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  • Fragrantasia’s Sweet Snow & Cherries Wax Chunk Pot

    When I was growing up, home fragrance came in the form of an open window and a bottle of Zoflora. That was how my dad operated. Bless you Mr Griffiths! These days it’s expanded and a bit more elaborate than that. Brands such as Zoflora and Fabulosa are pretty big, combining cleaning with fragrances. Candles are still very popular. Reed diffusers seem to be available all over the place and wax melts are going from strength to strength. Wax melts probably are still my favourite way to fragrance my home. I will use these multiple times in a week mainly in two rooms. This week I decided to use Fragrantasia’s Sweet Snow & Cherries Wax Chunk Pot from my open box. This cost £2.40 for one pot.

    Fragrantasia’s Sweet Snow & Cherries Wax Chunk Pot
    Why did I buy this?

    Firstly, I LOVE wax chunk pots! They look great, they cleverly incorporate two different scents that creates one new fragrance which is imaginative. These are one of my favourite wax forms if you haven’t already guessed. This scent I went for because it was new to me at the time of purchase, it sounded quite fruity (which I love) and I just had a feeling I would love it!

    How does it look?

    Off white coloured wax with irregularly aubergine purple pieces of wax embedded into it. Not only can you see these physically breaking through the surface of the top of this wax chunk pot, but if you look round the sides and bottom of the pot this sits in you can see it’s FULL of these chunks! These two different colours of wax are two different fragrances. It’s not a complicated or an arty looking piece of wax, but there’s something so pleasing to the eye about how this looks.

    Fragrance

    This maybe simple in name but it explains what this fragrance consists of perfectly! You get a fruity, dark cherry scent. There’s a little tartness to it so not too sweet. Mixed in with this, is a scent inspired by a well known bath bomb shop and one of it’s product fragrances (hint, LUSH’s Snow Fairy). This scent is sweet, almost candy sweet. Think candy floss, even bubble gum and fruit flavoured sweeties. What I like about this is it’s not over the top, it’s not so sugar based it makes you feel queasy or comes across synthetic. Perfectly balanced and lip lickingly good!

    Sweet Snow & Cherries Wax Chunk Pot upside!
    In Melt

    I used a quarter of this and popped it into the wax warmer that lives happily in my kitchen. One thing I didn’t realise with this wax chunk was there is a slight shimmer to it. This was only revealed once the piece of wax warmed through and slowly became liquid, that my eyes were met with a delicate and very pretty sparkle. What was left once totally liquid, was a beautiful deep shimmering shade of purple.

    It didn’t take too long to find that not only was my kitchen filled with the scent of Sweet Snow & Cherries but also my living room, which is next door to the kitchen.

    Strength & Longevity

    Strength wise this is medium to strong. It’s powerful but in the sense of the fragrance is there, it stands out and it travels outside of the room it was melting in. Like many wax pieces I use, I had this on for 2 days (at least 4 hours at a time) and it maintained it’s strength and quality throughout.

    Recommended?

    I love this scent! It’s a combination of two different fragrances that are delightful on their own but are amazing together and I adore it! Although this was part of a Winter inspired range of wax last year, I could happily melt this any season as it’s beautiful. So of course this is recommended! If you like your fruity and sweety like fragrances this will be a winner in your home. And the size and weight of this wax chunk pot (roughly 45-50g) will provide hours and hours of fragrance to enjoy.

    At a glance I saw only 1 of these left in stock! So if this is right up your wax melt fragrance street quickly grab it here now.

  • My Fragrantasia Wax Melt Open Box

    Let’s talk wax melts. There is no doubt that fragrancing rooms and homes with wax melts is still incredibly popular. It is in my house that’s for sure! I have been super good and not bought any so far in 2022, my last purchase of 2021 came from a wax vendor called Fragrantasia. Rather than it being one or two pieces that arrived, I paid for an open box. And for any wax melt lover that hasn’t used this service before it’s a game changer!

    My Fragrantasia Wax Melt Open Box
    What’s an Open Box?

    An open box is quite a common thing with some small wax melt companies. You can order what you want and add to your order whenever you like. When you want the whole lot shipped to you, you pay for postage and your order is delivered. I might fancy 3 wax melts today so I order them. I then get paid in 2 weeks and I buy 4 more then. Oh, there’s a sale on so I’m going to buy 10. And I’ve now decided that’s all I want so I pay my p&p and get all 17 pieces posted to me. And THAT’S what I did with Fragrantasia. I bought bit by bit of what I fancied and then closed it when I was done.

