Yankee Candle

[baker]

Aware me on why women are obsessed with this place.

My wifes answer was simply "Because you stink".

[mslman71]

Aware me on why women are obsessed with this place.

My wifes answer was simply "Because you stink".

Instant fukin' headache for me. I hate those places.

[paolo59]

LMAO Your wife doesn't mince her words, does she? Ha

[LisaSkinnoble]

Not all women, Mr Baker. My house always smells like sautéed onions and garlic. Sometimes I think it would be nice if the house smelled like vanilla or cinnamon, but then I think "Why light a candle? You're about to cook!", so I don't.

Recently, I made a blueberry cobbler. House smelled great. Then my son came home. I told him about the cobbler and he said, "But it smells like roast beef?" Sure enough, I'd popped a prime rib in the oven after the cobbler. lol...

[dbx]

LOL, I think your wife is really trying to tell you something

Me? I love a house that smells great (I guess I got it from ma ), and YK makes great scented candles. The smell of a roast in the oven or some other cooked meal is great, but I'm talking about when such isn't taking place. Aroma therapy....it's real...and it works .

[ArchAngel'73]

LOL, I think your wife is really trying to tell you something

Me? I love a house that smells great (I guess I got it from ma ), and YK makes great scented candles. The smell of a roast in the oven or some other cooked meal is great, but I'm talking about when such isn't taking place. Aroma therapy....it's real...and it works .

I smell a **** right hur.

[CaptChip40]

You think their retail store stink. We live about an hour from the headquarters in Deerfield. Couple of times a year we gotta visit, talk about boring.

[LisaSkinnoble]

LOL, I think your wife is really trying to tell you something

Me? I love a house that smells great (I guess I got it from ma ), and YK makes great scented candles. The smell of a roast in the oven or some other cooked meal is great, but I'm talking about when such isn't taking place. Aroma therapy....it's real...and it works .

Exactly, dbx, when the roast is not cooking. I bought some lavender essential oil for the bath. Now, it is not often I get the opportunity to soak in the bath, but if I do, it would be nice. Well, the bath is on the second floor, and the kitchen is on the first floor, so when I get out I smell like lavendar roast beef! lol...

[beachguy498]

Instant fukin' headache for me. I hate those places.

I have called it the Instant Headache Shop for years. I farted in one once, couldn't smell it and it was a good one.

Rob

[dbx]

I smell a **** right hur.

Yeah, I guess it's "unmanly" to like nice smells . Brian, I'd prefer to never light one of those candles, but sure as hell wish I could make my house (ahem...apt.) smell like one of their shops (srs).

Oh, wait...I now realize that smelling protein farts is much more manly, and preferred. Yeah, I retract my previous post.

[dbx]

Exactly, dbx, when the roast is not cooking. I bought some lavender essential oil for the bath. Now, it is not often I get the opportunity to soak in the bath, but if I do, it would be nice. Well, the bath is on the second floor, and the kitchen is on the first floor, so when I get out I smell like lavendar roast beef! lol...

Enough to drive any man crazy!

[ArchAngel'73]

Yeah, I guess it's "unmanly" to like nice smells . Brian, I'd prefer to never light one of those candles, but sure as hell wish I could make my house (ahem...apt.) smell like one of their shops (srs).

Oh, wait...I now realize that smelling protein farts is much more manly, and preferred. Yeah, I retract my previous post.

I forgive you.
this time

What kind of sick puppy likes the smell of their own protein farts??
Oh!
wait

[SP1966]

I smell a **** right hur.

Its going to take more then one candle to over power that smell!! LMAO

[LisaSkinnoble]

Hey men: BBQ rib smelling hair + unscented candles (giving a nice glow to the room) = romance!

[SP1966]

Hey men: BBQ rib smelling hair + unscented candles (giving a nice glow to the room) = romance!

BBQ = Romance!

[dungeonmistress]

I've never set foot in one.

[latebloomingmom]

I get a headache just walking by those stores...yuck

[Marius_Ursus]

I love Yankee Candle. The flagship store in Massachusetts is a lot of fun.

