Candle Warmer Lamps Question

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I’ve just bought a candle warmer lamp and bought a couple of Neom candles, as well as already having some others.

I love the idea of the lamp and the smell was great at first but now I can hardly smell anything on the candles I’ve used on it. Am I right in thinking that, even though the candle is still nearly full, the scent itself has probably been warmed away and used up?

If so, I’m not sure it’s lasted as long with the lamp as it would have if I’d burned them. Does anyone have any tips for longevity please?

Thank you.

I got one of these lamps for Christmas and had the same issue - I found this comment over on Reddit which I'm going to try. I'll let you know if it works!

"So yes, if using a candle warmer the wax is not going to burn off. However, the candle warmers generally only melt so far down into the candle. So right now you have a lot of "untapped" scented wax you have not accessed, and you can't with the unscented wax in the way.

The way I use candle warmers is use until I notice the scent is getting fainter. Then I let candle cool off. Next time I start warmer I let it melt "enough" down only enough (totally subjective eye measurement) so I can remove an even layer and then I pour that layer off so the warmer can warm the next chunk. Letting it cool and then pouring some off in a next warming means you aren't like pouring out half the wax from the jar as may be melted at the end of a longer warming session so you extend the wax you have for future warming. You still will have some "less scented wax" left after you pour off that melted layer but then once the candle warms that it will hit back into the next layer of untouched wax and the scent will be there."

Thank you! That makes sense. I’ll give that a that a try. The Neom ones are only the travel size and they’ve melted right through, so potentially I might have used up all the smell on those.

I have 2 and after roughly every 4th use I tip the melted wax away. That’s what the instructions with mine suggested doing. If you light a candle the wax burns away, with the lamp you’re just heating up the same melted wax over and over if you don’t discard the top melted bit every so often.

What I do is only use ‘used’ candles so when they are near the bottom I use the lamp to get the smell out of the last of the wax