Root's Cranberry and Nouvelle's Noel Blanc, although I think it's been discontinued.

I like to use a candle warmer most of the time, but will occasionally burn candles.

I don't burn candles, but I melt their wax in a warmer. One of my favorites is Slatkin Leaves.

The Thymes candles are awesome as well. I like Olive Leaf. I gave both my younger brother and my baby sister "Frasier Fir" for Christmas because they both have artificial trees. Gives their houses that "Christmas-y" smell!

I don't do candle either, DH has allergies. But, I use the Bath and Body difusers. I love the cranberry which only comes out during Christmas. I stock up on them. I also like the Japanese Blossom.

I constantly burn Yankee Candle Tarts. They give off great throws, better than jar candles. YC just had their tart sale (may still be going on) for a $1.00 a tart instead of paying $2.00 tart.

Gold Canyon Candles- my two favorites are Sweet Pea and Clean Sheets!

There is a brand of candles call Trapp. I've only ever bought the votives. They're oversized votives and almost every one smells great. My source went out of business so I can't recall my favorite because I haven't had one for a few years. I just looked them up online and you can get a votive for $2.99. They have larger candles too. Not only do they smell good but they are potent--but not where they give you a headache. One votive scented my entire lower level of my home--about 400 sq feet. I can't rave enough about these candles. I've attached a link below where you can check them out and order. I'm going to order now that you got me thinking about them again. Yummy! I remember the Vanilla Orange being good and the Rosemary Jasmine sounds good too. I remember liking the botanical/herb scents the best.

Here is a link that might be useful: Trapp Candles

I love the Williams Sonoma basil candle -- sadly, now discontinued. Meyers Clean Day might have a basil-scented one.

Second to this is Havana from Archipelago Botanicals. They have several other lovely scents, too.

I don't like scented candles at all, with the one exceptionof Thymes' Frazier fir. I keep them out all year.

My very, very favorite is "French Market" from Tyler Candle Company. To me, it's the loveliest, most romantic candle scent I've ever encountered. I have several of their candles around my home. They smell great even when they're unlit.
Lynn

Brand: Archipelago, scent: Havana

Freckles-n-Frills, if you like the woodsy smell of Fireside you might like the Havanas.

Where I live now, it's not as easy to find Havanas so my fall-back brand is Pier One, scents Ember or Patchouli.

The Thymes Frasier Fir is wonderful!

My favorite was Tuscan Herb from Pier One. They discontinued it, then brought it back, then discontinued it a couple of years ago again. Just a wonderful scent - described as:

""Intoxicating aromas of fresh-picked tomatoes, red currants, leafy greens and Italian basil, with underlying tones of earth and sandalwood"

I have found a couple of sites that are supposedly creating this scent, but I am leery that it won't be the same. I still have a couple of scent diffusers and some candles, and I am using them sparingly!

My favorite is also Woodwick Fireside. I got the Fireside reeds to but it smells nothing like the candle.

I love beeswax candles. I love how they feel and smell. They are expensive but last a really long time. I buy a box about once a year from Bee Hive Candles.

Mom2Boys -- Trapp is my favorite as well -- it's a local company as well!!! Their candles are amazing and have so much fragrance. I can burn a candle downstairs and smell it upstairs BUT it isn't so much fragrance that it gives you a headache (I've been in homes that burned those) --

i like their orange vanilla, Exotic Spice and lavender. I mostly burn lavender only now because I like the clean refreshing herbal scent. But I've been given other "flavors" and they are all good!!!

I also burn lamp berger -- I like their lavender fragrance the best but they have a gingerbread that is good, a winter wood that I like as well.

Martha

Love WoodWick and Fireside is my favorite! Also like warm campfire and recently bought a laveder spa reed diffuser

I used to burn nothing but Yankee Candle, but I've switched to Scentsy and I'm hooked! I haven't run into a bad scent yet. I'm actually burning 2 as we speak and the house smells divine!

The WoodWick has great reviews but one said they put out a lot of soot. Is this true?

I hate, hate, hate the artificial cloyingness of all scented candles, potpourri, oils, plug-ins, diffusers, incense sticks, whatever.
If do I burn anything, it's either the wood stove or a plain beeswax candle which neutralizes odours in the air rather than mask them.

On the other hand, I do love the scent of fresh linen, baby powder, Mr Clean and furniture wax.
And when I'm hungry, garlic and frying onions always smell divine...

I don't think good candles are artificial at all, depending on how you look at it. They use oils from the plants to get the aroma is all. I love a nice scent when I'm home.

Same with potpourri, you just drip real oils onto the leaves which are usually dyed, but those don't give off the scent, just the oils do.

I love asian spice from pier one. I save all my candle
bottoms that can no longer burn after the wick is gone
and use chunks of the candle wax in candle warmers.
I also kick up the melted wax a notch in the
warmers -- with a few drops of sented oils
such as pouchouli. yummy

I am with oakleyoak. Although some folks do use candles to mask unpleasant smells (not sure if that works) to me, appreciating scent is just a matter of individual taste. When I walk into my bedroom, I want it to have a distinct smell just like I want it to have a distinct color, a certain arrangement of light, etc., because to me that is what makes it feel like "my" room and a beautiful comfortable space.

Likewise, I burn incense every day, not because something smells bad, but because I want to smell the incense--it smells good to me and is just as pleasing to my senses as the gleam of my silver vase, the sound of music on the stereo, and seeing my rooms tidy and "fluffed", looking their best. It's just a pleasure, not a mask.

I am addicted to candles! I love the way they make the house feel cozy. My very fav's are
Woodwick~ Redwood scent, Pumpkin Butter
Yankee Candle~ Mountain Lodge, Balsam&Cedar, Vanilla&Oak
and
Slatkin and co.~ Autumn leaves,EucalyptusMint,(from Bath and Body Works).

And just about any pumpkin/spice/apple/bakedgood or peppermint/pine scents for X-mas time, from above companies.
I wasn't kidding. I really have an issue.

My understanding is that most of the scents used in today's mass produced home products are mainly odiferous petrochemicals. Even those touted as "natural" or "organic" may be up to 90% synthetic, with absolutely no identification of the other ingredients - liken it to waving a sprig of real lavender over a vat of oily stew. Same thing goes with a lot of the so-called essential oils that you buy at the store - also synthetic and just brimming with potentially toxic, perhaps carcinogenic, allergy inducing chemicals. Who really knows yet what the long term effects may be? It would be very difficult to avoid any artificial scents at all but it still makes sense to me personally to avoid excessive contact. And the thought of exposing my kids or friends with compromised immune systems to unnecessary potential danger for trivial reasons is even more frightening.

If scent is truly important to you, then absolutely - go for it. But it may just be safer to make your own essential oils or spend the extra money to buy 100% guaranteed and trusted-to-be pure fragrances. And if it's ambiance that you're after, instead of plugging a plastic whatzit into the wall socket, throw a cinnamon stick, some cloves and a curl of orange peel into a pot of boiling water on the stove... then add your own sweet smile :)

I've done the stove top thing and I hated that I had to keep checking on the pot because the water would evaporate. lol.

I don't understand how burning one candle could be harmful to anyone, unless it puts out a lot of soot which is not good.

I hope there aren't any more debates because the topic is asking for our favorite candle brands.

As adriennemb said above, candles (or anything else) with added "fragrance" are not good for you or the environment. Please see two blog posts, one describing the various types of candle wax and the other about fragrances & flavours.
http://smallbones.ca/blog/the-lowdown-on-fragrances-flavours/
http://smallbones.ca/blog/the-lowdown-on-candle-waxes/

I admit up front that I'm a beeswax chandler, but I'm not trying to sell here, simply hoping that if you're going to burn candles, you use only beeswax. The reason I use only beeswax is because I did the research & realized it's the only safe & sustainable type of candle wax. I originally made soy candles, but quickly learned that they are not natural. The reason some candles give you headaches will be clear if you read the blog posts.

Here is a link that might be useful: Smallbones Studio of Home Arts & Sustainable Living

JG, it doesn't matter whether it's good for us or not, what I'm trying to say is the OP did an innocent topic asking her fellow candle burner's what we like. I'm sure she didn't anticipate people coming into lecture us. It literally ruins a well-meaning, fun, and interesting topic.

With that being said, when I was at WalMart a bit ago, I bought a small Paula Deen jar candle, so I'm going to see how good the throw is.

I love the Thymes Frasier Fir, as well. I use it all year long, and also have several of the FF reed diffusers scattered throughout my house. I also love Slatkin/Nest candles. I got the large Holiday candle from them last year and loved it so much that I bought more to burn even after the holiday.

