what kind of scent for my home should i get?

Question

like galde plugin(which kind) glade oil pool thing yankee candles do yankee candles make plugin things? do they make scented oils?

Answer 1

Yankee Candles makes a plug in. I have one in each of my bathrooms. My favorite scent is vanilla. I also have one that is seaside holiday (or something like that.) It smells good too.

Answer 2

During the fall, I use Macintosh apple and Vanilla Caramel by Yankee Candle. Aroma is subjective though. I for one don't like plain Vanilla. During the winter I use, among others, Beanpod Candles Adirondack Mountains scent. I just love it. It is probably my favorite but since it's a wooded scent I can only use it in the late fall and winter. It is a soy candle so it burns cleaner. There a a lot of new candle lines right now.

Answer 3

Candle-lite candles are BY FAR the best candles I've ever purchased and used. I love them so much that I buy them as gifts for friends and family. They have a wide variety of scents to choose from and I think they all smell great. Check for yourself:


AND you can MIX scents and they WILL NOT smell bad.

Answer 4

Yes yankee makes the plug ins but they seem to only last for about a week. I LOVE yankee candles though. I have so many. My favorite for this time of year is Autumn Wreath and Pumpkin Pie!

Answer 5

Yankee Candles does not make plug ins, but the best plug in's to get I would say would be the Febereze plug in that has duel scents. Also the one that I use more are the Plug in with a fan. I use Vanilla, berry rush and clean linen (the best) because all these scents are not to over powering, but boy do they work!

Answer 6

im the biggest scent feen anybody has ever seen lol..my house has to constanly be scented i go by the season..its fall seasons so i use spicy/bakery/fall scents..and i only use tarts now theyre the most powerful scented items out there! all you need is a tart melter and tealights thier very low cost and like i said strongest scent throwers out there!! i buy my tarts for the lowest cost off ebay..you can get them from yankee too..but ebay is cheapest and beats the hell out of yankee plus some people who make them sell them for only $5.00 for 50 tarts!! WOW! AND THEYRE THE STRONGEST EVER!

Answer 7

They do. But make sure that they don't clash one another if u get different kinds and that u like the smell.

Answer 8

I sort of like the smell of CLEAN in my home.

Answer 9

caramel is great.....yes they all have different options

Answer 10

Strong smelling cosmetics, scented candles, perfumes and other home fragrance products are dangerous for people with allergies or asthma. Please consider using a natural alternative:

-add to a pot of water any combination of allspice, cloves, orange peel, ground cinnamon, vanilla extract and fresh ginger, and simmer the mixture slowly on the stove.

-Sprinkle cinnamon and sugar in a tin pie pan and burn it slowly on the stove top over very low temperature or very low flame.

-Vinegar is an inexpensive, effective deodorizer. To get rid of unpleasant odors (like cigarette smoke), pour 1/2 cup of vinegar in each of several containers and place them around the room.

-Another smoke-neutralizing tip? Fill ashtrays with cat litter! This product puts out cigarettes and absorbs the smell.

-To eliminate the scent of cabbage or other disagreeable odors wafting through the kitchen, simmer cinnamon sticks or cloves in a pot of water. Or boil 3 tablespoons of vinegar in 1 cup of water.

-Old-fashioned pomanders add fragrance and make lovely decorations. To create your own clove-studded fruit, first choose an orange, lemon or lime; then poke holes in the surface with a pin and insert whole cloves into the holes. You can opt for a traditional look (surface entirely covered with cloves) or create your own unique design. To preserve a pomander, place it in a paper bag with powdered orrisroot, seal the bag, shake the contents and store the bag in a warm, dark spot for three weeks before use.

Sweet Smelling Danger?
Charles Downey
WebMD Medical News

When Cathy Flanders, 41, of Plano, Texas, started burning candles for their pleasant smell in the spring of 1997, it never occurred to her she could be poisoning her family.

Three years, a serious illness, and a lawsuit later, Flanders has a lesson to share with anyone buying scented candles: Watch out for metal wicks. Lead emitted by this type of candle is a serious health hazard.

"Candles are fast becoming one of the most common unrecognized causes of poor indoor air quality," says Diane Walsh Astry, Executive Director of the Health House Project, an American Lung Association education project in St. Paul, Minnesota.

The Flanders' woes started when Cathy was shopping at a clothing store and spotted some candles whose labels promised to fill her house with the pleasant fragrances of "winter" and "spring." Within six months of burning the candles, she noticed soot damage around her house. But Cathy didn't pinpoint the source of the problem until after Ron Bailey of Bailey Engineering in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, analyzed the Flanders' candles and discovered lead emissions.

Around that time, 11-year-old Andrew Flanders' grades dropped precipitously. His teacher wondered if he had attention deficit disorder. When blood tests revealed an elevated level of lead, the Flanders promptly sent him to live with his aunt.

"The lead deposits in our home are such that we could not sell the house if we wanted to," says Flanders. As for the candles, the doctor ordered a total ban. Testing revealed the lead level in the Flanders' home to be 40 milligrams per square foot -- 27 times the limit allowed in Housing and Urban Development homes.

Aromatherapy
The Flanders aren't the only ones falling victim to pleasant-smelling candles with toxic wicks. Candle sales in general have skyrocketed in recent years, according to the National Candle Association in Washington D.C., from $500 million in 1995 to $2.3 billion in 1999. Part of the candle craze may be due to new interest in aromatherapy, a type of alternative medicine in which odors are used for relaxation or to treat illness.

Ironically, the very candles sometimes used for aromatherapy can cause serious health problems. The chief culprits are candles with wicks made with metal cores.

"Some candle makers use metal-core wicks because cotton wicks are often limp and fall over into the wax, extinguishing the flame," explains Jerome O. Nriagu, Ph.D., a professor of environmental chemistry at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor who has studied scented candles.

Lead poisoning can lead to behavior changes and damage internal organs, especially the kidneys. Cathy's husband, Kip, had his gall bladder removed because of an illness he blames on the candles.

Metal Wicks
Nriagu measured the lead released from 14 brands of candles. He found that burning four metal-wick candles for two hours can result in airborne lead concentrations that pose a threat to human health. People with weak immune systems, including children and the elderly, are particularly at risk.

"Besides breathing lead fumes, children can be exposed to even more lead that is deposited on the floor, furniture, and walls because they often put their hands in their mouths," says Nriagu. After similar research in Australia, lead wicks in candles were banned there in September 1999. But despite the urging of experts like Nriagu, the candles are still legal in the United States.

Not all candles -- or even all scented candles -- cause hazardous pollution. But since labels won't tell which ones are safe, Astry and other candle experts offer this advice:

Watch out for shiny metal wire inside the wicks of candles. Opt for pure paper or cotton instead.

Keep wicks trimmed to one-quarter inch for more complete combustion, and keep candles out of drafts. Windiness blows more toxins into the air and causes inefficient burning.

Watch out for slow-burning candles with additives. (These candles often feel greasy to the touch.) Instead, look for pure beeswax candles, which emit less pollution.

For aromatherapy, put a few drops of scented oil in a defuser -- a tray made to fit on a lightbulb. Or you can put the drops into some boiling water.

Don't use candles in jars when the candle leaves a soot ring on the jar's lip. The soot may be an indication of lead dust.

Andrew Flanders, now 14, has moved back home. And the family is still hopeful their lawsuit will win compensation from the store that sold them the candles. But no matter what the result of the suit, Cathy only wishes she'd had some whiff of the danger when she first spotted those innocent-looking candles among the racks of shirts and pants.