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  • Glade’s Limited Edition Festive Honey & Chocolate Aerosol

    Each season has scents that’s associated to them. Spring scents seem to be light florals and fresh and clean smells. Summer is fruity and tropical. But autumn and winter scents are the types of fragrances that give a room or home an invisible hug. One of the newer home fragrance products I’ve picked up recently has been Glade’s Limited Edition Festive Honey & Chocolate Aerosol from Home Bargains. Was this a good buy or disappointing?

    Glade’s Limited Edition Festive Honey & Chocolate Aerosol
    Packaging

    This aerosol/room spray comes in the typical cylinder, tall, room spray canister most products like this come in. What actually caught my attention of this product was the label on this. Very autumnal colours in browns and gold, with a great illustration of the actual fragrance. You look at it and you can imagine what the scent smells like and you really want to try it out.

    Fragrance

    This is the best bit! There’s definitely a hit of honey in this, mixed in with spices that gives it warmth and depth. There’s also some form of woody notes in this making sure that that the sweetness of this scent isn’t sickly. Is there chocolate in this? A little. I get that sort of chocolate-esq note to it, but it’s not the dominant part. Overall, this is beautiful. Cosy, warming and a very perfume like fragrance rather than a room spray.

    Strength & longevity

    When I first used this the hit of fragrance was there. What I didn’t like was this doesn’t linger. I want it to linger and be long lasting. The kind of fragrance this is it starts off well but doesn’t stick around. So strength could be better but longevity even more so.

    Glade’s Limited Edition Festive Honey & Chocolate and Berry Festive Kisses Aerosol
    Cost

    Only £1.49 for 300ml which is a decent price for a well known home fragrance brand.

    Recommended?

    Despite the fact I would love this to be punchier I still would buy this again! The scent is impressive. And if I want to smell it more I will just spray more! Could it be better? Yes. But do I love it? Yes! So if you love this type of fragrance for your home, I would recommend it. It’s affordable, it also comes in other forms such as a candle, and it’s perfect for this time of year.

  • Affordable Bath & Shower Products In Home Bargains To Use This Winter!

    Products we use on the body can vary from season to season. Lighter textures maybe used in summer, richer consistencies in winter. Fresh and clean scents in spring but maybe more tropical, fruity of floral fragrances in summer. Fragrance is a massive thing which a lot of people change for different seasons. I’ve spotted body care products in Home Bargains that have winter in mind because of their fragrances. So what did I find?

    Affordable Bath & Shower Products In Home Bargains To Use This Winter
    Original Source’s Sugar Plum Shower

    If a shower gel in the fragrance of Sugar Plum doesn’t say winter, nothing else will! It should be fruity, sweet and the fact the shower gel is purple in colour has me sold! 99p for 250ml.

    Original Source’s Sugar Plum Shower
    Original Source’s Spiced Pumpkin Shower

    Probably more an autumn fragrance but still carries well into winter. Anything pumpkin is warming and cosy, and Spiced Pumpkin in this shower gel formulation should do just the same. 99p for 250ml.

    Original Source’s Spice Pumpkin Shower
    Imperial Leather’s Cherry & Snow Blossom Hand Wash

    Limited edition, Cherry & Snow Blossom is on the shelves ready to use this winter. What I like is the fact this comes in a hand wash, shower gel, foam body wash and bath wash. So you have a variety of different products to choose from to suit your need, all in the same fragrance. In the hand wash formulation, it’s a generous size of 500ml at a good price of £1.49.

    Imperial Leather’s Cherry & Snow Blossom Hand Wash
    Astonish Honeyed Fig & Almond Shower Gel

    Fruity, sweet and comforting is what springs to mind with a fragrance of Honeyed Fig & Almond. This comes in a shower gel, bath soak and hand wash. 89p for 250ml.

    Astonish’s Honeyed Fig & Almond Shower Gel
    Carex Festive Edition Frosted Eucalyptus & Cedar Bath & Shower Gel

    Lots of the winter fragranced products are on the sweeter, fruiter side, but not Carex’s Festive Edition Frosted Eucalyptus & Cedar Bath & Shower Gel. It’s a fresher, earthy slightly cooling fragrance which is probably more traditional for the winter season. 99p for 500ml.

    Carex Festive Edition Frosted Eucalyptus & Cedar Bath & Shower Gel

    So out with the tropical fruity fragrances of summer and in strolls in the autumn and winter fragrances ready for a more cosy time period. Personally, I can’t wait!

  • Apple Spice Wax Melt Snap Bar From Home of Honey Candle Co

    We’re now in a season when home fragrance products are the best! The scent choices, the products available, all fitting for the colder months we are now heading into. Which for many of us mean we spend more time inside, or at least are trying to make our homes more comfortable ready for the seasonal change. Without fail, my beloved wax melts are ready to be used and I’ve just started to use wax from a selection I was kindly given by wax vendor Home of Honey Candle Co last month. My first wax melt of choice was Apple Spice, so what is it like?

