When a Boy and a Girl Meet

What’s the biggest decision you’ve ever had to make? When you were in high school, it was, “What college do I want to go to next year. When you were in college, it was, “What am I going to major/minor in?” If you’re in my shoes, it’s the decision of, “Will you marry me?” That’s right, a month ago, we took the step towards matrimony: we got engaged.

He has always been such a sweet man throughout our courtship and to this day, constantly and consistently surprising me with little gifts (a necklace from Belize, a trip to Build-a-Bear, flowers at least once a week, etc.). He also likes to take me on, what we call “fancy dates”, where we dress up in nice clothes, him a suit, and me a dress, and we go out to dinner. I am so spoiled!

Well, on April Fool’s Day, it all came together: He had invited me on a “fancy date”, so I got all dressed up. He told me he had a surprise for me. Now, any other woman would’ve put two and two together, but I didn’t! The thought never crossed my mind that the date was a set-up, and the “surprise” was a dainty diamond ring! Call me naïve, but I was clueless! …

He showed up at my door in his suit, striking and handsome. I wore a little T-length chocolate dress with a cream ribbon around my waist, pearls clasped at my throat and dangling from my ears. He helped me into my coat, and we meandered out my front door and into his car. Then he got really quiet. “So?” you might say. “What’s so weird about that?” The reason I was attracted to this man in the first place was because of his conversation skills: we could talk, and about practically anything. The conversation never lagged that I can remember until that moment. I asked him about his day at work. He explained how he had been working hard and that led me to conclude the reason he was not his usual talkative self: he was tired.

We pulled up to Chef’s Table, a very expensive “fancy date” restaurant on the border of Provo and Orem, and he reached behind my chair and pulled out a little Teddy Bear.

“I brought a friend with us,” he said. She was a beautiful little thing, with sandy fur, milky ears and muzzle, wearing a pretty yellow sun dress.

“What’s her name?” I asked (all Teddy Bears have names, you know)

“I didn’t give her one so that you could name her,” he said. I thought that was so precious! I also thought that the surprises would end there but I thought wrong on that head…

A Stinky Memory

It's funny to me how smells and memories are interconnected. The slightest scent can trigger such precious memories. For example, onions. I can no longer chop an onion without laughing. "Laughing? Genevieve, don't you mean crying?" No, what I wrote was right: I laugh when I chop an onion because of the fun memory it brings to mind.

You see, my Grandpa on my mother's side is the sweetest little old tease. One day, a couple of summers ago, he wanted to mow the front lawn of their little farmhouse in Missouri. Granny didn't want him to (I mean, my Grandpa is NOT a young man anymore). She was worried that he might get hurt. But Grandpa insisted and insisted until Granny said, in that voice all grandma's use when they've had it, "All right, Stephen! But you stay out of my onion patch!" Grandpa gave a dramatic "huff" and with a twinkle in his eye, he went about getting the mower ready to go.

Granny went about, too, cooking and cleaning and washing, in that neat and exact way grandma's do, the purring of the old push mower in the background. Occasionally, she'd peek out the little window over the kitchen sink that looks into the front lawn, to check on Grandpa. He was still mowing along, whistling whatever came to his mind.

A short time later, a horrible smell started to filter through the house. At first Granny thought something was burning, but she checked the meal she had heating on the stove and that wasn't it... Maybe something in the fridge needed to be thrown out. She investigated, opening every tubberware and saran-wrapped bowl she could find...That wasn't it either, The smell in all its pungency was only getting stronger. Granny held a tissue over her mouth and nose, trying to keep from inhaling the fumes. As a matter of fact, they were making her eyes fill with tears. Tears! But that had to mean...onions!

She hurried as fast as she could to the front door. Swinging the screen open with a CLANG, she saw Grandad with the ole lawnmower chugging away, eagerly mowing down her onion patch, a big boyish grin stretching out his wrinkles, great big tears streaming down his cheeks!

