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On 4/17/2022 at 6:39 PM, bfroberts said:

I'd like to say the same for dough bowls too.

Exactly my thoughts!

I thought the exact same thing when I got the email.

On 8/10/2021 at 12:49 PM, TallTayl said:

The web site is so outdated every bit of the shopping experience is frustrating. I live near enough that they usually choose speedy to ship but it is mystery $ shipping costs. 

Some great oils, but yes the website is absolutely horrendous to navigate through

$110 for a candle? WTF are we all doing wrong??!!! lol

On 4/25/2021 at 7:26 PM, franu61 said:

I have found that anything chocolate scented, has an after scent, that is reminiscent of butt juice.  My friend and I were trying different blending ideas once.  Put chocolate and patchouli together on qtips...was SOOOO gross.  We saved it for our "hippy" friend.  She loved it!  We still laugh about that cuz we both thought it smelled like "hippy butt".  Needless to say it never went in wax   

Agree. Anything chocolate smells like vomit to me. 

I'm going to walk a VERY thin line here....when they started to get political on their website, I started to look for alternate sources. 

I wish they had a video of the candle making process. 

Sad part is, people buy into that garbage

10 hours ago, Primkeep said:

Good Morning Everyone,

Fragrance buddy is currently closed due to damage from a hurricane, which is completely understandable, but I am in dire need of a few of their fragrances to fill some orders. Anyone know of any dupes of the following.
Sugar Cooke Royal

Amish Harvest

Buttered Maple Syrup

Spiced Cranberry

 

I tried community candles Amish Harvest although its a nice scent, its nothing like the one from Fragrance Buddy.

 

Any help would be appreciated it.

Their whole "lets go green, so we feel better about ourselves" has compromised a lot of their scents. 

All of our fairs have been cancelled, but our online sales have been through the roof. Very thankful for that. 

We've been looking ourselves. If you ever find out PLEASE let us know.

That's probably going to leave some soot on the sides of the jar, but like Forrest said, give it a month and that might solve the problem.

Who knows...it may even be more cost effective for them to send out at least a 1/2 sample like Bittercreek instead of that rose. We have never bought a fragrance because we liked the smell of the rose. Listen up Natures Garden, the rose does NOTHING for us. The best deal with freebies is Candle Wic. Free 1oz sample for every pound you buy. Too bad we don't use more from them.

Love Bittercreek, but they need to get their website updated. It's very difficult to navigate. Promo codes need to be added to the comment section? Come on Bittercreek get with it!

Shipping is always an issue. I don't even bother clicking the USPS option for shipping. I always get a phone call saying they can't ship a certain oil USPS....they should just eliminate that option as it seems to be a consistent problem. Also, it would be nice if we could get a free 1oz sample instead of a 1/2 oz sample. Not much you can do with a half ounce!  I guess the free half ounce is better than Nature Gardens silly scented rose! 

Yep, couple different pines and a couple other Christmas/winter types and that's it. Makes it easier for us and makes it easier for the customer to make a decision!

Good idea candybee. We have found as far as seasonal scents are concerned sometimes less is better. It's kind of funny, but sometimes the more choices a customer has, the less of a chance you have of them making  a purchase. It's called "choice overload" (google it). I can't tell you how many people have come up to our table at fairs and sniffed all the candles...loving all of them. Then say "oh my God, I can't decide...I'll be back". We cut back on how many different scents we bring to fairs and sales have increased. Some people suffer from paralysis when forced to make a buying decision and don't end up buying at all.

Yep, copycats everywhere. We had someone actually copy our "About us" on our website word for word, the only exception is they changed the hometown name. It was truly pathetic. We started doing festival shows, now they are doing festival shows. Copied all our price points, copied the look of our product. We don't consider them competition as they are a couple states away. Be original people!

Black Crow has done very well for themselves. I thought at one time someone said she was on this board. I know her name is Shirley Franzoni

Black Crow has some strong candles, but boy do those suckers smoke like a chimney

I found the Smoked Vanilla from Flaming smelled very similar to Cedarwood Vanilla from RE. We can't sell the cedarwood vanilla, so I don't have high expectations on the smoked vanilla!

2 hours ago, moonshine said:

I would guess it’s a CD, ECO or HTP wick and the soy could be anyone of the soys on the market - i agree with KK that it does look old - many soy will powder and become brittle like that after years of sitting 

it cant hurt to ask the Maker but also keep in mind if this is a old candle you won’t be able to replicate it with all the changes in soy now....they all seem to burn and throw very different now 

Thanks Moonshine! 

5 hours ago, kandlekrazy said:

Actually looks like the candle was dropped and broke in areas but you're saying it was already burned?  Looks filled to the rim as well?  Looks like my soy candles that were stashed for 3 years and dried out and then it fell off a table.

No, this was before it was burned. I have seen these candles by this candle maker before in shops around here and they always have the cracked and cratered  tops. I didn't know if there was a certain soy wax that always behaved like this. We have never worked with anything other than parasoy and a little 4630 starting out.

On 7/7/2018 at 12:12 PM, Jcandleattic said:

You are right, it's impossible to tell, as a lot of container soy wax will set like that. 

Is it a candle you bought, or were given? Maybe you can ask the maker, however, a lot of makers keep their formulas proprietary, and they may not tell you. 

The candle was given to me. The scent throw is absolutely amazing for a soy candle. We work with a parasoy wax and can't even get a throw like this wax/wick combo!

Hope someone may know the type of soy wax this could possibly be and type of wick? Probably next to impossible to tell the wax type from the picture but hoping the that the way it set (craters) after cooling might give a hint. 

Thank you!

Had this happen with a few Zinc wicks from Candlewic.