Crafter's Choice
Crafter's Choice
Overall rating: 4.4444447 / 5 from 9 reviews.
Review topics: [scent, pairs, fragrance].
"First off, I'm making CP soap. Now let me tell you, this scent is fantastic and a staple for fall/winter supplies. It. Is. STRONG. I mix it with a lot of different scents and if I go more than 1/3 spice then it tends to overpower other scents. Bearing that in mind, this is the perfect mix to add to other scents that you want to add a really spicy fall fragrance to. I've mixed several but this with the applewood for needle FO is Fantastic!!!"
"Different from profile, but it actually accelerated on me. I made the other half batter not using this fragrance oil,and the other half was fine, but this one! oh. . . it was just a soap on a stick. It's nothing bad, but people who use this oil should know. Oh and it discolored the soap also."
"First off, let me say that the hot pepper in this fragrance oil is nothing like the capsaicin of a chili pepper, which for me, is a good thing. Instead, the pepper smell is a mild, almost sweet scent, that melds quite nicely with the smokey wood tone, and the after though of green-it is like nothing that I have ever smelled before. Being so uncommon, this fragrance would add an interesting depth to the right blend."
"i love this scent, true to description if not mostly cinnamon. great in all sorts of blends!"
"I bought this to make some blends for Fall soaps, including a Mulled Wine (using WSP Merlot that is already very popular among my customers). I loved it out of the bottle, but felt it disappeared once I made the soap, so I initially was disappointed. But now that the soap has cured - WOW! It came back with a bang! It pairs perfectly with the Merlot FO in my wine & Goat's milk soap. Everyone who has smelled it so far loves it! I have a feeling I am probably going to sell out at my first large Holiday market coming up in a few weeks. This fragrance is worth waiting for!"
"My hubby and I can't get enough of this! I just ordered more today, as the first bottle's already gone, and we hoarded it all for ourselves. It's fantastic with vanilla and apple. Oddly, it pairs REALLY well with the pineapple mango FO too. I'll be trying the next bottle in CP."
"I decided to use this straight up vs mixing with any other FO, and the soap batch smells wonderful!!! I made single-color cold process soap, so I don't know if there is any discoloration even though there isn't any vanillin in this FO. Since there were no user reviews at all or even comments from WSP about behavior in CP soap, I decided to use it in a single-color batch and added it right at the end before pour. I had time to stick blend and pour with no acceleration, but it did set up very quickly after pour, so you might not want to use this for a really complicated swirl with multiple colors. Or wait for more reviews. But LOVE the smell!!!!!"
"This was part of a fragrance formulator kit - product worked well - would buy for future products. Can hardly wait for fall/winter fragrances"
"To be honest, I wasn't thrilled with this one OOB. The only note I could pick up was the cinnamon, it was incredibly strong & smelled more like a cinnamon gum flavor to me. Not what I had in mind, and the moment I smelled it, I knew I was never going to use it for what I originally had in mind- in one of my CP recipes. HOWEVER, I did have a batch of CP soap I made months ago that turned out less than adequate for my standards. Knowing I was going to rebatch this anyway, and not wanting to waste the money I had spent on this FO, I decided I'd go ahead & incorporate it into my rebatch. WOW was I in for a shocker!!! It's still not my favorite FO in the world, as 99. 99% of the time, WSP offers OUTSTANDING FO's, but the moment I added it into my melted rebatch soap, the complex & warm aroma of the other spice notes really came out, and that overpowering cinnamon gum smell transformed into a more sophisticated scent altogether! I find myself coming back to it again and again to take a whif, and have decided I really don't dislike it as much as I thought I did after all! In fact, I might just go ahead and try it in that CP recipe like I had planned to in the first place! So while initially I wasn't sold on this FO AT ALL, smelling it in action has completely changed my mind, as it actually turned into quite the pleasant surprise. I'm giving it 3 stars because while I'm not totally ""in love"" with it, I don't hate it anymore either, and it turned out much better than I expected."
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