We have some scents that we have on hand all the time depending on the season. Winter is heavy on the evergreen scents, spring more waters, grasses, and leaves...love that place.

[Marius_Ursus]

Yeah, I guess it's "unmanly" to like nice smells . Brian, I'd prefer to never light one of those candles, but sure as hell wish I could make my house (ahem...apt.) smell like one of their shops (srs).

Oh, wait...I now realize that smelling protein farts is much more manly, and preferred. Yeah, I retract my previous post.

Is it the actual lighting of the candle or the fact that it's a "girly" product or what?

How about their diffusers or oil plates...can't remember what they're called, really, but they're porous stones where you drop some oil of whatever thing you want to smell, and it soaks in and releases the aroma.

[IdahoViking]

bacon scented candles would be nice.

[crupiea]

women in general are more driven by smell, much more then men are.

They use their sens of smell in ways that men dont. They can detect a mate or an adversary just by an indetectable odor that you and I cant smell.

Ever notice how a woman will meet another woman and right away they dont like them? i am sure you have. Their smell has alot to do with it. not that they would overly smell bad but something about it stirs their competetive juices.

[paolo59]

I think a house should smell like coffee and bacon sizzling in a skillet first thing in the morning. By mid morning, something simmering on top of the stove, a big pot of vegetable soup, or beans with hamhock. Around 2:00 or 3:00 perhaps an apple pie in the oven. By around 5:00 or 6:00 the place should be infused with the aroma of a big roast with all the fixins', or perhaps fried chicken and fresh biscuits with pan dripping creamed gravy! Maybe before bed you could spray around a little Febreeze, then start all over again first thing next morning!

I do like candles though.

[mslman71]

I get a headache just walking by those stores...yuck

I would describe the smell as the equivalent of someone screaming. The smell is deafening.

[LisaSkinnoble]

Years ago, I went to a home candle party. Kinda like a tupperware party but you buy over-priced candles instead. My girlfriend MaryJo got right into it. She bought all kinds of different scents. She said when she received her order, she went round her house placing different little tea light candles here and there - apple cinnamon in the family room, strawberry in the powder room, grapefruit in the kitchen, and a woodsy pine in the front hall. She was quite pleased with herself until she went upstairs and realised that her house smelled like rotting fruit! lol.. don't mix your scents.

My auntie is married to an Italian. They have the most exquisite garden I have ever seen. All of my life, going into her house, the smells were gorgeous. She often has herbs hanging to dry over her stove, and add to that she is an amazing cook. I keep potted herbs like basil, parsley, thyme in my kitchen. I use those herbs a lot in my cooking and it's great to have fresh on hand. And I love the smell of basil.

[flairon]

I like candles, and my wife likes them so much that it was cheaper for me to buy equipment and learn how to make candles. I've got a whole collections of molds for pillar candles, votive molds and we hit the salvation army for containers to pour into and I've got a digital turkey fryer and another little electric cooking pot for wax melting.

The markup on candles is outrageous once you see the prices. Even at my price points, which i don't buy anywhere near the same levels as yankee candle I'm sure, the $25 yankee candles in the store really only have about $2. worth of stuff in them.

Now I make them for her every so often, family for christmas..etc. 50lbs of wax goes for about 50-60 bucks depending on what kind and where you buy, 32oz of fragrance runs about $30, huge bag of wicks costs like $10, then other little things you need, additives and colorings..etc. By the time everything is all said and done, about $100 will give you enough stuff to make about 80 or so pillar candles that are just as good as yankee candle, and you can add more/less scent. Some people don't even make the scented candles any more, they make scented cubes of wax that you put in a candle warmer. Still get the scent, but no flame.

I also make 'trick' candles for buddies. I made a couple a while ago for a buddy who's father-in-law just made a new mancave. The top 1/2 inch or so had a nice vanilla scent so for the first couple hours of burning its smells pretty good, after that I used 'liquid ass'...yes, it smells just like the name. He said his FIL still hasn't figured out where the stink is coming from and the last time he was over there all the furniture was in the process of being moved around looking for the dead animal in the room.

