Gypsyjen

Ginkgo & Ginseng

I haven't smelled the actual Beanpod, but I have the FO dupe from A Scent Shop and it's very unique & strong...wonderful!

I like the Frank & Fig...I already had a 1oz sample bottle of it. It's a very hard to describe fragrance, though. I didn't like it much at first, but it grew on me.

That's strange...I got an order today and it had the Hot Spiced Cocoa and Frankincense & Kadota Fig sniffies.

I've had very good results with Harvest from Bluegrass Candle Supply.

"Soy blend" to me means soy/paraffin blend. These blends will usually throw quite well, in my experience.

I've tried Sweetcakes World's Best Magnolia - It's really good.

I've used Kwa Luk Lichee Fruit from the Scent Works and it is outstanding in CP soap! Very strong & very yummy!

All right, due to popular demand...the supplier was Day-Star. The FO I purchased was originally a pre-buy, but I ordered it AFTER the pre-buy was over. However, they did not have it in stock yet (again, this was NOT mentioned on the website when I placed my order) so they charged me extra shipping to get the oil. She was not rude in her reply to my email but basically told me too bad if I didn't think the extra shipping charge was fair.

I hope someone else finds this info useful.

Congratulations! You should be able to order a copy from them, then you would have an issue in mint condition.

That stinks...I hope you are able to order those things you need elsewhere. The particular company I did business with is in Texas (another clue! LOL)

SOW, I didn't want to name the supplier because other members posting complaints have gotten crucified both by other members of the board and by the supplier coming on the thread and saying the member doesn't know what they're talking about, or they're full of crap, or they're impossible to please, etc. I'm the most non-confrontational person you can imagine and threads like that make me ill. Plus she wasn't flat out rude - in which case I definitely would've named the company. I just wanted to know what others would do if they were placed in a similar situation. I WILL say who it wasn't - Peak, Green Leaf, Just Scent, Candle Cocoon, A Scent Shop.

LOL As Top told me once, "Smells so good, it must be ASS!!!"

Yes, I think your suggestion is much better!

FNWL - From Nature With Love: www.fromnaturewithlove.com

Does anyone else think A Scent Shop should have a different acronym? You can use their old one SFS

Cedarwood Mint

Kwa Luk Lichee Fruit

Light Muscovado Sugar

Cannellini Ricci

All performed exceptionally well in CP, I would think CPOP would have the same results. I am getting Cannoli di Albicocca (their version of Vanille Abricot) in tomorrow and can't wait to try it!!

OK, I am officially done with this supplier. The email I got back stated that since this oil was a pre-buy, I basically should have known there would be a separate shipping charge. Well, I did not KNOW it was a pre-buy, the oil was listed under "What's New" with regular pricing, NOT pre-buy pricing. NOTHING mentioned on the page about it being a pre-buy!!! So, for a 2oz FO sample bottle, I have now paid $15.50.

I will PM the people who wanted to know which supplier this is, I don't want to put it here because I do not want the same thing happening to me as has happened to other members putting out supplier complaint threads.

I did email the supplier tonight to tell them I am NOT a happy camper about the extra shipping charge when they did not offer me the option of having everything shipped at once. I mean, if you do not carry something YET you should not offer it for sale on your website - right??

A couple of weeks ago I placed an order with a popular FO supplier for some oils. One of the oils I ordered was not yet in stock (this information was not indicated on their website, they were selling it like it was in-stock) yet I was charged for the out-of-stock (and VERY expensive) item at that time. A few days later I received my order and saw that I did not get the one oil. There was no invoice or anything included with the order so it actually took me a couple of days to realize it was missing. After I emailed them they indicated to me the oil was not yet in stock but would be shipped when it came in. OK, so I was a little peeved at not being notified of this until I contacted THEM, but all right.

~BUT NOW~

Today I received an email from them saying the oil was shipping to me. Attached was a Paypal invoice for a SEPARATE shipping charge for this oil! I think this was just WRONG of them to charge me to ship it separately when I had no indication at the time of placing the order, that the oil was not yet in stock! I went ahead and paid the shipping charge, but do not think I will be ordering from this supplier again. I am a little P.O.'d at this point.

Am I justified in feeling this, or do you all think this was a fair charge? :undecided

I wish I had the Angel type I'd do that for you, but I don't have ONE VS dupe.

Angel is not a VS fragrance. It is a perfume from designer Thierry Mugler. Sweetcakes has a good dupe, they actually have 2 different ones - 1 of which is very expensive because they use many of the same ingredients as the real thing.

The one that comes to mind is Lavender & Herbs, which is too bad because I REALLY wanted that one to work. Also Stress Relief did not throw well, but the oil was old so that might have had something to do with it.

I've used many of their FO's in soy. I've only had a couple that DIDN'T have a kick-butt throw. My faves:

Stella McCartney type

Fracas type

True Rose

Country Christmas

Very, very pretty, Maryann!

I never used Grand Scentral but I know of the following:

http://scentreviewboard.obisoap.ca/index.php

Congratulations! You have chosen wisely, padwan. GL is by far the best company to deal with, and the 70/30 wax is very easy to work with.

I have to agree, it's very nice! It reminds me and another member of the perfume "Angel" - but it's not an exact dupe.

FYI, Green Leaf also sells container candle kits. I started out using soy and soy/veggie waxes, but parasoy burns so much nicer IMO.