Yankee Candle Lemon Lavender Wax Potpourri Tart

My other half has been given some Yankee Candles from colleagues at her place of work as she has been off ill for a while and they clubbed together to get her a present. She’s been off for nearly four weeks now as she had a collision with our door frame during one of our ‘special night’s in’ and we spend the evening suspending one another from our Passion- 8 Sex Door Swing. She’s suffered from some nasty bruising to the ribs and the swing has now collapsed and brought down some of the door frame with it, resulting in her having to take some sick leave. Fortunately, she has a very understanding boss.

One of the candles she was presented with was a small flat looking thing, which I understand is called a ‘tart’. She loves scented candles anyway, and they had bought her quite a selection, together with a large box of Thornton’s Chocolates. I actually thought the chocolate was a little bit insensitive of them, as the reason my poor wife actually broke the sex swing is due to the fact that she weighs even more than I do. She is considered to be now clinically obese and I have to admit she is colossal. She’s on a diet and her colleagues know this, and I believe they didn’t think it through properly before they made their purchase.

My other half asked me to light this little tart-thing in our bedroom the other night as she was unable to move and lying on her side on the bed and eating the chocolates (she cannot lie or sleep on her back at the moment do to her size as she has breathing problems). I lit the burner and placed the wax tart inside and it seemed to work well in the little burner we have.

I went off to clean my teeth and get the sponge and water and creams ready for her bed-bath. When I came back into the room I notice the horrific stench of lavender. Now, anyone who has read any of my previous reviews, will be fully aware of the fact that I hate and I mean HATE, the smell of lavender. This little tart was lavender and lemon scented and although I could (just about) detect the smell of lemons, the massively overriding smell was of pungent lavender. God, it was strong!

It was strange, I thought, that my other half said she could actually smell the lemons more than the lavender and that she didn’t find it too strong at all, or unpleasant. I think I just must have an extremely strong aversion to lavender in general. As I say, the candle burned well. I continued our ablutions, read my caravan magazine for a while, whilst my wife continued to work her way through the rest of the box of chocolates, and the candle was still burning brightly and giving off the same pungent aroma.

After about half an hour I had had enough and went into the spare room and opened the window very wide to let in some air. I spent the night in there. I have lit the candle for her again but have moved it to the living room as I think it is a horrible smell to go to sleep with. It lasted about another few nights and then gradually burned itself out.

Overall, I cannot say I was too happy at all with the smell of this Yankee Candle. The smell lasted (far too) long and was a nice colour, I suppose, but the overall aroma was hideous. We now have several other fragrances to try from her little gift pack and I sincerely hope that the next one is nicer than this one was.