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The biggest joy of candle making for me is blending scents. It is a passion of mine...but sometimes, I actually drive myself insane with it, lol.

 

My brain is always in ' blend, blend, blend ' mode and even if I am trying to relax, it always seems to be working overtime and involuntarily spitting out ideas at me.

 

I actually had a dream last night that I was blending like 35% Pink Sugar and 65% Vanilla Voodoo ( yes, I was measuring it out on my little scale in my dream lol ) and just poured it and it does smell amazing ! Can't wait for it to cure !

 

But geez...sometimes I wish I could switch it off and relax...is anyone else like this, or am I completely insane ??? 

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I do it as well but I seem to have a hard time actually doing something about them 

I'm actually waiting for my wax to melt as I type and plan to get a butt load of sale product made and 1 dozen new scents and blends done to test....hopefully I don't get distracted and actually accomplish all this ?

Btw... pink sugar and cinnamon is an amazing blend....

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15 minutes ago, moonshine said:

I do it as well but I seem to have a hard time actually doing something about them 

I'm actually waiting for my wax to melt as I type and plan to get a butt load of sale product made and 1 dozen new scents and blends done to test....hopefully I don't get distracted and actually accomplish all this ?

Btw... pink sugar and cinnamon is an amazing blend....

Ohhhhh that does sound like an awesome blend, will need to try that, thank you ! Pink Sugar is one of my fave mixers, it is oddly amazing with Peppermint, lol. Also with blood orange & lime !

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Oh heck yeah!  Some of my best blends come to me during the night, usually I wake up with one in my head.  Hardly ever actually sell the blends either, just keep them for me.  I'm going to try the pink sugar blends suggested here. 

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30 minutes ago, kandlekrazy said:

Oh heck yeah!  Some of my best blends come to me during the night, usually I wake up with one in my head.  Hardly ever actually sell the blends either, just keep them for me.  I'm going to try the pink sugar blends suggested here. 

I am very relieved to know that this happens to other people, lol ! I suppose there are worse things than coming up with great blends, eh ? 

 

Btw if you are playing with Pink Sugar soon, I also suggest maraschino cherry ! Another one that blends deliciously with it !

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22 minutes ago, sandy511 said:

Who has the best Pink Sugar?

I have only tried two, to be honest. WSP, which I do not recommend, smells nothing like Pink Sugar. 

 

And The Candle Source, which is spot on and a great thrower for me, in palm and in soy. So I just kind of stick with TCS's now :)

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58 minutes ago, kandlekrazy said:

Oh heck yeah!  Some of my best blends come to me during the night, usually I wake up with one in my head.  Hardly ever actually sell the blends either, just keep them for me.  I'm going to try the pink sugar blends suggested here. 

Same here, those blends sound great ?

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17 minutes ago, moonshine said:

I use JS- best one for my wax (415) I have found but I'm going to get in on that co-op of TallTayls when it's available 

See, now you have me itching to try JS's Pink Sugar, lol. I just placed an order of two oils with them and I love them soooo much, I have been plotting another order since. Any other recs from JS ? :)

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15 minutes ago, moonshine said:

I use JS- best one for my wax (415) I have found but I'm going to get in on that co-op of TallTayls when it's available 

Have you tried Indianas , it's pretty good ? did you get a sniffie of TT Pink Sugar or are you just going for it ? How much a lb ?

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Just now, WaxingPoetic said:

See, now you have me itching to try JS's Pink Sugar, lol. I just placed an order of two oils with them and I love them soooo much, I have been plotting another order since. Any other recs from JS ? :)

Ok which 2 did you get that you like so much ??

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I love blending things. If I get a bunch of samples and some are 'less than', I'll try to come up with mixtures to salvage them. It sometimes works. :) 

 

I also will mix samples of the same type together. Vanillas, lavenders thus far. I'm a hobbyist and don't need to find that perfect or consistent vanilla (etc) to please customers, so it works for me.

 

I love making 'blossom' scents. Lemon blossom, orange blossom, cherry, peach....   I use whatever fruit scent I have, then mix it with that inexpensive, overstock 'wildflower' that Aztec is selling. I quite like that. And the blends that I get are quite nice.

 

I did try blending a bourbon scent with wildflower and hated it. It's not horrible, but I just don't like booze scents. The silk purse did not emerge from the sow's ear.  I have a friend with no sense of smell. She burns candles and will like the color, lol.

 

I also like blending conifer scents. 'Bayberry', cedar, various firs. They all seem to go together well and I love 'em. 

 

I also like to add peach to things. I love my 'peach waffle' scent. :)

 

Lemon is a good mixer too. I made a delectable 'white peach' from peach/lemon/wildflower. 2:1:2.  Very appealing.  

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9 minutes ago, Incendia said:

I love blending things. If I get a bunch of samples and some are 'less than', I'll try to come up with mixtures to salvage them. It sometimes works. :) 

 

I also will mix samples of the same type together. Vanillas, lavenders thus far. I'm a hobbyist and don't need to find that perfect or consistent vanilla (etc) to please customers, so it works for me.

