Scents that go well with raspberry?

[aislingm]

I am very new to candle making (wax melts so far), and based in Ireland so don’t have access to some scents locally. I just made a batch of wax melts using raspberry fragrance oil by itself and they smell sickly sweet - a bit candy flossish? I’m planning to remedy them - they’re soy wax - and add some additional fragrance oils to tone down the raspberry. I’m struggling to find plain cranberry oil here or in the UK. I know adding other Berry scents is suggested but I think they’d just make it sweeter still?

Any recommendations for good scent mixes?

thank you for any advice/help.

And happy st Patrick’s day to you all

Aisling

 

[JJBlaine]

I mixed BRV with a lemon FO for a raspberry lemonade soap that smells lovely.

 

[Brandon Orgovan-Lee]

Some of the popular scents that I've seen in soap that would work in candles are:
Black Raspberry Vanilla
Raspberry Lemonade
Raspberry Mint
Chocolate Raspberry
Raspberry Sangria/Champagne
Raspberry, Lemon, and Ginger
Berries and Cream (Raspberry + Strawberry + Vanilla)

 

[shunt2011]

Chocolate, Lemonade, Champagne or vanilla come to mind.

 

[dibbles]

Champagne sounds lovely! I think most citrus scents, lemon verbena or lemongrass. Patchouli or a fresh linen/rain type maybe? I once had a raspberry lilac FO sample that sounds weird but was strangely quite nice. That may still be sweeter than what you want though.

 

[Saponificarian]

Patchouli!

 

[aislingm]

Thank you so much everyone. I'm off now to go online and see what I can get hold of in this crazy current world of ours. Thank you! Aisling.

 

[Persnickety]

Raspberry and rose are perfect together, as rose scent often has a faint hint of near-raspberry which acts as a bridge to blend the two.

 

[grace lynch]

Ooo vanilla will be a lovely sweet smell

 

[Cross-stitch gal]

What scents did you decide on aisling?