    Fragrantasia’s Wax Chunk Pots
    What did I get?

    I got quite a few things over a number of months. Some were popped into Christmas presents but some I’ve kept for myself. My open box included Halloween inspired scents, everyday best seller waxes and Christmas ones too. Here are some of the scents included:

    Halloween. Snoozy Ghosts. Werewolf. Witches Laundry.

    Everyday scents. Fresh Linen. Patchouli Musk. Gold Orchid. Candy Hearts. Cake Batter Fudge.

    Christmas scents. Silver Storm. Tinsel Town. Baby It’s Warm Outside. Snow Love. Sweet Snow & Cherries. Fluffy Pink Candy Canes.

    Christmas Inspired Wax Melts

    I took advantage of having an open box and I bought a range of different scents from different times of the year. Have I started melting these? Unfortunately not! I’ve been kept busy with my wax melt advent calendar from Fragrantasia so my wax warmers have been very busy since December! But I’m very excited to try all of these as they look and smell amazing (from their little packets).

    Halloween Inspired Scented Wax Melts

    So, if like me you love your wax and buy them from small businesses who specialise in making and/or selling them, find out if they do an open box. I’ve reviewed various wax melts from Fragrantasia and been more than happy with what I’ve tried so I highly recommend them. I’m so pleased to see them back after their Christmas break. Their website is up and running, with some fantastic blends and shapes ready to be melted in your wax warmer of choice.

    So after browsing their website, what would YOU want to melt?

  • My 2022 Goals For Skincare, Body Care & Wax

    Are we here yet? Yes we are! Hello January 2022! 2021 definitely was a year full of highs and lows for most people, but it’s fair to say it came and went quickly. Who knows what 2022 will bring. I can only hope it’s mostly good stuff. Personally, I could write about how I want to lose weight, go to the gym and eat more vegetables, but this isn’t THAT type of blog. So instead, I thought it would be good to think about some of the things I want to change or focus on, when it comes to skincare, bath, body products and even my beloved wax stash!

    Sun Protection!

    The sun doesn’t come out to play and cause damage to the skin just in the months between May – September. You can suffer from sun damage even when it’s cloudy and the sun isn’t beating down on your face. So I want to find and use a sunscreen designed for the face that protects me from the damage the sun can do to the skin, but also provide skincare benefits. AND leave no white caste on the skin. It needs to be affordable too. No point in finding a product which I love, it costs £20 a pop and then when it runs out I can’t afford to repurchase it.

    I have a massive bottle of a spf50 sun cream at home which I use in the Summer but I want to use something for my face all year round. Why is this important? I want to look after my skin more. I’m not getting younger and I want my skin to be in the best possible shape it can be and this is step number 1. If you do anything to help your skin stay healthy and look good, protect it from the sun with the right sun protection. This is on my to buy list for 2022.

    Buy Skincare Because It Targets A Problem Not Because It’s Pretty Or Appealing.

    Oh this is a big one! I love skincare. I also love products with different textures, I l love nice packaging. So I will be honest. A lot of the time I buy something because I want it not because I need it. I’ve been lucky that my skin hasn’t had too many concerns so I can get away with trying different things and not needing particular things to help with xyz. But that’s not the case anymore, and I have issues I want resolving. So I need to focus on those and not have my head turned by a good deal, a brand or a new product if it doesn’t potentially offer a solution to a problem I suffer with.

    If It Doesn’t Work, Bin It!

    I know this seems so wasteful, but I have too many opened products floating around that I didn’t like or they didn’t work for me. So why are they still here? Unless it’s something that hasn’t been opened and used, or possibly the packaging means I haven’t touched the product, then I could pass it on to a friend. But for hygiene and space reasons BIN! I don’t want to open a museum or a chemist.

    BIN!
    Stop Hoarding Get Using!

    This goes for everything for me including skincare, body care, bath and shower products and worst of all wax melts! I couldn’t tell you how many body butters or lotions I have in drawers. And wax melts….oh my goodness lets not start there! The problem is you have, say, a box of wax melts. You buy a few more. Forget about the original ones. Get gifted some, buy some more and then you are overrun with them. Same with anything and everything. So use, use, and use some more.

    Some of my wax melts
    Open More Open Boxes.

    Just in case you didn’t know, there are quite a few small businesses who do something called an open box. Lots of wax vendors do this, and all it means is you can add to your order whenever and how often you like. Each time you add to the order you pay for whatever you’ve added. And when you are ready to have the whole lot shipped out, you close the open box by paying the postage and then it gets delivered. This is such a great way to ekk out purchases. It’s budget friendly, affordable and you can time your open box according to special occasions e.g birthday, special offers or sales.

