(and they smell good, too!)
1 - Pacifica's soy wax candles. My favorite scent is Spanish Amber, but they're all lovely. The soy wax burns very cleanly and produces a rich, strong scent.
2 - "Consecration" scent oil from R'Chel Enterprises. I often blend my own ritual oils, but when I want a delicious-smelling all-purpose anointing oil, I use this one cut with sweet almond oil. The Consecration scent is a blend of sandalwood, lavender, bay, and rose. It's safe to use on most people's skin (so you don't walk around with a flaming pink pentacle on your forehead the next day).
3 - Crystal Journey votives. I don't make my own ritual candles, as it's messy and I'm impatient. Most of the time my spellwork is done over the course of several sessions rather than the quick kind that uses those tiny tapers (although I go through a lot of those too). The CJ votives smell wonderful and are made with food-grade paraffin; they come in something like 100 scents, and are less expensive than votives made by Pacifica or other high-end brands. CJ also makes themed gift sets of square votives that I like--the Four Elements set is a great gift for your favorite magical person. Right now I use the Dragon's Blood flavor as my main altar candle (Lilith likes it).
4 - Amber scent paste. This stuff smells fantastic, and is one of the major ingredients in my homemade perfume. It's a brown goop in a tiny jar, and I used to buy it from Natural Magic, our local Pagan store which unfortunately closed its doors at the end of October. Now I have no idea where I'm going to get more, so I'm rationing it very carefully. I'll have to do some Internet searching for a new dealer--I saw one of the shopkeepers pouring it from a larger container so I know it comes from a company in India or nearby.
5 - Amber incense by Shrinivas Sugandhalaya. Comes in a triangular box, most often as part of the "Oriental Basket" scent set. I can get the amber on its own locally at Book People (or at least I can right now, so I stocked up last time I was there). This is currently my house scent. I tend to have a smell that I burn every day, sometimes in every room, which is why my clothes all smell like incense. The house scent rotates--sometimes it's Nag Champa, sometimes Nataraj's Shiva scent, sometimes a nice sandalwood. Right now I'm seriously grooving on the amber. It's also pretty inexpensive.
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