Yankee Candle Sandalwood Vanilla Wax Tart

Yankee Sandalwood Vanilla Tart

I am a recent convert to the Yankee candle fad and as such I am going mad buying any I see. This one is my favourite to date. I bought this from the Yankee candle shop in the Westfield centre in Derby as I was walking passed it called me in with its wonderful Yankee candle display. They were not especially cheap but as they were so very lovely looking and smelled wonderful I bought myself two at the price of £1.10 per tart.

Over the years I have had a number of scented candles as I do like the wonderful scents that fill my rooms but I can’t ever remember buying one of these tarts before the last couple of months when Ii have gone crazy for them. Having read so many reviews on Ciao and Dooyoo about the tarts I was well aware that they had no wick and gave off their scent by being melted in a burner with a tea light candle underneath.

Yankee Candles the company originated in the USA. But have quickly become a household name over here . They offer a huge range of home fragrance products from sprays, reed diffusers through to all kinds of shapes and sizes of scented candles. They are often found in garden centres and gift shops so it is a case of keeping your eyes open. We do actually have a big Yankee Candle shop in the Westfield Centre in Derby and despite the fact that I rarely go in there as I find them very expensive I did buy this one from there. It is also worth noting that www.yankeedoodle.co.uk often has them at discounted prices if you want to order a few.

I had to cut the very tightly sealed plastic wrap from the outside then as I took the tart out I had a good sniff. It smelled quite wonderfully evocative of Indian temples with the gorgeous sandalwood scent within. The vanilla creaminess blended so beautifully that I would happily wear this as a scent on me.
This little tart is one of the plain white ones so not so exciting to look at and on the front is a picture of sandalwood necklaces, a vanilla flower and some shells. An exotic photo evocative of India and islands in the India Ocean.

I popped the tart onto my brand new burner and I put a lighted tea light underneath and waited. The tart began to melt quite quickly and then the scent began to fill the room.

As the tart melted the scent became stronger and now there was definitely a wonderfully Indian smell reminiscent of shops selling sandalwood souvenirs, sandalwood joss sticks and it just took me right back to our Honeymoon in India. It is a warm, cosy comforting scent as the vanilla adds a creaminess to the woody sandalwood scent.

As I said this is my second or third tart experience and so far I am impressed. I put this one in the room we sit in next to the kitchen on the windowsill as ours is a tiled sill so there is no danger of the heat burning anything through the burner. Even though tea lights have the wax safely within their aluminium foils they can still create a massive amount of heat that will damage furniture as I discovered to my cost when I got scorch marks on a wooden table. I now put my burners either on the tiled surfaces or on a couple of drink mats that are heat proof just in case. Another thing to be wary of is that you should NOT ever move a burner with melted wax as they are very hot and melted wax can cause nasty burns on skin or melted wax spilling can also cause wax stain damage or burns on carpets and other furnishings. Always put any burners out of the reach of children and never leave them in rooms unattended as candles can obviously cause fires. Someone I know put a tea light on their TV and left it, it melted the TV top and fell into the inside and set their room on fire so please be VERY careful they are to be treated as mini fires.

Having given all the dire warnings I am a big fan of candles and especially the scented ones as they give off lovely fragrances and also add atmosphere to a room with gentle flames flickering in their containers. They are a lovely addition to a room’s ambience but just need to be treated with good sense.

I am absolutely delighted with this fragrance it is my sort of scent. I can sit in the room and close my eyes and imagine I am in an Indian temple or wearing my sandal wood beads as they keep their scent for years. The scent does not knock you out with its strength but it was plenty strong enough to fill the room with its aroma.

Thank you Yankee candles for this lovely scented tart, I will certainly be buying this one again as it smells so wonderfully warm and exotic. This will be one that I will buy over and over again as it is just perfect in my view.

Yankee has this fragrance in a variety of forms but not as many as some other fragrances

Wax Tart - lasts 8 hour duration costs 90p to £1-05 each.

Votive or sampler candle lasts 15 hour duration costs £1-75 to £2

Small house warmer jar candle lasts about 25-40 hours costs about £7-99

Medium house warmer jar candle lasts about 60-75 hours and costs about £13.99
Large house warmer jar candle which lasts about 100-150 hours and costs about £17-99

Sometimes different scents are offered in other formats as well so if you are really interested in this scent then go onto the Yankee candle website and see the many different possibilities you can choose from

The prices do vary from store to store so it does pay to look around if you are lucky enough to have more than one shop that sells them or try on line. Personally I think the little tarts give you a great trial of the scent, if you really like it then you may choose to get a candle which last longer. The only thing I find is that once the candle has burned down a bit it doesn’t really look as nice as the wax is up the edges and it just looks tatty. With these little tarts once they have done their job you just remove the wax from the burner.

A tip I have learned from Nar on here to put them in the freezer then the wax pops out easily – so thanks Nar for that it is a really handy tip. Then you just throw the wax away. If you were really into crafty stuff you could melt them and make your own candles if you saved them up and bought some wicks from a craft shop. I might even give that a try and let you know how they work!

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