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Scentsy?
So, yes, 5 years after everyone else, I am finally about to place my first Scentsy order.
Do you use Scentsy? How long do the little wax thingies last?
Also, what are your favorite scents?
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Re: Scentsy?
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Oooh, ok. I have some warmers that are similar, I have a few that use tea lights and one that is electric. I love them!
I get my waxes from Yankee Candle, and they are amazing. They put out so much yummy smell! I love the cherry, melon, and lavender. The ones from Yankee are a little wax disk. I am saving this site, looks like they have some great fragrances.
The only thing to watch out for is to make sure they are on a sturdy surface, because of the hot liquid wax... not pet of child friendly!
I got my first one (the electric, but it's not a Scentsy) for my office when I was a dispatcher, because there were always smelly guys in my office and I couldn't have an open flame.
I'm sorry that I seem to have... offended some people? Sorry. I won't bring it up again. lol
Goodness!
ETA: Yeah, I said I'd shut up, but I just have to know why an antique picnic basket would make my life happier? lmao
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TTC Since January 2011 - We have bad spermThis is what companies like Scentsy and Yankee Candle bank on...they charge out the nose for their "specially formulated tarts" that magically only work with their "specially formulated burners".
News flash: when you expose wax to an elevated temperature, it melts, releasing fragrance if there's been any added. There is no magic formulation. You can accomplish the same effect by adding a garden variety, standard votive candle to a ceramic mug and placing it on an electric hot-plate style coffee warmer. There is no need at all for ridiculously priced fancy burners. If you're really worried about the wick of a standard candle igniting (which, by the way, requires temperatures far higher than you will achieve with a wax burner), it's simple enough to break up the candle and pull the wick out.
And don't even get me started on the complete lack of originality in the fragrance selection of these companies, or the shady business practice of repackaging the same scents as "limited editions" and just changing the names and maybe the color of the wax they use!
On the whole, I have little to no respect for either of these companies, and I feel that there are far too many honest and creative self-owned businesses out there who are getting rooked by Scentsy and Yankee Candle in particular, to ever be able to advise someone to purchase from either of these companies.
Sorry for the outburst, but you asked for my opinion, so I gave it. *sheepish grin*
You didn't offend me. They offend me. You were asking questions as an informed consumer should. I don't have a problem with that. They just make my blood boil and therefore elicit reactions I may otherwise be able to word less strongly.
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So you can get outside and have a picnic with your loved ones instead of sitting around pondering the miracles of smelly wax! Go outside in the sunshine!
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I am glad there is diversity in the world, because it truly makes it a better place. I, for one, hate the sun, hate bugs, and think a dinner indoors surrounded by smelly wax is a much better idea. I'm half-way joking...I like Scentsy, but am very particular about scents so the "smelly wax" has to be a perfect scent in order for me to enjoy it.
TOTALLY made up? Well, no, I don't imagine it is, but there's a lot of things that are painted in a way that makes it sound a little more extraordinary than it probably really was.
If you look past the emotionally manipulative writing of the story and look at the more mundane realities, it's just not that inspiring.
"Entrepreneurial" little Orville was a farm-raised kid, doing what farm-raised kids do when they intend to carry on a part of that legacy. It's not unusual at all for kids in rural communities to make very much the same deals he did. This story makes him sound like a plucky little guy who triumphed over adversity, when he actually was doing a pretty ordinary thing for his surroundings and the time frame in which he was raised.
Phrases like "the job market was shrinking", "for very little income", and "Orville regularly needed to take on greater amounts of debt to keep the company afloat" are thrown into this narrative almost every other sentence. You see, it was very important to Scentsy's executives when they sat down with their publicists for you to remember that they were broke...very, very broke. Broke, but not broken, for plucky little Orville has become plucky big Orville, who is determined to provide for his "growing family"...a phrase that is also mentioned a lot...is it just me, or is anyone else seeing this played out like a "Waltons" re-run?
And oh! The inspiring, movie-worthy quotes!
?I was feeling just beaten down as an entrepreneur, a failure. And I remember thinking, ?Why didn?t I just become a dentist???... ?This check is bad. Don?t cash it, but please let me set up. I will buy this check back from you with cash by the end of the show.?..."We are going to swing for the fence and we?re going to swing really hard.?...yeah, I really say stuff like that all the time...don't you? Doesn't everybody?
