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Wax: GW415 soy + beeswax Type: Melts/tarts Cure Time: 1-2 weeks No additives Has a mild CT and I thought a really light HT, but there are customers who love it. This might do better in a stronger concentration or other products. The pear is light, but sweet, stronger on the vanilla/cream note. This might do really well in a blend with something stronger to give it a good kick. In a small room it does really well on its own.

Wax: GW415 soy + beeswax Type: Melts/tarts Cure Time: 1-2 weeks No additives I've tried a lot of dragonfruit scents, and they always come out weak. This is the exeception. Just made tarts with this and even with only 1 day in the cure corner it has amazing CT. OOB it was strong too. I have high hopes for this on HT, it has the right kind of fruit notes that tend to throw well and carry. If you've given up on dragonfruit scents, give this one a shot.

Does anyone have a good blend for a Cinnamint? Had a customer request a Scentsy dupe, so I tried SOS's version but it's really weak. I decided to try blending my own but I'm not a natural at this blending thing. Hoping that someone might have a good nose for this or an existing blend they like. I thought of trying RE's Celtic MoonSpice and a little bit of Peppermint and a little bit of Wintergreen, but after I bombed so bad on trying a coconut mint blend (made me gag) I'm afraid to shoot from the hip again. Any advice is much appreciated!

My biggest concern with the mergers was that they'd start dumping some of the JS and RE scents, and they did. Right away. Even though the JS Aveda dupes were more expensive, the quality was worth it. Shampure flies off the shelves for me, and I didn't want to compromise on that. I finally ran low on Rosemary Mint and went to get another bottle and poof, it was just gone from the JS catalog. My heart sank. No warning, no clearance, no sale, just GONE. Yeah it's nice that the WSP site allows you to search by company but doesn't that look weird to everyone, having 4 different brands in the same shop and some of them carry the same scents? IMHO their catalog is a MESS now, and the timing for fulfillment and shipping sucks. RE was one of the very first companies I started buying from, and while their shipping costs were higher, the customer service was top-notch. I never had to wait a week to have an order processed. Now it takes 2-3 weeks. I saw the collective groan out here when RE sold. They both carry exclusives I'm afraid to see go. I can't help but think of the employees out of their jobs too. Good news though is there are a lot more newer carriers popping up. I live in the Omaha, NE area and always complained we didn't have anything within driving distance. Finally someone opened a shop out here. There's nothing like being able to walk into a place and get your stuff in real time, smell oils before buying and being able to grab emergency clamshells or beeswax in a day, not get stuck waiting in some insane queue. I was so jealous of everyone working with a local supplier. I suppose one good thing came out of the merger....free shipping!

Used in wax melts and home-made spray perfume (20-25% fragrance oil, 75-80% Everclear) also blend with Pure Seduction. Second that, it's a great dupe. It really comes alive in blends. This seems to be a thicker oil than the other fragrances. I used to mix the VS versions of Pure Seduction and Vanilla Lace perfumes, and honestly the FO's smell about the same. Tends to melt light in tarts though. So far all the customers I've had that buy it say it's a dead-ringer for the original VS perfume.

Wax Type: GW415 soy + beeswax blend Type: Melts Cure Time: 1 week CT: Great HT: Even Greater No additives This is the Bath & Body Works dupe, and it's ON POINT. Used to hoard the plug-ins for it, my favorite Fall scent. Eucalyptus, Fir, Gala Apple and Fig. This is the ONLY place I could find it after looking for years. If you like the BBW version you gotta get this. The throw is great and it lasts for days. Carries really well also. The fir and eucalyptus are really off-set by the apple, just an all around gorgeous scent that's a little different from the other fall scents, doesn't have the spice note to it and the apple isn't really obviously "apple" if you know what I mean.

Wax: GW415 soy + beeswax blend Type: Melts Cure Time: 1 week CT: Light HT: Medium-ish Although this tends to throw on the lighter side, it's the most popular tobacco scent I sell. It's the only tobacco scent CM carries that actually performs, in my experience. Nice earthy scent, well-balanced and smells just like the name. The tobacco isn't overly sweet, and the patchouli isn't overpowering.

Wax: GW415 soy + beeswax blend Type: Melts Cure Time: 1 week CT: Good HT: Fantastic I have a lot of complaints about Candlemaker's Store scents being weak, but this is a happy exception. Best way to describe this is green with aquatic notes. One of my best consistent sellers I put in the "spa/clean" category. Very refreshing.

Wax used: GW415 soy - Wax Melts/Tarts Fragrance load (%): 10% Cure time: 7 days Cold throw: Good Hot Throw: Excellent This has to be one of the most underrated scents I've come across. It's AWESOME! Hot throw is amazing and it lasts for days in wax melts. I struggle with a lot of scents in my space, but this one does fantastic. Even people who don't think they would like it end up loving it.

Patchouli Passion - It's a nice enough scent, more of a perfume type, but it's a little milder than most of the patchouli types I've tried. Not so in-your-face, kind of level with Vanilla Patchouli.

What is it with coconut scents? It seems every one that I've tried is weak or has a funky fake/metallic tone to it. Caribbean Coconut from Indigo is the only one I've been impressed by. I'm anxious to try the Coconut Bay - wasn't that a Yankee Candle scent?

Just found the site when looking for a specific scent, and I was curious if anyone has tried them out yet? They're not on the review list. Website is newyorkscent.com

I struggled with this too and I think Maple Street Candle's version is spot on. It actually has a hot throw in candles.

I didn't think about the carnation - thank you for that! That's a great suggestion. I'm using a chart that lists all the florals and herbs/spices that are associated with gemstones. Kind of like how months and signs of the zodiac have stones & flowers known as your birth flower or birthstone. I know it's not really commonly known that stones have associations too, but they do. So that's what I'm trying to stick to. Some are easy to work with, but others are just blech. That's why I realized I was going to have to add things that aren't in there to make a fragrance smell less like a science experiment and more like a real fragrance you'd like to have in your home. I'm sticking to fragrance oils that I can blend easily, but I did pick up some key notes that might help I'm just not good at knowing which key notes to add to what type of scents. This is getting way more complicated than I wanted it to! I will definitely check out the link and do some more research. Thank you!

They're hitting up people on tags? That's just mean. If you put a tag for pink sugar on a product that isn't named pink sugar, that seems kind of overreaching for them to ding you on it. Well it's Etsy. I heard they were getting really gestapo-ish for new sellers. They're finding new fees to stick us with too. It seems so counterproductive; you're just going to drive off your sellers, and if we've learned anything with this cancel culture, when you drive people away they will go out and build their own platforms/sites and realize they're better off without you. I was hoping Gab's new marketplace was going to be a competitor for platforms like eBay and Etsy, but it's nothing like them. I guess it's something to try, but I can't see it really working out for the kind of stuff we do especially if you have a lot of product to move. TallTayl did have a good suggestion by using "inspired by" especially in the header, because no one reads descriptions in the listings. Best of luck to you! And don't worry, if they do come at you with a copyright infringement thing, it's just a warning message and they deactivate your listing that you can't reactivate, so all you have to do is make a new listing with a different name. You're not going to get fined or sued or anything.