Favorite Candle Scent:

[Maddy McCall]

Poll question: Favorite Candle Scent:

Which is your favorite candle scent? Which do you abhor?

I am going candle shopping this afternoon, and will welcome suggestions from DUers!

[LWolf]

1. Operating from memory,

since my olfactory nerves have not worked for 2 years and 44 days...not that I'm counting.

I picked lavender. Subtle and calming.

I also like lemongrass.

[SiobhanClancy]

2. Yankee Candle Buttercream is my favorite

but on the other hand,fall scents are nice this time of year. Harvest,Pumpkin Pie, and Macintosh are good ones from Yankee.

[Maddy McCall]

10. I LOVE Yankee's Linen scent...

can't remember the name of it, but it is a clean, light scent.

Yankee candles are the best...can now get them at Cracker Barrels across the US.

[hippiechick]

3. Pumpkin or anything spicy - Door County Candle Co of WI

:( Sometimes it really sucks not being home :(


:hippie:

[flamingyouth]

4. Nag Champa

I love it (sandalwood blend).

[laura888]

6. yummy - where can one get that? n/t

n/t

[LWolf]

8. I've never seen it in a candle,

but you can it as incense most places that sell incense!

[tridim]

22. I get it at the Asian market

It's soooo cheap there. Around $3.00 for 200 sticks.

[flamingyouth]

17. I buy mine at a local bookstore

East West bookshop in Seattle. I took the sticker off the candle to burn it, so I don't know who makes it (whoops - sorry). You might try doing a Google search for Nag Champa candles, though.

[newyawker99]

44. Congrats laura888!! 300 posts

:toast:

[Punkingal]

5. Vanilla.....

I think vanilla lasts longer, and smells stronger.

[rbnyc]

31. also vanilla. (nt)

[VOX]

36. Yes, I am insane for vanilla!

When my wife lights a vanilla candle, I become like one of those Looney Toons characters blissfully floating around the room on the aroma.

Mmm -- good stuff!

[Rashind]

7. I sold "art candle" brand candles all summer...

Blackberry candles are amazingly excellent.
Irish Clover makes me actually physically gag.

[BiggJawn]

9. None. Just Plain Wax.

If you can imaginme what 15 pounds of vanilla-scented wax, mixed with the stinky soot from a plastics-fueled housefire, combined with Methylene Chloride and dissolved Poly varnish smells like, then you know why I don't like scented candles.

I did that job almost 20 years ago, and vanilla candles still make me queasy...

[MaineDem]

11. Hazlenut Coffee

from Yankee Candle is my absolute favorite. I also like Lilac.

[MercutioATC]

40. The Hazlenut Coffee smells O.K. until you actually burn it...

Then it smells like maple syrup...

[Blue-Jay]

12. Other.

My favorite is the hazelnut coffee scent. The rest always smell kind of feminine. I thnk that candle companies are missing out on a huge opportunity to attract men to their products.

Proposed scents:

* Bacon - What manly-man doesn't like the smell of bacon?
* Cheeseburger - mmmmm.
* Pizza - The perfect food!

Back to reality: I also like vanilla and peppermint candles.

(edited poorly-placed tags)

[Maddy McCall]

14. LMFAO! Pizza or Cheesburger candles...ROTF!

God, those would be horrible if you had a hangover, though?

How about mayo scented candles? Gross, eh?

[Blue-Jay]

18. MAYO?!?

Well, now that's just weird! (maybe catsup would be OK, if my sofa didn't already smell of it)

[Maddy McCall]

24. LOL! Or what about "Beer Scent"....

Guys would definitely love that, eh?

[Blue-Jay]

27. "Beer scent" follows me everywhere.

I don't need a candle for that. I just need to burp.

[FauxNewsBlues]

21. Another vote for boy candles

How about sawmill scent? Racing fuel? Nachos!

Seriously though, I like outdoors, woodsy scents. One of the scent stores is actually selling men's body wash with an outdoors scent. Would love that in candles. Eucalyptus, pine, and bug spray isn't a scent is it?

