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I'm checking out Bulk Apothecary now too, as they have the rock bottom lowest price on cinnamon sticks I've found, and I'm planning to use a bunch to glue around tins and give away. I kind of wonder if the FOs will do better as wickless, in part because you can use a slightly stronger concentration. But that's no help if they're expensive to begin with (might as well buy from my other favorite suppliers), and I'm interested not just in FOs but anything else you guys have tried. Are there more comments you all can make since the above? The lotion base sounds good but there's some shadiness going on there. When you read the reviews for the heel and foot cream, they're saying it's really the same as the basic lotion base. Hmmmmmm... https://www.bulkapothecary.com/massage-lotion/

Bumping in case there's more favorites you all can add now! I'm looking at getting tins there so of course got to at least consider some FOs too. I'm getting into wickless so even if you have some FOs you would not recommend with wicks maybe they do wonderfully in tarts and tins?

And I'm wondering if there is a place that has both? I've never purchased either online, and I was thinking of getting tins from Candles & Supplies and then wondered if there wasn't some supplier that would have both. If you know of any, please post it. Or if it's going to be impossible to get both at one place, where do you get quantities of cinnamon sticks and tins (if not C&S) from? I want to make some Christmas goodies by gluing the cinnamon sticks around tins, tying a ribbon with a bow around each, and filling the tin with scented wax to use on electric warmers. Do I need to try to keep the cinnamon sticks elevated a fraction of an inch or so up the sides of the tins, to keep them from coming in direct contact with the warmer plate? I'd rather put a little extra work into that if it makes it safer. Maybe I shouldn't have a fabric ribbon that close to an electric warmer either??? Also is there a particular glue that would stand up to heating like that? Not hot glue, as I figure it's liable to melt from the tine warming up.

The important question here is: what else did you order?

I guess it depends on how long you're considering, but every candle and bar of soap I've kept too long lost scent after a while. Lesson learned; I now control my shopping impulses and just don't allow myself to accumulate too much, because that was money wasted. Some may last a couple of years, but there's no way to know for sure how long, and different scents could have shorter shelf scent lives even if from the same supplier.

I have a ton and am trying to come up with a good use for them. Storage of small items is an obvious use, and I already took a bunch to the local dog shelter. I may drill holes in the bottoms and use them for container gardening with herbs on my back porch. Are there any other good purposes or crafts I could put these to?

The scent will dissipate at some point, but the FO oil is still in the wax and changing its composition and flashpoint. You can't re-use it with a different FO and expect it to act like it never had the original FO added to begin with. It may act OK and it may not. You can probably use it up in firestarters, though, or maybe tarts if the new FO doesn't make it too greasy and at least get some use out of it. It's just iffy as wicked candles again.

One thing I didn't note in my post above: when keeping up with paper like this in a planner, after a period of time I'll scan them as e-documents and save them on my computer. But for some reason it's just easier to keep everything in the forefront of my mind that I need to when it's on paper and I can flip through my binder book. But 2 years is probably enough of keeping that on hardcopy and then it's time to store it away.

My word. Youtube has evolved well beyond cat videos now, hasn't it? I have no idea what the heck a "mukbang" is. I mostly have a makeup video playing for entertainment when I'm getting ready for work in the a.m. It's mainly to have something kind of energizing going on like how people will have their TV on while getting ready. Or documentaries; I watch a lot of documentaries on weekends like someone mentioned in a post here the other day. Right now I'm trying to get through King Arthur's Britain (3 parts).

This is what I'm working on and was part of the impetus for my post about binders / office supplies. I have never found a ready-made planner that was exactly what I wanted, so I'm free-wheeling it. I print out calendar pages off the 'net if I feel I need them, and punch holes in them and other papers to save in the binder. I keep a spiral bound notebook in the rings of a binder and that's my scratch paper. If you get ones that are 3"-5" thick then you have room for the accessories such as pen pouches and other pockets. At the organization where I work, I keep a Winword document that I type notes in every single day of what I have going on, emails from people that I copy/paste in there, whatever. I start a new one each year, and it is MASSIVE by the end of the year. And also very handily searchable; if Jane Doe emails me and says "remember that file you made for me a few months back" blah blah, I use her name as search words in my document and usually find what I need really quickly. But if I had my own business I'd be doing the binder thing I mentioned above, which is very flexible and easily personalized. I already use it for finances in general and another for recipes in the kitchen, and I could see an expanded version of that working to keep my day-to-day business ideas and plans organized.

