Warm Crackling Campfire (Better Homes and Gardens)

Yes, it's another limited edition season scent, this time by Better Homes and Gardens.  In case you're wondering why I'm doing all of these holiday scents in February, wonder no more.  Where I live it was actually kind of warm in November and December, and I prefer to use the 'warm' scents when its cold and feels like...well, winter.  We're getting some colder weather now so I'm taking advantage and using these scents because the odds of them surviving until next fall/winter is slim.  The odds of me remembering where I put them next fall/winter is practically zero.

Warm Crackling Campfire is basically bayberry, but I still love it.  Several years ago when I was into candle making, I got bayberry and found that it reminded me of a fire.  I don't know why.  Perhaps someone burned bayberry in their fireplace when I was a child.  This scent makes me feel somewhat justified in my thinking that bayberry = fire somehow.

I was slightly disappointed because I expected it to have an underlying scent of...something.  A woodsy smell, or some sandalwood.  If there is another scent, the bayberry completely overwhelms it.

This is also one of those times where a little goes a long way.  As soon as the cube started to melt the scent filled the room.  I didn't leave the warmer on for more than 15 minutes at a time because the scent was that strong, and I had a fan on to help sort of circulate the scent around.  The second time I melted it, the scent was still strong but was starting to tone down.  I melted that first cube four times (and I only melted it once a day) before I could say that I no longer smelled bayberry.  This is one scent that will definitely last you a long time.

Cleanup was pretty easy once the wax hardened.  I did have to put it in the freezer for about ten minutes but it popped out with little residue left behind.