I love BBW candles. That's Bath and Body Works in case you were unaware. They are the best scented, longest burning candles around. They're a bit pricey, but you pay for excellence I've always heard. I don't like ordering candles online. if it's hot outside they come in melted, and even sometimes if it's cold outside the end up melted, or cracked and broken. So if I buy a BBW candle I drive the 45 minutes to my nearest BBW. Last night my husbands family all merged at my Father in Law's house for my oldest sister-in-law's birthday. I noted he had 3 BBW candles burning on his coffee table, and so my youngest sis in law (she is my age) and I were talking about them, and that's when I brought up what I'm about to tell you!
It's no secret I'm a bit of a Dollar Store fanatic. I live and work in the same tiny town and never get out, hardly, into the "big city." So whatever I get in any field is usually a "DOLLAR" product. I've found that the Family Dollar brand candles last longer than the Dollar General "true living" candles, but they don't quite have the same scent factor, and living in an old musty house with a puppy, scent is everything.
So one day I'm moseying through the candle isle at my local Dollar General and see they have picked up a new line of candles.
Mrs. Fields Cookie Candles!
The first thing that caught my attention was the packaging. I'm a sucker for anything "country" themed - hence the floral patterns and distressed looking wood furniture in my house - and so a candle in a jar like that is just too precious! The lid in the perfect size so that once I unscrew it, I sit the candle down in it!
They come in 3 scents (that I'm aware of): Chocolate Chip, Sugar Cookie and Oatmeal Raisin. Not being a huge Oatmeal Raisin fan (they're so deceptive, they look like chocolate chip but once you bite into it you realize you've been had) I purchased the Chocolate Chip Cookie scent first. As someone who thinks she should have been a 1950's June Cleaver type, I always like for my home to smell like fresh baked cookies, so I put this candle in the kitchen. As soon as night fell I lit her up and within no time, probably 10 minutes, my kitchen smelled like for real, homemade fresh baked chocolate chip cookies. My husband was astounded when I told him it was a candle. And then he was disappointed I hadn't actually made him cookies. At the end of the night, around midnight, when I was "shutting down the house" and getting ready to crawl in bed, I went in the kitchen to blow out the candle and saw it had barely burned at all. And by this time it had been burning for about 5 hours.
I was so in love with those candles that they were all I could think about the next day at work. I had to go get more. I wanted them in every "flavor!" - except Oatmeal Raisin, no offence to the Mrs. Fields Cookie Candle people, but Oatmeal Raisin just doesn't send me. That night after we closed up the office I drove back down to the Dollar General and 2 Sugar Cookie Candles for my living room and another Chocolate Chip for my kitchen! They've been burned every night ever since.
Nothing against BBW candles at all, I will still buy them when I'm in town because, lets face it, they're great! But not everyone can afford BBW candles and not everyone has easy access to them.
Overall I give the Mrs. Fields Cookie Candles a 10 for Packaging a 10 for Price - they are $3.50 a piece at Dollar General (I haven't seen them anywhere else, so I'm thinking this is exclusive to DG), a 10 for scent and a 10 for availability. The last time I was in DG they had a buy one get one 50% off on these candles, but I'm unaware if they are currently on sale as such.
I'll tell you one final secret that I wouldn't tell just anybody. Twice in the last couple of weeks I've gone to bed and left the candle in the kitchen burning. And I'm a long sleeper and my husband doesn't go in the kitchen in the morning before he leaves for work....say I go to bed at 11 and get up around 9:30 and the candle is still burning. Yeah, it's scary, but, on a good note for Mrs. Fields Cookie Candles....they didn't even halfway burn down! They last a very long time and have a very good scent. Well worth $3.50 I think!!
Happy Candle Burning! (but PLEASE blow them out before you go to bed!!)
Missy
