I’m deathful afraid of fire. That’s why I have over 100 candles in a 2 room apartment.
Right now, I’m into peppermint, blueberry and honeydew. Since autumn is coming, I’ll start with the spices.
One of my New Year’s Eve traditions (well, for the past two years anyway) is burning a ginger candle while drinking ginger tea and eating Festivus ice cream.
Ooohh, forgot to add another absolute favorite which I happen to be out of right now:
L’Occitane’s Verbena
The only Yankee Sampler I like is Clean Cotton. Great scent.
Right now I have a HoneyDew Melon going.
I like the Yankee Candle Fireside scent. Smells like a fireplace but without the actual smokey fireplace.
I also like the Clean Cotton.
My favorite is Storm Watch.
yankee candles
midsummer night in the library
tulips,
roses,
wedding day in the bed room.
L’Occitane’s lavender
Smells great right about now.
Wicked Wicks Spiced Clove scent. Luckily the weather’s cooled enough that I can finish burning my current one and have new ones shipped to S. New Mexico without receiving a box of candle soup! Prefer to get them from the source at Saturday Market in Portland, though.
Right now I have the Yankee Candle tart “Cookies and Cream” burning in one tart burner and “Fresh Peaches” in the other one. I had to get them sent in from America, so they ended up being fairly expensive.
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Does anybody know how long it takes the tarts to disappear? The Yankee Candle site quotes around 8 hours, but I’m almost positive I’ve been burning them for longer than that. Will it eventually melt away, or am I meant to get rid of the cake once the smell isn’t there anymore?
<bye jack!!>
I don’t really like scented candles, too many make me sneeze and they’re to expensive for me anyway.
I usually burn the Jesus candles you buy at the grocery store. No smell, they’re only 99 cents, and they last a very long time. 
I do not care much for scented candles either, but I do like vanilla when there is no other choice.
Man of the house loves vanilla, citrus and pine/spruce scented candles.
They don’t disappear, they usually just run out of stinkum. Yes, they say 8 hours - I find I can burn them two or three days running before losing fragrance. I have two hints for you: first, to get the tart out of the burner, let the wax cool to solidity, throw the burner in the freezer for five minutes and the solid wax will slide right out. (This impressed me so much the first time I did it, it was on the order of a small miracle. Then again, I am easily impressed.) Second, if you find the tarts to be too expensive, you can buy the votives, remove the wicks, slice the votives in half and throw half a votive into the tart burner. The votives are a little bit more pricey individually then the tarts are, but essentially you get two tarts worth of scented wax out of each votive. The scent in the votives melted this way does not last quite as long as the tarts do, but they last long enough.
Hey, thanks for the tip! So far I’ve been prying the cold wax out with my fingers (by pushing heavily on one side so it just pops out) but your way sounds a lot better!
The tarts themselves weren’t very expensive since I bought a whole bunch from an eBay wholesaler - it was the shipping to Australia that killed me. 
My fiance hates that my room- filled with books, fabric, and candles- is right next to my father’s workroom, in which he keeps oxygen tanks for welding.
If you ever hear a really loud boom, it’s probably my parent’s house going up in a cloud of smoke.
I held a summer job working for a retail store that sold Yankee Candles. They had a promotion (buy 15, get 3 free). That, on top of my employee discount, meant that in one trip I managed to buy over $50 worth of candles after the discount.
I have a whold drawerful. Right now I’m burning Storm Watch. To me it smells like lilacs. I also have their Lilac scent, but I’m saving it.
Ocean Water is my favorite.
yeah, I see it too.
You people are lucky, as an exercise i had to throw out all my candles. I guess i should mention i threw them away do to my pyromania. I cant be trusted with fire ever since i was young, I was branded the “Fire Bug” by my parents. I wasnt really that bad with them , but people just didnt trust me with them. Feel lucky with candles why you still can. :: tears:: I really miss fire.:mad:
I have a clove Pilgrim Candle (a gazillion times better than Yankee Candle, IMHO) near my computer, which I light up when it gets a bit too smoky in here. My favorite scented candle is London Spring Farms fresh cucumber beeswax candle…close to the B&B cucumber-melon, but it seems to smell cleaner - not as sweet, or something.
The other night when the power went out, though, I lit up the pair of candleabras my neighbor welded for me…10 tapers total and bright enough to read by. I love those candle holders…
I love all kinds of candles. But there has been some issue about lead in candles:
For the record, most of the bigger candle companies (like Yankee and Colonial) are now sporting signs in their stores and on their displays that say “there is not and never has been lead used in our candle wicks.” From what I recall, this was primarily an issue with cheap, imported candles. (I didn’t click on your link, so if this was covered there, I apologize for being redundant.)
There are several fragrances I do not care for in candles - cucumber and melon scents smell to me like the peels of those foods sitting in the trash for too long. The flavored coffee and banana scents make me queasy, but I find that true of actual flavored coffees and bananas, too. In general, I do not care for berry fragrances, either - they are too sweet for me.
Now I need to go find Pilgrim candles.
Re: the lead wicking issue
Leaded wicks have been unavailable in the U.S. for years, so American-made candles are safe (unless you find a company that imports their wicks, which doesn’t seem feasible considering how inexpensive wicks are.)
I use zinc-cored wicks in my candles, so I have to make sure to put the message out on my labels and anytime I do craft shows…too many folks assume that metal=lead=bad. Small candlemakers like me can’t even get lead wicks.
Violet’s link is a good one…the Cauldron has all sorts of good info, especially for candlemakers.