Christmas smelling candles

[linentowel]

Can anyone recommend a nice candle or candles? I bought some yankee candles last year but the fragrance didn’t last at all. Really disappointing.

I particularly like cinnamon and pine smelling. Nothing sickly sweet.

Yankee Candle - Christmas Eve 🤤

I am a cheapskate, I use the ones from Home Bargains at £2.99.....

I've got one of the M and S ones already (mulled wine - lovely but not massively strong) but I'd recommend a wander through TK Maxx (or homesense if you have one) - I picked up a couple of lovely Christmas scents there today, and they had loads of choice. I got a cinnamon one and a gingerbread one but they also had several different pine/fir ones - they're not my personal favourites but it's worth a look if you like that!

The gingerbread one definitely is @lotusbell. I’ve bought a few others, and the christmassy/spicy ones tend to have a good scent, the fruity/floral ones less so. I find that with most candles,tbh, so,not sure if it’s just what I tend to notice.

Tk maxxHomesense. I bought a lovely candy cane one the other day.

Thanks, @MangoSalsa. My experience too. Maybe just because cinnamon, spice, orange, vanilla are naturally quite highly scented. Will definitely look at getting one.

Gingerbread by Can To Candle is gorgeous

I don't have a strong sense of smell so I can't normally get away with the less expensive end of the market. But I read this thread the other day, and today I was passing B&M so I thought I'd try.

What can I say? I got the pack of eight gingerbread wax melts* for...79p. SEVENTY NINE PEE I tells thee. And what a result. Not only can I smell the burner even from outside my living room, but the smell itself is gorgeous. Thank you very much for the recommendation. I also got the apple/cinnamon wax melts to try next.

*Does anyone else struggle not to try and eat them like a bar of chocolate?

I bought an M&S one recently and it’s rubbish. Doesn’t smell and has tunnelled.

The John Lewis one is twice the price, but smells amazing and burns well.

For a budget one, I like Hogmanay by Shearer and the St Eval candles are good too but a bit more expensive.

@MangoSalsa, was really disappointed with the gingerbread! Received my order from LoveLulayesterday, I'd ordered the Gingerbread and the Chai candles.unwrapped, neither gave off a very strong scent so burned the Gingerbread last night, it didn't my evenly and after 2 hours could barely smell it. Was gutted! Maybe I got a dodgy one

@Tulipvase, have ordered Hogmanay!

Lily Flames ‘Festive Cheer’ or ‘Whispered Wish’ ones. Both have an orangey ginger cinnamon clove type smell to them and are nice and strong when lit.

QVC have a Todays Special Value on Yankee
2xLarge 2xMedium 2x Small as a set (same scent but choice of eight)

I cannot have candles now due to the cats

Oh no, @lotusbell! I’ve got a couple this year but havEn’t burned them yet. I hope they haven’t changed them.

White company's pine candle smells fantastic. I didn;t even light it for about a month and it scented the whole house. Then I lit it for about 20 mins a day and the scent lasted. gorgeous but not overpowering. it costs £££ but lasts for ages.
Cheaper ones that also work are M&S orange and cinnamon.

mandarin and cinnamon, not orange.

Christmassy pine-scented candles almost all remind me of men's room disinfectant .

I got a little sauce pot with my slow cooker and I use it instead. I add a cinnamon stick, orange peel, dash of vanilla, a few twigs of rosemary, maybe a lemon or some cranberries, cloves, ginger or pine twigs, with some water and set it all to simmer.

I had my mother in law buy a huge collection of the Wickford and Co Gingerbread candles. They are either from B&M or Home Bargains and the large jar candle is £3.99.

Oh, maybe I should have read the whole thread! It seems I'm quite Kate to the Gingerbread candle party

@MangoSalsa, yep the Masala Chai one was also rubbish, I've contacted them to complain. No scent at all and I haven't got a cold or anything so sense of smell not affected. Was really disappointed as they have other scents I wanted to try.

@mathanxiety - I agree but the White Company one is an exception. It doesn't smell of 'pine', it smells of a walk in a pine forest on a fresh, crisp day. Very different scent.

I agree with home bargains gingerbread.