The Count of Monte Cristo

It's a rainy, fall night. The type of night when you just want to curl up in a blanket, sack out on the couch and watch a movie. It's nights like these when I love, comforting, cozy fragrances like Voluspa's Baltic Amber. I also like their new French Bourbon fragrance. Still soothing but more delicate than Baltic Amber. Heavier fragrances work for me on days like these. I like the rain when it's rare. It's nice to slow down, light a candle and take time to relax. My favorite movie? Definitely The Count of Monte Cristo!

Back to School

My kids recently returned to school, so no surprise, the whole house is sick. I returned home from work today and instead of lighting a candle to relax and unwind, I decided to use our Lampe Berger lamp to kill the germs in the air. I wish I had the Eucalyptus scent, as I think that would be a perfect fragrance to clear our lungs. Instead I have the new Absinth fragrance at home. It's a great scent with star anise, rosemary, absinth, freesia, Virginia cedar, Tonka bean and white musk. To me it smells unisex, herby and neutral in scent. I feel better knowing it's cleaning the air. I usually use my Lampe Berger lamp to remove our cooking odors, but it definitely gets a lot of use in our house when we are sick. I'll be sure to have the Eucalyptus scent on hand next time!

A Glorious Day

Today is the first day of my blog. I'm new to this, so please bear with me. I've rarely read a blog, no nothing about blogs, but nonetheless, feel the need to blog. So here I am... It's been a long day ending with screaming kids. Not the best way to end the day, so after I tuck the little ones in bed, I resort to one of my favorite scents - Anthousa's Cypress candle. For some reason, and I know this sounds strange, but this fragrance just makes me happy. I don't know why it does, but I love that it does, and I need a little happy right now. I've surrounded myself in this wonderful fragrance, with 4 candles instead of my typical lone candle. They are beautiful to look at, gorgeous to smell, the scent has erased my day and I've finally created the blog that has taken me 2 years to get to! At the end of it all, it's been a glorious day.