Sunday, December 27, 2015

My Current Wax Stash


Hello out there! We are back home from the holiday run around. Husband and I took down the Christmas decorations and lights. The tree is tucked into the fire pit, ready to blaze on Friday night (Saturday the highs will be in the 60's and lows in the 40's! YES!). I am ready to tackle my 2016 goals. And part of that is melting my wax. I keep all my wax, with the exception of melting basket choices, in these two three-drawer organizers. When I first got into wax years ago I organized by wax containers ie: clamshells, scent shots, bags and what not. I quickly realized that the stronger scents were infiltrating my softer scents... soon everything started smelling of coffee or zucchini bread. So I moved to the scent category method not long after.


The containers sit in my closet. Please excuse the down and dirty iPhone shots. And any untidy carpet scenes. The lighting kind of stinks too but I was not in the mood to be elaborate or stage the shots too much. I wanted to bring you into where the wax lives, where I can sometimes be found rummaging through the bins to smell the lovlies.
 The tops of the drawers hold shipping things, baggies, tape, knick-knacks and whatnot. 


The top drawer in the white organizer holds my floral/earthy/clean scents. 


Some top favorites in this category include: TBG Sea of Tears and Belladonna Tincture, CFTKR Tokyo Nights, Mistletoe and Ivy, OPT Rosewood and Musk. I love down and dirty patchouli, nag champa and dragon's blood, but I melt them as soon as I get them... so none left. Other general scents for any vendor in this one I love are: Rose Jam dupes, Cedar and Saffron, Gardenia Coconut, and most any woodsy and/or amber scents. And Lush dupes. Of course.


The second drawer in the white organizer holds all my bakery heavy blends.


Favorites in this drawer include: RG Wonders of the World, SMT honey gingerbread blends, CFTKR Apple Dumpling and Amish Quilt, LSC Sweet Decadence, and LPL The Lodge. I also enjoy pretty much anyone's Cinnamon Broom, Celtic Moonspice or strong apple cinnamon blends. You notice my bakery leans more spice than anything. Though I do love a good cookie or cake scent.


The bottom drawer holds my fruity stash.


Top billing in here goes to: CFTKR Fresh Picked Strawberry, Sweet (or Summer?) Strawberry Taffy, and Jill's Strawberry Cream Jelly Roll, LSC Felicity, RG Berry Lovely blends. I am horribly picky about fruit scents. I wish I wasn't. I pick up too sweet or artificial as negative things in my nose. Lemonades smell vomitous, fake strawberry smells of rubber, oranges can be too powdery, melons too sickly cloying, grapes are bleh, and banana has to be just right. Fruity bakery combined is one of my least favorite things unless it is apples and some lemons (or the perfect banana with tons of cinnamon). I am a weirdo. An anomaly. I am probably losing followers as I type this, but I cannot change. I like what I like. I can still review a fruity bakery with pretty good objective sensory skills, but will I melt it for pleasure in my home? Probably not. I know way too many people who would enjoy it more than I, so I pass it along the wax chain. Some people hate mints, or floral, I get it. We are all beautifully different.


Speaking of mints... the top drawer in the purple organizer holds my dearly beloved lavender and mint blends.


So many favorites. I could honestly list them all but favorite favorites are: SMT pink peppermint in any variation and their rosemary mint, spearmint blends. And lavender blends. CFTKR Snow and Ice has become a quick love, TBG Ever Night is a stellar Twilight dupe, LSC mint and lavender blends, especially Sweet Dreams, Candyland Dreamin', and Bliss. RG Lavender Mallow is strong and lovely. I enjoy all forms of lavender except fabric softener varieties. 


The second drawer in the purple organizer houses all my pink/VBN/marshmallow blends. 


Yessssss... another top favorite drawer. SMT and LSC hold my gold standards for Pink Sugar. Some specific favorites are: SMT Pink Noel, Pink Sugar Baby and Pink with peppermint, serendipity and/or marshmallow and LSC does Pink Fuzzy Slippers, Pink Marshmallow Shortbread, and Pink samplers really well. UTC pink marshmallow American Cream was a huge hit with me. LSC Sweet Embers is my number one Marshmallow Fireside dupe. And I love CFTKR Serendipity Marshmallow Delight. RG Rosegirl's Garden, Raspberry Sauce and Vanilla Bean Noel ended up being my favorite custom blend of all time. Glitterati Pink Marshmallow Fireside is pretty spectacular too. 

As a side note, I noticed Walmart's plastic clamshell holders work great for LSC scent shots. Those guys don't stack very well at all, but this works wonderfully. 


The bottom drawer in the purple containers holds all my fall/winter/holiday scents. Ya know... the SPICY ones!


Some of my most loved holiday scents include: CFTKR Plumberry Spice, Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, Balsam and Citrus, Spiced Cranberry, Fall Wreath, and Caramel's Perfect Autumn, LSC Fall Fest, Cabin Fever, and Autumn Apple Moonshine were amazing too. 

Most of these were bought by me, but also, many were gifted, swapped or bought second hand. The drawers are about 1/2 to 3/4 full right now. But after I get in my most recent Lasting Scent Candles order they will be much fuller. I also forgot I am waiting on a small Beezy order. My very last Sniff My Tart order arrived. I will blog it soon. Maybe in the new year. So that is my stash! It isn't crazy big as some out there but it is plenty big for me. I have enough to melt, share and trade. I am sure by looking at which vendors dominate which areas, you can tell who I prefer for certain types of scents. But honestly, if I did this again next year it would be slightly different. Last year I had way more Rosegirls, but I have simply melted it all. Plus I had a lot more Front Porch and Ten Digit Creations in there. So it changes in waves. I probably had more variety too. Ah well. Enough rambling. 

