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I am a total sucker for a home fragrance product. As much as I love wax melts (they are my favourite), they aren’t always practical depending on where I want the fragrance to be. That’s why it’s so good to have other alternatives available in the world of fragrance. One alternative I bought last week was Yankee Candle’s Lemon Lavender Fragrance Spheres from Home Bargains for £1.99 (rrp £6.99).
Why did I buy this?
Yankee Candle isn’t the only home fragrance brand on the market anymore. It’s an industry that has exploded, so this brand isn’t my usual go to for these types of products. But the fragrance choice available in Home Bargains was good. I liked the idea of this being placed in smaller areas and of course the price was really affordable!
What is a fragrance sphere?
Yankee Candle’s Fragrance Spheres are tiny gel beads infused with fragrance while being housed safely in a pot. No heat required, electricity or reeds.
Packaging
170g of fragranced beads lives in a screw topped pot. The pot is clear so you can see the beads in it. The labelling looks typical for Yankee Candles so no mistaking what brand it’s from. And the screw top lid is grey with holes in it which allows the fragrance to be released.
How to use
Underneath the lid of the fragrance sphere is a foil seal. Take the seal off and pop the lid back on. The beads are now exposed and the holes through the lid will help the fragrance to escape.
Fragrance
There is clear mix of lemon and lavender. It has the herbal, relaxing scent of lavender with the cleanness of the lemon (not as citrus based as I thought) with a little sweetness to it. It’s a nice scent but even on first smell I thought this needed more power.
In use
I put this in my downstairs toilet. It’s a small area and I thought this type of home fragrance product could work well in there. I was wrong. No matter where I placed this I struggled to get fragrance from it. Near the window, on a shelf close to the toilet, in a vase. Wherever I’ve tried to put this no mass of fragrance hit me. The most I got was a nice whiff of the scent but it wasn’t strong. Lemon Lavender Fragrance Spheres smells nice but is weak in strength.
Recommended?
No. It looks great, easy to use and smells really great BUT the strength simply isn’t there! A fragrance that contains lavender normally is punchy and I assumed this would be and it wasn’t. I moved this to so many positions to see if it would change how this carried and it did nothing. With this being placed in such a small room I wanted to open the door and be hit with fragrance and it never happened.
Yankee Candle’s Lemon Lavender Fragrance Spheres is something I won’t be buying again.