PhoenixFyre Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 Lol...goofy title, I know. Obviously all melts work because all they do is melt...but I finally made one that smells great! (It's the little things in life that make me happy.) My very first candles haven't turned out great so far. The first couple looked pretty but the fragrance didn't come through. My first pillars have been curing for about 5 days now. Pulled them from the molds today. No strong cold throw and when I pulled them from the mold, the tops had tiny little pinholes all over. Finally decided to stop with all the additives and fragrances and colors and just made some straight paraffin container candles a few days ago just to see what wax and wick do together. I also made some containers with just straight paraffin and 6% FO with nothing else and had enough wax leftover to make a couple of melts Decided to test the melts today, not hoping for much. While they didn't look that pretty since I didn't add anything but the FO, they smell TERRIFIC! I almost cried when I walked into my kitchen and could smell it from the living room. I stopped and said to myself, "Are you kidding? Is that my melt I smell??" I think Coconut Lime Verbena from Peak is now my favorite scent, lol, since it was my first little success! 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jcandleattic Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 That's GREAT! Don't you love it when the little things make us happy! I'm so gald you had a melt success. Helps to keep you motivated to keep making! Just some info... The pin-pricks (air bubble looking things) could be from pouring to hot. My pillars generally don't have a super duper strong cold throw. When you pick them up and sniff them, they smell great, but you can't smell them from across the room or anything. Hot throw is different. I can usually smell them from a 3 room radius depending on where I burn them.. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhoenixFyre Posted March 28, 2015 Author Share Posted March 28, 2015 Thanks for the feedback, Jcandleattic. I appreciate the info about the pinpricks being from pouring too hot. I will watch for that next time. And I appreciate the feedback about your own candles. I look up to a lot of the more experienced crafters on this forum, yourself included, so it's nice to know what kind of results you all get so I can see if I really did mess up or if perhaps my results were more normal than I thought. A little after I posted this, the scent had wafted through even more of my house. Not overpowering...just a nice gentle scent in the air that I can catch when walking from room to room. This girl is stoked! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest OldGlory Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 Wooohoooo!! That baby is just a lil creepy, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candybee Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 Its possible you had candlenose when smelling your candles. Let them cure a week or two then try smelling them again. Congrats on the great smelling melt! Aren't melts fun?!! Personally I prefer a dancing banana guy! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhoenixFyre Posted March 29, 2015 Author Share Posted March 29, 2015 I wondered about that, too, Candybee. I had only worked with pomegranate fragrance up to that point, so for the latest batch I went a different direction and did the Coconut Lime Verbena. In a few days I will go back and test the other pomegranate melts I still had from the first batch and see if I can smell them. Thanks for all the encouragement and feedback, everyone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest OldGlory Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 I have perpetual candlenose - probably because I make candles 2-3 weeks a month. Pretty much can't smell anything that is a fragrance, and the stinky things seem exaggerated, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puma52 Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Lol...goofy title, I know. Obviously all melts work because all they do is melt...but I finally made one that smells great! (It's the little things in life that make me happy.) My very first candles haven't turned out great so far. The first couple looked pretty but the fragrance didn't come through. My first pillars have been curing for about 5 days now. Pulled them from the molds today. No strong cold throw and when I pulled them from the mold, the tops had tiny little pinholes all over. Finally decided to stop with all the additives and fragrances and colors and just made some straight paraffin container candles a few days ago just to see what wax and wick do together. I also made some containers with just straight paraffin and 6% FO with nothing else and had enough wax leftover to make a couple of melts Decided to test the melts today, not hoping for much. While they didn't look that pretty since I didn't add anything but the FO, they smell TERRIFIC! I almost cried when I walked into my kitchen and could smell it from the living room. I stopped and said to myself, "Are you kidding? Is that my melt I smell??" I think Coconut Lime Verbena from Peak is now my favorite scent, lol, since it was my first little success! Yea!!!!! We are so proud of ya!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuzyK Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Woo hoooo! It's so great when all our time and work and research pays off! It's very exciting! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuck_35550 Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 Congrats! Buy a $30.00 respirator at Home Depot and wear it when you pour. No more candle nose and easy on your lungs. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhoenixFyre Posted April 2, 2015 Author Share Posted April 2, 2015 Congrats! Buy a $30.00 respirator at Home Depot and wear it when you pour. No more candle nose and easy on your lungs. My husband is an airbrush artist/custom painter and has tons of respirators around the house. Can't believe we didn't think of that! Thanks, Chuck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest OldGlory Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 Phoenix, my mind is swirling at the thought of you being married to an airbrush artist. Oh, the things he could do to your glass jars! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhoenixFyre Posted April 3, 2015 Author Share Posted April 3, 2015 Phoenix, my mind is swirling at the thought of you being married to an airbrush artist. Oh, the things he could do to your glass jars! Don't even get me started, OldGlory! He's already cleared an area out for me in his shop and said he's going to build me shelves this weekend for all my stuff. He's already talking about how I need to learn to make skull candles and bleeding candles. Every time I clean a mold out, he takes it away and says, "Let me help you out. I got a better way to do it." I'm almost too scared to suggest he could paint jars for me...he'd stop doing his own work and focus on the jars! I love that man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest OldGlory Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 Sounds like you hit the husband lottery Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfear Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 I adore this topic just for your sheer excitement over melt success! It's awesome! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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