17 comments:

  1. My wax storage is three well worn Regional A size boxes in the end cupboard of the buffet. One box is fall scents, one is Christmas scents, and one is everyday scents. I did pretty good on fall scents this year. The only leftovers are several backup packs of A Thankful Harvest (all-time fave) and a couple RG muffin blends I forgot I had. Christmas has a few more leftovers but I did better than other years. And my everyday scent box is currently overflowing but I really don't know what's in there because I haven't bought anything in the everyday category in like, forever. I suspect I might have been tossing scents I don't care for in there. lol

    ~Deb

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    1. You will be so happy to be stocked on Thankful Harvest. That was such a great scent! I hope they bring it back next year. I melted more Christmas scents than I thought I would too. But I may melt more if we get any cold snaps. Whatcha gonna do with your yuck box? I destashed a lot to one of my sisters who wanted wax for Christmas.

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    2. Not sure about the yuck box. I'll probably offer the yuckies for adoption. I need to go through it and see just what's in there.

      ~Deb

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  2. I love it! Your tastes are SO different from mine, but I agree that the RG garden blend was absolute genius! I have a loaf of SMT Peppermint, Pink Coconut, Marshmallow fluff you would love, what with your pink sugar/minty obsession. I'll cut you a slice ;)

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    1. Lol! Well that would make us good swap partners for things we don't like >_< Honestly I imagine most people have opposite scent preferences than me. I do like most things though :-) and I would LOVE that SMT blend! <3

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  3. Love this post!! I love seeing where all your wax lives, nestled all cozy in the closet. Storing by scent is the way to go for sure. My wax storage looks the same as it did over the summer, but now tucked away in its intended closet instead of the basement! We have some similar tastes for sure, I love all the same spicy and holiday scents! I've also been loving the earthy/perfumey blends lately. And I hear you on fruity bakery. They smell good to me on cold but I just don't enjoy smelling them in my home anymore. I am just not a Pink Sugar girl though, love it in personal fragrance but not so much for the home lately. That can always change, of course. I am also iffy with lavender, no matter how much I try. I can only do the true herbal scent and I will accept no imitations lol! Your stash looks like a very manageable size! Mine is still pretty much the same size, especially since I've barely been melting. I did melt Ava's Cinnamon Broom on Christmas Eve and Balsam and Citrus and my Candle Lab Christmas Tree/Grapefruit/Clove blend on Christmas Day though! I've been on a BBW Winter bender lately. I've gone through 2 of those candles in the past 2 weeks! Hope your holidays were awesome Julie!!

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    1. Ava's Cinnamon Broom is so good! So isLCP's version. I am right with you on BBW Winter. I burned it so fast. But I just love be it. Glad you have yourself squared away where you want it. Feels good to have things in their place. My holidays were awesome. I hope yours were too (still majority impressed with you hosting 4 dinners!!). But I am also looking forward to next year. <3

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  4. Thanks for sharing; it was so fun seeing your wax collection! That's a generously sized collection, but I actually thought there'd be even more, haha! My collection lives on my kitchen table where I can readily admire it. With only 2 people there's room for us to still sit and eat there too. :) Walmart clamshells are stored in a basket like your melting basket and etailer wax currently takes up 2/3 of a big holiday popcorn tin. Sometimes I have certain scents in mind for the day's meltings and other times I just reach in and melt the first thing that speaks to me. :) Thanks for dedicating time to your wonderful posts; I hope you are having a wonderful and blessed holiday season!

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    1. Lol!!! I bet!! I melt through things pretty fast. And a lot doesn't even get documented. But honestly, this is how much I am comfortable having. If it was more I wouldn't have space and I would feel overwhelmed. I adore your wax set up! The box and candles look cute arranged there. I hope you are having a wonderful holiday too! Any New Years plans?

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    2. Yes! My husband's best friend is visiting from the Air Force and we're going to his sister's new year's party.

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    3. That sounds fun!!! Enjoy! We will probably order Chinese delivery and light fireworks in the back yard. Maybe get some crackers.

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  5. I'm surprised to read that you are not fond of fruity bakery scents. I don't melt them too often but I do love CFTKR Blackberry Jam Pizzelle and Apple Pizzelle. This winter I have been melting peppermint blends every day. I'm on a roll and can not melt anything but :)

    Was fun looking through your stash! Thanks for sharing <3

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    1. I don't dislike them all patently, I do enjoy apple and bakery, lemon and bakery and sometimes banana. There are a few exceptions... Like blueberry and stuff. Pizzelle is pretty great in all its forms. I used to love BJBC but that particular scent is not high in my favorites right now, it may come back though.... Like zucchini bread. Loved, hated, now liked again.

      There is nothing like peppermint in winter. I think I will melt some today too. Thank you for stopping by! <3 I hope you had a fabulous Christmas friend.

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    2. Apple Pizzelle is one of my favorite scent of all time. So Good!

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    3. I don't recall trying it. I have had lemon and blackberry pizzelle so I definitely need to try Apple. I hear pumpkin pizzelle is good too! How was your holiday Jackie?

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  6. Wow, that's quite a stash!! I'm impressed with the size & organization! That's a lot of wax! :)

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    1. It is healthy :-) but honestly by wax lover standards it is modest. I have seen stashes that are ten times this size. Not that those are normal either lol! But no judging here. I just told myself I get these two organizers and that is it. It has worked for a couple years now.

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