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LOVE the font! Thank you! I will play around with this and see what we get.

Hmmmm.....it's good to know I am not totally nuts. But yikes! I have no idea where to begin with the branding. I usually create my own labels but designing the right label for this might be beyond my capabilities.

I know that sounds odd. Our primary business is lodging in a tourist area of WV. I sell soap, candles and clamshells in our office/store. I currently have a standard product line, and I just mix it up by adding a few seasonal scents. I do not sell high volume. A dozen or so of each product per week, usually, and I have 20 or so customers who place big orders several times per year. Mostly my products are sold to men who want to take home a souvenir for their wife/mother/girlfriend that isn't a typical tourist issue t-shirt. I sell just enough to keep me in product for free, basically. Fuel for the addiction, so to speak. With that in mind, I was thinking that maybe I'm going about it wrong. Instead of offering 10-12 scents at any one given time, maybe I should just cut back to one, and make that one our signature scent. Since we are in WV, and people tend to want something that is regional when buying a souvenir, I thought of making that signature scent Apple Pie Moonshine. I choose that one because half the people we see for the first time ask where they can go buy some 'shine. Apparently there's an association there. I don't know. I'm not a drinker. It just so happens that I have the perfect fragrance for Apple Pie Moonshine, it's a powerhouse performer, and it has wide appeal. I thought I could revamp my standard label, take my candle company name off and create a label that has our main business name....I don't know the specifics really. Just make it "our" candle/scent. I think it would sell better to those men that are buying them for the ladies back home. Souvenirs are about where you've been, right, so it makes sense in my mind, Kinda. I'm mulling it over and looking for any thoughts, ideas? Thanks!

moonshine, have you tried Candlewic's Mulberry Spice? I've been looking at it, but haven't pulled the trigger yet. The description leads me to believe it may not be overly sweet, but I don't know. A commanding fragrance with deep luscious combinations of mulberry, apple and black currants with rich mulled spices.

I remember the post, but I couldn't find it either. I got a bunch of the purple ones at a closeout store ($3.99 per box....yay!). I purchased silver one piece lids for them. Since I only have purple, I didn't try to coordinate scent to jar color. I poured my normal holiday scents.....Snickerdoodle, Fraser Fir, Mistletoe, Cranberry Citrus, etc. Some other suggestions..... blue: mint, ozone, blueberry scents purple: berry scents, frank. & myrrh, sugarplum, wine green: anything pine, woodsy, apple

Consensus seems to be all over the place, but in my experience, anything less than 1 week is not enough. Two weeks is ideal. Obviously, the throw is a concern, but another concern is the way the candle burns. I have noticed a significant change in the way a 6006 candle burns at the 2-3 day mark versus the 1 week or 2 week mark. When I first started working with this wax, I got so disgusted. I thought it was a temperamental wax that was a pain to wick. One wick was too small but the next size up was too big. I just couldn't get a handle on it. I had a lot of candles stored on a shelf waiting to be melted down that didn't pass the initial burn test. Before melting, I lit a couple, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that what didn't cut it on the first burn was perfect after a longer cure. It proved to be true for many of them. I still get impatient and burn too soon sometimes, but I learned not to really judge the performance until the 2 week mark. It's a pain to have to wait, but it saves a lot of time in the long run.

Wowza! Now I know what to do with all those 1 oz'ers I've collected and all those glass boston rounds I've held onto. Time to conduct a blend-o-rama! Thanks, Puma!

I use 6006, and 60z usually works in these jars. If you have to double wick, I would use 36-24's.

I just use city, state, and phone number. Probably wrong on on levels. What really grinds my gears is people that use the container size as their net wt.

I'd say Blue Spruce is a pretty solid performer. I've been using it a long time. I use 6006 now, but I've used this is 464 and 4630 with good results. How much FO are you using?. .

Lovely labels!

I'm not great at blends, so I can't offer much help there. Snickerdoodle from CS is a great cookie scent. I'm adding it for my cookie scent this year. Super duper throw. Cranberry scents are nice. I am using Cranberry Citrus Peel from Aztec. Also has great throw. Apple Maple Bourbon from CS is great, and screams fall/winter to me, plus sells like gangbusters. Christmas Hearth is fantastic. Here's another vote for that one.

You have a beautiful helper. She looks like a natural!

I also really like Coriander & Tonka. It's heady, that's for sure. Not for the faint of heart...LOL. I don't sell a whole lot of it, but I think I would if I could figure out a good name for it.

Seems like I am seeing this all over lately. Or maybe I've just started paying attention. I dunno. It rattles my nerves. Is this FMP business some kind of right of passage? Where does this come from? The candles I buy in stores don't reach a FMP in the first burn. Well, those hot as hades (I won't mention a brand but I have one in mind) 3 wick jobs do, but most don't. Who came up with this craziness? Fifteen times a day somewhere on the internet someone will post a pic of a great burning candle asking "how does this look?" I'll look at it and say "looks good so far, burn it til the end..." and 29 other people will come behind me screaming "you need to wick up...you should have a full melt pool in 16.8 seconds," or some such BS as that. All the time I'm thinking " somewhere there's a house burning....." P.S. I'm aware that the original post is old, but dang. My patience is thin tonight.