[Maddy McCall]

25. Damn, that just may be my million dollars...

candles for men! Worth looking into...

[Blue-Jay]

28. I get a commission!

"Intellectual Property" and all that...

[Maddy McCall]

30. I'll become a Republican and then give you your commission in

free candles for life. LOL! You won't share the profit, but I will give you tokens of my appreciation.

LMFAO!

[Blue-Jay]

26. Sawmill!

In all seriousness, that would be the shit! I love the smell of sawdust.

Oooo! Maybe freshly-cut grass would work too!

I'm telling ya, there's a market out there that has yet been unrealized.

[hlthe2b]

13. well, I think I'm in the minority, but hate Yankee Licorice...

so much I can't even walk by the store because it permeates into the mall.

I do love most scented candles, though, gardenia, magnolia, lemon, spice pumkin, lavender, lilac.... Good luck.

[ScreamingMeemie]

15. Cranberry, from the Candle factory in Traverse City MI

mmmmmmmmm

[Droopy]

16. French vanilla is my fave

My mom bought a baked cookie scented candle and I thought it was horrendous. It didn't smell anything like baked cookies. It had more of a chemical smell to it.

[U2Fanatic]

19. ocean scented ones are my fav

I also like cinnamon and peppermint.

[cmd]

20. Yankee Candle Green Grass

I love the smell of freshly mowed grass.

[Deja Q]

23. Mulberry...

I prefer the smell of men, but I doubt we'll get that in candle form any time soon...

:evilgrin:

[populistmom]

29. Cinnamon! nt

[Bossy Monkey]

32. I think it was blueberry

anyway, it was blue. Just house-brand Kmart candles. I liked 'em a lot.

[caledesi]

33. Yankee Candle - Citrus and Teak! Really permeates the air.

[jus_the_facts]

34. Mulberry is my favorite.......

:loveya:

[scarlet_owl]

35. Patchouli.

Everyone I know hates it, but it's my favorite smell!

[Maddy McCall]

46. I hate it too...have a funny story about it.

My guyfriend wore patchouli oil as a cologne. He permeated his home with the smell. No one liked it, and if you visited his house and then went to visit another friend, everyone there would say, "So I can smell that you have been over at Guy's."

Well, my son hated the smell too, and once my guybuddy gave him a hug, and my kid said, "Jeez, don't hug me, you're gonna make me stink like you!"

All the adults kind of looked at their feet, glanced around, choked back laughter, and generally pretended not to know what my kid was talking about. It was a very tense moment. :-)

[peacefreak]

37. Pear

or clove, depending on my mood.

[SoCalDem]

38. "rain"...n/t

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[FloridaJudy]

39. Sandalwood

The smell of Sandalwood turns me into a drooling sex maniac.

I'm not sure why; no guy I've ever met wears Sandalwood perfume. A few of them wore musk, but it's not the same.

And as to Lavender, forget it! That was my grandmother's favorite perfume. She was the Judgemental Bitch from Hell; every time I smell lavender, I expect a steely claw to grip my shoulder, and a voice to hiss "Judy, you've disappointed me again!"

Smells are unbelievably personal; they by-pass the thinking parts of our psyches and go straight to our Reptile Brains.

This is why I both believe/refuse to believe in Aromatherapy!

[grasswire]

41. if you're ever in South Deerfield MA...

....be sure to visit the Yankee Candle factory and gift shop. It's like a mini amusement park. I haven't tried the restaurant, but the menu looks good.

http://www.yankeecandle.com

[Terwilliger]

42. jasmine and pathchouli incense...bayberry candles

bayberry or lavender

[binaryline]

43. Yankee Candle's Midsummer's Night and Stormwatch

Mmmm... men's cologne scented candles ;-).

Yankee used to make a leather-scented candle that was awesome in small doses...

[Throckmorton]

45. Lilac, makes my house smell like a funeral parlor,

Or some my Grandfather always complained.