Layering Fragrances with Red Flower Candles

We have a cabinet in our house that is stocked full with candles. Each night we pick a new fragrance to enjoy based on the weather and the level of energy in the house. Sometimes, if I'm really crazy about a scent (like Voluspa's Makassar Ebony & Peach) I'll place a few candles in the same scent around the room to surround myself in the fragrance. Today, I decided to mix things up a bit and layer fragrances.


One of my favorite candle lines for layering is Red Flower. The scents are true, simple and pure and work well together. Burning one Red Flower candle will give you the effect of lying in a field of that particular flower (like lavender). Burning a few different Red Flower candles at a time feels like you have a bouquet of flowers in the room, all the scents intermingling. It's very lovely.


You really can't go wrong when selecting scents for layering with Red Flower candles. I chose Italian Blood Orange for a fresh, clean scent in the kitchen. French Lavender for a relaxing scent in the family room. And Spanish Gardenia for a more formal fragrance in the front hallway. Like most houses, ours has an open floor plan, so the scents softly blend to each room and yet when walking through the house I can detect the specific scent in each room.


A really fun way to layer is by selecting the same fragrance by different candle lines. I love to pick all of the tree fragrance candles out of my cabinet and put a different one in each room the day we bring our Christmas Tree home for the holidays. It's the most fabulous winterland effect detecting all the different species of trees as you wander through the house.

Do you layer fragrances? If so, what are your favorite blends?

The Main Event Episode 62 K. Hall Nag Champa

Nag Champa by K. Hall has a very heavy, earthy, grungy scent. Nag Champa is the original incense fragrance, so when many people ask generically for "incense", they are looking for this scent. Nag Champa by K. Hall is available in a 100% vegetable wax candle that lasts 60 hours and burns very cleanly and fragrantly. The K. Hall Nag Champa diffuser comes complete with vase, 8oz of fragrance oil and absorbant reeds and lasts approximately 6 months. K. Hall also offers an 8oz refill bottle of fragrance oil.

Bachelorette Jillian Harris Pimps Her Pad with Traci Arnsten from Voluspa

Watch Traci Arnsten, Co-Founder of Voluspa, decorate the ultimate bachelorette pad for Jillian Harris with scents and style on E! News. Traci used room sprays to spritz on the throws to make them more personal. She also used candles from the Voluspa Seasons Collection to inject beauty and ambiance into her home. She used my favorite scent, Makassar Ebony and Peach, and one of the newest scents in the Seasons Collection, Panjore Lychee, for a juicy scent. The result is gorgeous and so chic!

The Main Event Episode 61 Colette Candles

Colette Candles introduces eco-chic candles in 14 amazing scents. All of her candles are hand-poured 100% soy wax and use an all cotton wick. The candles are packaged in a hat-box like container for easy gift-giving. Colette 10oz candles last for approximately 60 hours. The French Fig candle she sent has nice wood undertones. This blend of fig & creme de cassis offers a nice balance.

Colette also offers fragrance diffusers in 6 scents made with cosmetic grade fragrance oils. This eco-oriented business utilizes 99% recycled glass for their vase and simple packaging to be earth friendly.

If your looking for a gift, Colette Candles offers gift sets with 2 or 4 votive candle packaged in an attractive tube and donned with gorgeous ribbon. Complete with matches, this votive set makes a perfect gift.

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The Main Event Episode 60 Tocca Summer Scents

Each summer Tocca used to launch a summer fragrance. They skipped this year, so we thought we'd give an overview of all the Tocca Summer scents.

Tahiti has a taire flower fragrance that comes across as a sweet floral. The coconut comes through as vanilla.

Portofino has a wintersweet scent that comes across as a light, feminine floral with a hint of lily.

Montauk has a fresh bamboo sea grass scent with a hint of mint for a light, summer scent.

Bali is a slightly sweet floral with hints of vanilla and gardenia.

Isabella has a fresh watermelon scent. Not too sweet, more like when you snap the rind of a watermelon and get that fresh, watery, slighly sweet scent.

Question of the Day: Where is your favorite summer escape?

The Main Event Episode 59 Archipelago Botanicals Signature Diffusers

We love the Signature series diffusers by Archipelago Botanicals. They are a great value at just $35 each for an 8oz diffuser that will provide several months of fragrance. These diffusers are available in all of the Signature Collection scents by Archipelago. Refills are also available for just $22 each. Some of the fragrances are stronger than others. Pineapple Ginger is a best seller for us and it's very fragrant.

Question of the Day: What exciting place did you visit last weekend?

Red Flower Lemon Coffee Blossom Olive Stone Scrub

Even though there are so many body scrubs available on the market, this one really stands out for me. Why? First: the scent. It smells like fresh brewed coffee. Odd, unusual, unexpecting and so refreshing. The fragrance is an instant eye opener and a fun reprieve from the everyday scrub scents. Second: it makes your legs look great! Sure, most scrubs will make your skin soft and smooth, but this is the only scrub I've tried that makes you legs look better. Can't beat that. The coffee in the scrub is a vasoconstrictor - tightening and shrinking blood vessels helping to reduce the appearance of varicose veins. If that isn't great enough, consider that coffee applied topically helps to redistribute fat cells and decrease the formation of cellulite. What more could a girl want? This is definitely a must have for any summer-time beauty bath.