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Candles By Victoria Video Reviews!!

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Candle care and candle burning is a responsibility, please burn wisely!

It is VERY important to keep your wicks trimmed at all times! The key to a perfect burning candle is not only in how it is made but how it is burned. Never allow your candles to burn for more then 3-4 hours at a time before extinguishing the candle, allowing it to cool, trimming the wick and then re-lighting it. Properly maintaining your wick is a must and the key to a better burning, longer lasting candle. Remember to never burn your candles in any type of draft, such as ceiling fans, AC vents, open windows etc. Following these simple rules will extent the life of your candle and give you hours of enjoyment.

Thank you to all the wonderful Candles By Victoria customers that have done video reviews on YouTube - we love you all!
Our entire family thanks each and every one of you from the bottom of our tarts! :)

What is smell?

Smell -- one of the five senses -- is the sense that allows us, with the help of organs in our nose and a process of memory and associations in our brain, to recognize our world and to understand and adapt to our environment.

It tells us what we like and dislike; it tells us with whom to fall in love.

It stimulates our appetite and enriches our eating experience.

It triggers memories and affects our moods. The lack of it might endanger our lives or leave us in state of depression.

How Do We Smell?

Smell is, on one hand, common to everyone and, at the same time, very personal.

While one person might like one smell another might despise it. This is because even though the trigger to each unique scent originates from specific molecules that reach the nose – our experience of smell is located in our brain.

When we breathe in, the air flows through our nostrils, enters the nasal passages and is passed into our nasal cavity. The air then moves down the back of our throat through the trachea (in other words, through our windpipe) on its way to the lungs.

Inside the nose we have hair, some of which is microscopic in size (called cilia), and a thin layer of tissue that is actually a membrane that generates mucus.

This membrane helps to moisten the air, to warm it and to catch germs, dust and other small particles that could otherwise end in our lungs. The role of the cilia is to move the mucus out of the sinuses and "brush it out", to the back of the nose.

On the top of the nasal cavity is the olfactory epithelium. In human beings it contains more than 10 million small receptors that are sensitive to odor molecules that float in the air.

There are hundreds of different types of odor receptors, each with the ability to sense certain odor molecules. Odor molecules can stimulate several different kinds of receptors.



When the smell receptors are stimulated, signals travel along the olfactory nerve to the olfactory bulb which is situated just above the nasal cavity and beneath the brain. Signals are sent from the olfactory bulb directly to the brain to be interpreted as a smell.

The variation and combination of stimulated receptors trigger different signals that are interpreted in our brain, thus allowing our brain to recognize some 10,000 different smells. Compared to other animals this is quite low.

Dogs, for example, have about 200 million olfactory receptors. They are able to sniff a trail of a person days after they leave. This makes them more sensitive to smell particles in the air than humans.

This is why dogs are used as odor detectors by officials around the world in the war against crime and terror.

There is no absolute or objective analytical way to measure odor scientifically since each person's brain gets slightly different signals and reacts differently to them due to different experiences and memories.

Because of the complexity of the system of triggers, there are currently only theories as to how the olfactory receptors actually work:

1. Vibration Theory: The receptors react and detect the unique frequency and vibration within the molecule which triggers the electric pulse to the brain.

2. Shape Theory: The scent molecules lock into olfactory receptors, based on their shape alone. This theory suggests that there is a unique relation between a type of receptor, a type of molecule shape and a specific smell. Each receptor releases an electrical pulse to the brain, which in turn triggers a specific emotional sensation (a specific scent).

3. Odotope Theory: This is an elaboration of the shape theory which argues that smell is the result of a combination of receptors. In this theory receptors provide small bits of information to the brain which pieces these bits of information together like a puzzle to create an overall sensation of smell.

How Does Smell Affect Us?

Currently it is believed that an average human can distinguish between an astonishing 10,000 distinct scents. Yet those same 10,000 fragrances cause completely different experiences and reactions from person to person, and can be different for the same person based on that person's emotional level.

Our olfactory receptors that send electrical signals to the brain are connected to the limbic system, the most primordial and primitive part of the brain, which is associated with emotions and memory, linking our experience and overall sensation of a smell to our most basic personal emotional core.

Studies tend to show a connection between exposure to pleasant fragrances and positive emotional change. For instance, a person who is exposed to a pleasant fragrance will have an elevated mood, as opposed to those who were exposed to a placebo.

In addition it is more likely that people who are exposed to pleasant scents will be deemed attractive by other people than people exposed to scents that were considered to be unpleasant. This is a result of the affect that the scent had on the person's mood rather than the affect on the people surrounding that person.

Some psychology experiments have even suggested that the real value of perfume might be to affect the mood of the wearer rather than the attraction it has for the opposite sex.

Candle care and candle burning is a responsibility, please burn wisely!

We Currently Carry over 730 Wonderful Fragrances!

We spend many long hours and months of testing before we finally decide on a particular scent to add to our line of highly scented candles. Each and every scent goes through a rigorous testing process that can take any where from 2 to 4 months. You can be sure you are getting the highest quality fragrances in our candles with the best possible scent throw available of any candle on the market today.

New this Month:

PINK NOEL - HOUSE BLEND

BANANA CARAMEL CUPCAKE - BAKERY

BLUSHING PEACHES - FRUITY

All of our fragrances will make your mouth water. Check out the descriptions for all our yummy fragrances on our scent description page.

We won't sell it unless you can smell it!

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THE POURING POT MESSAGE BOARD'S MEMBER OF THE MONTH



Each Member of the Month is nominated and decided on by other board members. The MOTM is someone that has been an important part of our board, an active member, a good friend and someone that is admired by our other board members. The MOTM receives a free candle from Candles By Victoria created especially for them.

Our February Member of the Month is someone we feel really represents what our MOTM award is all about.

~ FEBRUARY MEMBER OF THE MONTH ~

February's Member of the Month at The Pouring Pot Message Board is


Congratulations Pamela, enjoy your reign and your free candle!



~ MEMBER DONATED PRIZE GIVEAWAYS ~

This months member donated prize giveaway was donated by my dear friend Angie Webb! Angie is a Pampered Chef consultant and this month she has donated a Bamboo Tool Turn-About Carrousel, she gave me one for Christmas and I love it. What a wonderful giveaway, thank you so much Angie!

Exclusive Bamboo Tool Turn-About conveniently rotates to keep all your cooking tools accessible. Built-in dividers separate and organize tools.



Angie's Pampered Chef

This is a $40 value!!

The winner of the Bamboo Tool Turn-About is....

Michelle Branda

Congratulations Michelle, I will get this in the mail to you right away.

Angie would like to thank everyone that participated and gave her a "like", she will be sending you all a Season's Best Cookbook, watch her Facebook Fan page for that announcement.


DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT?

If you have a special talent and would like to donate something for our Monthly Drawing at the Pouring Pot, please e-mail me! It is a great way to advertise your wares!

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