Scented Candles make a House a Home!
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Ever since I was a little girl I have just loved candles! I would spend ages just watching their lovely glow and taking in the aroma as they burned. I couldn't imagine life without them. Now, our own home is always beautifully decorated and scented with wonderful candles. While you can get many gorgeous looking unscented candles, I love to have scented candles burning. Smell is our most powerful sense in making us feel a certain way or taking us back in history to those special moments.
Our sense of smell has a memory so you can use smell in a very positive way to evoke wonderful feelings of happiness, calmness, that holiday, festive feeling etc. I am almost put into a trance every time I smell Jasmine as it takes me back to
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my nanna's special, loved filled country garden where we shared so many irreplaceable moments.
And I bake a special Choc, Fruit, Sherry Slice that was my Mothers pride and joy special recipe at least once a week so that I feel like I am back home with her in her kitchen helping her cook. She died young in 1999 at only 53 years of age and that is one way that I feel very close to her. Smell makes things very real!
There is nothing nicer than going to visit a friend and as they open the door to greet you, you are welcomed by the most delicious or uplifting aroma. You immediately feel at home. Scented candles offer this unseen but most important aspect in our homes - scent, smell, aroma.
Now that Spring is here I have to
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TODAY'S NEWS:
Photo: Yankee Candles Yankee Candle recently became the latest company to take a feminine product and try to dress it up as some kind of head-smashing symbol of brawn and masculinity. Just look at the names of this line of candles for men: "Riding Mower," "2x4," "First Down," and worst of all, "Man Town." What the [...]
SOUTH DEERFIELD, Mass., May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Yankee Candle Company, Inc., the world's largest manufacturer of premium scented candles , today unveiled its first-ever, limited edition Man Candles ...
Some ideas seem so natural that you wonder why they haven?t already been invented. And then, there are man candles. The Yankee Candle Company, of South Deerfield, Mass., is rolling out its first-ever, limited edition Man Candles Collection. It includes?? four scents aimed specifically at masculine customers, branching into a market that until now has ...
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confess - I have completed contracted the "Spring Cleaning Bug" and been almost fanatical about decluttering, cleaning out cupboards and opening up spaces. I am enhancing our home and its new "Spring Clean" with candles that have fresh, clean, floral fragrances. My current favorites are Frangipani and Rose Geranium.
About the Author
Lisa Pirie lives in the Hawkesbury Valley in NSW Australia and is very passionate about candles and helping the makers of hand made candles find a market so that candle making as an old fashion art form stays alive and well. If you wish to see more about candles or to purchase beautiful hand made candles, you can visit www.aussiecandlestore.com
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