| Tropical Cooler:
I usually love all tropical scents and to my nose just smelling this candle cold, it smelled like candy, not tropical. I couldn’t quite pinpoint what fruit I was smelling so I checked out the description for some help:
“A sweet blend of mixed fruit scents that make your mouth water.”
 Okay, so that description didn’t help me at all. When I read a description, I like reading what the meat of the scent is...not just, “oh...it has this and that in it”. Very frustrating to someone who’s trying to break down a scent for a review. One can only sniff a candle so long before you either burn your nose or give up. In this case I decided to email the company and ask for a more specific description...here it is:
“Tropical Cooler is a scent of citrus, orange and pineapple along with some pear.”
Much better description but sniffing the candle again, I really couldn’t pinpoint any of those scents. It still smelled like powdered candy to me.
I started burning this candle in my bedroom...couldn’t smell it after an entire day of burning and ended up moving it into one of my bathrooms where the candle seemed to perform better. For the first day, my bathroom smelled like Orange Smarties candy...I liked it, but once the candle burned about halfway down...the scent changed and started giving off a strange but light fuel smell. (Cringe) I don’t know if that was a fluke or not as I did keep my wick trimmed all the time. Yikes!! I feel bad but I smelled what I smelled. I even forced my hubby’s nose in it to tell me what he thought. He’s a good sport and said the same thing...it had a funny smell.
As far as the scent itself...I’m not sure if the scent is naturally light or not. I can only go by my experience from this one candle. To me burning it the first day, it was light and not a room filler at all. On a scale of 1 to 10, I give it 4, maybe a 5 in strength. Given the chance, I don’t think I would try this scent again.
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Introduction to My Review of SoyCandleSite.com...
Going back and revisiting this site was interesting. The first thing I noticed was their large scent list. Dude, 170 scents is pretty good and I love shopping on sites that have a nice selection to choose from. I think a lot of us are getting spoiled with huge scent lists, which is perfectly fine with me.
Both candles were 16oz jars which they called “cascade” jars. Both had flat glass lids. Tropical Cooler was peach in color and Grape was purple. Both my candles had one wick. My Grape candle stood out the most as it was hand painted with grapes on the vine...very beautifully done and such a nice touch to an otherwise simple jar candle. (photo to left isn't my jar but will give you an idea of some of their handpainted work.)