Don't worry about the top of the jar. Wick for the bottom of the jar. Since a jelly jar tapers, you'll want some hangup at the top. It will melt off as your candle burns further down. If you have a full melt pool early, your jar will be too hot further down the jar. I used Premier wicks in 464, and they worked really well in that wax. Good luck!

I was thinking about ordering this anyway, since they said they have several hundred #'s they'll be selling at the intro price, and several people did say it was a nice scent. But if OldGlory can't make it work, I know I sure as heck can't, so I think I'll pass.

They just posted this on FB: Cinnamon Sugared Doughnuts - Test Results in 464 wax (not a typical tart wax) 24 hours after poured The problem seems to be two things. First, heat seems to be a factor with this fragrance. We recommend with any fragrance to get your wax to around 165-170F before adding fragrance. Mixing at lower temperatures did not allow the fragrance to blend with the wax. Stirring - This fragrance took a good 30+ second of stirring to get nice and blended. We did not add color so it was easy for us to tell when it was blended. My best guess is most added color before blending the fragrance which is fine, but didn't notice that it wasn't fully mixed. Both our 10% and 6% fragrance load by weight had no problems with separation currently. We also did a few days ago an 8% load in the AAK 94 tart wax which has done great as well. That being said, we are going to have them tweak this fragrance to make it easier to blend, but I believe as long as you mix the fragrance in well and have the proper temperature it should blend find. Even with fragrance loads of 10% the fragrance in our testing did blend fine with no separation. We have several hundred pounds of the current formulation coming in today and I will put it back at the intro price until it is gone. Once it is all gone we will switch over to a new formulation which the manufacturer is working on today. Let us know if you have any questions and we will be happy to help.

Just an FYI.....if any arrive broken, just go through the contact link on the DT website and enter your info, and they will refund you for the broken jars..

First burn results. I should note....all of these have been burning too long....about 5-6 hours. My palm + premier wick is doing well. May be slightly under wicked with the 777 in a status jar, a little more hangup on one side than I like, but we'll see how she goes. HT is light, but that is most likely the FO (Havana...it's light in 6006 too), not the wick. I'll pour another and use 780, but I have a feeling 777 is gonna be the ticket. Definitely like this better than the RRD. Premier 777 with 6006 in status jar, looks pretty good. Sweet Pumpkin FO from RE. HT is comparable to what I got out of 51z. I think she'll do. I'll try 780 on the off-chance, but I think 777 is the one. Got a big 'shroom though. Not happy with that. RRD 34 in 8oz square mason with 6006. Looks like this one is underwicked. Santa's Pipe (WSP) FO. HT is great, but this is a strong one anyway. I usually have to wick up with this FO, but the candle hasn't really cured long enough to be an effective test. I was just impatient to give it a whirl. I'll sit this one to the side and burn it again in a few days. Oh, I forgot to add.....NO MUSHROOM. I'm shocked by that.

Today has turned into a crazy day around here. I've got a palm candle burning with a Premier wick and a 6006 candle burning with an RRD wick. All the excitement must have gone to my head because I accidentally put Floral Muse FO into my whipped shea butter instead of the the orange FO I had intended, so now I have whipped shea butter that smells like chocolate flowers, and that's not good for anyone. The wick testing is showing promise though.

Oh gosh, I have tried everything to eliminate these holes. I've poured at every temp between 150 and 185. I warm my jars and insulate and cover, and no matter what, I get holes in about 75% of the 8oz masons I pour. I never get holes in status, apothecary or 16oz masons. It's the damnedest thing. I pour very few 8oz for this reason. I just poured 2 cases for a customer order and I noticed something....when I group the jars together to cool slower, the holes always form on the side touching another jar, right at the edge of the jar. Having them separate doesn't eliminate the holes, but they do form in a different spot. It's killing me. I'm doubling my work load with the repours I'm having to do. I'm glad you don't get them often, because I wouldn't wish this on anyone....LOL

I've only used them in palm, but I have a blue million of them. They burn hotter than zincs, and palm is....well, palm, so I never really even thought about trying them in 6006. I'm thinking 34's for mason jars, maybe ?? Hmmm... This is why I never get restocking done. I'm always pouring new stuff to test. LOL

I've kind of isolated this problem to my status jars with wooden lids. Candles poured in my mason jars, both 8oz and 16oz, have a bit better CT with this fragrance. I've sold a few. I am going to pour this FO in palm today and see what kind of CT I get with that. It's funny our different perceptions of a scent. What I like about this FO is that I catch a different scent depending on where I am in relation to the burning candle. The blueberry is dominant, as I've found with any blueberry blend, but as I burn the candle, I catch different notes at different times, and I like that. I'm not a huge fan of all the spice that is so prevalent in fall/winter scents, and this fragrance offers something different. I just love it. In order to keep grubby hands from opening all my clamshells, I pour each scent into portion cups that are labeled as sniffers. They sit on the shelf in front of the clams, and I tape the clams shut. I sell right many, so I don't think not being able to open the clamshell package has deterred too many potential customers. No matter what I do though, they want to open a candle. I think sales would be diminished if they couldn't. I guess that's because it's a bigger investment. My biggest complaint about 6006 is weak CT. Oh, and those darn holes I get when I pour into 8oz masons. Do you get those? If I could figure out a way to prevent those, life would be soooo much easier.

Halloween is NOT my thing, but those are AWESOME! You've got some mad skills! Excellent photos, as well. I am in awe!