Fortunately for me onions aren't the only scent that digs up such fun memories. As a matter of fact, I've just started working for ScentSationals, the wickless scented waxes and wax warmers that you see in Walmart, at Hobby Lobby, and online at http://www.scentsationals.com/, and my office is right above the production line. Every day a new fragrance seeps through the floorboards and I'm bombarded with the nostalgic aromas of Spice Cake or Sizzlin' Cinnamon, or whatever else we produce that day. In fact, after work, my mom always asks what we were working on, usually right after she says something like, "You smell like a slice of pumpkin pie!" My coworkers and I joke about smelling like cinnamon bears and other various things, depending on what's cookin' downstairs that day!

Very Guava Berry!

Wow! I am sitting here melting the new wax fragrance Guava Berry, which has been one of our top-selling scents every since we released it in January. I wanted to know why, so I decided to test it in my office, Wow! this is one of my new favorites. I happen to love fruit scents, so this is right up my alley.

The scent is quite strong, one cube definitely fills my office which is about 18 feet long by 12 feet wide. I have the door open and just as I was typing this our accountant, Becky walked past my office, I called to her to ask if she can smell Guava Berry, but before I could ask she asked me, "what is it you are melting in here?" I started to laugh.

"Guava Berry" I replied between outbursts of laughter, and she said, "I have been walking back and forth concentrating on my tasks smelling the fragrance coming from your office, so this time when I walked my I wasn't so focused on what I was doing and decided to ask what you are melting because it smells so good!"

There you have it folks, the authority on fragrance, our accountant here at ScentSationals, Becky really likes this scent, and if that is not enough evidence, I happen to know that she can put together a killer spreadsheet showing the excellent selling statistics behind this very popular scent!

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Wax Scent Review: Vanilla Orchid

OK, so we have 7 new fragrances for Winter 2010, which I have never personally melted in my ScentSationals warmer, so I thought I would melt one cube each day and write a review about each one.

For starters, I am melting one fragrance cube, not multiple, and I am in my office which is about 18' x 12' (just so you have an idea about the size of space I am using my warmer in).

I decided to start with Vanilla Orchid, I personally had never considered mixing vanilla with a floral scent, but it sounds interesting, and I love trying new things so here goes:

Vanilla Orchid in the package has a very floral note and a rather mild note of vanilla, almost in the background. When I popped the wax out of the package I noted the vanilla was stronger.

FYI, wax fragrances smell differently depending on how you are smelling them, the "just opened top note" that you get when you first open the clamshell package, or take the lid off the jar is different than if you pop the wax out of the clamshell and smell the underside of the wax, this is called the "bottom note".

The scent the wax emits when it is in it's solid state (cold throw), is different than when it is in it's melted state. Obviously the melted state is the strongest scent by far and the reason wickless candles do such a great job of filling the room(s) they are in with a rich aroma.

Vanilla Orchid's "cold throw" is rather mild, soft floral notes hinted with vanilla, on the underside the vanilla is stronger, but still subtle compared to the soft floral.

The warmer I melted the cube in was already warm when I placed the cube in it, and within about a minute I could already smell the fragrance filling the air around the warmer.

Upon melting, the fragrance from the cube is quite strong, it really fills the room well. Pleasantly, the vanilla stands out with the floral, so when I think about the vanilla I catch it in the air, and florals, being florals, of course are usually rather strong.

This is a great scent, with lots of fragrance, heating the wax for just a few minutes filled the office I am in, and keeps getting stronger, so I think I will actually turn the warmer off for a while and let the scent it has already released last a while.

If you love floral fragrances this is a very nice scent with a wonderful vanilla twist. Perfect as I sit and look at all of the snow on the ground outside my office window, it is cold here, really cold, and Vanilla Orchid is a great scent to take you away from the cold to a spring day with a twist of vanilla. (in your mind of course, the snow is still on the ground :)

Jeff

New scents for winter!

Tired of the cold? ScentSationals can help with our new lineup of wax scents for winter 2010. After the heavier holiday spice scents we all love for Thanksgiving and Christmas, we have released new scents that have a lighter more "spring-like" feel.

Some of our newest scents include Vanilla Orchid, Crisp Linens, Acai Pomegranate and Jelly Beans.

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