Category Archives: Candle Reviews

Pintail Spiced Pear Candle Review

Hasn’t it got cold in the last week or so? Brrr.

Everyone I know is having a rough time with the weather at the moment, I have friends in the US hoping the snow disappears soon and friends in the south of the UK hoping no more rain comes. So much damage 🙁

So I’ve been sorting through my candles and I have had this to review for ages (I apologise) but I was honestly so busy enjoying the candle to write about it. Well, that’s sort of true…

I lit this candle so much over the Christmas holidays as I found a lot of my Yankee Christmas collections were really overpowering and strong. I will definitely need to re-think my Yankee Christmas purchases this year, yes that cinnamon smell will hurt your brain after half an hour Sarah! (and I love cinnamon but they seemed more intense this year – just me?)

But using the Spiced Pear candle from Pintail helped to neutralise out the smell a bit as I hate wasting candles so yes even the cinnamon-hurty-my-brain-ones were used. I absolutely love this Spiced Pear scent as it is a good mix of pear and spice. As well as using it with other candles I have also used it on its own and it smells gorgeous. Hooked! Read More

Reviewed: Yankee Candle’s Merry Marshmallow

With Christmas fast approaching it was time to sample the Christmas Yankee scents and the first that I grabbed from my selection was Merry Marshmallow.

On the Yankee Candle website it is described as a ‘creamy soft concoction of marshmallow and vanilla’. Yummy! I really loved Fireside Treats so I thought this one would be a winner too. I was soooo right! Read More

Obsessed with Autumn: Vanilla Chai and Salted Caramel

We’re pretty obsessive about our candle favourites. You’ll see we have posted our Top 5’s and yes they will probably change… so they are our Top 5’s for now.

This is mine. This is Sam’s.

So anyway, Autumn. I mentioned here that I love this season, it’s so snuggly. I also mentioned in that very same blog that I was loving Salted Caramel by Yankee Candle and I’ll admit I wasn’t totally in love with it from the start. It smelt a bit too sickly when I smelt it in the store. But now I’m obsessed with it. Read More

Lily-Flame’s Vanilla & Honey Candle Review

My love of Lily-Flame candles continues (see my previous review HERE) and also I am a Lily-Flame's Vanilla & Honey Candle Reviewbig Bee fan and therefore honey so this was always going to be bought. Also because it’s vanilla but you know I am vanilla obsessed already so I will shut up. 😉

This had a more denser smell than just the vanilla on it’s own. I thought it started off very sweet but then as I got through more of the tin it became more of the two scents combined. The vanilla seemed to take a long time to come through. But I would definitely buy another tin of this scent and the Just Vanilla one too.

You can have a browse through the Lily-Flame range on their website, HERE and you can tweet them @Lily_Flame and follow on Facebook, HERE.

I am still looking for suggestions for other Lily-Flame scents that you like? Let me know in a comment below. Thank you! x

Lily-Flame’s Just Vanilla Candle Review

So you guys know that I adore vanilla right? So this purchase will come as no surprise Lily-Flame's Just Vanilla Candleto you at all. I bought the Just Vanilla from Lily-Flame a while back and I absolutely love it. So much so that it’s probably my favourite vanilla candle, well actually there is another but that review is to come next time

HINT 1. It’s another Lily-Flame candle… obsessed!

First of I love the packaging and the tins are quite lightweight but they feel sturdy enough (always important with fire!) and the smell is so good. It smells good whether you have lit it or not and I actually loved this in my bedroom as it filled the room with vanillery goodness that made me feel happy as soon as I woke up! Amazing!

Lily-Flame's Just Vanilla Candle 2Now I ordered these through an eBay store as I was doing a bulk buy of candle bits and spotted the same seller had Lily-Flame candles and was offering a good deal on postage. Win, win! But… my candle had this red edging on the inside of the candle, you will notice it in the picture. Yucky!

It wasn’t major but would possibly not buy from the same person again, although everything else arrived fine. I know I could have complained etc but I really couldn’t be bothered (and yes I know how silly that sounds). The stain didn’t burn or melt into the wax so it wasn’t too messy.

I absolutely love the way they present their candles in the tins and they really burn down well.

So yes this along with another Lily-Flame candle are now my favourite vanilla candles. Can you guess what the other one is?

HINT 2. It’s in the photos!

You can have a browse through the Lily-Flame range on their website HERE and you can tweet them @Lily_Flame and follow them on Facebook HERE.