    Wax Melt Open Box from Fragrantasia

    So I know these don’t sound like the most exciting goals, but these should improve how much money is in my wallet, how much space I have in my home and the best possible products will be on my skin so better results. Not ground breaking, but practical, worthwhile AND achievable! Happy Goal Setting!

  • Christmas 2021 Wax Melt Advent Calendar From Fragrantasia

    Christmas comes and goes in a blink of an eye. And then we all deal with the aftermath, right? Too much food and possibly too much drink. Parents walking on bits of Lego and the paper recycling bin overflows within 10 seconds. So as I throw out the last empty gift boxes and bags, it gives me a chance to reflect on the advent calendars I bought this year for myself. One by Fragrantasia which contained wax melts, and Bomb Cosmetics calendar which contained bath blasters and soaps. Were they any good? Something to repurchase next year? Let’s focus today on Fragrantasia’s Wax Melt Advent Calendar to find out the answer..

    Fragrantasia’s Wax Melt Advent Calendar 2021
    Fragrantasia’s Wax Melt Advent Calendar

    This is the second year I’ve bought a wax melt advent calendar from this vendor. I enjoyed the first one and I didn’t hesitate to purchase this for 2021. As a wax melt lover I would be crazy not to purchase this type of advent as it’s my idea of home fragrance heaven!

    The Look. Firstly, this is different to last years which is great. You don’t want a repetition of what you’ve had before. In keeping with the current craze for gonks (which this had on the front of it), it was cute in design, rectangular in shape and overall presented very well.

    Day 6. Tangerine.

    What did I get? 25 doors which held 25 wax melts behind them, with number 25 having an exceptionally big door which made me think how big IS this wax melt? Each wax melt was fragranced differently. At the time Fragrantasia had two advents available. One containing their best seller’s fragrance wise and the other falling into the more traditional side of Christmas or winter scents, with a few everyday loved fragrances thrown in to add to variety. I opted for the traditional version.

    Day 6. Dragons Breath.

    The Melts. I was super impressed with these. Size wise a touch bigger than last years so a substantial amount of wax. Perfect size to pop into a wax warmer, no more was needed. Day 25 wax melt though was different. It was as big as the palm of my hand which made it an even special wax melt to see and would provide hours and hours of fragrance. This made Christmas Day’s opening even more exciting! Each melt looked different whether that was in regards to colour, impressions on them or the addition of glitter and/or shapes. I loved this! It shows time and care put into the making of these which could easily have all been white and plain. Surely that would’ve been the easiest and quickest thing to do? But not as interesting on the eye for the opener.

    Day 16. White Christmas.

    Fragrance. I would love to list my favourites but genuinely I can’t remember all of them because there were loads! There was a mix of bakery based scents, floral, fruity, fresh and clean. What I noticed was there was no scent that was too much strength wise or too heady.

    It’s hard to please everyone but I imagine most people would have liked the scents this contained because they were varied. Scents included were Let Them Eat Cake (LOVED this one!), Baby Powder, Snow Fae, Caramel Snowflake (oh loved this one too!), Avobath, First Snow and Purple Rain to name just a few. Out of all 25 scents there was only one I didn’t like, but it’s a scent I’ve never liked anyway to be honest. But the rest I enjoyed melting.

    Longevity wise these lasted so long. I couldn’t melt them daily as they would last for hours. The fragrances filled the rooms they were in well and smelt fabulous. Each one had the perfect strength to them dependant on the type of fragrance family they belonged too. All were noticeable. Some became stronger as they melted, some were more BAM straight away! Performance wise all great in my opinion.

    Day 25. Christmas Day. Gingerbread.
    Would I buy this in 2022?

    If Amy (the owner) makes these next year I’m putting my name on the list for sure! I enjoyed this so much. The quality was there in regards to look, fragrance and strength. This cost £25.00 but genuinely I think it was worth it. Only niggle I can think of was about the design of the calendar. It was very fiddly getting the wax out of each section. But that’s about the actual calendar structure itself not the wax, so hopefully something easier will be used next year.

    Any wax melt fan needs one of these in their lives when it comes to the festive period. What I found was there are some scents I’ve never tried before and this was the perfect time to sample them, and now they are on my list to buy in a bigger form! If you want to try out wax from Fragrantasia, they are taking a well earned break now but will be back in January ready to service the fragrance needs of you wax lovers. Website is off at the moment, but you could always join their friendly Facebook group here where they share their daily melts.