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Can anyone suggest a good dupe for this?

Fragrance buddy said they were on their fb page. Said Thursday it starts. But I have no idea what it is.

Does anyone know fragrance buddies sake yet? Every time I try to confirm my newsletter subscription it gives me an error. So not sure if ones been emailed yet.

Lol same! I honestly wasn’t going to order then I looked closer and seen the “view in full site”

Yeah I switched to full site view and can see them but it doesn’t show on mobile.

Why does it irritate me so much that there is no fragrance descriptions..... 😩

How are their oils? I don’t remember them years ago when I used to make. So my curiosity is peaked, I keep hearing them mentioned.

Great info!

I’ll be ordering from here soon and wanted to see what you all love, like, hate from here.

Looking for a great cappuccino on its own and a great mixer. I got a peppermint cappuccino scent in melts that I really like and would like to make my own. Already got a candy cane so just need a good cappuccino.

Okay so I have a scent from Gloria aka sockmonkey who used to be on here and sold FO. I have one that is my favorite and I have no idea where she got it from or it’s namd anywhere else. Looking for someone who’s really good at scents and I could send a melt to and hopefully get an idea of what scents are in it. It’s an abnormal scent for me to like so im completely clueless as to what scents make it up. I figure maybe I can get an idea of what it is or someone may know of a very similar scent. Figured I’d try this before I send a sample out to be duped. I don’t know floral or herbal or ozone type scents so need someone more experienced with those. 🤞🏼🤞🏼

Have you tried NGs? It’s the strongest I’ve tried. Although I didn’t try many cuz that was one of my first few orders and loved it so no need to continue the search at that point.

I used to watch hauls for grumpy girl. Anyone remember her from here? Now I’m interested in seeing the video of the oozing oil 😂 I may have to go searching lol

I always used NG cinnamon red hot. It was a best seller for me. It was exactly like a atomic fireball. Very little sweetness but a whole lot of nose burning hot cinnamon. Unfortunately after a not so fun night of drinking a bottle of aftershock to myself and paying a dear price I can no longer smell cinnamon without water rising in my throat. Which sucks cuz cinnamon was always my favorite gum/candy. 😂

They definitely cool a heck of a lot quicker than the pure soy. And I live in PA so this time of year it’s not very warm and will just get worse lol I don’t have a presto pot yet. The last time I came back and played with wax and soap for a bit they were just starting to come out and be popular. But thinking about buying an 8# with the spigot already attached. I have a gas stove/oven. Wondering if maybe after I pour I put the sheet in the oven to help them cool slower. 🤔 I’ll try that with a batch tomorrow. I have a few more scents to make in the blend so I can have a few family members test the 415 then the blend in the same scents. I’m still shaking my head on why the hell I decided to try a different wax, I now remember how much a pain in the butt it is testing different waxes. But at least I’m just doing melts and not candles again too. Lol

My dips

So I figured I’d just make 1 thread throughout my testing process to better keep track and possibly help future chandlers.. so first off a parasoy blend compared to 415 soy is SOOOO different. 😱 so my technic has always been heating with a double boiler with a candy thermometer, bringing wax up to temp and pouring into a large Pyrex glass measuring bowl. Soy has such a lower melt point I’ve never had an issue. My first attempt tonight I poured into the room temp Pyrex and immediately clouded and the wax started hardening on the sides. Stirring helped some but I think the shock just cooled it down to quickly. So I removed the top of the dbl boiler and inserted the Pyrex dish into the hot water to bring the wax temp back up. Then removed it and added the FO which immediately clumped into cloudiness. Stirred and it dissolved. Waited a couple minutes and poured into 1 oz portion cups. This was also a 1/2 pound test batch scented with TFC bourbon butterscotch (Yum!) so next batch i decided to do 1 pound to see if it would be easier to work with. Did the same steps above but while melting the wax I kept the Pyrex dish beside the dbl boiler to help keep it warm. Pouring in seemed better, no cloudiness and a very thin wax hardening line at the top. Let cool for a couple minutes and added FO. It clouded immediately but stirred and dissolved. Then I poured into the portion cups. Both times as I poured the wax would start to film up as I poured so at the end I’d pop it in the microwave for 30 seconds to melt down the film and pour half a portion cup. Then used hot water, dawn and washcloth to clean up. But it is a lot messier than pure soy. I wasn’t expecting that for some reason. So a few things that I’ll have to change up to where the temp doesn’t drop so quickly pouring from one to another. Pretty different than soy. I don’t have as much wait time so I have to be quicker and I wasn’t expecting that. Lol melted to 185, added FO around 175, the last batch I poured around 150 and I have decent dips in the portion cups. Not sure if I just poured too hot but not sure I wanna pour cooler of half the pour pot may be hard by then. 😂😂 the struggle is definitely real here tonight. But FYI for anyone who’s made it through my short story here, TFC bourbon butterscotch smells pretty darn good and I can’t wait to test burn it! And now now I totally thinking about doing a few test mixes of 50% 650 and 50% 415 🤷🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

Oh yeah. I’ve always used their FO. I used to get 90% of them from them. I just got my 10# of 650 from the flaming candle today to test to compare to 415 (always used this) I just wasn’t sure if someone knew for sure about the pillar of bliss. If I end up liking the 650 more and stick with it I’ll probably just continue ordering from TFC. Even if I pay a little more for shipping. I despise testing so if I can skip it and pay just a few more dollars I’m cool with that! 😂

A 5 year later bump... still trying to figure out this scent 😬

I still can’t get the search tab to be iPhone friendly. And the searches I have been able to see don’t bring up much about 650 on its own just comparing it to Ky tart/votive wax. But I haven’t found anything about it being compared to NGs pillar of bliss. NG is close to me and ships in 1 day and has cheaper shipping so one can hope, right?! So does anyone know for sure?

I used to get homes if I poured too quickly so that could also be an issue.

Brambleberry has a chocolate orange truffle. As for the sponge candy you may have to mix your own.

So international wax plant is here in my hometown. Years ago I contacted them when I wanted to try some of their blends (6006) but they told me that they’d only sell to me if I ordered by the pallet load. 🤦🏼‍♀️ Sucks that I’d have to pay to ship 10 pounds or a case to try when they make it less than a mile from my house. 😩 im thinking about taking a trip to the office there. By brother in law works there and says he sees someone come in and get boxes of wax here n there. 🤔 titusville, pa.....

Just an FYI dawn is really good to kill fleas as well. 🤪 but seriously I use dawn for all my equipment clean up. The only other thing that I would suggest especially for men is keeping a bar of lava soap around 🙂