A grown woman’s Cracker-Jack
Recently I was turned on to a product called Diamond Candles, and I thought they were worth sharing about. The company produces scented candles made from soy wax, which burns cleaner and about twice as long as the paraffin wax of most other candles while effectively filling your room with fragrance. Because it’s soy-based the wax can even be used on your skin as a lotion once it liquefies-I double checked this with the company-and, even after four hours of burning, it never grew uncomfortably hot to the touch. Each candle weighs in at 21 ounces, making them comparable in size to the largest offering from Yankee Candle. So, what puts the “diamonds” into Diamond Candles?
Well, that would be the rings!
Inside every candle is a little plastic bag wrapped in gold foil, and inside of that bag is a ring worth anywhere from $10 to $5,000. There’s even a spot you can see from the outside of the jar the highlights about how far down within the candle the ring is. Each ring is random, and of course most of them will fall closer to the $10 end of the spectrum, but there are some truly beautiful pieces to be uncovered. Many members of the company’s thriving fan-base share pictures of their rings; pictures of rings found worth less than $100 can be seen on the official website as well as on the company’s Facebook page.
It’s not hard to see where the fans came from either. Aside from an interesting product, Diamond Candles has great customer service as well. They have a fairly extensive number of topics covered on their site’s FAQ-including instructions for how best to remove the label from and clean the reusable jar that the candle comes in-and send prompt and thorough responses to direct inquiries. The individual candle pages also feature a system that you can sign up for if it happens to be out of stock, so you can be notified when it comes back in. It works very well!
I didn’t find many flaws with the concept or the company, but there are a few worth mentioning. Because the rings are truly randomized there’s no way to guarantee a specific size will appear in a specific candle and, beyond that, most of the rings will be sized somewhere between 6-8 (these are apparently the most common sizes). There’s also no real way to tell how much your ring is worth unless you get it appraised, though they also give some tips on how you might be able to better ballpark your guess in their FAQ. People looking to buy immediately should also make sure they have the “in stock” category checked while they browse since scents can out of stock quickly at times. (If in that case, like I did, you choose to be notified when it comes back it’s also a good idea to buy it quickly-some scents only last a few days at a time even after restocking.)
I liked these candles so much that I decided to get one for the ladies of my family for Christmas this year. They loved the scents that I chose for them and can’t wait to find their rings. At $24.95 they’re a few dollars cheaper than a Yankee Candle, with the bonus of a surprise ring-definitely worth it for me!
Well, that would be the rings!
Inside every candle is a little plastic bag wrapped in gold foil, and inside of that bag is a ring worth anywhere from $10 to $5,000. There’s even a spot you can see from the outside of the jar the highlights about how far down within the candle the ring is. Each ring is random, and of course most of them will fall closer to the $10 end of the spectrum, but there are some truly beautiful pieces to be uncovered. Many members of the company’s thriving fan-base share pictures of their rings; pictures of rings found worth less than $100 can be seen on the official website as well as on the company’s Facebook page.
It’s not hard to see where the fans came from either. Aside from an interesting product, Diamond Candles has great customer service as well. They have a fairly extensive number of topics covered on their site’s FAQ-including instructions for how best to remove the label from and clean the reusable jar that the candle comes in-and send prompt and thorough responses to direct inquiries. The individual candle pages also feature a system that you can sign up for if it happens to be out of stock, so you can be notified when it comes back in. It works very well!
I didn’t find many flaws with the concept or the company, but there are a few worth mentioning. Because the rings are truly randomized there’s no way to guarantee a specific size will appear in a specific candle and, beyond that, most of the rings will be sized somewhere between 6-8 (these are apparently the most common sizes). There’s also no real way to tell how much your ring is worth unless you get it appraised, though they also give some tips on how you might be able to better ballpark your guess in their FAQ. People looking to buy immediately should also make sure they have the “in stock” category checked while they browse since scents can out of stock quickly at times. (If in that case, like I did, you choose to be notified when it comes back it’s also a good idea to buy it quickly-some scents only last a few days at a time even after restocking.)
I liked these candles so much that I decided to get one for the ladies of my family for Christmas this year. They loved the scents that I chose for them and can’t wait to find their rings. At $24.95 they’re a few dollars cheaper than a Yankee Candle, with the bonus of a surprise ring-definitely worth it for me!