I love scented products. I mean truly LOVE. I own a lot of room sprays, plugins, candles, wax melts, reed diffusers… you name it, I have it.
I am a firm believer that scents can change your mood. Some scents help to make you mellow and calm whereas other scents can give you a boost in energy and make you happy.
I also like to add fragrance to my home because I feel like it makes my home more welcoming and inviting. At least that is how I’ve always thought when I would visit other people’s homes and they would have a beautifully scented candle burning.
The first time I felt this way about scents is when we visited a friend’s house and she had scented hand soap. Yes, it was hand soap that made me realize how nice it is to greet guests with lovely smells and aromas (I do have scented hand soaps too).
I will never turn down the opportunity to try out scented products. I’m that obsessed with them.
I was recently introduced to the brand Tarabusi Creek.
Tarabusi Creek offers uniquely scented wax melts. Handmade by a solo business owner, Tarabusi Creek’s wax melts are made with a vegan, plant-based soy wax to provide the cleanest burn possible. Each are 4 oz by volume with a melt time of approximately 15 to 20 hours. Plus, they smell delicious!
In addition to wax melts, the brand also offers soaps, scrubs, facial care, bath bombs, lotions, lip care and more. All of these products are also scented with fun and delightful scents.
Tarabusi Creek delivers wholesome, vegan, and completely handmade bath and beauty products. Each item is delicate on the skin and soap, keeping the spirit of the natural world infused in every item. Plus, all products are handmade and personally tested! Founder and creator, Stephanie Tuba, believes in the three-fold rule: put good into the universe, and receive three times back.
Here are just a few examples of the available scents.
French Toast Wax Melt
Price: $6.50
For that breakfast feeling, this is a take on mouthwatering French toast! This blend is a delicious, mouthwatering mix of cinnamon and maple syrup, combined with buttery sourdough bread for a complete breakfast perfection.
Apple Cider Donut Wax Melt
Price: $6.50
Because who doesn’t love apple cider and orchard donuts on a Saturday?! This scent is a delicious, mouthwatering blend of freshly fried donut rings infused with a hint of warm apple cider and topped with sugar.
Lemon Glazed Pound Cake Wax Melt
Price: $6.50
This delicious, mouthwatering scent is truly the bakery blend for all lemon lovers! With a captivating blend of lemon zest and sweet pound cake topped with icing, this is one of those true-to-name scents.
YUM!!!
Not all of the brand’s products have food scents. They carry their own unique scents such as Cosmic, Moonflower, Golden Hour and Lady on the Lake.
Tarabusi Creek was kind enough to send me some products to review.
Even though it’s summer time, and I currently have the air conditioner on because it’s so hot and humid, I asked if they could send some fall scented products. I am head-over-heels in love with anything that is scented in a way it reminds me of autumn. Autumn scents are my all time favorite scents.
I received the following products.
Toasted Soap
This handmade soap is made out of pumpkin puree, harvested by the owner herself.
The plastic wrap is still on the soap. I kept it on for the photo. It doesn’t look like that in person. It’s the plastic that makes it look weird.
Pumpkin is great for your skin. Pumpkin is Vitamin C, Vitamin A and antioxidants. Pumpkin can help soothe and soften dry skin.
This is a lovely soap. It washes well and rinses off fully. It does leave your skin feeling oh-so-nice.
It does have a pumpkin smell to it, but it’s not “overly pumpkin,” if that makes sense.
Pumpkin or not, this is a great soap for year round use.
Cranberry Marmalade Was Melts
According to the brand;
This is made with a blend of tart cranberries, juicy Macintosh apples, and holiday spice. Top notes of orange peel and apple sweeten the cranberry heart of this fragrance, while notes of cinnamon, clove, and sugar wrap all the fruits together into a delectable aromatic treat.
This is a really nice scent. I know it might not be ideal for the warmer weather months, but, it doesn’t “scream” autumn. It’s a fruity scented product with a touch of spices. My husband says that it smells like a scent you’d smell in a kitchen (odd way of saying it, but okay). I know what he’s trying to say.
These melts are really nice. They have a decent “throw” to them, meaning I use them in my kitchen (to keep the wax warmer away from the cats) and I can smell the scent in the living room (the kitchen, dining room, living room and hallway are sort of open to each other).
Apple Cider Donut Wax Melts
I am OBSESSEED with this one! So much so that I keep the container on my desk so that I can sniff it whenever I want. It smells out of this world AMAZING!!! It truly smells like apple cider donuts.
We get our apple cider donuts from a local farm, and these wax melts smell EXACTLY like the real deal.
I’ve used these a few times in my wax warmer too. I even mixed what was left of one of these melts with what was left of the cranberry wax melt (the one mentioned above) and created a really cool scent too.
Ichabod Soy Candle
This candle is part of the brand’s “Cryptid Collection.” If you are not familiar with what a cryptid is, a cryptid is a creature (such as Big Foot or the Loch Ness Monster) that is said to exist, but there is no proof that it does.
I’m very much into monsters, creatures and the paranormal, so I was excited to try out a scent from the brand’s Cryptid Collection.
This candle is very much a fall scented candle. It’s made with a fall blend of cinnamon, pumpkin and buttercream with hints of smoked nutmeg. Oddly enough, it smells a bit “woodsy” to me. It might be the nutmeg that is giving me the woodsy vibe.
I don’t really get the pumpkin scent when I burn it, but I can pick up a touch of cinnamon and what I can only assume is the buttercream.
According to the brand, this candle has a 15-20 hour burn time. I have not burned it out completely. I only burned it to see how good the throw is (pretty decent) and the scent. I want to save this for the fall because I think it would be more fitting than these days when we have air conditioner cranked at maximum level.
It smells so good!
Lemon Poundcake Refresher Spray
Remember how I posted above that my husband felt like the cranberry marmalade wax melts were a kitchen-y scent? Well THIS scent is definitely great for the kitchen. It really does smell like lemon poundcake.
When I think lemon scents I think kitchen. I keep this spray in my kitchen to help kill cooking odors and any odors lingering from the litter boxes. Just a few spritz of the spray is enough to fill the air with a bright and refreshing scent.
You can certainly use this in any room of your home. I’m just saying that I prefer this in my kitchen.
Full Moon Refresher Spray
This spray is made with the scents of honey spiced pears, deep nostalgia, and the sweet and spicy aromas reminiscent of fall festivals to enhance any environment. To be honest, I don’t see this as a fall scented spray. This is a great year round spray because it’s not feminine. To me, this has a touch of a masculine scent to it. Seeing as how I live with two grown men (my husband and son), they appreciate it when things don’t smell floral or “girly.”
I don’t think fall festival when I spray this. But that is okay, it’s still a very nice scent – very unique.
Frosted Lotion
This lotion reminds me of cupcakes. It’s a vanilla scent, but in a “creamy” way – sort of like frosting (which is probably why it’s called Frosted).
This is a nice lotion. I use it on my hands often. I keep it on my desk because sometimes I don’t want to be bothered going into the bathroom to get lotion (my hands always feel dry, even then they are not).
This lotion absorbs quickly enough and leaves the scent on it for a bit too (yes, I have smelled my hands after applying this lotion – why not? It smells good!).
These are just some of the products Tarabusi Creek offers. Plus, they are always adding new scents as well, so it’s a great idea to check back often.
The prices are really reasonable too. I find the products are very budget friendly.
To learn more, visit TarabusiCreek.com. You can also check them out on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Those links are found on the bottom of the brand’s website.
Kimberly
*I received free products samples in order to do this review. There was no compensation. The opinions expressed are my own and not influenced in any way.