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Well, finally got my order last Friday, after I was promised it would be mailed out last Monday! This is from Eastern Ohio to Central Indiana. It was mailed in a thin cardboard USPS mailing envelope with NO padding at all! One of the fragrance oils that I ordered (Vanilla Grapefruit) was not labeled at all, I had to look at my order summary on the internet to identify it! Thank goodness nothing was damaged or crushed! Rocky Mountain Pine smelled the same to my nose, I have poured one candle to test the strength. Apple Danish seems nice OOB, I still think I like KY's Homemade Apple Pie, or MC Cozy Home better. I do not care for the Buttercream OOB, smells like a weak wedding mint with a funky base note. Blackberry Sage was good OOB, I poured a 8 oz candle in Clarus 70/30, and tarts in KY tart wax to test. It is not sickeningly sweet, like so many others, or in-your-face sage, like Candlewics. My only to die for scent from Heartfelt now is the RMP, I will test the recommendation from Elements. If it passes, I will cease ordering from Heartfelt, because you should not have to email, call, and wait three weeks for an order, when so many other companies (Peak, Candle Science, Kentucky Candle, Elements, to name a few), give fantastic customer service no matter the order size.

This has become my most frequented company for fragrance oils. Excellent, strong scents. I did use the Clarus 70 soy/30 paraffin from Tennessee Candle, now working at my own blend of 464/4630. Love KY's tart wax! I do not sell, just burn my own creations, and gift them to friends. Personal favorites: Pink Sugar Cookies, Key Lime Pie, Sage & Sweetgrass (like YC's Sage & Citrus, except richer!), Winter Breeze (a nice, fresh non-laundry scent), Sunrise Splash (strong! can use less oil!), Plumberry Spice, Homemade Apple Pie (great!), Cleopatra, Coconut Cream Pie (rich!), Mandarin Spice (very little spice, smooth and no fuel), Med Fig (Trapp Dup), Roasted Coffee (a great mixer!). Also have Snuggle Baby, VERY strong and true baby, and Home Interiors Mulberry, the only mulberry I can stand. Even though I am a small order customer, Vickey has personally called me to let me know of delays, and out of stock items. All in all, a true winner to order from!

I have used SFIC goats milk, shea butter, hemp, shaving soap; Stephenson's mango butter; and Essentials by Catalina white, goats milk, Tres Leches, and natural white. These are for my family's use, I do not sell. Favorites for creamy and moisturizing lather: SFIC goat's milk and EBC Tres Leches. Best lather overall EBC Tres Leches, SFIC shaving soap, & Stephenson's mango butter. I have added canned goats milk (2 TBSP) and castor oil (1 tsp) to the EBC white, Tres Leches and Natural, and it did not really do anything for the soap, except cut the lather. The soap that even my son commented about being "your best soap ever" was a mixture of EBC Tres Leches and SFIC shaving soap. I think I added Brambleberry's OMH scent to that. I do have WSP's Ultra White, High Lather Cleansing, Goats Milk, and Honey bases here, but have not used them yet, so cannot comment on their lather. So, to sum up, I think the top favorite would be EBC's Tres Leches w/ SFIC shaving soap, second SFIC Goat's Milk with my own ground oatmeal added for exfoliation. It is difficult to choose! Stephenson's had a really good lather, too. For me, I found that additives did not improve my soap, so if I purchase a goats milk, or shea butter, etc... I leave it alone, except for fragrance and color, if desired. EBC had very good CS, and the paraben free body frosting and A,C & E lotion base are fast absorbing and excellent.

I agree, this is a fantastic scent, white floral with a grounding base (must be amber) to keep it from being too "in-your-face". I can smell tuberose as one of the top notes. I love tuberose, but sometimes it can be a little too much! This is a fragrance oil that you wish you would have found out about sooner! I have been burning it in the bedroom for the past 3 days, and I just thought this evening, why haven't I put this into soap??

Just got an email last night from Gena stating they had been waiting on RMP, now it is in, and she would have sent my order out Friday, but she was ill. She said she would send it out Monday. I still haven't been asked for payment... A little communication before now would have been nice!

