Yankee Candle Holiday Lights

There are candles whose names immediately tell you all you need to know in regards to fragrance. "Lavender". "French Vanilla". "Sparkling Cinnamon". You know what to expect. Not much to decipher with these. But when the candle manufacturer takes some creative liberties and names it after something that has no discernible scent, things get a little trickier. Such is the case with today's candle, Holiday Lights. What the hell do holiday lights smell like? Plastic? Glass? Electricity? *~Magic~*? According to Yankee Candle, it's: 

"A scent as clear as a crisp winter's night, with bright dashes of jasmine and praline."

Okay... that tells me basically nothing. It'll be fresh... but also sweet... and smell like flowers... but also candy? What? Let me try my best to describe this fragrance for you.

A stock photo of a Holiday Lights small 
tumbler, quite similar to my own.
I'm just too lazy to take a pic.

When in doubt, the first thing to do is take a look at the list of fragrance notes.

"Top: Violet Water, Cool Ozone

Mid: Jasmine

Bottom: Praline, Powdery Musk"

If I had to pick the ones I find most prominent, it would be the violet water, cool ozone, and powdery musk. Somehow it does smell both fresh and sweet, which I just don't understand. If I wanted to get poetic with it, I could say that it smells like delicate violet blossoms touched with frost, illuminated on the darkest of winter nights only by the moon. In layman's terms, it smells like perfume. A nice, fairly expensive perfume, yes, but still perfume. You'd try it on once in a department store and never think about it again. They'd run incessant ads for it on TV with the most annoying music known to man. It would come in a decorative but very impractical bottle. I'd describe it as a very "young" scent, not at all traditional – I could not see the older crowd in any rush to buy this one. It's pleasant, it's trendy, and it's very inoffensive – grandma may not be busting her hip to pick it up for herself, but she wouldn't mind it going at your house.

As for the throw, it's pretty good. I've had this going for about an hour and it's filling the room with a nice, light fragrance. I suspect that in another hour, this will be giving off quite the scent! Even if nothing changes, I'm fine with this level of fragrance. It's mild, sweet, and very nice, even if it's a little bit reminiscent of the girl's locker room (I swear, the only thing worse than a bunch of girls spraying their Bath and Body Works perfumes after gym was the boys with their Axe). 

Overall, not much to say about this one! It's nice, but it's not a must-have, at least not for me. If you're a connoisseur of inoffensive candles, then this may be for you. Otherwise, I think it can be skipped.

Oh! I like the picture on this one. Unfortunately I've got the international release, because the title in both English and French takes up about half of the label. Also, the color shown in the photo above (a lovely pastel purple) is not accurate, at least not in my case. It's much more grayed out. Next to Lavender Vanilla, it looks really manky and gross, so I don't display them side by side. 

To conclude: I like this candle, but I probably wouldn't buy it again.

And until next time... xx