Candle Scents
The scent of different candles can make one feel differently depending on the scent the candles give off. For example the scent of key lime pie energizes you enough to want to clean or the scent of warm apple pie makes you calm? That’s because candle scents can have a lasting effect on our senses and reawaken what it was we remember about a certain scent from long ago, as far back as childhood.
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If you want to have more energy, burn citrus scented candles. Citrus scented candles enhance ones energy levels in addition to boosting ones mood. Try burning citrus scented candles with a lemon scent, orange, lime, grapefruit or verbena smells to them for quick energy boosting powers. Place one next to your desk and light it in the late afternoon when you start to feel sluggish, the citrus scent will wake you up and you will be ready to work again!
If you’ve had a bad day or are stressed to your limit, then try a lavender scented candle. Lavender has been show in many studies to correlate between slower heart rates, lower arterial pressure and lower blood pressures. Studies have also shown that lavender scented candles will decrease muscle tension. A few other scents to try for relaxation, although not as effective as lavender, would be sandalwood and bergamot.
In order to create an uplifting, cheerful and clean environment in your home, choose to burn candles with a minty, pine or citrus scent to them. These scents can give of a feeling of clean and be uplifting and motivating as well. When guests come to your home and smell pine, citrus or pine scents they will be uplifted and think your house is very clean – even if it’s not.
If you want to create a romantic mood, try lighting candles with a touch of jasmine, sandalwood, gardenias or roses. Any candle burning with a flower smell to it will set a romantic tone for the evening.
There are scented candles for the different seasons as well. Nothing says spring like watermelon or something with a citrus scent to it. Plus a pine scent will help take you to a nice summer ‘place’ when you light a pine scented or lemonade scented candle. Baked cookies, chocolate, vanilla or apple pie can remind someone of the holidays as well as a pine scent of a fresh cut Christmas tree.
Scented candles can trigger emotions in someone as well as take them to a happy place in their minds eye. Lighting a scented candle can bring back lost memories of childhood or a lost love or calm you down after a long days work. Scented candles come in many different scents and colors to wake you up or put you at rest, it all depends on what you need or want from your scented candle and aromatherapy that scented candles provide. However, the color of a candle does not always indicate the scent of a candle; a pure white candle might suggest geraniums or vanilla but could actually be chocolate or pine.