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I love all scented candles, but my favorite is the Yankee Candle. This year i have received a few as thank you gifts and I always get very tearful, silly huh? But because I love candles so much, and because of the thoughtfulness of people, it just makes me feel so warm inside. I am always saying "oh you didn't need to do this," but I must admit I am always so thrilled to light and have the wonderful scents fill the air. Often when I'm alone I will take a bath in just the light of lilac scented candles, or during the holidays pumpkin and apple cinnamon fill the air all through the house. I remember when my husband was a Realtor one of the things we often did for the seller when showing the house was light cookie or pie scented candles to make the home seem more appealing and so very very warm. I alway put many small scented candles in gift baskets.

Hint - a lot of times after the holidays you can stock up on candles for yourself that might have been marked down, I always go looking because it is less busy and I get double the amount of candles for the same money.

A bit about Yankee Candle from Wiki:
Yankee Candle Company was started in South Hadley, Massachusetts when Michael Kittredge, originally from Holyoke, Massachusetts created his first scented candle from melted crayons, as a gift for his mother.Neighbors began expressing interest in buying his creations, and Kittredge began producing them in larger quantities. The company itself was founded with help from Donald MacIver and Susan Obremski, who were high school friends with Kittredge.[citation needed] MacIver helped fund the start-up business with earnings from his part-time job.[citation needed] Candle production grew considerably after Obremski's father devised a "heated room", which enabled cost-saving liquid wax deliveries at the first factory site in Holyoke. Obremski's invention of a turntable taper wheel allowed production to double, while at the same time decreasing the need for more labor hours.[citation needed] In 1975, she managed the first Yankee Candle Shop located where the Village Commons, South Hadley now stands.

The company slowly expanded and moved to South Deerfield, Massachusetts in 1983. After a cancer scare in 1993, Kittredge started handing the company over to a friend and employee. In 1998, he sold the company to New York based private equity company Forstmann Little for $500 million. Forstmann took the company public in 1999, and in 2001, hired Craig Rydin as a CEO. Rydin launched a major advertising campaign and the line was picked up by mass retailers Linens-N-Things and Bed, Bath and Beyond, pushing sales to their highest levels yet. Kittredge remains the company's chairman emeritus.

During the summer of 2006, Yankee Candle purchased Illuminations, a Petaluma, CA based, multi-channel retailer of high quality candles and home accessories. Although the two companies are similar, the names are separated, with Illuminations being aimed at a different demographic. The Illuminations brand and web store were phased out in early 2009.

On February 6th, 2007, the company was acquired by the private equity group of Madison Dearborn Partners LLC for approximately $1.6 billion.