Testing CDN 8 with Prince Charming

Date: 3/12/2024

Wax: Coconut Apricot

FO: Some musky scents/A few essential oils

Jar: Clear Straight 3 1/8D x 4H

Wick: CDN 8

Dye: 3 drops of ebony

Number: #7

Findings:

3/15/2024

8:25 pm. Cured for 3 days. Hot throw is 0/10 initially with a cold throw os 9/10. There was a draft under the AC and the flame was good and a substantial size. There is a slight sweating.

9:18 pm. There was a 1/3 melt pool. Made another candle to test with a CDN 5. The hot throw was getting better to a 9/10 and the melt pool was halfway in the 2 hour mark. The mushroom is minimal, and the AC made the flame move a little.

11:08 pm. The hot throw is still very good and there was a cm of tunneling from the edge. It might be normal for the coconut apricot. There was no draft. I might have to blow it out and leave the test at 3 hours since it's almost midnight. I should have started earlier.

3/16/2024.

8:27 am. No draft and flame is nice, but a little taller than yesterday. There's no hot throw yet and no melt pool. Of course I just lit it.

9:55 am. The hot throw is great and there's still a tunnel, though just on one side. Flame is still a good size, but boyfriend can't smell it. Maybe our noses are different. Must make sure other people with different noses smell it.

1:00 pm. Blew it out. Daughter had incense and interfered with experiment. Alastair was lit for 5 hours before.

3:00 pm. Placed in bedroom since I stayed in the room all day. The hot throw was very strong inside the bedroom when lit. No soot yet. This CDN8 might be the one. There is not tunneling or AC draft.

7:00 pm. Moved the candle behind the bedroom fridge to avoid the AC draft. Still a strong hot throw. Blew it out at 12 midnight. 9 hours of power burn.

3/18/2024.

6:29 am. Did not light it. It's still a very smooth surface with very, very, very small hang up on one small side. No soot that was formed and is a little over 1/3. Maybe 2/5. Going to bring it to work to power burn and introduce it to see if people like the smell.

3/20/2024.

7:11 pm. I think I should have kept it. My boss still has my other candles lit up. I guess we'll wait for the update on this.

3/23/2024

I called my boss, who lit the candle up this morning. He said he preferred the Snow Queen better because it covered up the smoking in his small office. Although it smelled good, it wasn't a strong enough fragrance to overpower the smoke smell. It still smelled strong, but I think it's just his preference. I will be sending out test samples to my testers in a few weeks. So far, PASS