Glitterati - Pomegranate/Cucumbert Mint/Watermelon

Scent Description: No scent description available.

Date Received: June 22, 2016

Weight Melted: .55 oz, in tealight warmer

Location of Warmer: Office

Cold Sniff: 5/5 A slightly tart fruity blend. Perfect for Summer!

Warm Sniff: 5/5 That tart note died down a lot, and I was instead left with a very pleasant fruity blend with just a hint of cool mint.

Scent Strength: 1.5/3

Scent Throw: 3/3 This tart threw past the office and into most of the entryway.

Melting Power: Lasted through 1 tealight candle (about 5 hours). It smelled like it could have lasted much longer, if I'd desired.

Repurchase: I just did! Whenever my 2016 custom order comes in, you may find that I have a lot of repeat scents. I really wanted to stock up on scents I've loved from Janine over the years.

Glitterati - Violet Toasted Marshmallow

Scent Description: Delicate Floral/Toasted marshmallows by the fire.

Date Received: June 22, 2016

Weight Melted: 0.7 oz

Location of Warmer: Office, in tealight warmer.

Cold Sniff: 5/5 A slightly sweet and smoky floral, with just a hint of sticky sweet goodness.

Warm Sniff: 5/5 No surprises once melted.

Scent Strength: 1.5/3

Scent Throw: 3/3 This filled the office and poked its way through a closed door into the entryway.

Melting Power: Lasted through 1 tealight candle. It could definitely have lasted longer, but I find myself content with melting each scent only once while I'm trying to melt through what I have.

Repurchase: I just did! My name just got called up for the 2016 customs list, yahoo!!

I haven't quite revisited my wax rating system since moving, so I'm kind of in a transitional stage for some of my rating system. Bear with me as some of these things get adjusted!

Also, it's been so long since I've melted anything in my tealight warmers. I've been making do with a (please don't kill me Deb) Christmas type cranberry and spice wooden wick candle I got for Christmas. We didn't get our household goods until the middle of March, and I swear somewhere along the line packers must've stolen our many boxes of matches. Either that or the matches were in some of the boxes that went missing in the move. Sigh. In any case, I finally remembered and picked up some matches the other day and I'm slowly getting back into the hang of melting things. I don't have a little wax station set up with a cutting knife, basket of "to-review" wax, pen and paper, and a scale, but I'm getting there.

Glitterati - Cotton Candy/Honeydew

Scent Description: None available.

Date Received: June 22, 2016

Weight Melted: 0.5 oz

Location of Warmer: Kitchen, in tealight warmer

Cold Sniff: 4/5 A gentle honeydew melon with just a hint of cotton candy. Quite delicious and sweet.

Warm Sniff: 4/5 No surprises once melted.

Scent Strength: 2/3

Scent Throw: 3/3 Filled the kitchen, hallway, and office with its delicious goodness.

Melting Power: 4/5 I got a little under 8 hours of scent from a piece of this chunk.

Repurchase: Yes! I think I'm going to try experimenting with some blends with the rest of the chunk I have. Wish me luck!

Glitterati - Pink Sugar/Marshmallow Fireside

Scent Description: Strawberry, bergamot, musk and vanilla/sweet, smoky BBW type.

Date Received: June 22, 2016

Weight Melted: 0.5 oz

Location of Warmer: Kitchen, in tealight warmer

Cold Sniff: 4/5 Mainly marshmallow fireside, with just a hint of pink sugar in the background.

Warm Sniff: 4/5 The smoky notes got slightly stronger, but otherwise no surprises once melted.

Scent Strength: 1/3

Scent Throw: 3/3 This filled the kitchen, hallway, office, and entryway.

Melting Power: 4/5 I got about 7 hours of scent from a piece of this chunk.

Repurchase: Yes! This was a wonderful juxtaposition between a more smoky, outdoorsy scent and a tried and true (for me at least) home fragrance.

Glitterati - Little Black Dress/Tea & Cakes

Scent Description: White carnation, blood orange, sandalwood, black rose, smoky wood, patchouli, toasted vanilla bean, vetiver, amber, and musk/none available.

Date Received: June 22, 2016

Weight Melted: 0.4 oz

Location of Warmer: Guest room, in tealight warmer

Cold Sniff: 5/5 How do I describe this? A delectably exciting blend that brings to mind sultry date nights and a nice drink. Not too musky, not too heavy. Hides somewhere between bakery and 'other.'

Warm Sniff: 5/5

Scent Strength: 2.5/3

Scent Throw: >3/3 This filled the guest room, hallway, entryway, and kitchen.

Melting Power: 5/5 I got about 11 hours from a piece of this chunk, and the scent lingered long after I stopped melting. Definitely a strong blend with lots of staying power.

Repurchase: Yes. I have to get my hands on larger quantities of this blend when I next can!

Glitterati - Strawberry/Eucalyptus/Cucumber Mint

Scent Description: None available/Perfect wintertime-sniffles scent that will uplift your spirits and clear your airways/none available.

Date Received: June 22, 2016

Weight Melted: 0.4 oz

Location of Warmer: Living room, in tealight warmer

Cold Sniff: 4/5 A combination of sweet strawberries, cucumber mint, and a blast of eucalyptus to wake you up.

Warm Sniff: 4/5 No surprises once melted.

Scent Strength: 1/3 It's there, but it's a surprisingly light scent.

Scent Throw: 3/3 This filled the entire living room and a little bit of the highway.

Melting Power: 4/5 I got a little under 6 hours of scent from a piece of this chunk.

Repurchase: Yes, though I think I will try and melt a little more next time. This scent was a lot lighter than I expected!

Glitterati - Blue Cotton Candy/Pink Chiffon

Scent Description: None available/exotic fruits, vanilla orchid, sweet vanilla, whipped chiffon musk.

Date Received: June 22, 2016

Weight Melted: 0.6 oz

Location of Warmer: Guest room, in tealight warmer

Cold Sniff: 4/5 A nice, sweet, slightly musky blend between sweet and sultry goodness and a strong kick to the face.

Warm Sniff: 4/5 No surprises once melted. These two blends mix together quite nicely.

Scent Strength: 2/3

Scent Throw: >3/3 This scent burst out of the closed guest room door and added the entryway and hallway to its fragrant range.

Melting Power: 5/5 About one fifth of a chunk lasted about 10 hours. Talk about a whammy.

Repurchase: Yes! It's a good thing I'm on both the mystery and customs list that are being worked on.

I realized the other day that I hadn't been melting very much Glitterati. I couldn't figure out why until I remembered that my Glitterati was in a completely separate drawer from the rest of my wax. When I reach for wax, I reach by scent category and not vendor. When putting away my Glitterati stash last summer I had no space in my drawers and ended up putting it all in its own drawer. Thus, The Forgotten Wax.

Thus begins Project Glitterati. I'm going to try to exclusively melt Glitterati until I've melted every scent at least once. This kind of sucks, because I don't have many Fall related scents in my Glitterati stash and I'm itching to start melting for Fall. All the more reason to melt through my Glitterati faster, muahahah! How many times can I say Glitterati in one paragraph? Glitterati.

Glitterati - Pumpkin Soufflé Cinnamon Donuts

Scent Description: Pumpkin, butter, cream, sugar, and spice/none available.

Date Received: September 5, 2016

Weight Melted: 0.5 oz

Location of Warmer: Living room, in tealight warmer

Cold Sniff: 4/5 This is one heavy-on-the-cinnamon blend! Think a very sweet, almost honeylike cinnamon with just a hint of creamy pumpkin.

Warm Sniff: 4/5 The cinnamon dies down a little, letting the pumpkin really shine. I quite enjoyed snuggling up with some coffee and a book while this melted.

Scent Strength: 2.5/3

Scent Throw: 3/3 This filled the entire living room.

Melting Power: 4/5 I got about 7 hours of scent from 1/5 of a chunk.

Repurchase: Definitely! Now that I've finally warmed up to cinnamon scents, I find myself gravitating towards them more and more. Cinnamon and pumpkin? Please sign me up.

Haul: Glitterati Mystery Box List 2016

This box snuck up on me. I'd completely forgotten about hopping on the list until Janine tagged me on Facebook in the call up post. I'm not one to say no to some Glitterati, so off to pay my invoice I hopped! Let's oogle some wax together, shall we?

I paid my invoice on August 20th and the box was shipped on August 25th.

Glitterati - Plum Delicious/Tea & Cakes

Scent Description: Plums, strawberry, hints of peaches and apple, sweet vanilla, rich red berries/none available.

Date Received: June 22, 2016

Weight Melted: 0.6 oz

Location of Warmer: Kitchen, in tealight warmer

Cold Sniff: 4/5 A faintly sweet and fruity tea blend. Hints ever so slightly at what could be bakery. It almost seems like a sophisticated perfume.

Warm Sniff: 4/5 All of the notes soften up and meld together, but it's pretty much the same scent. This made for a nice backdrop while I cleaned the house.

Scent Strength: 1/3

Scent Throw: 2.5/3 This filled the kitchen/dining area, office, and most of the hallway.

Melting Power: 3/5 I got about 5 hours of scent from the quarter chunk I melted.

Repurchase: Yes indeedy! I will probably melt a little more next time just to make sure this throws further and melts a little longer. Bad Liz! You have too much wax to be skimping out on your melts like this!

Glitterati - Lavender/Ice Cream Scoop Bread

Scent Description: A well-rounded herbal scent of lavender blossoms/none available.

Date Received: June 22, 2016

Weight Melted: 0.5 oz

Location of Warmer: Living room, in tealight warmer

Cold Sniff: 3.5/5 Crunchy bakery mixed with herbal lavender. I was a bit apprehensive at how crunchy the bakery smelled.

Warm Sniff: 4/5 The crunchiness toned down and the rest of those ice cream notes helped taper down those iffy notes. This was a pleasant non-metallic herbal lavender and sweet bread!

Scent Strength: 2/3

Scent Throw: 3/3 This filled the entire living room.

Melting Power: 4/5 I got a little over 6 hours of scent from 1/5 of a chunk. Why am I cutting my chunks so small? Probably because I've bought into the Glitterati hyper and want to get the most mileage out of my unicorn wax. LOL

Repurchase: Yes! I'll probably buy this in a full bag the next time my name comes up on the customs list. (Note to self 1 year from now: buy full bag of this.)

Glitterati - Cucumber Blonde Moment

Scent Description: None available/a pink champagne cocktail of sweet raspberries and tart cranberries.

Date Received: June 22, 2016

Weight Melted: 0.6 oz

Location of Warmer: Kitchen, in tealight warmer

Cold Sniff: 4/5 A fruity, fresh take on the typically sweet and fizzy nature of blonde moment. No fizz here!

Warm Sniff: 4/5 No surprises here! Still a delectable blend without that fizzy note and without being too sweet.

Scent Strength: 2/3

Scent Throw: >3/3 This filled the entire kitchen/dining area, hallway, office, entryway, and most of the living room. In short, it threw quite far!

Melting Power: 5/5 I got about 10 hours from the little chunk I melted, and it probably could have lasted longer if I'd pushed it.

Repurchase: Yes! I'm so glad I got this as a sample and have melted it once more since the first time I melted it! This will (if I remember) be on my 2016 customs list!

Glitterati - Pink Candy Fluff

Scent Description: None available.

Date Received: June 22, 2016

Weight Melted: 0.8 oz

Location of Warmer: Kitchen, in tealight warmer

Cold Sniff: 5/5 Lush candy mountain dupe. What more can I say?

Warm Sniff: 5/5 No surprises here.

Scent Strength: 2/3

Scent Throw: 3/3 This filled the entire kitchen/dining area, hallway, and office.

Melting Power: 5/5 Half a tart cup lasted about 10 hours.

Repurchase: Yes! Anywhere I can find quality Lush dupes I tend to return to.

Haul: Glitterati Customs 2015

It's here. It's here. It's here! My unicorn wax! Let me do a little dance of happiness. For those of you who don't know, The Glitterati Candle Co is a one-woman show run entirely through her Facebook group. The owner, Janine, has carved a reputation for herself as a creator of amazingly high quality wax tarts and as a result her wax has become incredibly popular. Add the fact that she has no intentions of expanding due to familial obligations and you have some seriously rare wax.

TAT is a little difficult explain. I submitted my order to Janine on May 25th and it shipped on June 14th - 3 weeks. Sounds amazing, right? Look at the title of this post. I did not make a typo when I put in '2015.' On the afternoon of March 21st, 2015, I was one of 100 people who managed to say "me" early enough for a customs sign up list. My name originally came up in December, but I had to defer as we were in the middle of a move. So depending on how you view it, TAT could be almost 15 months. For the 2016 customs list, Janine tightened up her rules on orders to ensure a shorter TAT this time around, including the removal of the option to defer to the bottom of the list. My point is, Janine's methods of operation aren't for everyone. I still can't figure out whether I like or dislike it, but I can appreciate that Janine has been incredibly open about TATs, where she is at on X mystery list and Y customs list, and her reasons for staying a one-woman team run out of her house's kitchen.

Now that we have all of that boring introduction stuff out of the way, let's get to the fun stuff - what exactly I got!

Glitterati Candle Co - Cucumber Melon Candy Cane

Scent Description: Oh my. A heavenly mix between cucumber melon and candy canes. Brings to mind an image of Spring and happiness and cleaning (in a good way), with a hint of sweet desserts and forests.
Weight Melted: 1.0 oz.
Cold Sniff: 3/5 Really heavy on the candy canes. This wax needs  to be melted for you to appreciate the beauty of it.
Warm Sniff: 5/5 The cucumber melon really takes a step up here, and the candy cane just peaks its head out.
Scent Throw: 6/5. Holy cow. Guys, this was one ounce. Julie sent me a large chunk that weighed out to 2.9 oz total and I decided to split this into three chunks. I checked mail and while walking up the stairs to my front door I could smell it. I spent some time on my porch reading and enjoying the warm, sunny weather, and this scent stuck to me in a pleasant way. I don't know whether I want to further chop up my remaining two chunks and see how that performs or just keep the other two chunks as is. The other two chunks are .8 oz. Maybe they won't extend beyond the apartment. Seriously, though, this extended soooo far!
Melting Power: >4/5 As I type this, this melt has been going for 18 hours with no indication of dying out any time soon.
Repurchase: YES! This and Cotton Candy Waffle Cone are going on my must-have list. Now I have to decide how much I'm going to buy of this particular blend. A loaf sounds good. Better yet, I'll just buy a literal ton of this. >_> In all seriousness, I hope all of her stuff is this potent in this small an amount. It makes this the best quality per ounce that I've ever melted.

Glitterati Candle Co - Cotton Candy Waffle Cone

Scent Description: A very sweet blend of waffle cones and cotton candy. The waffle cones really tones down the ultra sweet factor of the cotton candy.
Weight Melted:  1.6 oz.
Cold Sniff: 3/5 I got a hint of something chocolatey as well as a generic 'wax' scent when smelling this cold.
Warm Sniff: 4/5 Fortunately, the chocolate went away and I was left with the sweet concoction that is this tart.
Scent Strength: 1/3
Scent Throw: 5/5
Melting Power: 4/5 I got about 16 hours of good scent from this before it died off.
Repurchase: Yes! I'm a fan of this scent blend and it performed really well, too! Julie sent a huge chunk of this and I was able to chop it in half quite easily. Such soft wax! I have just requested to join their Facebook page, so I'll have to see how their TAT and ordering process goes on a more in depth scale once (if?) I'm accepted. In any case, if all of their products perform like this I have very high hopes for this new vendor!