On we go
towards Christmas with probably my last post of the year!
All your
Christmas shopping done? Work finished for the holiday season?
Kick back
and relax as I take you through some Christmas Yankee Candle burning from the
last few days!
My first
day off for the Christmas break started in line with my Christmas Burn Planner
(Videos Here) and a first go at Christmas Garland. A pleasant enough scent of
Christmas type firs and woods, but not as good as the much missed Christmas
Tree.
A Sugared
Apple votive followed and unusually this was quite light! Into the night with
the delightful Happy Christmas. From its festive picture onwards this one will
melt the hardest ‘bah humbug’ heart! Happy Christmas is a blend of lovely
sugary Christmas sweets and bright festive Christmas green notes.
Friday
morning and my first ever Yankee Candle Christmas Fir which is still going. To
me this long retired fragrance is the most authentic real Christmas Tree scent.
A votive of
Candy Cane Lane
Sparkling
Snow strangely doesn’t have much of the atmosphere of snow or ice about it, but
its scent is lovely and a mixture of all of the Christmas greens.
For the
Friday evening the lovely notes of Welcome Christmas which is in fact very
close to the Happy Christmas scent. I’m not complaining as I love it!
A long day
out Saturday so we started and finished with the sharp green scent of Christmas
Wreath. This one has the atmosphere of freshly cut young boughs.
Into Sunday
morning and the lovely Peppermint Swirls (which it has to be said is very
similar to Candy Cane Lane
Christmas
Tree followed. It is so homely and comforting. Not as sharp as the scent of a
real Christmas Tree but like a smooth, slightly sweetened version.
After
Christmas Carols, Season of Peace suited the mood. A quite light scent it was
fairly hard to pick up but when we did, the lovely musk aroma was delightful.
Monday
morning started with a melt of Silver Bells. Tarts don’t keep well and this
only had a ghost of its supposed true aroma. Nice colour though!!
The
delectable Cherries On Snow followed. Such a sweet treat, like glacé iced
cherries!
For the
night of the 22nd it was Red Berry & Cedar. This may now be my
all time number 1 Christmas fragrance. It has everything Christmas about it,
absolutely adore it.
And this
morning I’ve started with Pinecone & Lime which is a delicious festive
treat for a Christmassy morning. The pine is offset by the lovely tangy
sweetness of lime.
So just a
day and a half to go until Christmas and I’ll wrap those burns up in my first
diary of the New Year.
Before I
go, Sunday was the first ever Team Yankee Secret Santa day! A spin of an idea
launched by Marc last year among Twitter Yankee Candle fans, this year the idea
spread to Facebook with around 60 people taking part, plus for the first time
ever it launched in America
You can
catch up with all of the fun on our Facebook page and there is a photo album on
the group of all the secret santa exchanges. For the uninitiated the idea is to
send a mystery person two tarts for them to open just before Christmas – and
you receive two in return from someone else!
Thanks to
Marc and Deborah for organising (with more than a little assistance from the
lovely Ann) and such a lovely idea full of festive spirit.
I received
a couple of lovely tarts of Sun & Sand and Christmas Memories. I’ve been
dying to try the latter and the former is one of my all time favourite retired
fragrances that I’ve struggled to find a back up of all year! What a lovely
secret santa I had!
Here are a
few pics to share a little of the joy.
Tanya’s
secret santa gift
Here’s what
Karen got
And Rachel
was pleased to get these…
Lastly
Rosanda from the USA
And …
that’s it. A very Merry Christmas to you and all your families! Thank you so
much for your continued interest in my blog all year and thanks to those of you
who have joined us so far at Team Yankee on Facebook. Peace and love for 2015 x