Yankee Candle’s scented calendar for 2010:
Perfect for the Yankee Candle® lover! Our 2010 Calendar (13″W X 10″L) printed on premium high gloss paper with scented pages each month features the true-to-life Yankee fragrances that capture the spirit of each season. The stunning artwork is derived right from the labels of our iconic jar candles. January – Sparkling Snow, February – Island Spa, March – Midnight Jasmine, April – Garden Sweet Pea, May – Lilac Blossoms, June – Sweet Strawberry, July – Ocean Water, August – Evening Air, September – MacIntosh, October – Autumn Leaves, November – Be Thankful, December – Balsam and Cedar
$9.99 at Yankee Candle. Many thanks to Sarah for the tip!
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Yankee Candle….aahh-CHOOO!!!
I can’t even walk by their stores in the mail.
We’ve been anti-YC since our son was a toddler and an SA told him he couldn’t touch anything. We went to Illuminations instead where the SA’s got a kick out of him smelling and testing everything. He became a favorite customer.
Besides, YC’s scents all share the same powdery-metallic note. Ick.
Hmm. . . I like the way the candles smell themselves, but recently I have been feeling uncomfortable about burning candles with synthetic fragrances. The illuminations in my local mall closed down, but I don’t think they used natural oils anyhow. I think the only place to go is Whole Foods for those but I havne’t had a chance to go by there.
Agreed. A friend turned me on to the WF candle section after I kept complimenting her on her choice of home fragrance. She’d been using the same candle for three months straight! I miss Illuminations (heartily), but WF will fit the bill. YC just makes me brake out in hives (almost literally).
Wait, what does WF stand for?
Oh, duh, WF=Whole Foods. But do they have their own candles under their brand? If they do that would be great because they might be less expensive than the Pacifica or whatever other brand candles they carry.
Minnie, so far as I know they don’t have their own brand — just a nice selection.
I love the candle selection at Whole Foods as well. I also like the fact that they often carry handcrafted candles made by local artists.
That’s sad. Obviously, the woman doesn’t realize that touch and smell are a learning experience no matter how old you are.
Hmph, I’ll never buy another thing from Yankee Candles..I was told they bought Illuminations and then shut them down. I was a huge Illuminations fan, though oddly enough, I never cared much for their scented candles. Their basic candles and their accessories were gorgeous, though.
Yankee candles have always smelled very artificial to me, accept for Macintosh. It’s an excellent apple fragrance!
I used to like Yankee Candle before I got into perfume…have to admit they don’t smell as good now. But I do have a (now very old) Sage candle from them that smells pretty darned good. It’s hard to go into a YC store though…just too smelly.
Same here – I hold my breath and scurry past. Phew!
Somehow I discovered their Sage & Citrus room spray, which still beats anything and everything else I’ve tried — great scent, not at all overpowering and still lasts a good long time — and for some reason I’ve spent a lot of time and money on other home scents. Still, I cannot abide *anything* else from YC.
That might be what my candle is — sage and citrus.
Yeah, can’t handle walking past either Yankee Candle or Illuminations in the mall. Ewww — a perfect storm of synthetics.
I’m curious to know how February through December’s scents wouldn’t come wafting out when you’re still in January. That would be quite a stench! I don’t often shop at YC simply because it seems like every time they come out with a scent I like (Lotus Blossom, Pineapple Paradise, Sweet Violet etc.) it gets discontinued. They actually had a lovely Peppermint Cocoa candle for the holidays that’s of course been retired, and I’ve yet to find anything like it for a replacement.
I don’t think we have an Illuminations around here, but I fell in love with a lot of the products on their site. We used to take the twins to YC with us when they were toddlers (in their stroller of course), and the sales ladies would bring over votives for them to smell now and again. It’s too bad not everyone’s so family friendly since the line tries to appeal to that dynamic.
I’ve really been into Voluspa candles which, I believe, are at least somewhat more natural than YC’s, and they have far more interesting scent combinations.
Great minds think alike — that’s just what I wanted to know: how do they keep the scents separate? Maybe there is some sort of cover on the individual scented pages.
I think we all must have been wondering that very thing. Is each individual page wrapped in plastic which you tear off to free the scent, as if it were one of those jar-candle-shaped car air fresheners? And is the page dosed with just enough scent to last the month? Because if it isn’t, then April will be a sort of slumgullion of all four exposed months, and December will be pretty much unimaginable. Unless you’re intended to take the new month’s page wrapper and wrap the previous page….
No, it’s just too much work.
I was imagining that they’d be scratch and sniff. Otherwise, all the smells would hit you at once and it would smell like that one candle shop at the mall…
And hey, it would all clash with my scented kitchen paint!
Good to know I’m not the only one to wonder this!
Want.
I expect their calendar will follow the same approach they do for their direct mailings: the pages will release the scent when rubbed.
Hiya, Robin.
Hey you! Hope all is well? And I’ll bet you’re right — they’re probably scratch n sniff.
I have a customer of mine who works at Yankee Candle. He said that it used to be a great place to work, full of employee incentives, etc. Since the company has changed ownership, everything else has changed. I can see his point. I always could smell him coming a mile away.
Too bad.
I wouldn’t buy this calendar, but I continue to like some of their scents. Sage & Citrus was always good, and some of the holiday candles really do give a good throw and the pine/balsam odor they have doesn’t make me sick. Actually puts me in quite the holiday mood.
Forgot to mention that, like AS above, I prefer Voluspa these days, which are really well-priced as well.
I really like Sage & Citrus, too. I like most of their non-food, non-floral scents, including the balsam ones.
Their candles generally have great throw .. better than some of the pricier brands.
When I lived in NW Massachusetts, I had to drive by the Yankee Candle factory occasionally, and you could smell it from the highway. Watermelon days were particularly noxious…
Ack!
If Guerlain or Chanel makes a scented calendar, call me.
I like the idea of a perfume Advent calendar with a tiny mini behind each door.
Oh, Joe, you’re a genius! Yes! Please, someone do this!!
Santa, are you listening?
In Germany, they sell the perfect advent calendars for this — they have individual bags or boxes for each day all tied onto a rope, and the giver fills each bag / box with whatever s/he wants.
Pretty sure Chanel has in the past, don’t know about Guerlain. I’m sure I wouldn’t pay for either of them — there are so many decently priced candles out there. I do hear great things about Ormonde Jayne’s candles.
I like a good deal of the Yankee Candle scents, but in their tarts. Somehow the scent seems more pure in the tart than the candle. I also like the Sage and Citrus; I keep their car jars in my computer bag. Denise
YC must make a gajillion scents — very interesting how many people here mention the same one: Sage & Citrus.
I’ve never tried this brand, don’t think it’s available in Adelaide but I dig the idea of a scented calendar! I’d buy it unsniffed.
YC is pretty ubiquitous in the US, glad to hear there is a place on earth you can’t find it.