[OutOfStep]

Yeah, I guess it's "unmanly" to like nice smells . Brian, I'd prefer to never light one of those candles, but sure as hell wish I could make my house (ahem...apt.) smell like one of their shops (srs).

I like them too. What a homo I must be for wanting my living space to smell nice.

[KPainter70]

bacon scented candles would be nice.

You mean like these? http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/zombies/e585/

[paolo59]

I like candles, and my wife likes them so much that it was cheaper for me to buy equipment and learn how to make candles. I've got a whole collections of molds for pillar candles, votive molds and we hit the salvation army for containers to pour into and I've got a digital turkey fryer and another little electric cooking pot for wax melting.

The markup on candles is outrageous once you see the prices. Even at my price points, which i don't buy anywhere near the same levels as yankee candle I'm sure, the $25 yankee candles in the store really only have about $2. worth of stuff in them.

Now I make them for her every so often, family for christmas..etc. 50lbs of wax goes for about 50-60 bucks depending on what kind and where you buy, 32oz of fragrance runs about $30, huge bag of wicks costs like $10, then other little things you need, additives and colorings..etc. By the time everything is all said and done, about $100 will give you enough stuff to make about 80 or so pillar candles that are just as good as yankee candle, and you can add more/less scent. Some people don't even make the scented candles any more, they make scented cubes of wax that you put in a candle warmer. Still get the scent, but no flame.

I also make 'trick' candles for buddies. I made a couple a while ago for a buddy who's father-in-law just made a new mancave. The top 1/2 inch or so had a nice vanilla scent so for the first couple hours of burning its smells pretty good, after that I used 'liquid ass'...yes, it smells just like the name. He said his FIL still hasn't figured out where the stink is coming from and the last time he was over there all the furniture was in the process of being moved around looking for the dead animal in the room.

Pretty cool! Candles are ridiculously expensive to be sure. Sounds like an interesting project to play around with.

[latebloomingmom]

I would describe the smell as the equivalent of someone screaming. The smell is deafening.

maybe I am allergic to that stuff...I do know that when the perfume spritzer girl comes near me I have the overwhelming urge to punch her right out of her shoes..

[flairon]

Pretty cool! Candles are ridiculously expensive to be sure. Sounds like an interesting project to play around with.

oh yeah.

A couple years ago, I was selling them pretty regular. I looked around on ebay and found old bail wire glass canning jars. Sometimes hard to come by but they can be found. I hooked up with a guy in Indiana that apparently was clearing out a departed grandmother's canning collection and was buying them for about 1.00 apiece. After everything was all said and done, a finished one would end up costing me like 1.85 or so in any scent. My mom works at a retirement hospice and I sent her a few and once she showed them to the ladies at her work, it was all over with. Mom was pimping them out for $10 apiece..says she was making a little egg money.

Then a buddy of mine bought some for his wife and she wanted them because they were soy based and for the jars, then she talked me and him into trying our hand at making bath products for sale. There's actually a pretty sizable market for handmade bath stuff and candles. So he and I both went about learning how to make bath products. I made the candles, bath bombs, he made soap and bubble bath. We looked around on the internet and found a place that sold hand made wicker baskets (made in the u.s. of course) and bought a batch of them and his wife was slinging them at the flea market as gift packs for $40 as fast as we could make them. Each pack was scent oriented..food/flowers/same type scents. Each basket had 2 candles, 2 big bathbombs about the size of baseballs, 32oz bottle of hand made bubble bath and 3 bars of various hand made soaps, usually some kind of oatmeal/honey/shea butter configuration. All individually wrapped and packaged very tastefully. For valentines day we threw in a package of chocolates and there were guys that were ready to nominate us for sainthood for providing a decent last minute Valentine's Day gift for $50..and we had maybe $8 in the whole deal. The baskets cost more than anything else.