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  • I Love Glow’s Cosy Blanket Room Spray!

    Room sprays are a form of home fragrance I’ve started to use more of over the last few years. They’ve never really interested me in the past, but I’ve found them to be a quick, easy way to dispense fragrance in a room if and when needed. A quick freshen up, deodorise bad smells and replace them with good. It’s taken me awhile to appreciate them but I do now. The current one I’m using in my home is Glow’s Cosy Blanket Room Spray from their December Subscription Box. So what is this room spray like?

    Glow’s Cosy Blanket Room Spray
    Packaging

    100ml of fragrance comes in a white, plastic trigger style dispensing bottle. It’s nothing flash, but the illustration on the label depicts the fragrance name perfectly. Practical packaging, compact and easy to use.

    Fragrance

    Cosy Blanket is a beautiful, comforting and slightly warming scent containing creamy vanilla, a little crisp citrus and amber. What this makes is a fragrance that is incredibly inviting, cosy, relaxing and although can be used during any season ideal for Autumn and Winter use.

    Strength & Longevity

    The strength of this room spray is medium to strong. It’s strong enough to be there but not harsh. There’s no mistaking when I spray this in any room because Cosy Blanket immediately delivers a hit of fragrance. Longevity is brilliant. I can spray this in various rooms and places and the scent remains for a good amount of time.

    Combatting odours

    This is a great room spray to help with smells in the home e.g cooking. Once sprayed, it really cuts down on smells you don’t want in a room with. It softens them and helps to replace it with this beautiful, almost perfume like scent. Does it take away the bad smells totally? Going off my own experience not fully, but it really does take pungent smells down a notch or two.

    Glow’s December Subscription Box
    Recommended?

    Thinking of all the room sprays I’ve used in the past, Cosy Blanket has got to be one of my favourites. The smell is stunning! I could have this fragrance in anything and everything whether it’s for the home or body and bath, it’s so good! The fact it has vanilla in it, which is one of my favourite scents, is a winner. But it’s the quality of this product for me as well. It’s a beautiful scent, perfect strength, lasts well and makes bad smells better instantly. Why would I NOT love this? Absolutely recommended, and totally upset this isn’t currently available. But keep an eye on Glow’s website for it’s return, hopefully sooner rather than later!

  • The Hinch Collection Wax Melts from Home of Honey Candle Co

    I think of two things when it comes to Spring. One, cleaning and lots of it! Two, new home fragrances. How about combining the two? Well, sort of! Think of the illusion of cleaning through fresh, laundry inspired scents and the scents themselves! This is where Home of Honey Candle Co’s Hinch Collection Wax Melts that I’ve recently been using (gifted) fits in perfectly. So, what are these like?

    Hinch Collection Wax Melts by Home of Honey Candle Co
    What’s the Hinch Collection?

    The Hinch Collection is 3 different fragranced wax melt snap bars inspired by laundry and cleaning products that are fronted by the Queen of Clean, Mrs Hinch! Each wax melt snap bar weighs 50g and is in the fragrances of:

    Vacay Vibes

    Frosted Eucalyptus

    White Musk & Golden Maple

    All 3 are housed in a plastic snap clear casing finished off with a white ribbon on the front.

    Fragrances

    Vacay Vibes has a powdery, fresh, laundry style scent to it but with a touch of juicy fruit, almost peach like. It’s not particularly strong or the main scent in this fragrance so not too fruity, but gives it a true Spring/Summer vibe.

    Frosted Eucalyptus, again, has that clean, fresh powdery smell to it. But it’s cooler, crisper and has an earthiness which the other fragrances don’t have.

    White Musk & Golden Maple is totally different to the other two fragrances in this collection. It has more of a perfume like style to it rather than laundry. Sweet, a slight muskiness to it, floral, and absolutely gorgeous!

    Strength & Longevity

    I always think laundry inspired wax melts should be strong and these didn’t fail me! They weren’t eye watering strong but packed a punch. I could smell all three wax melts (of course individually melted!) from other rooms and they really give that instant just clean smell that we all love to have after washing clothes or cleaning in general. Longevity was great. The fragrance remained the same for hours and hours and the wax was only changed because I wanted a different scent.

    Are these Mrs Hinch dupes?

    I can neither confirm nor deny how accurate these fragrances are to their cleaning and laundry counterparts. I don’t like the idea of being watched by staff as I go around opening bottles and sniffing them on a cleaning aisle, so I couldn’t compare. But what I would say is these are beautifully fragranced, clearly laundry inspired wax melts that go above and beyond typical fragrances in the laundry family.

