I usually make candles for the holidays, and this year I got some requests for different kinds of scents. I went over board, as per usual! 
I made them in a few batches over the last month. Overall, it was about 30 hours (including the labeling). I ended up with over 70 candles in 17 scents - not all of them are pictured. New for me this year was making custom scent blends. I’m pretty happy with their cold throw, and will be soliciting feedback on hot throw and which folks might like me to make again. I made notes this year so I actually remember what they all were! 
The labels are also handmade. I designed them in Publisher, printed them, cut them with my Silhouette, and attached them with my Xyron.
I tried to come up with some fun names, too. In past years I just named them after the scent, but I was feeling a bit more whimsical and tried to capture the ESSENCE with a single word for most, lol.
- Archetype (warm cashmere blend)
- Beachwood (salty and cool)
- Citronella (these were just a side batch for my house since I had the supplies out)
- Coffeehouse (coffee and sweet pumpkin spice)
- Endure (musty and cool, like old books)
- Fraser Fir (sweet well rounded fir - kinda piney but not chemical-y)
- Glint (amber and moss)
- Glow (warm mulling spice blend)
- Harvest (apple orchard)
- Humidor (sticky sweet tobacco)
- Mirth (warm amber and non-sweet vanilla)
- Paradigm (cool and woodsy)
- Refresh (salty beach linen and bamboo)
- Remedy (cool eucalyptus and peppermint)
- Ritual (spicy palo santo with non-sweet vanilla)
- Spirit (lemon verbena and a hint of fraser fir)
- Yuletide (it smells like Christmas, but not Craft-Store-Christmas)
Looking forward to sharing them with friends, family, and colleagues over the next month!
Thanks for stopping by!
