mzpickles

Just Scents has my favorite Mulled Wine scent, most others are heavy in clove which I personally don't like, Just Scents is spicy, but not clovey.

By "feeling the herb smell" do you mean you want it to burn your nose hairs? For instance, like when people with colds use menthol or eucalyptus in steam diffusers to help clear their airways? And what specific herb do you mean? There are lots of different herbs that are available in fragrance oils for candle making.

OMG Yes! Also the TCS Lavender.

You're welcome! I've smelled a sample (haven't used it yet) and it's wonderful oob!

Elements has a Coco-Beach Baby FO. Description from their website: **AKA Coconut Milk & Peaches** Uplifting blend of juicy ripe peaches and fresh coconut with hints of sweet milk... absolutely incredible summer scent that everyone seems to love!

Yes to this, and Bert's!

Fillmore has a Cinnamon Cider that is excellent, but I've also had good results with Lonestar's Spiced Apple so you might want to stick with what you have!

My #1 personal preference from them is Vanilla Grapefruit.

Do you add cinnamon to make it a snickerdoodle scent? Or anything else?

You have a lipstick addiction too? I buy the same color over & over except in different brands!

I went through my 1 oz samples a few years back and mixed together similar scents, like all apple cinnamon types, various pumpkin types, etc. Turns out when I tested the mixes many of them threw better for me than the individual fo's did!

Since the Fragrance Finder website appears to be gone it's probably going to be hard to find an exact BBW dupe with so many suppliers (see list pinned at the top of this forum). If you can find a ginger fo and a cardamom fo you might try blending your own. Good luck!

I use q-tips and small candle jars that I've used for testers. I also try to make sure they get a small amount of heat, either on the back of the stove or in the sun so the oils volatilize.

I'm also happy to hear good things about Fillmore's Tomato Garden. CS also has a new Tomato Leaf fragrance oil, has anyone tried that yet?

I haven't delved into the B & B market so yes, I would probably prefer a candle only FO on the assumption it would perform better in wax.

Did you do a Fragrance board search for "gold canyon"? I remember reading threads about other people looking for GC dupes. There also was a member that had sold Gold Canyon (I think) and still had her samples, she used those to compare to other fo's and it seems like she'd posted all of the dupes she'd found. You could also check the Fragrance Twins post pinned to the top of the forum, I haven't looked there but maybe someone posted something that's a twin.

You didn't say what type of product you want to use this oil for. I was just browsing Candle Soylutions website and they have a YC Balsam & Cedar type fragrance oil. I've had really good luck with their oils in my candles.

WSP has a YC Balsam & Cedar dupe. I've found their dupes of BBW scents to be spot-on but I haven't tried this one. Unfortunately it's oos until 12/9.

I *think* I used BCS's Whipped Cream (now available at BCN). Unfortunately in a cleaning frenzy for the holiday I've managed to hide my candle notebook from myself.

I second Peaks coffee. I use it a lot in blends.

I have a sample of this but I haven't put it in wax yet. Oob it's definitely a patchouli/vanilla mix, smells nice but no idea how it will perform in wax.

Your post made me chuckle, I feel like a mad scientist at times also! If you worry about using up your oils on potential mix disasters then try the q-tip test. This saved me so much money because I only had to wet the q-tips instead of using up larger volumes of expensive oils in blends that didn't work out. Tell your wife if she has an idea for a blend to dip a q-tip in each of the oils in the projected blend, I don't know what proportions she blended the oils for the German Chocolate Cake, let's say it was 1:1:1:1 of the four oils. Use one q-tip for each of the four oils and put them in a jar with the lid on. Open the jar later after the fo's have had a chance to blend, if the mix isn't right to your nose then add an extra q-tip dipped in the scent that doesn't seem strong enough. For example, if you can't smell the coconut add another q-tip of coconut. Now your blend is 2:1:1:1. Keep adding q-tips with oils until it smells the way you want it to and then blend the oils in those proportions in a larger bottle. My most complicated experiment was trying to duplicate a Starbucks holiday drink, I think it was a pumpkin vanilla latte or something similar, the coffee over powered everything else so it took many additions of pumpkin, vanilla, etc. until I had it right. Good luck blending, it's a lot of fun!

Scented, most Baked Apple scents don't have a crust smell to them, I had a sample of this RE Baked Apple and I ended up blending it with multiple Baked Apple samples, the blend smells great and throws well, but I don't know how much of that I can attribute to the RE Baked Apple. I should get some more and try it on its own!

Apple cider scents are my all time favorites so I've been on a search for the perfect one since Bert went out of business. Tennessee's smelled like Bert's oob but didn't throw as well for me in my wax. Fillmore has a Cinnamon Cider that smells right but I haven't put it in wax yet. The sleeper surprise winner for me was Spiced Apple from Lone Star. Smells just like what I was looking for and threw like crazy in my wax. I'd had a 1 oz sample of it for a while and although I had dozen's of samples of similar scents from multiple vendors that I had combined a couple of years ago, I kept the Lone Star sample out of the mix and I was happy I did!