Bath & Body Works Three Wick Candle Review- Campfire Donut

No one should ever say a candle that they are burning in their house smells like their dog, but this candle smells like Spudward.  Now don't get me wrong because Spudward does not smell like a dog and he doesn't stink.  The cold scent on this candle is far from icky or gross but when I first smelled it, the dog is what popped into my head.

Cory and I took a rare trip to one of our local Bath & Body Works stores.  I normally purchase candles online so a trip to the store where we could cold smell a lot of the candles was a lot of fun for us.  We were able to make a mental list of some of the candles that we want to try in the future and cross some off our list based on the cold smell.

They were having a sale and all of the 3 wick candles were $12.95 and we had a coupon for $10 off when you spend $30 in the store.  This was one of the three candles that we ultimately picked up.

So let's start at the outside and work our way in this time.

I'm not a real fan of the label on this candle but labels are really a personal preference so if you love it, then go with that.  To me, it just looks like a hardwood floor.  I've seen Campfire Donut with a different style label, I think it was from last year, and it was OK to me but not anything that I was really crazy about.

The lid for this candle is the same one as the Hot Cocoa & Cream.  The gold lid with a line of pines in front of the line of mountains.

The packaging for this candle is meh for me but that's not what really counts.  What really counts is the performance and the scent so let's dive head first into that.

I didn't pay any attention to the listed scent notes until I sat down to write this review.  I went off of the cold smell and it was interesting to say the least.  Like I touched on earlier, when this candle is cold it smells like my dog.  At first it was funny but the more I think about it, the more I think it may be a bit hard for me to get past that.

Cold smell to me with this candle is an odd combination of cold, burned fireplace and sugar.  I have two wood burning fireplaces in my house so I know the scents of a wood burning fireplace quite well.  It's late fall and cold outside, so guess who has been burning wood in the fireplaces?

It's not an unpleasant scent at all.  I just didn't really expect it in a candle and I
certainly didn't expect it to remind me of one of my dogs.

 The scent notes listed for this candle are:

• Cedarwood Essential Oils
• Powdered Sugar
• Glazed Donut

I'm wondering if that cold wood smell that I'm getting is supposed to be the cedarwood?

The candle was lit on the usual bookcase in the middle of the house so we can see how well it performs burn wise and how much scent we get.

Campfire Donut burns very well.  One of the things that really surprised me about this candle is that the wicks did not mushroom like many of the Bath & Body Works candles that I have recently reviewed.  That pleased me.

The scent after the candle warms up was interesting to me.  I don't hate it but I'm not a member of the Bath & Body Works Campfire Donut candle fan club either.  I really wanted to love this candle.

Others have said that they get a yeasty, bread smell out of this one.  That would put me in heaven because who doesn't love the smell of bread baking in the oven?  That is one smell that I unfortunately did not get out of this candle while it was burning.

For me, I smelled burning wood and thick sugar glaze.  A small touch of vanilla in the after taste but the sugar glaze is SO thick in this candle.  Super thick.  I envision the scent as a sugary donut sitting on a freshly extinguished fire log with a gallon of melted sugar glaze poured over the top dripping and running everywhere.  Sticky, wet and just gross.  Unfortunately for me that picture in my head is not good or something that I want to dig into. 

The throw is decent.  I would say it's middle of the road.  The area of the hallway where the candle burned was scented and I occasionally got a whiff of it in the office but it didn't spread to the rest of the house.  Then again, I think it's important to tell you that I didn't allow this candle to burn any longer than the couple of hours that I needed it to for the review because of the smell.

I just can't with this one.  I want to but it's just not in the cards for me.  It's the scent.  It's hard to explain but I felt like I was drowning in syrupy sugar glaze whenever I walked into the hallway.  Like someone walked up behind me with a Krispy Kreme donut that had been smashed into a washcloth and was pressing it onto my face.

But it did burn beautifully...

Final Thoughts and Will I Buy it Again?

This candle really surprised me in more ways than one.  I like that the wicks didn't mushroom.  I thought that while the throw wasn't over the top that it was adequate, or middle of the road.  What I really didn't like was the scent.  What started out as humorous quickly turned into too much sugar and I just really didn't care for it at all.

No.  I would not purchase the Bath & Body Works Campfire Donut candle again.  In fact, I won't be lighting this one again.  It will probably be going WAY into the back of the candle closet to be discovered again in 20 years.

It just unfortunately didn't work for me.

Do you have this candle in your collection?  If so, what are your thoughts on it and did it work out better for you than it did for me?