Thanks, Abbie-I will test some from KY. I get a lot of my oils from there. Also would be interested in the RMP dupe. I agree, I haven't found one like it yet.

I finally decided to take my own advice, and order some Rocky Mountain Pine. I ordered it two weeks ago, got a computer notice that I would be contacted for payment soon. I have e-mailed, and called yesterday & left a message. NO response, no request for payment. Now, I guess I'll have to start testing other oils in hopes of finding a twin. I have tested ICS Sugared Spruce, Peaks Spruce Christmas Tree, and Bert's Sensational Pine, and while they are all good fragrances, they just aren't QUITE as good as RMP. BUMMER!

I have always received great CS from Tennessee. Last order was Sept/Oct 2010. I was using the Clarus 70/30 wax from their site, and all fragrance oils I have ordered from TCS have performed well in that wax. I do blend some 464, or KY 125 in with the 70/30. I am almost out of the 70/30, and I did try the 464/4630 blend that some have recommended on this board with very good results. Now, with the reports of poor CS from TCS, I am glad that I did experiment with a wax blend. I hesitated to do this, because I was so happy with the 70/30, and TCS. This is an extremely unfortunate situation, and I hope that Brent can remedy this, and return TCS to the high standards that I have experienced in the past.

I received Vervaine Olive Blosson 2 weeks ago, and poured it in a 60/40 blend of 464/4630. I gave a candle to my daughter and kept one. Have not gotten around to burning it yet, but am looking forward to it! I am not a Elements/Flickers Olive Blossom fan, and I do have 2.5-3 ounces of it. I will post it on the classies when I have time to do so. Midway through a tough semester of ultrasound physics, can't wait until it's over!

@Primitive-try Rocky Mountain Pine by Heartfelt. Hopefully, this fragrance is in stock. Recent posts have mentioned a lack of communication, but I do believe everyone received the oils ordered from Heartfelt. IMHO, it is the best pine/Christmas scent out there, and I have tested Bert's. I did order Paradise and CD wicks from Bert, placed order Friday night, got a notice before 8am Monday that it was shipped! I certainly will continue to give her my business. Please test Aspen Forest when it is restocked @Bert's. It is a citrusy/fruit/pine scent that is great year 'round. It is definitely different from a straight pine, so there is room in my fragrance oil pantry for both!!

KY has the best scent throw and burning characteristics of all votive waxes I have tested. Use a CD 5 for votives. I have been very happy with KY!

I really like Heartfelt's Rocky Mountain Pine. It is so realistic!

I have and like both KY's Spiced Cranberry, and Wildfire's, but Wildfire's is a little deeper and complex. I would choose Wildfire's as my favorite. HTH!

I have been thinking over the last month or so that Peaks doesn't get enough credit for having fantastic FO's and customer service. Their Amish Harvest (cinnamon spicy), and Black Canyon (sandalwood, musk) will throw in any wax. (At least all the soy and parasoys I have tried!) I love French Vanilla and Amber, it is so unique, with rich amber and I almost smell a touch of mint in the background, but I don't think it contains mint. The Cranberry Apple Marmalade seems to be a close twin to ICS Cranberry Orange Spice and CS Cranberry Marmalade, but Peaks is more complex and richer, IMO. Cornucopia is an apple-walnut-maple scent, very nice. Ocean is a fresh salty water scent, I got the idea from someone on here to mix it with a touch of Peak's Freesia, great soap scent! You won't be sorry if you sample Peaks!

As an experiment, I blended CS Pumpkin Souffle 60% to Bert's Fall Harvest 40%, turned out verrry nice!!

Waiting on my CS delivery tomorrow! I have Peak's Cranberry Apple Marmalade, and it is great! I did order CS Cranberry Marmalade, since I hear so many positive reviews. Wondered if the two were twins. I guess I will see tomorrow. I thought MC Cozy Home was close to Peak's, not quite the same. I love both!

