Sniff My Tarts - Cotton Candy/Sweet 16/Strawberry Pretzel

Scent Description: A blend of fresh strawberry, sugar and sweet vanilla/none available/"SMT Blend"
When smelling this I got mainly cotton candy with a sweet strawberry scent.

Date Received: 12-17-15

Weight Melted: 1.1 oz

Location of Warmer: Office

Cold Sniff: 4/5 I'm a fan of cotton candy/strawberry blends, so this was nothing out of my comfort zone.

Warm Sniff: 4/5 Same

Scent Strength: 2/3

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

Melting Power: 4/5 I got about 7.5 hours from this chunk before the scent died off.

Repurchase: No. While I loved what this smelled like, I couldn't really figure out what the sweet 16 was supposed to be, nor did I ever pick up on anything pretzel-like. I'll definitely be picking up a Strawberry Cotton Candy blend though! :)

Stop & Chat: February 11

Man, I don't think this picture shows how clean the kitchen is! Nor does it portray how much work I put into it. Bah, you'll just have to take my word for it! Anyways, on to my day! Complete with a little food experiment for me!

L3 Waxy Wonders - Laird of Lallybroch

Scent Description: Every Laird needs a good hearty breakfast to get their day started. Creamy caramel Snickers coffee and cinnamon sugar tea cakes.
This brings to mind sweet cinnamon toast with a cup of coffee.

 Date Poured: 12-16-15

Weight Melted: 1.2 oz

Location of Warmer: Living Room

Cold Sniff: 2/5 I wasn't sure what I picked up on cold sniff. Something spicy, definitely, but nothing else really poked its head through.

Warm Sniff: 4/5 Yum. I felt like I was hanging out in a breakfast café the entire time this melted.

Scent Strength: 2/3

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

Melting Power: 4/5 I got about 8 hours before the scent died off.

Repurchase: Yes, if I ever melt through my vast L3 stash!

L3 Waxy Wonders - The Naughty List Scoopable

Scent Description: Black Pepper, bergamot, & pink sugar.
A unisex scent. Bergamot sprinkled with black pepper with a mix of pink sugar to temper the blend's harsh edges to a nice and homey scent. Love!

Date Received: 1-4-16

Weight Melted: 0.7 oz

Location of Warmer: LivingRoom

Cold Sniff: 5/5

Warm Sniff: 5/5 I feel like Julie would be a huuuuuge fan of this scent! It's so musky with just a hint of sweet homey-ness. Pink sugar doesn't actually smell like PS in this blend, just something soft tying together this blend.

Scent Strength: 3/3

Scent Throw: 5/3 This filled the entire house. I'm glad I wasn't melting anything else at the time, otherwise that scent would've been drowned out!

Melting Power: 5/5 I got a good sixteen hours of scent from the small bit of wax I used. This baby packed a punch!

Repurchase: Yes! Though I do not see myself going through this fast enough to warrant another purchase any time soon. A little goes a long way!

Collective Lush Haul

 Maybe it's better that I held off on posting any more Lush hauls until I had a huge conglomerate to post about. So here's 3 separate Lush hauls all put into one! Let's start with the beginning of January, at our local Lush store! Unfortunately, I don't recall what these prices were and I no longer have the receipts. They were comparable to regular Lush prices, though.

Stop & Chat: February 3-9: Experimenting Is Fun... Until It's Not

Glittergasm on my fingers. Thank you, Lush.

So... about two posts ago I talked about my goals with this blog. Post more consistently. And you want to know the only reason why the two posts since February 2nd have posted? Scheduled posting. Funny story about this. Ahahahaha. Ha. Ha. -.- Please, join me in laughter. If you're wondering about the picture, it's just the aftermath of me taking pictures for my upcoming collective Lush Haul.

Vanilla Handcrafted Soap

Also known as Vanilla from Essential Depot Makes Me Sad. This is one of the soaps that I had seize on me and didn't end up looking very pretty. I mean, maybe it does? I can say I was going for a more rustic, sloppy look. Think anyone will buy that story? Dad says he likes it and the soap was for him, so that's all that matters.

Band of Bloggers - Vol. 2/Feb. 2016

Welcome to the month of February! Congratulations, you survived the start of the New Year! If this is your first month joining us, Band of Bloggers is a revamped version of the Order of the Odor, where we do a monthly chat about all matters of waxy things and life. We hope you join us in the conversations!

This month's question is: Now that we have settled into the new year of 2016, we wanted to find out what are your goals for this year (life, blog, work, travel etc)?

Oh man, so many goals, so little time. In life I just want to move forward, put simply. I realized in 2015 that I was carrying a lot of baggage from my past and it still affects certain things I do and the way I perceive the world, and not always in a positive manner. Moving forward includes pushing myself to go out more and shut down that hermit-like side of me that I've been fostering since M joined up. It includes continuing to eat right and work towards more physical activity to keep my energy levels up and my mood more stable. It includes continuing to date M and trying not to get complacent in our marriage. It includes seeing and doing everything I can in Korea with the time that we have, and learning to splurge a little more if it means making an amazing memory.

For blogging, I just want to be more consistent. I kept up some fairly consistent blogging for two or three months in 2015, but kind of fell off the bandwagon for a good chunk of the year. I'm hoping that this year I not only keep myself more active in the blogging world but keep track of more stuff in my life to share with you guys, whether it be nail art or wax or the life of a foreigner in Korea. I'm determined to keep blogging about Korea so I have something concrete to look back on when our time here is over. 

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Thank you, and have a great day!

Stop & Chat: January 27 - February 2

Another picture of one of the miniature sets on display.

We went to the mall and Itaewon again on the 30th. I took some pictures of the mall and one of the view from one of the crosswalks at Itaewon but it was crowded and I was stressed out so I passed on a lot of picture taking opportunities. At the mall we picked up some small knicknacks to fill in the rest of the space in the box I'm sending home to my family. At Itaewon we stopped at Lush and got some skin products for M. He's been having issues with dry, itchy skin. We got him two body conditioners and a rub rub rub body sugar scrub thingy. There are still quite a few Christmas products on display. We picked up one, the Christingle body conditioner. Our free 'sample' was a full sized piece of the coalface soap.

Sniff My Tarts - Powdered Sugar/Pretzel/Fresh Picked Strawberry

Scent Description: Pretty simple self explanatory scent blend. I couldn't find a scent description for 2/3 of these, anyway.
While sniffing the wax I get a very faint, powdery sweet strawberry rolled in crumbled pretzels. I think of a dish my Mom makes for Thanksgiving and Christmas called Strawberry Salad that is anything but a salad :)

Date Received: 12-17-15

Weight Melted: 1.0 oz

Location of Warmer: Living Room

Cold Sniff: 3.5/5 I liked this enough, but it was very faint.

Warm Sniff: 3.5/5 No change.

Scent Strength: 0.5/3 You know how I say that scent strength doesn't typically mean anything good or bad? Here it's bad. The scent was incredibly light and if I didn't know I was melting something I probably would not have noticed the scent. It was an incredibly light bready strawberry scent.

Scent Throw: 2/3 This filled most of the living room. Again, though, I had to strain for it.

Melting Power: 4/5 I left this on for about 6 hours before I could not pick up the scent no matter how hard I tried.

Repurchase: No. If the scent had been just a little stronger I would say yes, as it's quite a nice scent. As it was I added the second half of the chunk halfway through melting to see if I could get a difference in performance. The answer was no.