
Originally Posted by
Faith
Hm, I guess I would just try cracking a vanilla bean and adding the seeds and pod halves to the pot. In the past, I've tried vanilla extract and lemon extract, but meh. I think cracked whole spices and citrus peels are the best by far. I've also tried essential oils but they are rather short-lived when heated. Also the oils are quite volatile and pose some risk if used near a flame.
I was thinking the same, for simmer pot: crack a bean, if I can find vanilla bean around here, and skip the oil. They're temperamental. I'll worry about it when my fragrance cubes are used up. 
I guess it's not a complete wash...even though they don't do jack after about 2 weeks in the warmer, they retain enough scent to make the trash smell better.
Like I said, I received it as a gift. You know how it is: if you get it for a gift, you have to be gracious. Then I won one in a drawing, which I'd entered only to be polite. I should have re-gifted, but I was brought up to consider such things as "regifting" to be quite rude.
I'm trying to put "march of the soy wax cubes" to the beat of "dance of the sugar plum fairy" and it isn't working...
MM
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