Can I just say how much I love my new Scenterpiece system?
A couple of weeks ago I decided that I *need* a Scenterpiece. My husband and I are going to celebrate out 25th anniversary this year and we decided to go on a 7 day cruise. How could I go 7 days without my beloved candles? I obviously can't do lighted candles on a ship and I didn't want to deal with a messy tart warmer. So what better solution that to purchase a Scenterpiece?
Last year when the Scenterpiece system came out I wasn't very impressed with them. The burners were HUGE. As in, humongous- the size of a small lamp. I was told by the sales associate at the store that they were to be considered to be an accent piece to go with your decor. You may have read in my first post that I'm not really into the accessory pieces. Plus the cups are $5! I considered them to be overpriced tart warmers and every time I was in the store I ignored them. But now that I know I *need* to have one for my cruise, I started doing some research and discovered some nice benefits of owning a Scenterpiece system. The first one is that these melt cups have a much stronger throw than the candles and even the tarts. So if you find a scent you like but you think the throw is too weak, try it in a Meltcup. The wax is much more concentrated. I have a large, open kitchen and living room area with a 20ft vaulted ceiling so that makes burning jar candles in there difficult because you just can't smell them very well. I've learned that I have to find the really strong ones to burn in the living room or to use a tart warmer. Most of the time I have a tart melting in the living room and a candle in my bedroom which is where I spend the majority of my time when I'm home. Some candles work best in smaller rooms.
Another benefit I found out recently is the cost of the cups. One cup is twice as much as a tart however it lasts much longer. Some people cut their meltcups in half (well, the cut the wax in half, not the cup itself) and they save half of the wax while they melt the rest, which essentially doubles your melting time. You technically could get 48 hours or more out of one meltcup. That's definitely worth $5 to me.
The third benefit that I discovered about owning a Scenterpiece system is how neat the whole thing is. The cups are a heat resistant plastic (or acrylic) that have lids. They are so easy to change out. Lift the cup out of the warmer and insert a new one right away. You don't have to deal with having to let it cool or gouging hardened wax out of a dish to change the scent out. Lift the cup out and put a new one in. That easy. No mess. For Christmas last year my dear and well meaning husband bought me a new electric tart warmer (no tea-light warmers for me). The piece he bought me is one continuous piece. Whenever I can't get hardened wax out I have to put the whole thing, cord and all, into the freezer. It's a pain and it's a mess and I worry about the benefit of freezing the cord so that it gets stiff. None of that with the Scenterpiece system.
When I picked up my Scenterpiece system at the store at the end of July they were having a deal where you picked out one of three or four basic models and you got three meltcups to go with it. I thought that was a pretty good deal for $25 so I picked out the above melter that goes with our dark wood furnishings and I got Midnight Jasmine, Sun and Sand and Crisp Morning Air meltcups.
I never knew how hard I would fall for this system. Man, the throw on these cups are fantastic and it fills up the whole downstairs of my house. Some of the scents are strong enough to carry upstairs too. Within a week I was using a coupon to order ten more cups and I've had so much fun with them changing them out on a whim.
My favorite one so far has been Mango Peach Salsa.
The other one that I have also gotten a lot of use out of is Crisp Morning Air;
Crisp Morning Air is a new fall scent for 2015 and it is just lovely. I smell predominately a cool, sweet mint with a hint of citrus and cedar. It really is different and is one of the scents that is perfectly described by it's name. I tried the tart form first and I melted the tart on at least three different occasions for at least 8 hours each time so I knew the meltcup would also be a good one. I'm still on my first one and have probably gotten at least 5 full day melts from it. I would say I've done at least 30-40 hours and it still smells great like the first time I put it in! I will definitely be buying up more of this scent.
In the bedroom today I'm doing a mixology of Beachwood and Drift Away in my electric tart warmer. I like Beachwood. It has a sweet earthy scent and I would also venture to say it smells like a sweet cotton. I don't know how else to describe it. I wanted to buy a jar of it before it goes away totally (you can get from Bed, Bath and Beyond stores right now but the YC stores and online do not have it available) but some people have reviewed it and have said that the throw on the 2015 pour is too light. I would have to agree that even in the tart form it's very light. Maybe next year they will put out a better version with more oils in it. I have a hard time spending almost $30 that I'm not confident will have a good throw. I've learned to read reviews and pay attention to what year they were written in. Each year the pours differ in concentration. Some years a candle might have a strong pour and get great reviews while the next year it has a bad pour and gets terrible reviews. If a candle gets a lot of complaints about no throw in one year, I will wait to order the next year in hopes that the throw will be better the next time around.
Added to my Beachwood is Drift Away. It smells sweet, perfumey and salty. It's okay but I think I made a mistake by adding it to the Beachwood. I can't smell the Beachwood at all now and that was the only tart I had of it.
Sorry about the wonkiness of the words and pictures here. I'm still trying to figure this blog stuff out.
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