Gold Canyon ScentMate Review

Gold Canyon's ScentMate

When I received my Consultant's kit in the Fall of 2010, this little contraption was included.  I didn't think that I would get much use out of it (I was more interested in the candles!)

Here's the "official" description:

"At the touch of a button, instantly transform your personal space with 'The World's Finest fragrance. No plug or flame required. A quiet, yet powerful fan streams long-lasting fragrance into the air. Includes personal fan diffuser and 3 ScentMate Pads." 

Scent Mate Dimensions: 4 L x 3 1/4 W x 2 3/4  
ScentMate Pads Material:  Each pad is made from cotton and designed exclusively for the ScentMate™ Personal Fan Diffuser    

I opened it up, scrounged around for some batteries and put some Pomegranate Home Fragrance Oil on the ScentMate Pad.  (actually, I WAY overdid the fragrance oil!  The instructions say to use 100 drops.  I recommend that you start with 15-20 and add more if you want a stronger fragrance throw!  Fortunately it comes with 3 pads, so I was able to trade it out!  LOL)

I was surprised at how powerful it was!  I put it on the piano in the living room and could smell it in all the surrounding rooms (With 20 drops of oil.  With 100 drops I could smell it at the curb outside!)  The other thing that was immediately noticed by the testosterone bearers of the house is that it was "cool".  It's a gadget.  It's black.  It's small.  It's got a button.  The button lights up!

I had promised my 2 older kids that I would order something especially for them (since they were very upset that I packed it all up every-time I had a party somewhere else!)  My oldest son chose the ScentMate with Clean Sheets oil (I would later find out that is one of the most popular fragrances for men!)

My husband wanted something for his desk at the office, so he took my ScentMate to try it out.  He likes the Fresh Orange scent (retired in Home Fragrance Oil, discounted and still available as of this writing), so that's what he took.  He was amazed at how many people commented that they smelled oranges, even when he had turned it off!

Needless to say, I had to order another ScentMate for myself.  I've taken to carrying it in my car, it makes a great instant freshener wherever I am.  I confess, I often use it in my car too!

If you use it non-stop (and who wouldn't want to?) I do recommend that you purchase a 3V power adapter or USB adapter so that you're not replacing the batteries all the time!  You can pick them up at Radio Shack or online at Amazon or E-Bay.

Another accessory that makes your ScentMate more valuable is the picture post:

I'm excited about the new addition coming in the Spring (January 15th) - ScentMate in BLUE!

UPDATED:  Gold Canyon just released an "Inside Scoop" video:

Disclosure: I am a Fragrance Consultant for Gold Canyon.  I do sell this Scent Mate product!

Random WW Wordless Wednesday (yeah right!)

Valentine's Wreath

a book I want to read

love this!

a contest, coming soon...

a contest, coming soon...

"May the LORD repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge." Ruth 2:12

DFW Gold Canyon Black Friday 2011 Online Coupon Codes!

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to get free shipping + $5.00 off your order of $75 or more

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to get free shipping + $7.50 off your order of $100 or more

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Gold Canyon only gives these codes a few times a year!  Get your bargains while you can!  

This is the only deal you'll get that doesn't come out of your consultant's commission!

Shop small, make a BIG difference!

I'm proud to partner with Small Business Saturday

A Virtual Mystery Hostess Party-Palooza!

I'm so excited that Gold Canyon has given us the ability to host ONLINE PARTIES!  To celebrate, I'm holding a virtual mystery hostess party-palooza!

All orders between now and December 12th will be entered into the drawing for the Hostess benefits!

What are those you ask?

The "average" party is around $400 - so you would get $60.00 in credit, 3 half-price items, and your choice of one of three amazing hostess-only bundles for half-price!

Did you see that the awesome Wooden Candlestick Trio is in the first bundle?  I can't wait to get mine!

So - How do you enter?  It's easy!  Go to my website: http://www.DFWGoldCanyon.com and place your order  You can shop as a guest, however I recommend that you create an account.  This way it's still there if something happens to distract you from your shopping (like nursing the baby, taking leftover Halloween candy away from the toddler, picking up your oldest from school because they were suspended or taking your daughter to (another) play practice - ask me how I know!)


When you get to the checkout screen, you'll see a little checkbox like this:

Check the box, and then it will look like this:

Enter the Party Online Code: 5189274, then click on "Validate" and you will see:

I'll get an e-mail confirmation of your order (almost typed "odor" there - I don't need to know that!  Maybe your favorite scent, but not your odor!  LOL)

Leave comments to get extra entries:

• You get one entry for placing your order (that's the "mandatory entry")
• You get an extra entry if your order is over $30 (retail, before tax & s/h)
• You get TWO extra entries if your order is over $50 (retail, before tax & s/h)
• You get THREE extra entries if your order is over $60 (retail, before tax & s/h)
• You get FIVE extra entries if your order is over $70 (retail, before tax & s/h)
• You get one entry for sharing this party on Facebook, Twitter or other social media sites (just make a note in the comments!)
• You get one entry for following the blog with Google Friend Connect, Liking me on Facebook or Following me on Twitter

All Aboard! Toot Toot!

