To wonder what I'm doing wrong with my wax melts!

[Pinkginandlemonadeissoyummmy]

Sorry boring I know but AIBU to think my wax melts should smell of the fragrance they're supposed to and not just wax?
Never used them before but yesterday bought some wax melt cubes, tealight candles and a wax melt burner thingy from Asda. They're crap! I hoped to have the room smelling of cherry but all I can smell is wax. Wondering if I'm not using it correctly?

@Pinkginandlemonadeissoyummmy in fairness I totally missed this part & I actually have an electric wax burner. Not sure if this would be the difference though as both warn&melt the wax. I only use one cube at a time & can use it maybe 3 or 4 times. I leave the burner on for as long as I want to smell the wax if that makes sense. So maybe an hour. This may be the issue if tealight candles are burning out too quickly.

Soy wax is awful for the environment. Gmo grown, chemically extracted and processed. Then there's the deforestation and soil erosion that growing it causes. It takes 6 tonnes of soya beans to make one tonne of soy wax then it has to be shipped over from the other side of the world

Not always true - there is responsibly managed GMO-free soy grown in Europe and used to create wax. You will pay for it, though, as only candle makers that specifically source ethical wax use it for melts (e.g. tigerandco.uk ). Cheap soy wax candles and melts are as awful as the above, though, yes

Paraffin wax is even worse as it has all the environmental baggage of petroleum production, plus it pollutes as it liquifies.

Rapeseed wax and beeswax, both of which can be locally produced and are mutually supportive (bees love rapeseed flowers), are probably the best sustainable choice of wax for this part of the world. Again, you'll pay for it, but there are some ethical candlemakers who go out of their way to source them for melts - www.cottonwickcandle.co.uk, www.beenaturalwaxmelts.co.uk, etc.

I use this company glassandwick.com/

They're ethical (they plant trees with every purchase) and they send you candle /wax care instructions - including how to remove the wax safely.

They are amazing. I never bothered with wax males before because of the same waxy scent OP describes but someone bought me these last Christmas and I've subscribed to the monthly thing.

Honestly they're just gorgeous.

I also use an electric burner and it's probably in my head but it seems to throw the scent better 😂

@toomanypillows that looks like a lovely company and I’m very tempted to try some. Do you pay postage on the monthly subscription or is it literally just the £14ish pm?

I can't remember the brand. They are in cube packets from Asda. Possibly Sweet Sensations or something like that?!

That's your issue, you've bought cheap low fragrance oil content melts, so basically crap. You need a decent fragrance oil percentage to be able to smell the perfume well. I've found the Holland & Barrat ones not too bad, but I much prefer just adding my favourite candle makers fragrance oil to plain wax as I can make it as strong as I like & mix up my own scents

So I've tried a different fragrance (same brand). So far so good! It's the cherry one. The one that didn't work was raspberry/vanilla