Hi Wayne & Billie: Good to see someone from the neighborhood! Your soap is beautiful, I am only experimenting with M&P, and I won't subject anyone to a picture of my attempted swirl! Wonder if you have tried Eucalyptus & Spearmint from Bluegrass on the southside, it is a great smooth scent that throws very well. I gifted a co-worker with that a candle in that scent, and she said it was the best candle she has ever had! Angie is a sweet person, and everything I've tried from her has performed like a champ in straight soy, and a parasoy blend. Her Berry Creme Brulee will blow the doors off your house! Anyway, just wanted to stop in and say hi! :wave:

I was in Babies R Us today purchasing a shower gift, and took a whiff of Dreft. It reminded me somewhat of KY's Snuggle Baby. The scent of Dreft is pretty strong! It seems to me like it would NOT be good for a baby's sensitive skin, or sensitive nose, either! I'd bet that Snuggle Baby would make your candle customer happy, though. HTH!

Rhonda is local for me, and I do need to make another trip down there, because I can't remember what Witches Brew smells like! I do know that I loved most of her oils, she specializes in multi-layered scents. Patchouli Raspberry is great, not too sweet, like I expected. Rowan is another that I thought I would not like from the description, but I intend to buy. I don't find any of her scents to have a candy, sickeningly sweet quality. I do not care for a rose scent in candles, but her Gypsy Rose is very true and fresh, and if someone requested a rose scent, that is the one I would recommend. It smells like one of those medium pink David Austin English roses. I also do agree that Earthen Oak smells like Peak's French Vanilla & Amber, a GREAT scent, BTW! Merlin's Forest is soft & powdery. The Harvest Moon is a great dupe for McCall's Candles Pumpkin Spice/Farmer's Market, it has the fresh sugar element, along with an orange peel added in to the cinnamon & allspice that I was looking for! I bought a pound of Spirit of Avalon, it is Lime and Musk, different from any other lime scent I had tried. Great in M&P soap! Give me one of everything!!

I have made three bars of M&P soap out of the Natural White base from EBC. The color is not opaque white or cream, but a cross between clear and white soaps, if that makes sense. The base's ability to take on scent was excellent, I used sockmonkey's Almond & Shea, and it lathers very well in our softened water! I am happy with this sample, and the regular white, and Tres Leches from EBC. Just trying to figure out if I prefer EBC to SFIC's Goats Milk, which up to now has been my favorite!

The German company Wedo makes LX, RRD, and ECO wicks, according to Wicks Unlimited website. I believe legality requires you to ask the company before you reproduce their logo. HTH!

Bluegrass and Moonworks are about 30 minutes from my house, so I can go pick up! I have never had a Bluegrass scent that did not throw extremely well. Berry Creme Brulee will run you out of the house in soy! Other favorites are Sweet Patchouli (very different!), Plumeria, Buttercream, Eucalyptus & Spearmint, Lavender, Apples & Oak (great!), Mountain Jasmine, and Bluegrass Meadow. Coconut Mango is rich, and Marshmallow Ambrosia smells great OOB, I have not put these last 2 in wax yet! HTH!

Thanx for responding, Onyx! I have really been wanting to try TN, and contemplating testing out their 70/30 parasoy. I have recently tried KY's votive parasoy, and been extremely happy with the HT over the Ecosoya PB. So maybe, I would like a container parasoy also. Maybe a good natural & parrafin wax would be the ticket with the Dried Apple Wreath!?!

A refreshing blend for summer would be LS Lavender into CW Lemon Lavender, finishing with CW Sage and Citrus. This could be a kitchen candle, or used as a Spa experience. The LS Lavender is refreshing and clean, without the soapy note. There are times I like that soapy note, and it is a favorite among the hairdressers and estheticians in this area, but for this blend, the Lone Star Lavender flows right through to the lemon/powder kick of the CW Lemon Lavender, which is a great dupe of YC's Lemon Lavender. You could do a light purple/light yellow/grass green color scheme. HTH!

Thank you waxandwhimsy, just bumping this up to see if ANYONE else has tried an Autumn Wreath dupe from WSP, JS, NG, etc....:bump: