themerrywick

Hey guys! I have been testing my first batch of candles that I plan on selling to the public and am having inconsistent results on hot throw. I am using GB464 with 6% FO and while I have heard that people have issues with it having NO hot throw, I don't think that is the issue i am experiencing. I first started my tests in my office and was noticing that I wasn't getting a very strong hot throw, but I came to the conclusion that I was just getting a little nose blind. So I switched to testing in the bedroom which is larger. I left the candle burning in there, but wouldn't stay in the room with it the whole time, so I could walk in with a fresh nose and see if there was a decent hot throw. In most cases there was a good hot throw but only in certain sections of the room, I could walk a few feet to the left and not really smell it, but I could walk ten feet away and smell it from the hallway. This made me think it wasn't a scent throw radius problem but probably an air flow problem So then i started testing them in a bathroom with no windows and virtually no air flow and the scent fills up the whole bathroom and leaks into the hallway and sometimes I can even smell it in the living room down the hall. As someone who has never really sold any products before, i'm really concerned about pleasing the customer. I feel like at this point with different tests, I know that the candles have a good hot throw since they have the ability to be smelled pretty far away from the candle itself. However I am worried that since the strength and consistency of the throw was easily thrown off by basic air flow (no fans were on, no windows were open) that if a customer found themselves in a similar environment, that would be upset with the performance of the candle. I know I can't control the air in a customers house or where or how they use it, but i'm worried about getting negative feedback. Has anyone else had this problem? Am i doing something wrong and the hot throw shouldn't be so easily affected by general air flow, is it not actually ad strong as I think it is? Any feedback or advice is helpful, thank you!