They have such a wonderful assortment of candles,wax tarts,car jars,plug in fresheners etc.... It is such a great experience if you can get to or find one of the shops as you will have a great time and spend ages browsing the vast selection and of course more importantly smelling the huge amount of different scents.There are so many scents to choose from that everyone,be it female or male will certainly find at least one if not more scents that they love.
Like I mentioned it is quite difficult to get Yankee in the U.K.My favourite place being a dedicated shop in the Westfield shopping centre in Derby called Delight(It only sells Yankee candles so why it's not called that I don't know!).If we ever go there for the day I always go in there and sniff around so to speak!!!!!!Also qvc shopping channel sell some of the range too but prices can be a little high as alot of the time they sell sets of things so it is a lot of money to spend if you are unsure of scents etc...so I would say it is best to try and find somewhere where you can pay the minimum amount to try the range out before investing more money.I have also found a small selection of the range in some seaside shops,I cannot remember the names but there was one in Skegness,one in Weymouth and one in St,Annes near Blackpool.
The one I am using at the moment is the jar one pictured below,Midsummers night,it is the smallest jar size one that they do (3.7 oz)and retails for around £7.50.The prices may seem quite expensive for candles but I believe these are well worth it.You get around 40 hours of burning time from this jar so I would recommend this for a first time purchase.You do with these jars and any others however have to burn them for a good few hours to stop the tunnelling effect happening,if you don't then you find that the wax has not melted right to the edge of the jar and you are left with a tunnel through the middle and what you have not melted is therefore wasted.These do burn slowly so I would say you might have to burn it for around atleast 6 hours,that's what I found anyway as I have alittle tunnel through mine too! Just keep an eye on it and don't light it when you have to go out somewhere and have to put it out in half an hour!
I have tried the small votive candles (pictured below) but I didn't think much of these and think these were a let down for Yankee as they did not give off much of the scent which is highly unlike this brand.Normally the scent is very true and fills the room unlike some scented candles that smell when not lit and soon as you light them you cannot smell a thing!
I have also tried afew wax tarts.These are round pieces of wax that are made up of very minuscule balls of wax that melt in an oil burner,pop a whole one in or just crumble a little and light a tealight underneath to melt the wax and omit the scent.Yankee do sell special tealights to be used with these.I have not tried them so cannot give any reviews but apparently they have more of a controlled sort of flame that is better for use with the tarts.I use normal tealights and I would say sometimes you can get a little of a burnt sort of smell near the end,maybe this has to do with the flame burning the wax too furiously.I however overcome this slightly by trying to put the candle out just before the wax has nearly all evaporated.Whatever has not evaporated completely solidifies again and can be reused.I wouldn't say keep melting the same piece over and over as it does lose it's smell so just twice is probably enough.These are definitely good for a first time purchase too as they only cost just over one pound each so good for people also who want to try out lots of the scents.If you know better or have any tips,let me know!!!!!
The next scent I would love to try is Vanilla cupcake,smells scrummy! What's your favourite Yankee fragrance?
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