    Recommended?

    If you want a room or rooms in your home to smell like fresh, clean, fragrant but not boring, you need this collection in your wax melt stash! Gorgeous fragrances, long lasting, great strength, nicely packaged….. what more can you ask for? Cost? Only £8.50 for 150g of three different fragrances. And even better, use code KARINA30 for 30% off your order.

    Home of Honey Candle Co’s Strawberries & Cream Wax Melt

    Valentines Collection Wax Melts By Home of Honey Candle Co

  • Home of Honey Candle Co’s Strawberries & Cream Wax Melt

    Valentine’s Day has come and gone, but Valentine’s Day inspired home fragrances hasn’t! When you think of this particular day you think of roses, flowers, chocolates and strawberries. The scents of these things can be found in wax melt form to provide romantic and fragrant smells for the home. Home of Honey Candle Co’s Strawberries & Cream Wax Melt falls into this category. It was gifted to me in two different wax melt forms, including a slab. So is it as good as it’s name sounds?

    Home of Honey Candle Co’s Strawberries & Cream Wax Melt
    Packaging

    Strawberries & Cream Wax Melt came in a small, white cardboard box with a clear window. This gives a sneaky peak of what the wax looks like. I like how this is packaged because it’s very simple but elegant and looks like its ready to be given as a gift.

    How does it look?

    This wax melt is in the form of a wax melt ‘slab’. Rectangular in shape, flat and in one block colour which is soft pink. Sat on top of this is an off white strawberry shaped piece of wax with a generous sprinkling or red glitter around it. Eye catching, very appealing and beautiful in look.

    Fragrance

    Sweet, fruity in a berry way mixed in with creamy vanilla. It’s a gorgeous scent that smells more like a fragrance for the body and skin rather than for the home.

    In melt

    Pretty wax melts always melt in such a fun way and this was no exception. It melted slowly and evenly. Seeing the solid strawberry shape sat on the top of liquid wax was a glorious sight. What was left was was a pale pink wax pool with red glitter dotted randomly in all around.

    Strength & Longevity

    I wasn’t too sure how strong this would be because the majority of fruit or food based scents aren’t powerhouses. Strawberries & Cream I assumed would be light but it was medium in strength. It started off light and got stronger, which surprised me. It was a noticeable scent, perfect strength and made my hallway smell amazing! Longevity was great. I had the same piece melting for hours and the fragrance and strength didn’t waiver.

    Recommended?

    From the name of this fragrance alone this is my type of scent. But looking at how stunning this wax melt slab was and the mouth watering scent it threw out, made me love it! It’s such a great piece of wax that ticks every box, I can’t recommend it enough!

    Strawberries & Cream is part of the Home of Honey Candle Co’s Valentine’s Day collection of wax and is currently discounted. Available in various forms such as the slab, wax melt snap bars and as a trio of other wax melts. All can be found here starting from the freshly reduced price of £1.25!

    Home of Honey Candle Co’s wax melt slabs

  • How Good is a 49p Wax Melt From Home Bargains?

    So many people love using wax melts. They’re such a good way to fragrance a room and home, with a huge variety of fragrances and wax forms available everywhere. The good thing about them is on the whole they aren’t expensive and are really affordable. One of the cheapest wax melts I’ve bought was James & Co Fragrance’s Berries Wax Melt from Home Bargains for only 49p! How did I find it?

    James & Co Fragrance Berries Wax Melt
    Packaging

    Berries Wax Melt comes in a small, cardboard box with an opening on the front so you can see the wax. I like the fact this is cardboard and not plastic. It looks good and is different to the usual packaging wax melts come in.

    The wax itself

    This wax melt comes as a wax melt snap bar. Purple in colour, chunky and made up of 6 segments that need to be snapped off for use.

    Fragrance

    This is a mix of sweet fruity berries. Quite simple in scent and predictable, but nice.

    Strength & Longevity

    I used two of these segments in a wax warmer in the hallway. Once melted, the area got the scent coming through, but it wasn’t particularly strong. So I would say strength is low. Longevity wise it wasn’t fully tested to be honest. Since the strength wasn’t there and the fragrance wasn’t too obvious, I simply turned my wax warmer off. The scent was nice but not strong enough to stay on for my needs.

    Recommended?

    Price and packaging wise this is a great wax melt. The wax melt itself has a good scent to it but honestly I’ve smelt better and stronger. Would I buy this again or recommend it? No, not in this fragrance. But I would happily try another fragrance to see if the strength comes through better.