 

I love making 'blossom' scents. Lemon blossom, orange blossom, cherry, peach....   I use whatever fruit scent I have, then mix it with that inexpensive, overstock 'wildflower' that Aztec is selling. I quite like that. And the blends that I get are quite nice.

 

I did try blending a bourbon scent with wildflower and hated it. It's not horrible, but I just don't like booze scents. The silk purse did not emerge from the sow's ear.  I have a friend with no sense of smell. She burns candles and will like the color, lol.

 

I also like blending conifer scents. 'Bayberry', cedar, various firs. They all seem to go together well and I love 'em. 

 

I also like to add peach to things. I love my 'peach waffle' scent. :)

 

Lemon is a good mixer too. I made a delectable 'white peach' from peach/lemon/wildflower. 2:1:2.  Very appealing.  

The peach waffle sounds great !

so does the lemon ? wildflower which lemon and wildflower did you try? 

Your good at this ?

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24 minutes ago, Incendia said:

I love blending things. If I get a bunch of samples and some are 'less than', I'll try to come up with mixtures to salvage them. It sometimes works. :) 

 

I also will mix samples of the same type together. Vanillas, lavenders thus far. I'm a hobbyist and don't need to find that perfect or consistent vanilla (etc) to please customers, so it works for me.

 

I love making 'blossom' scents. Lemon blossom, orange blossom, cherry, peach....   I use whatever fruit scent I have, then mix it with that inexpensive, overstock 'wildflower' that Aztec is selling. I quite like that. And the blends that I get are quite nice.

 

I did try blending a bourbon scent with wildflower and hated it. It's not horrible, but I just don't like booze scents. The silk purse did not emerge from the sow's ear.  I have a friend with no sense of smell. She burns candles and will like the color, lol.

 

I also like blending conifer scents. 'Bayberry', cedar, various firs. They all seem to go together well and I love 'em. 

 

I also like to add peach to things. I love my 'peach waffle' scent. :)

 

Lemon is a good mixer too. I made a delectable 'white peach' from peach/lemon/wildflower. 2:1:2.  Very appealing.  

Peach Waffle sounds decadent !! Lemon definitely is a great mixer, if you love sweet scents, blend a lemon curd oil with WSP Cake Batter Ice cream and Daystar's Marshmallow Fluff....lemony heaven, I swear....

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2 minutes ago, Moonstar said:

how is blue cotton candy different from a regular one ?

It has a slight blue raspberry/ grape note....my brother was amazed when I had him sniff it, he was like ' You know, I wouldn't think that there was a difference, but this does really smell more like blue cotton candy ' lol.

 

I plan on layering it in a candle and melts with regular cotton candy soon

 

 

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1 hour ago, Moonstar said:

The peach waffle sounds great !

so does the lemon ? wildflower which lemon and wildflower did you try? 

Your good at this ?

 

Thanks. :)

I do like the toned-down 'peach waffle'. The Full Waffle is a bit too intense for my naïve sense of smell.

 

For the 'white peach', I used Flaming's Lemon Verbena (nice and clean and lemony) and the wildflower is the Aztec 'Wildflower' in their close-out section. A good deal at $20 for 2 pounds, plus shipping.

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22 hours ago, WaxingPoetic said:

I have only tried two, to be honest. WSP, which I do not recommend, smells nothing like Pink Sugar. 

 

And The Candle Source, which is spot on and a great thrower for me, in palm and in soy. So I just kind of stick with TCS's now :)

 I don't want to sabotage this post, but I just saw the prices for TCS FOs and they're so inexpensive! Would anyone mind sharing their favorite oils from them? 

I also need a coconut. 

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On 3/5/2017 at 1:59 PM, WaxingPoetic said:

The biggest joy of candle making for me is blending scents. It is a passion of mine...but sometimes, I actually drive myself insane with it, lol.

 

My brain is always in ' blend, blend, blend ' mode and even if I am trying to relax, it always seems to be working overtime and involuntarily spitting out ideas at me.

 

I actually had a dream last night that I was blending like 35% Pink Sugar and 65% Vanilla Voodoo ( yes, I was measuring it out on my little scale in my dream lol ) and just poured it and it does smell amazing ! Can't wait for it to cure !

 

But geez...sometimes I wish I could switch it off and relax...is anyone else like this, or am I completely insane ??? 

Oh, and yes. All of this. All. The. Time. Let me know if you need an intervention. 

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23 hours ago, WaxingPoetic said:

Peach Waffle sounds decadent !! Lemon definitely is a great mixer, if you love sweet scents, blend a lemon curd oil with WSP Cake Batter Ice cream and Daystar's Marshmallow Fluff....lemony heaven, I swear....

Oh my goodness sounds relish lol ! what ratios do you use ? 

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2 hours ago, glasllyn said:

 I don't want to sabotage this post, but I just saw the prices for TCS FOs and they're so inexpensive! Would anyone mind sharing their favorite oils from them? 

I also need a coconut. 

Try coconut cream from the chemistry store - vanilla cream is also good :) 

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