, but there are scent free alternatives. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2023, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-scentsy/741784/51 "2023-07-20T16:01:19Z")
I don’t have anything to add except that my wife sells Scentsy as a side-business/hobby. I never knew this thread existed, I’m amused by it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2023, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-scentsy/741784/52 "2023-07-20T16:23:03Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Better than a Fartsy. Omg that is giving me giggle fits and I’m not a fart joke fan. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Did someone gift you a whiff box I smell a fartsy turn on a fan! Be very afraid of the whiff box. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2023, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-scentsy/741784/53 "2023-07-20T20:52:01Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I don’t have anything to add except that my wife sells Scentsy as a side-business/hobby. I never knew this thread existed, I’m amused by it. 🙂 OMG! She’s a Dealer…? . ♫ Breathe Deep the Gathering Gloom! ♫ ♫ Patchouli Smells from Every Room… ♫ ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2023, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-scentsy/741784/54 "2023-07-20T21:00:01Z")
> [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](#): > > OMG! She’s a Dealer…? Yes, she even sets up a booth at local markets at various times during the year. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2023, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-scentsy/741784/55 "2023-07-21T02:33:53Z")
Scentsy also has “masculine” scents like leather, with brown or gray wax cubes. Anyway, we think we may have found the source of the “perfume.” It was one of those Glade-esque air fresheners, which had been opened a little too far, and was in an out of the way location. I screwed it down so it was barely open, and things were much better. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2023, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-scentsy/741784/56 "2023-07-21T02:35:58Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Scentsy also has “masculine” scents like leather, with brown or gray wax cubes. Some of their scents are nice, but the “manly” ones are gross in my opinion. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-scentsy/741784.md?page=2)