    Home of Honey Candle & Co’s Apple Spice Wax Melt Snap Bar
    How does it look?

    Apple Spice came in a traditional wax melt snap bar made up of 5 segments. A sprinkle of green and iridescent glitter on the front of this bar makes it stand out. The wax itself colour wise seems to be a mix of pale green and off white. A very attractive bar of wax which reflects it’s fragrance name. Neatly packaged in a clear plastic sleeve with a white bow to finish off the presentation.

    Fragrance

    Sweet, juicy apple rolled into a mix of different spices including (I’m guessing) cinnamon, mixed spice and possibly nutmeg. This is a gorgeous blend of scents combined into one, making this fragrance fruity, warming and very bakery like in how it smells. It has an almost apple crumble smell to it, but not quite, although just as good.

    In melt

    I popped 2 segments of Apple Spice in 2 different wax warmers (one positioned in the living room, the other in the hallway). They both melted evenly and quite quickly and released fragrance straight away. The scent grew and was more noticeable as time went on, which made the fragrance feel and smell very natural.

    Strength & Longevity

    Apple Spice is medium in strength. Think of something baking in the oven and that scent floats around the kitchen. It’s not strong, it definitely isn’t weak. It’s there, it smells good and you enjoy that scent so much you can’t wait to take out whatever is in the oven. This is what Apple Spice makes me think of in regards to how it smells, how it lingers in the air and the general feel it gives. Longevity, this wax melt bar lasted 2 days in 2 locations before the strength lessened. But they were melting for a good number of hours at a time.

    Home of Honey Candle Co’s wax melts
    Recommended?

    Apple Spice is a yummy scent. It screams Autumn and Winter. It’s warming and comforting, it’s not sickly sweet but is very much a bakery scent rather than full on fruit. Definitely recommended. Wax melt snap bars cost only £2.50, they come in various fragrances but this is worth adding to your collection!

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  • Mrs Mac Candles Hot Apple Pie Wax Melts

    We all have our favourite scents that we want to enjoy in our homes. There is nothing more inviting than walking into a room that smells fabulous, right? I’m currently in love with some of the typical Autumn and Winter inspired scents. They tend to give a cosy feel to a room, which is ideal when the weather is damp, dark and chilly. No surprise then that I’ve been melting Hot Apple Pie Wax Melts from Mrs Mac Candles. I bought a selection of these around a month ago. This came in the form of 2 discs and normally £1.75, but I bought these when there was a 40% off sale.

    Hot Apple Pie Wax Melts

    Why did I buy this?

    I follow Mrs Mac Candles on Instagram. Never ordered from them before, but their wax melts have always looked so appealing. Great variation of scents available and super affordable. So they’ve always been on my to order list. Being a new vendor to me, getting these at a discounted rate gave me a great opportunity to try them out without spending too much. The actual scent Hot Apple Pie is an easy purchase for me because I love bakery scents and this scent is perfect to hermit with inside!

    How do these look?

    I have never had wax melts look like this before which made these already very special. What came was two discs roughly 4cm in size. A beautiful shade of mint green, with an eye catching raised design on the top of each. Finished off with what I always love to see is a little magical sparkle from glitter! Wrapped up in a clear plastic sleeve. So incredibly pretty and packaged simply and practically.

    Fragrance.

    Just as I had hoped and expected. A warming hit of cinnamon with spices (possibly being cloves and nutmeg) mixed in which gave it warmth and depth. Of course it wouldn’t be Hot Apple Pie without the scent of apples! Just ripened juicy apple cutting through giving it that fruity, clean and not too sharp element to this scent. A gorgeous and classic combo.

    In melt.

    I used one in my warmer, and found because these are quite thin, they really didn’t take too long to melt all the way through. The wax pool left was the same shade of gorgeous green as when it was solid, with the glitter floating around the top. I liked this scent in the kitchen because it fooled me into thinking I was in the middle of baking which I wasn’t! A very homely feel this scent provided which was slowly released as the wax melt/disc became molten.

    Strength & Longevity.

    Strength wise this was a medium. The fragrance was obviously there and you could easily pick it up in the room but it wasn’t clawing. Some fragrances that have a spicy element to them can be very strong which I’m glad this one wasn’t. I had this melting for over 2 days and it performed very well. After that, I did feel it needed to be changed strength wise but I also just wanted a change of fragrance. When I use a wax melt, bare in mind I have these melting for hours not just an hour or two a day. So believe me when I say these were worth the price!

    Recommended?

    Considering this is a new wax melt vendor to me I’m so glad I’ve tried them. These particular wax melts smelt great and gave me what I had hoped for. They performed very well, they looked fantastic and dare I say would make great gifts for Christmas or any other gift giving occasion. So totally recommended and I am glad I ordered other wax melts too!

    If this review has peaked your interest and you want to purchase this fragranced wax melt here’s the link. Don’t worry if this isn’t your type of scent because there are loads of amazing sounding scents available to buy. Please don’t blame me if you spend a small fortune, but your house will thank you for it!