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Page 3 of Julia's Easter Scented Melt Review
This is page 3 of Julia's Easter Scented Melt Review.
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Terri’s Scentsations
I found Terri’s Scentsations while checking out that virtual mall of handmade items, Etsy.com. Terri’s Scentsations offers premium handmade soy tarts that are shaped like little bundt cakes. The melts were cute as could be, each individually wrapped. Melts are sold in six packs with a choice of three different scents per package. Terri’s Scentsations is based out of New Franken, Wisconsin, and everything is made fresh to order. I received my order super fast and it was well packaged. This was my first experience with Terri’s Scentsations, but I have enjoyed all of the melts I tried.
Fresh Cut Grass
“True springtime/summer scent of walking outside after the grass has been freshly cut. Love this”
One of the things I think of when Easter draws near is fresh green grass. I’m not talking about the colorful shreds that fill out the bottom of the Easter baskets - the kind that I’m still picking up a month after the last jelly bean has been eaten. I mean the first sweet, new grass of Spring that’s been dormant for so long through the Winter that we don’t even mind dragging the lawn mower out to cut. That’s the kind of grass I’m talking about.
This is the smell of that fresh Spring grass. It’s sweet and heady… not exactly the same as the lawns I smell from an open car window on a Saturday morning, but pretty close considering it’s wax in a melter. It smelled green and herbal.
This little bundt cake style melt was strong too, filling my kitchen with scent… So strong at first that I wanted to open my windows and let the grass smell mingle with the fresh outside air. I melted this scent while doing some Spring cleaning and it was a great match for that sort of day… fresh and green.
Lily of the Valley
“Essence of these flowers of spring.”
Beautiful white lilies are a traditional part of many Spring and Easter celebrations, adorning homes and churches or being given as special  gifts. I’ve given many an Easter Lily to my dear mother and grandmother, so this Lily of the Valley scent reminds me of the guiding maternal influences of these two strong women.
This scent is ultra-feminine and breathtakingly strong. Oh, wow! This was one potent floral scent. I could easily have used only half of this 1.5 ounce bundt melt. These Spring melts were my first experience with Terri’s Scentsations and I have been impressed with their scent strength. Lily of the Valley may even be too much of a good thing…is that even possible? This scent is for the die-hard feminine floral fan. It just about chased me out of the room.
Cotton Candy
“Just like fresh cotton candy from a country fair!”
The country fair comes early to this part of the country. In the Summer months, the fair travels all throughout the Northern states, but each year in early Spring the county fair arrives in our town and we rarely miss it. So, it’s no wonder that with all of the smells of the midway remind me of Springtime. Elephant ears, funnel cakes, candy apples and of course… Cotton Candy. I can’t get enough of cotton candy scents this time of year, and when I saw that Terri’s Scentsations carried one, I had to have it.
This was one of my better decisions. Terri’s Scentsations makes one of the strongest, sweetest, cotton candy scents around. I wanted to eat this right out of the melter. Cotton Candy is a fabulous, true scent. It reminds me of Spring through and through… sweet, pastel puffs of spun sugar… and no messy, sticky hands. That’s for me.
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The Bathing Garden
You know how it goes when you’re out shopping and you’re trying to just window shop, but once you slip and make that first purchase, the will power topples like dominoes and you end up walking out of the mall with heavy shopping bags and a lighter wallet. That’s what happened to me in a totally virtual way. I was window shopping at Etsy.com, looking for something special for Spring and ended up with some terrific new melt finds.
The Bathing Garden offers clamshell melts in a whole variety of scents and almost every one of them is decorated, each one looks different from the last. As soon as I saw the little pastel Easter Egg decorating one of the clamshells and the little chocolate bunny embedded in another, it was pretty clear they were going to be mine.
The clamshell melts arrived well packaged and they shipped out quickly. Also, I got immediate answers to my scent questions through my Etsy conversations with the vendor. All in all, I had a very good first order with The Bathing Garden.
Chocolate Bunny’s Orange Sugar
“Dark chocolate, tart orange and a sprinkle of brown sugar. Topped off with a cute wax chocolate bunny.”
Even though this review is all about the scents… the melts from The Bathing Garden were so cute they bear mentioning. The bathing Garden sells clamshells and the Chocolate Bunny’s Orange Sugar clamshell melt had a little embed that looked like a chocolate bunny. The surface of the chocolate brown wax was covered with a sprinkling of iridescent pixie dust…. so pretty.
You need to be a chocolate scent fan for this one, as it is truly a dark and rich cocoa fragrance. This custom blend was a super strong scent. It was true to its description and smelled like those crack and unwrap chocolate oranges with the segments of orange flavored dark chocolate. I like the flavor of a chocolate orange but when I first melted this scent, it was a bit too much for me, and I actually turned the melter on and off periodically to keep it in check. The next time I tried it, I used only half of one cube and it was mellow enough to leave on.
It was a fun scent to try and the little chocolate bunny decorating the top of the clamshell was adorable and festive for Easter.
