Well that’s it, done and dusted! You may think we’re a bit
grinchy but it all ends for us on Christmas Day and for some ingrained reason
we immediately switch off all things seasonal from that point. Ne’er a light
will be turned on again!
After six hours of taking down and putting away Christmas
decorations yesterday (and we’re still not finished), it was lovely to sit down
with a clear room and a solitary Yankee Candle. But wait, I’m jumping ahead of
myself there, let’s wind back to where I left off last week…
Two days before Christmas and it was peak excitement point
due to all the festivities and also because of the closing stages of my
Christmas Yankee Candles!
Our first ever Yankee Candle, Christmas Fir from the Encore
range (similar to Artisan) started the week. I used to love this candle but its
simplistic Christmas tree like fragrance doesn’t quite push all the buttons
now!
North Pole came as something of a disappointment. It looks
stunning and smells lovely in the jar, but on burning there was almost no
scent, even when right next to it! I know it is not just us either as our
Yankee friend has used it again and again and got virtually no fragrance from
it. A shame as we were really looking forward to this one.
Christmas Cupcake rescued the situation with its lovely
vanilla frosted notes.
Into Christmas Eve and Welcome Christmas kicked the day off.
The complete opposite experience to North Pole, Welcome Christmas has hardly
any smell in the jar but wow – what a fragrance when burning. Very much like
Red Berry And Cedar but with added sweetening notes.
Christmas Eve ‘the candle’ was also a delight through the
evening. Full on sugary sweetness, it somehow evokes thoughts of the
anticipation of Christmas Eve night and what is to follow. Sugared plums
(crafty wink to Yankee Candle) and sleigh bells all the way!
Christmas Tree also was used again and despite what others
say it isn’t the pure scent of a tree. Yes it has that lovely green piney feel
but it is also very creamy and quite sweet.
Into Christmas Day and Happy Christmas saw the day in as we
exchanged gifts and had some Bucks Fizz (we made our minds up early on to open
with Happy Christmas – geddit?). Happy Christmas is an equal mix of cedary type
green notes laced with Christmas sweets and treats. A really lovely blend that
totally captures the spirit of Christmas morning.
Holiday Home Sweet Home decorated our table and was the
grand finale of our Christmas burning. It’s lovely cinnamon notes are finished
off with a splash of festive green notes and it looked just fab on the
Christmas table and it accompanied us
through our tasty festive dinner.
And that was it really. As I mentioned earlier, we instantly
switch off Christmas from that point! Christmas Day night we used Salted
Caramel and in the days after I just used some votives such as Witches Brew,
Sugared Apple, Candy Corn and even Willow Breeze to freshen up the house.
Blowing a fresh cleansing breeze through the house...
By last night though we had a clear living room and it was
lovely to have Warm Spice wafting through the air in a (relatively) empty
environment. Its nutty, creamy notes were quite light this time but thoroughly
enjoyable. Didn’t pick up much spice from it but no matter – it’s great to be
back to some straight ahead candle burning!
