The Right Wick Makes the Difference

Have you ever wondered how wicks work? Read this short couple of paragraphs about wicks on How Wicks Work. It explains in simple English how wicks work in candles.

This will give you a better understanding of wicks in general.

Why do different company's scents smell different?

From time to time, I get this questions. Why do different company's scents smell different? Why can't I get Yankee's scent? Why don't your apple smell like Missy's?

The answer is simply complicated.

For instance, Yankee's scents are trademarked. You are not going to get their scent - ever. You may get one similar, a Yankee Type, but you will never get the real deal.

Now, take a scent like Vanilla. There are over 50 samples of plain old Vanilla that I have had personally. Yes, just asking for a plain Vanilla will get you at least 50 different Vanilla's. I was told there are over 500 plain Vanilla's by a sale rep.

So you can imagine how difficult it would be to get, say, your competition's scent. You would have to get 500 samples! Now complicate that with the different manufactures of scents. Each company uses it's own chemist, with their own ingredients and ways of making fragrances.

For most manufactures, candle scents are a side line, not their bread and butter, sorta speak. The real manufactures are making scents for Proctor and Gamble, the food industries, and other large commercial ventures. Not for us small time at home candle makers. Unless you are ordering scents by the train car load, they aren't going to give us our competitor's fragrances.

And why would you want an exact copy of someone else's scents. Isn't the nature of a business to be different?

Comments are always welcome.

Unscented Car Air Fresheners

Finally, a way to make your own car air fresheners, using the candle scents from your personal supply. You have the opportunity to create your own unique packaging too.

We are offering unscented, primitive and country shapes for making your own air fresheners. The paper is handmade here in America, not to far down the road from us.

The shapes are bears, butterflies, ovals, primitive hearts, gingerbread men, and regular hearts. O, don't forget the doves.

All the colors of the rainbow, including a brown for the gingerbread men and bears.
Just take a regular craft paint brush and a little dab of scent and smear it on the paper. Front and back. Now lay it on a bakery cooling rack and let it dry. Hint: We use the expensive craft paint brushes, the cheaper ones tend to fall apart. Rinse in rubbing alcohol, yep, the kind you have in the bathroom cabinet.

Have fun!