My Current Wax Stash & Storage

It's about time I posted my stash and storage, isn't it? Now that I've got the house to a state of cleanliness that doesn't leave me stressed and my wax is nice and organized, I can finally share it with you guys!

I may also have been inspired when a certain someone admitted to wanting to peek into my drawers on a villa tour video I did. :) Anyways, let's get to it!

CFTKR - Frosted Sugar Cookie + Fresh Picked Strawberry

Scent Description: Well... I feel like both of these scents should be self explanatory.
Weight Melted: 0.9 oz.
Cold Sniff: 4/5 From what I could make out while sniffing the two of these next to eachother, this was going to be a great strawberry bakery type scent.
Warm Sniff: 5/5 WHEE! Initially, I thought of strawberry... wafers? I don't know what they're called. I used to have them as kids. After a little bit it morphed into a strawberry cake type scent. FSC has never, from any vendor, smelled like true frosted sugar cookies. I've always picked up sweet cake batter instead. In any case I've still enjoyed it. I thought of this as a combination the day I got this package, and finally just got around to doing this.
Scent Strength: 2/3
Scent Throw: 5/5
Melting Power: 4/5 18 hours before I switched out the scent.
Repurchase(?): Uh. I didn't think through how I was going to do the repurchase section of my own blends. Maybe I'll do Re-blend!! YEAH! LOL.
Re-Blend: Yes! I enjoyed this little concoction. 

Bath and Body Works - Pumpkin Pecan Waffles & Sweet Cinnamon Pumpkin

I don't really have a rating system for candles and I don't burn candles enough to set up a rating system, so I'm going to just talk about this candle.
I got these mini candles in a fall/halloween gift type set along with one other pumpkin themed mini candle. If these hadn't come in the set, I wouldn't have thought to pick up any of the mini candles. They're too small, don't last long, and compared to the 3-wicks, they're very very expensive for the amount of wax you get. For six months I'd let these candles go untouched.
Having hosted two LAN parties now, I'm not quite in love with these candles but I enjoy their performance for my needs.They are small, easy to manage, smell nice, and scent up the bathroom and only the bathroom. At one point over the weekend we had 13 people in the apartment and I was very glad I something keeping the restroom smelling nice.
I wouldn't repurchase these unless they were insanely cheap or came in another set, but they have been very nice to have while I had them.

Bath And Body Works - French Lavender

This isn't exactly a melt, so I can't rate it with my usual rating system. I'll just tell you guys about this beauty.
I bought this at the beginning of April, along with a lot of other things, because my family had sent me money and one of my best friends insisted that I spend it on myself instead of simply putting it into savings. It was during the introductory $10 offer, and now I wish I'd picked up a second one.
This is simply lavender. Pure, flowery lavender. It's not very sweet, so if you're looking for a sweeter lavender, this isn't for you. It's very strong, too. I filled the entire apartment and half of the lot the apartment's on with the scent of lavender while burning this. To me, this lavender was a very in-your-face scent. You knew someone was burning or melting something whether you were consciously thinking about it or not.
I am a bit disappointed in the burn time. It doesn't feel like I burned this that long, but that could be that I've been doing so many other things over the course of burning this candle down. As you can see, I've burned it pretty low. In hindsight it probably lasted a lot longer than I gave it credit for. I'd light it at the beginning of the day, clean and cook and take care of Diana and do school work, and it'd be midday before I'd blow out the candle. A solid 8 or 9 hours of burn time each time, times... well, the past month. Yeah, I'd say it has a pretty good burn time. I couldn't give you actual hours, though. It also helps hide the scent of crap that stunk that I couldn't locate the source of at the time. In any case, I will be buying this again soon. Maybe at their semiannual sale, if they have it on sale, or at their next 2/$22 sale. I miss when it was just 2/$20. Do you remember those days?

Boring Textual Reviews 2

I had saved some of the tarts that I'd cut in half and thought I would take a picture of them before melting them, but I decided to just post my thoughts here and if, when I melt them, I find the need to add more to my initial thoughts, I'll make another post with picture(s) about the tart(s).

Shayz Scentz - Pink Flip Floppers
This was the first tart I ever melted and boy did I love it! I'm a sucker for sweeter scents, though I do like to mix it up. This had a light florally vanilla and coconut scent mixed with Pink Sugar. The throw was dangerously amazing. I had it melting in my boyfriend's dorm and he could smell it from the elevator when he came back from work. Technically, we aren't supposed to have candles going and warmers are on the edge, depending on the dorm building, your Community Adviser, and the official college employee assigned to your building (I forget the 'official' name for them). Anyways, half a scent shot melted strong for well over 9 hours. That's not even counting when I first melted it in my bedroom over Thanksgiving Break.

Shayz Scents - Flip Floppers
I picked up an almost lemony undertone in this one under the lavender and coconut. It enriched the smell, in my opinion. The throw is good. I popped in 1/4 of a scent shot and it still lasted well over six hours. The scent stayed confined to the dorm room, though, and that was exactly what I was looking for.

Bella's Candles and Tarts - Red Velvet Cake
This had a sweet, cakey smell on cold sniff. When I melted it I got a waxy-cakey smell. Throw wasn't too great; the scent never left my bathroom area (my room has a small bathroom area with sink and cabinets that has a door leading to the toilet/shower. For a time I melted my tarts here)

Dutch Candle Company - Vanilla Raspberry
The vanilla tones down the raspberry here for a sweet, berry scent. I actually liked this berry scent. The throw was dangerously amazing (see dangerously amazing explained from Pink Flip Floppers). The scent lasted for 10+ hours from a half tart and when I turned off the melter I decided to store the wax for future use since it had plenty of scent left.

Orchid Lake Candles - Baked Apple Bread
Sour apple combined with a pie crust scent. This scent was okay, but I probably wouldn't buy this on my own as I don't care too much for apple scents. In moderation it's fine, but that was the main attraction for this baby. This smelled strong for over 7 hours before I fell asleep (it was Christmas Eve that I melted this!) When I woke up the scent was lighter, but still consistent. They blended this scent very well so that it didn't lose different notes as the melting went on.

Skye's Soy Candles - Pear Vanilla Sorbetto
Disappointing, in one word. No scent throw. I had this going for 4 hours in the hopes that the throw would get better over time, but that wasn't the case. The scent was only there if I stuck my nose in the wax and when I could smell it it reminded me of Laffy Taffy. I can see why this one was in a destash.

Tiffany Candles - Gingerbread House
Started off promising. It was a cookie and light cinnamon scent. After about 45 minutes, there was an explosion of cinnamon and the cookie died out. I removed this from the warmer at an hour and a half, as my mom and I couldn't stand the super cinnamon smell.

Tiffany Candles - Lavender Vanilla
Oh. My. Goodness. I put this on right after the flubbed Gingerbread House and it was so soothing and sweet... I loved it. The vanilla sweetens the lavender and (for me) made this such a pleasant sleepytime scent. I had it going straight for 24 hours and the scent was still going strong when I finally decided I wanted to move to something else. The throw was awesome. It scented my parents' entire house. I'm glad my family generally likes lavender scents, otherwise I would have made myself take this off the melter early so I didn't impose that scent on them. I'm not sure if you can tell, but I definitely plan on buying this again (speaking of which, as I type this less than 30 minutes until the site opens!)