Scent:Sliced Currant 3 inches X 6 inches Round Color:Purple Retailed: 10.00 One available Scent: First Rain 3 inches X 4 inches Round Color:Slate Retailed: 8.00 One available Scent: Cinnamon Twist 3 inches X 6 inches Round Color: Red Retailed: 10.00 One available Scent: Raspberry Patchouli 3 inches by 3 inches Color: Asian Scroll Painting on all four sides. Retailed: 8.00 Three Available Scent: Black Berry Sage 2.8 inches by 3 inches Color:Orange Asian Elephant design one side. Retailed: 3.oo Three available I don't know why I have so many candles that I've never used. I'm still working on burning down one giant one I've had for 5 years. All of these candles were bought at Pier One Imports and are scented, and are still wrapped in the original wrapping unused. Since I don't have a need for them I'm offering them for trade for; African Violets especially minis, Houseplants, Miniature Ferns, Air Plants (tillandsias) Carnivorous Plants, Certain Cacti & Succulents....basically indoor stuff or plants small enough for a terrarium. You can see a picture of the plants posted on my blog by following the link. Here is a link that might be useful: Pictures of Candles posted on my plant blog

We went into a shop in Camden, Maine this past summer that sold Maine-made crafts, art, gifts and tchotchkes. And scented candles. Even though I was looking for a Maine-themed gift for our pet sitter, I could only spend 15 seconds in the store before I had to leave, because of the overpowering candle scent. My favorite "candles" are the tiny electric tea lights. Smell free, flame free, smoke free, wax-dripping free. Maybe this preference is partly because I made a winter-themed table centerpiece as a kid-- with twigs to simulate trees, cotton balls to simulate snow, and a candle in the middle all in an aluminum pie plate. I decided to put the centerpiece in place, and light the candle, and then went to get everyone so they could see it. We came back into the kitchen, and the whole thing was aflame. My parents doused it with water, but it was destroyed, and it had melted a hole in the middle of the brand new table cloth and scorched the table beneath it. Traumatic.

No, there are too many ingredients that won't dissolve in the wax.

Two thoughts: 1) Leaving them out in the open will definitely let their scent diminish faster than if you leave them enclosed. However, 2) the miracle (dry) solution I've found for neutralizing almost any scent is coffee! I can't remember where I first learned this trick, but it's worked on ceramics that are retaining a scent I don't want on food, on textiles like handbags bought on Ebay that retain perfume from a previous owner, on plastic food containers that are retaining scents, etc. Put the item you want to descentify in a sealed container (plastic bin with lid, ziploc bag, etc.) with fresh coffee grounds – you can use slightly stale coffee for this, but do use grounds rather than whole beans, and use them dry, i.e. not grounds you've already made coffee with. Let the sealed package sit for at least a week, preferably several. (You can test and see how it's going.) In my experience you do not end up with coffee-scented items, though that wouldn't be the worst thing; just with nicely deodorized items. With something that's very porous and contains its own scent, like candles, I'd expect some reduction in scent but not complete elimination.