Goose Creek Home Fragrance Products Review

I recently discovered the brand 'Goose Creek' which claims to be "America's Best Candles". I had never heard of this brand until I discovered them on the YS4U Candles website. YS4U Candles have a huge range of home fragrance products, as well as car air fresheners and body washes etc. Many of their products are American brands (such as Bath & Body Works and Goose Creek) and are difficult for us to get hold of in the UK. My order from YS4U Candles arrived super quickly and it was very securely packaged! Everything was wrapped individually in thick bubble wrap and then placed in a large box with brown paper and cardboard keeping it all in place. Out of a huge order, nothing was damaged on arrival. Also, despite ordering such a large number of candles (I ordered other brands as well as Goose Creek) the shipping was only £3.95 - which is great considering how large the box was and how quickly the order arrived!

Goose Creek has a huge variety of scents available - so many fragrances that we would never get from British candle companies. They have a range of products available, the 4 types I am going to mention here and many other home fragrance products!

Wax Melt Cubes - £4.49

 - These come in packs of 6 triangular cubes. I have the scents: Island Sands, Georgia Peach, White Tea & Bergamot, Vanilla Pumpkin Waffle, Coffee Shop, Warm Wishes and Soothing Coconut. The first scent I tried was Coffee Shop because I was the most excited for this one! I've tried the scent 'Cappuccino' in the Yankee Candle Wax Melt Tarts and I really didn't think it smelt of coffee at all. This one is on another level. Within about half an hour, the cube had melted and filled the room with a lovely strong but slightly sweet coffee scent. It is very highly fragranced so if you don't want something overpowering, I wouldn't get this one! You need to use 2 cubes each time you melt them, as they do melt down to quite a small amount of wax and after a couple of days of melting the cube, they start to lose their power - you can still smell them, but not as strongly as before.

20oz Tumblers - £18.99 

 - This was the first product that I tried and I was not disappointed. The candle burnt evenly, filled the room with a lovely sweet scent and completely overpowered the other couple of candles I had lit at the time. These tumblers have two wicks and are long and thin so don't take up much space, despite having a very large amount of wax in them! I have the scents Warm Apple Strudel and Peanut Butter Smash, but some of the other fragrances available on the YS4U Candles website include Seaside Cove, Watermelon Chiller, Warm Pudding Cookies and Snickerdoodle. Peanut Butter Smash is a unique scent, you can smell a hint of peanut butter alongside vanilla and a caramel scent. The Warm Apple Strudel scent didn't smell as I expected it to - the apple scent is not overpowering and it's a complex scent. I expected it to be a straight apple / cinnamon scent but it doesn't really have any cinnamon undertones but it does actually smell like apple strudel! I love these, my personal favourite out of the two is the Peanut Butter Smash.

24oz Jar - £19.99 

 - These jars also have 2 wicks but they are slightly wider than the tumblers. The jars are in the same style as the large Yankee Candle jars, but these have 24oz as opposed to 22oz in the large Yankee Candle jars.  I have the scent Cookie Dough Bites, but other 24oz Jars include Apple Cider, Beach Party, Pumpkin Spice Muffin, Exhilarating Pineapple and so many others to choose from! This particular candle is very strongly scented and it smells very sweet - which is my preference but if you don't like sickly sweet scents, this one is not for you! In the same way the tumblers do, this candle fills the room with a strong fragrance quickly and they burn evenly, but as you can see from the photo, the top layer loses colour after it has melted and re-solidified, but a lot of candles do this.

Scented Tea Light Candles - £4.99

- These tea lights come in a box of 12, which looks exactly the same as the Yankee Candle Tealights but this is a more affordable option. I have the scent Peanut Butter Sugar but there are many other scents including Sunset Sparkle, Butter Cookie, Grapefruit Mandarin, Lilac Garden and many others. These are my least favourite home fragrance products I've tried from Goose Creek - they are no where near as strongly scented as the other products and the Peanut Butter Sugar doesn't really smell of anything in particular. They are not necessarily bad candles, but they are no where near as high quality as their other products. They last for around 4-5 hours per tealight.

Overall, I am super impressed with the quality of the Goose Creek Home Fragrance products and I will definitely be investing in more! They are very strongly fragranced and mostly, are of a very high quality. The only products I didn't like so much were the tealights, but otherwise, I loved them all! One thing that stands out for me in comparison to many other brands I have tried, is that they actually smell exactly like what they are meant to. For example, the Cookie Dough Bites, you might expect to just smell like sugar but it does actually smell like cookie dough! If you're a candle addict like me, you've got to try some of these candles!


Sarah (aka. Pale Princess) x


DISCLAIMER: This blog post is in collaboration with YS4U Candles as they kindly sent me a few extra items to include in this review.