Coconut Cream Easter Egg
“Captures the smell of a gooey centered Cadbury egg...yum!”
This clamshell also had an Easter themed embed… there was a little pink and green Easter egg in the corner and more iridescent confetti  sprinkled on top.
Again, a Cadbury egg reference. For the record, Cadbury eggs don’t have coconut in them, but another brand does. As if my Jelly Bean research wasn’t enough, I also did a little Cadbury egg taste test as well… all in the name of scent identification… at least that is the reason I’m sticking with.
Coconut Crème Easter Egg was a super sweet coconut fondant scent…like coconut on sweet sugar steroids. This one is for all the coconut nuts out there who claim that coconut scents are never strong enough. This one will knock you out, like a coconut falling on your noggin. If there was chocolate in the scent, I didn’t catch it, but I liked the coconut crème on it’s own.
Strawberries & Cream Drizzled with White Chocolate
“Ripe strawberries, whipped cream, sugar, white chocolate and vanilla.”
This was my favorite scent of the three I tried at The Bathing Garden. It was complex and interesting… mostly strawberry which I have been craving lately… but the white chocolate was a thoughtful addition to the fragrance and gave it an edge of sophistication. I really liked this one, and as I’ve noticed with all three clamshells I tried from this artisan, the scent strength was strong. I only needed one cube at a time to easily scent my bedroom and on down the hallway. This was a custom blend that worked beautifully. The white chocolate note came through more clearly the longer I had the melt going.
Like the other two clamshells, Strawberries & Cream Drizzled with White Chocolate was uniquely decorated. The wax was a dark purple/pink with a thin top layer of white with neon pink sprinkles.
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Grumpy Girl Candle & Bath Co.
For a fun, colorful shopping experience, look no further than Grumpy Girl Candle and Bath Co. They mix cool graphics and hot colors with a tongue in cheek sense of humor to create a one-of-a-kind website. They’ve got 2 ounce melts called Cranky Cups as well as clamshell melts and mason jar candles. The same fun scents are available in both wax products and an entire line of bath and body products.
The Grumpy Girl Candle & Bath Co. website was easy to navigate and customer service was fast and cheerful. Each package that arrives from Grumpy Girl Candle & Bath Co. looks like a fun party in a box. My box was filled with neon green paper shreds and brilliant blue tissue paper. It’s always exciting to open up the box, plus there are surprise samples tucked in making it easy to try other scents.
Bless Me Father
“Light Summer florals with green apple, grapefruit and white amber”
Easter is not complete without a blessing, so Bless Me Father must take its rightful spot in my Easter scents review. Plus there is the  added bonus of the scent being a burst of fresh smelling greens and blossoms. Bless me Father smelled fresh and green. It was an explosion of summer flowers. I tried to pick out the green apple note but couldn’t quite find it. The amber is a nice part of the mix, giving the scent sophistication. This scent smelled bright and lifted everyone’s mood on the morning that I melted it.
I used only half of a 2 ounce Cranky Cup in my main living space and it scented the entire area beautifully without knocking anyone out.
Sister Mary Frances
“A softly, musky floral blossom with Calabrian Bergamont, freshly picked citron and neroli, white floral Jasmine, Rose Damascenia and a clean, dry white musk and Cedarwood finish. (Scent is light and delicate by nature due to the scent formulation)”
This scent was another floral, but Sister Mary Frances was so different from the Bless Me Father scent. Gone were the invogorating strong greens, and in their place was a softer, calming muskiness. This was a lovely scent, with a pure, freshly laundered fragrance. It was like a splash of scented water, like raindrops in a flower garden. This scent did seem a bit lighter than some others, as noted in Grumpy Girl’s description, but it was very effective in my bedroom, filling the whole room with its soft, clean fragrance.
Bunny Boiler
“Sweet Pea flowers, Lily of the Valley, and rose are rounded out with touches of melon, musk and vetiver.”
Have you had it up to you ears with bunnies, chicks, plastic Easter grass, sticky marshmallow, pastel colors, and hard boiled eggs? Are you ready to throw the bunny into the pot with the eggs? If you’ve been overrun by cuteness this Spring, take heart. Bunny Boiler is here to help you exact your revenge. Take that, cute little Easter Bunny!
 This scent is just the thing to clear the air of all things sweet and pastel. It’s a complex, graceful fragrance filled with interesting scent notes that work seemlessly. I liked this scent more than I ever expected to. The sweet pea flower is the most prominent, and then it sort of glances over the lily and rose resting more soundly on the melon and musk. In other words, Bunny Boiler didn’t smell overy rosy to me or particularly lily-like. It was one of those blends that you enjoy, but can’t quite put your finger…or nose…on quite why you like it. I found myself sniffing this one greedily, trying to inhale as much of the scent as I could.
No bunny rabbits were harmed in the writing of this review.
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fragrances sprouting up out there. Check out some of these scent ideas or have a peek at your other favorite vendors websites. I’m sure you’ll notice lots of new scent blends to mark the changing season. It’s time to put away those Winter scents along with the scarves and gloves, and leap into a Spring state of mind.