I just don't think of a "witch's potion" as fruity. Maybe incensey and woodsy and herbally and patchouli. Or even something with licorice or other candy, since witch's are supposed to attract children in the fairy tales*. Or maybe I'm too used to Yank's witches brew, which isn't fruity at all. *I loooooooooove to wear Lolita Lempicka for this time of year! It smells like licorice cotton candy.

I'm pretty sure that Joy dupe is the much older Jean Patou one. Thanks for the link! What all have you tried from them and would recommend? Or warn people away from? lol

"At first whiff, I was carried so close...almost there, to the citrus and some woodsy earthiness. Finally a fairy's spoon-full of sweetness. But now, wearing it, it's all BABY POWDER." That's a review of Dior Joy at Fragrantica. I tried it when ULTA but it disappeared unbelievably fast. It is a clean, soft, powdery scent that I like, but it is nowhere worth what they're charging for it. I really liked it; it's just not worth their designer price tag. So I went on Fragrantica to look for reviews and comments about others that smell similar and landed on that hilarious comment and thought that actually sounds kind of good! So can you think of any body-safe FOs that seem like that description above? It's too new for there to be a dupe FO around, but I may try to find a dupe of Chanel Allure which was said to be almost the same and has been around a while. If any of you have seen a dupe FO of that anywhere, I'd be all ears.

Sleeping Bag

I've never been big on smelling that in my candles so I don't think I even have any "vanilla cupcake" or "cafe latte" or whatever food scents the rest of you are big on. My faves all run to fresh outdoorsy and spa and clean stuff, or the muscle rub I mentioned the other day. Lemon is probably good, but I don't think I have a straight lemon or one that doesn't smell perfumey instead of foody. Even the Brown Sugar and Fig that I have very distinctly has a perfumey note that I wouldn't want in my kitchen. Now that I think about it there's probably a few pumpkin scents I have that would work, but still I think I want to explore some other ideas and use the pumpkin in the rest of the house. So what do you like if you make the sink scent cleaning thingies (citric acid + baking soda)? Even if you're going to say a bakery or food item go ahead and post it because someone else reading this might be interested in your suggestion. Or I might actually go buy some for a change.

Cozy Cabin? Cabin in the Woods? That gives the idea of being out in nature and giving a nod to that woodsy/fire undertone you mentioned.

Wow, I'd never heard of them before you mentioned them. They're nowhere to be found here.

All the mentions of nutmeg + ginger in this thread are making me want to mix that with orange....

Another discontinued favorite: ULTA's Fig & Honey bath products. Do any of you know of something similar? I'm sure I won't find exactly that but it would be nice to find an alternative. And speaking of fig, what other figgy FOs do you all like? I guess if I had to say goodbye to Fig & Honey forever I could actually be content with Brown Sugar & Fig. But what else is out there, since we're talking figs anyway?

Yay, thanks! ❤️

You get a gold star if you know who Cthulhu is. Yeah, @barbaranj but maybe kind of more general that works for the whole Fall season? Or heck, let's go for broke and get two! One Halloween for through October and then a general one for November and Thanksgiving? I sure am greedy for someone who doesn't have Photoshop to make my own, aren't I?

They discontinued that and it was one of the few non-Autumn scents I liked there. So I'm poking around for a dupe. Description from basenotes.net: Top Notes Strawberry, Goji Berries, Raspberry Heart Notes Gardenia Petals, Jasmine, Peach Nectar Base notes Coconut Musk, Vanilla, Sandalwood, White Amber

Heck yeah, the creative geniuses on here would I'm sure come up with something great! I don't have Photoshop or whatever software to create anything, though. How about something with mums, haystacks, bats, spiders, birdies and Cthulhu?

Just wondering

I read that link @ScentedPleasurez mentioned and figured that was just bath bombs. I make some sink scent and scrub stuff that's pretty much the same. I think I'll first try spraying some FO on a washcloth and let it hang out nearby.