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The Salted Caramel from CW is very good. Oh... the list of fall scents. Well, Fall/Winter scents are my favorite and I probably have 20+ so I will just list my favorites: Baked Apple - AHRE (the HI version) Buttercream Pumpkin - my blend of Pumpkin Souffle & pumpkin creme brulee Caramel Apple Latte - my blend of fresh brewed coffee & caramel apple pie (ICS) Mistletoe - CS Apple Clove Butter - AHRE Cinnamon Garland - my blend of Cinnamon & Bayberry Cinnamon & Clove Bud - BCN Spiced Cranberry - BCN Cranberry Woods – Fragrance Buddy Dickens Christmas - Community Mulled Cider - Community The Great Pumpkin - The Candle Source Holidazzle - The Candle Source

Their Sugared Vanilla Shortbread, Pumpkin Ginger Streusel and Pumpkin Harvest Chai are all awesome. PGS is great on its own and as a mixer. Their Black Raspberry Vanilla & Blueberry Pie are both great (and smell just like CS version) and Maple Buttered Syrup smells delicious. I also like Salted Caramel and Storm Watch.

Mulled Cider from Community Candle is the best I have ever tried and strong to boot. I like Peaks Clove (think it is called Red Clove) or Clove from The Candle Source, and Mac Apple from Candlescience is really good.

I was initially thinking Autumn Bonfire but if you are going for a primitive feel, I really like Prairie Smoke as well.

Has anyone tried the Pumpkin Maple from this company? That looks really intriguing but so far it looks like most everyone is interested in the MW dupes. Hoping someone might have some feedback. Thanks.

I also love Ocean by Peaks.

Sorry, I haven't made anything like that before, but I did a quick search on Pinterest and posted a link for you. Hopefully you will either find instructions to make what you described, or at minimum find another idea that will work for you. http://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=lottery%20ticket%20tree

I do not make candles, nor do I own a business however years ago I was a candle demonstrator for a Candle Company. When I did fundraisers or did a catalog only party, I would scoop out a small amount of the scented wax from the samples and put it inside of an itsy bitsy zip lock bag and attach it to the scent in the catalog. Maybe you could pour your scents into wax chips (like Vicky mentioned above) or a flat strip, and attach them to the catalog inside of some mini polypropylene resealable bags.

Welcome back to the board. It is always nice to have active members on here with lots of knowledge and information to share.

The advanced search option typically works for me. It looks like a little wheel and it is just to the right of the magnifying glass up near the search bar. From there you can be a bit more specific on what you search for, which topics to search under and how you want your results to display (as a topic or post) and I usually have very good results. I haven't searched recently, but if memory serves me, the search criteria must be greater than 3 characters which is kind of a bummer if you are trying to search for a supplier by their acronym. Hope that helps.

I thought the same thing at first but there really doesn't seem to be any significant difference. And to boggle the mind even further, the one that works best has a square dish and in past experience, the square dishes havent thrown as well as round primarily because the edges do not completely melt. In this case it melts just fine. Things that make you go hmmpphh!

I typically like to wait 24 -48 hours before melting mine. If you were to melt it immediately after making them you would get a decent throw, but waiting just a bit will make a nice difference.

I have had mixed results with mine. The Anchorage style works very well and the throw is great, whereas the Nautical style barely throws even though they both use the same wattage bulb. Unfortunately I can not blame it on the location of the warmer because I had an older warmer in the same spot and the throw was great. It is a bummer because the Nautical is the one I wanted the most. So now it is a just an overpriced night light - it is still very cute though.

I am not a floral fan at all except that I can handle a bit of lavender vanilla, so I am inclined to say blend it with vanilla.

What about making a blend of 50/50 Autumn Leaves & some Campfire, or you could probably use Hayride in place of the Autumn Leaves. I personally made the first blend I mentioned a while back and my friend's boyfriend who is a cowboy loved it. I called It Cowboy Campfire.

In my opinion the scent morphs over time with the q-tip/ziplock bag method. When I use that method, which really isnt very often, I always make sure to smell the combined scent in the bag within an hour of placing them in there. If I wait much longer the scent doesnt smell very good. But again, that is just my opinion based on my experiences.

Not sure if it is a factor in your case but keep in mind that ceiling fans and air conditioning will drastically reduce the longevity.

I do tend to blend a lot of fragrances myself, but they are typically pretty straight forward, i.e. cherry limeaide (50/50 cherry & lime) or strawberry lemonade (50/50 strawberry & lemon), etc and then increase or decrease depending on whether one scent overpowers the other. I do on occasion blend more complex blends with about 3 scents but not usually more than that. For example, if I want to make smores I might try blending graham cracker, marshmallow and chocolate if I have those scents straight as opposed to ordering a premade smores. I would start out with equal parts and then adjust accordingly. I always keep notes on my "recipes" including the exact percentage so that my end result is consistent from batch to batch. One time (and only once) I got a wild hair and had a mad scientist moment and decided to blend a crazy concoction and it turned out to be one of my very favorites. I think it has 9 scents, but I do have a formula and I usually make the FO in bulk in an 8 ounce bottle so the end result will be consistent. That particular scent has something like .5 oz of this, 2 oz of that, .75 oz of that and so on. For me blending is trial and error. Sometimes I will do a qtip test, other times I will melt 1/2 of each melt of the scents I am thinking about combining and other times I will just take a chance and make a small batch of it. Most times they turn out really nice.

What about scents like tiramisu, biscotti, coffee or espresso blend, or some type of wine?

I have always used Peaks BRV which is very strong and recently discovered that CW's version smells identical so I can use either interchangeably. I believe I may have posted these as twinsies in the Fragrance Twins thread.

I do not use this method anymore however when I was first starting out and collection gazillions of little 1 ounce bottles, I used a sharpie and numbered the top of the lid (white paint pen for the black lids). The scent name and supplier was added to a spreadsheet along with the corresponding number assigned to that bottle. I was then able to sort the spreadsheet by either bottle number, scent name or supplier and then quickly find the bottle of FO by searching the endless sea of bottles to find the number that I needed.

I just realized that I mixed these two up in my original post. Correct review: Pumpkin Pie Perfection - just ok and smells light oob Pumpkin - can smell the pumpkin and the spice. Very similar to The Great Pumpkin (Candlesource) and Pumpkin Pie (BCN)

Has anyone blended a spiced cranberry with pine? Is it any good? It sounds really good to me. Geez, it is only May and I am already missing the fall scents.

Bumping this up to see if we can get some blend ideas

I made a blend of hot fudge brownie and buttercream and to my nose it smells just like red velvet cake/cupcake. Yah!