And I agree with oakleyok. Let us know how you like the Paula Deen candle. I've looked at those often at Walmart but have never tried one.

Me too, oakleyok. Agree. The cheaper candles tend to burn more quickly, ergo, not a good "deal" at all. If you sign up at Yankee candles website thet mail out coupons. I just got a buy one, get one free. I am going today to pick up leather and Mt logde for my late fall theme. I forgot to mention fig. I found one at TJ Maxx that was so delicious, no idea what brand, unfortunatley.
I am curious about the Paula Deen one. I am a firm believer that nothing good comes out of a Walmart.

I just picked up a Slatkin & Co. candle at Bath and Body today. I'm very candle shy becuase they can be so expensive and I've only had 50/50 luck w/ Yankee Candles and them burning evenly (even when I've burned 2 candles side by side).

I took the plunge today at the B&B outlet since it was only $10. I bought Apple Crumble. Holly Hannah! I'm sold - I will not hesitate to buy more and am planning to do so ASAP. It's burning evenly and the scent is heavenly and fills the house.

I have to agree that candles can be a real problem for anyone with allergies. While you may be doing the scents for your own enjoyment, when you host a book club or invite anyone else into your home, you are bringing them into your scents as well. I am a real estate agent and it is such a cliche, but so many sellers or agents load their houses with scents and it turns not only me, but potential buyers, off. I have yet to have a buyer comment favorably on a fragranced house's smell.

I've always had favorable comments with a moderate strength vanilla scent,
it seems to appeal to both males and females.

I personally do not like flower scents, specially gardenia and rose.

tttodd, the Slatkin candles are great; I especially like the fact that the lid is attractive and kills the flame without having to blow the candle out (eliminating that burned smell of having just blown out candles).

I just bought a 3 wick Marshmallow slatkin on thursday and it has a mild vanilla scent. The glass jars at Yankee get a black soot deposit when you extinguish them by putting the lid on.

Yankee has started selling some of their scents in a simple clear column container, like the slatkins; I personally do not like the countryish jars, they don't suit my decor.

On that same shopping trip, I bought 2 boxes of Yankee vanilla tea lights,
they burn well and go out by themselves, which is what I like about tea lights,
specially the clear plastic ones, they look good in a clear glass votive holder.

Votivo is my favorite. Not perfumey at all but a subtle fragrance that carries throughout the whole room. Red Currant is a great scent but I like the sage as well. Kind of expensive but they last a long time. I like to give them as hostess gifts because they are also packaged so pretty.

Here is a link that might be useful: Votivo.com

I smelled The Thymes Frazier Fir yesterday for the first time at my neighbor's house. Came home and ordered candles, dish soap and a reed diffuser.

kellyeng, thanks for posting that Votivo link--they have three scents I'm interested in, and it looks like they are sold at a couple of places right in my neighborhood. If their bright tobacco scent is anything like Archipelago's Havana scent, I'll be in heaven. Champaca sounds like my kind of scent, too.

I love the smell of many candles, plug ins etc., but do have problems with allergies. Does anyone know of scents that are less prone to make one start coughing?

I missed this thread earlier; I happened on it while searching "Scentsy". I'm sensitive to all synthetic fragrances, so I can't do candles and potpourris, etc.

Anyone know if I can use a Scentsy "burner" and use oils in it--will it get warm enough to give off a scent, etc.? I don't seem to have a problem with pure essential oils--only the man-made kinds. A friend threw a Scentsy party and knowing I couldn't come because of the aromas wafting around, sent me a catalog instead. I feel I need to order something from it.

Thanks!

Tracey... I do believe the Scentsy burner would get warm enough for essential oil. It heats by using a small wattage light bulb. Have you seen the Scentsy look alike burners at Walmart?... They are a little less then half the price of the scentsy burners and there is some very pretty ones. I think they are about $15.00 and you could easily return one if it didn't heat the oil enough.

Thanks, dbfirewife; I'll check Walmart and maybe get one for myself. I bit the dust and ordered 1 Scentsy warmer and small amount of a scent; this will be a gift since I know it'll be pretty much wasted on me. But, like you say--I can try the Walmart one and see if it'll work with essential oils and if not, I can return it.

Trapp Orange Vanilla! If it were a food, I would probably overstuff myself with it. :)

I also love the pumpkin/spice scents from Yankee candle.

I am looking for a candle that smells like Starbucks. No luck anywhere. Just want the scent of fresh brewed coffee!