PartyLite - My personal opinion

I first started to get interested in, and bought, PartyLite stuff about 7 months ago back in May (2013) and overall I am impressed.

Firstly, I bought a tealight holder and a pack of 12 tealights in the 'flavour' Mahogany Apple which I must say is now my favourite scent/flavour!

This holder only takes tealights, as it's quite small, but I thought it was (and still is) very cute! The holder cost me about £20 and a set of tealights (12) will set you back £7.45. They burn for anywhere between 4-6 hours. I've found that they burn quicker during the day and I'm guessing it has something to do with temperature as the candles melt at a far lower temperature.
Which leads me to my next point about these products; if the melted wax gets on to your skin, it won't burn! They cool down so rapidly and I've no idea how they've done it but you can literally stick your finger in the melted wax (after extinguishing the flame, obviously!) and it won't burn you.

The next things I bought (in June) were a set of 12 votives for £12.90 (Black Cherry flavour) and a votive/tealight lantern.
The votives burn for around 12 hours.

The lantern has changeable, metal, decals and there are four sets of two 'pictures' I personally change these from the Spring/Summer ones to the Autumn/Winter ones that you can see in this picture.



The lantern can take either votives or tealights' and it comes with a little glass jar where you place the candle.
A note on the PartyLite votives; you must use a jar when burning these as they melt completely and will lose their shape. So you can't just pop one onto a saucer and leave it or you'll be left with quite a mess!
The bonus side to this is that the entire candle gets burned, so there's no waste of wax, and considering the price of these candles I don't think anyone would want to waste them!

The last order I made was back in July/August and I bought a set of tealights (same price as before for 12) in the flavour Mulberry and a ScentPlus Melt in the flavour Mahogany Apple, the melt is easily breakable into 9 chunks for burning.

This is where I cannot praise PartyLite on their products. The melt started out okay, and they do last an incredibly long time! but after burning it for a few hours a couple of times (basically after a few days of having it in my oil burner) the scent completely vanished.
Now, I don't know if this is because my oil burner is sat on a windowsill and the sun has been causing the oils to evaporate or something, because my sister has nothing but good things to say about these melts and I know she doesn't keep her oil burner in contact with direct sunlight.

My advice to anyone trying out the melts is to not leave them out somewhere where they have direct contanct with sunlight as it does seem to ruin them.

Overall, my experience with PartlyLite has been positive and I do think the issue I had with the melt was probably an isolated incident brought about by my own lazyness and stupidity. Haha.
They are quite expensive but, if you can afford it, they are worth it!

I know I didn't include the prices for the holders, that is only because a) I don't remember and b) they are probably no longer available as their range(s) change with the seasons.



Rating:

Candles 5/5
Melt 3/5 (the scent was very good! but well, y'know what happened to mine..)
Holders 5/5


Let me know what you think and your personal experiences, especially with the melts... has it happened to anyone else?