I also find it just a little too convenient that Orville just up and left his wife's family's house to run an errand, and came back to find the "little women" of his family transfixed by this crazy new creation...OMG, whoever would have thought to put fragrance oil in wax? Crazy talk!! But you know, "The products never made it to the pile of discards. Instead, Heidi fell in love with them."...because italics make it even more believable. Furthermore, I'm seriously curious as to how someone who was "$700,00 in debt" in the last paragraph suddenly finds the money to purchase a company, also conveniently putting himself in the top executive position of said company.
But my favorite part by far is how "Scentsy's first home was a 40-foot metal box." Whoopee. My company's first home was a 4-foot by 4-foot kitchen counter. Most companies started from nothing, and by the way, "bootstrapping" is not an uncommon occurrence when trying to get a company off the ground, regardless of its size. "Working tirelessly around the clock" and incorporating the unpaid assistance of family members is also not uncommon. It's not extraordinary. It's how businesses are built.
"Together with their family and friends, the Thompsons poured, cooled, packed, and shipped all the wickless candles themselves."...wait, what happened to the ladies who owned this business before he bought it? And furthermore, where's my medal? I do this every day, too! Except my candles have wicks, and I don't charge outrageous prices for the same stuff you can get everywhere else.
I don't know...maybe they really are just incredibly inspiring, humble people from hardscrabble backgrounds who just so happen to talk like they have script writers, but it all just seems a little too slick and overly presented, to me. Personally, I'd rather buy and sell honest product and tell a real story with no need for theatrical embellishments. But that's just me.
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I love candles. They make me happy. YES, even especially mass-produced ones! I like most of the scents from B&BW, Yankee, Party Lite, & a semi-local chain around here.
I would have no use for an antique picnic basket. I hate bugs & lugging a lunch around for the sole purpose of eating outside. I might just eat on my patio.
& I live in MI, where is it chilly/cold 9 months (+ or -) per yer.
ETA: I have not bought any Scentsy, but that is only because I have not found a local seller. I do know a girl from HS that sells it, but she lives ~2 hours away. So I'll probably buy some someday.
& as far as the "Scentsy Story" being fabricated (?), come on, ALL companies word anything to make it sound "nice."
Actually, I can name you several companies off the top of my head that don't. I'm one of those companies. I believe in truth in advertising...it's not such a crazy concept if your product is good enough to be worth telling the truth.
I wouldn't call it "flase advertising". It's just creative writing.
That Scentsy article is similar to "sparkling diamond", or "romantic rose" or any other superlative.
Not quite...there's putting the truth in its best light, and then there's peeing on my leg and trying to convince me it's a "fresh spring rain".
Speaking of "fresh spring rain", the only time you will catch me using poetic terms to describe a candle scent is if that's actually the trade name of the fragrance oil I used. I find that most people would rather be able to read the label and say "oh, ok, Lavender" so they know what they're buying, as opposed to "Fantasie de Fleur Francaise", which tells them nothing about what it smells like. I can tell you most honestly that it hasn't hurt my sales a bit.
Bolded part 1: I use a form of this all the time. Don't piss on me and try to tell me it's raining.
Bolded part 2: I "Like" this so much. I was looking at a scent list from Scentsy and they have the most ridiculous names that have nothing to do with how they smell. You Go Girl? Clarity? Falling Leaves? Sharp Dressed Man? Satin Sheets? Oy.
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You mean that you can't imagine what those would smell like???
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I will say that the Scentsy book I saw had descriptions of the scents in the back. I read those first, and then went and smelled the samples based on that. So, like, the one that said it was fig and maple, I thought, "Well, maybe that smells like brown sugar fig at least a little." and it really really did. So that was nice. But, the NAME of the scent is French Kiss.
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Now that's not a name I would have associated with that scent!
I do have a couple that are trade named stuff that has no association with the scent...Innocence, from my spring line, is the big one that first comes to mind (it's peony, jasmine, vanilla bean and strawberry mixed with lily of the valley...a little long for the label!), but that's a legal thing that I can't help. I have to use the name given to the scent per my supplier's agreement. Not a fan, but I go by what smells best to me. *shrug*
Oh I can imagine... I bet it all smells like bullshit :P
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