Welcome to new friends from 7OnAShoestring and the Christmas Treasure Train blog hop!

If you haven't already entered to win - what are you waiting for?

I'm sponsoring the giveaway at 7OnAShoestring - I'm giving away an oils warmer adapter and 3 home fragrance oils (like I spotlighted here)

Also - today is the LAST DAY to enter over at Home Grown Families for my awesome Homeology cleaners! 

A New Twist For Your Wick-less Warmer

Home fragrance oils are a great way to expand the use of your favorite warmer.  Gold Canyon’s warmers feature an automatic shut-off timer and no need for replacement parts, but the adapter and oils will work on almost any commercially available warmer.

To use, simply place the ceramic adapter on the top of your warmer.  This works best if the warmer is round (all Gold Canyon warmers are round to accommodate our mess-free ScentPods).  Add 10-20 drops of your favorite Home Fragrance Oil – or be a fragrance mix-master and create your own custom scent blend!

Check out the available scents here

Another benefit to using the Home Fragrance Oils and Adapter is that you can control the intensity of the fragrance.  Small space?  Use less oil!

Home Fragrance Oils are one of many options in Gold Canyon’s “Suddenly Scented” line of flame-free fragrances.  Unlit expressions of fragrance; Bursts of aroma; Convenient and compact; Take pleasure in Gold Canyon’s candle scents without using a flame! These products are designed to be highly fragrant and the best in their class. Created for use in any space.  We all love our candles, and the glow they create, but sometimes you need a wickless option!  Whether you choose the Scent Pods, Home Fragrance Oils, ScentMate, Linen Sprays, Room Sprays, Auto Fresheners or the Diffusers with patent-pending microfiber reeds, you’ll get the same amazing Gold Canyon scents you trust!

Win Gold Canyon All-Natural Homeology Cleaners!

As you may know, Homeology cleaners were inspirational in my decision to become a Gold Canyon Independent Fragrance Consultant!  I excited to share this opportunity for you to win it for free!

Home Grown Families is hosting their annual Green Gifting Guide.  You can enter here to win a free full-size cleaner and wasteless refill of your choice.

These all-natural cleaners make an excellent green holiday gift.  Not only is the product environmentally friendly, but giving a gift that is consumable is green!  For less than the cost of a sweater that they may just re-gift, you can give the gift of aromatherapy and clean fresh spaces!

Who would most appreciate this gift?  I'm tempted to say anyone with a nose, but I guess that wouldn't be super-helpful!  Here are a few suggestions:

A newly-wed couple.  Remember when you got married?  You got all those expensive pieces of china, flatware, crystal stemware... You had matching towels, throw-pillows, placemats...  You had an iron, blender (or 3 blenders in our case!), coffee maker...  And do you remember the first trip to the store?  The "stock up".

Yeah - that's the one!  When we got married (nearly 16 years ago) ours was $86 - YIKES  (that was a lot of money when you consider our rent on the apartment was around $450)

College Students.  I remember the shock when I discovered that I had to clean my own dorm room.  I don't know why, but I kinda envisioned it as a hotel.  I was sadly mistaken, there was no maid service!  I usually bummed cleaners off of the other students (who probably got it as a dorm-warming present from someone else!)  I had to save my money for more important things, like late night runs to Taco Bell and new shoes books!  I didn't even buy toilet paper some weeks.  I "borrowed" it from the lobby bathroom (sorry mom).

That person who has everything.  You know who they are.  There's not something they haven't tried.  They've been there, done that, got the T-shirt.  You started giving them only things that they could hang on the walls, but that's even not an option anymore!

Anyway - if you win it, you could keep it for yourself or give it as a gift.  Why not throw in some super-cute gloves like these:

Nice Hands Household Utility Gloves - $10.50 on Etsy

An inexpensive organizer tote and some eco-friendly cleaning cloths:

Crocheted Cleaning Cloth Eco-Friendly Rainbow Stripe Shagg Ragg - $7.50 on Etsy

Either way, your purchase supports Small Businesses in a BIG Way.  Watch for my Small Business Guide - coming soon!

Small is the new BIG!

Small Business Saturday

The smell of fresh cut grass...

My son is mowing the yard today and we are enjoying the scent of fresh-cut grass.  It won't be long before we won't need to mow, winter will come and perhaps we'll even have snow! (I didn't mean for that to rhyme!)

Anyway, I was recently informed that Gold Canyon's grass candle and scent pod are the only ones on the market.  That's pretty cool!  I sell a lot of these to guys (i think it maybe reminds them of the golf-course!  LOL), second only to the Leather scent pod.

If you will miss the smell of fresh cut grass, maybe you should get a candle or scent pod!

Gold Canyon Grass Candle  

Gold Canyon Grass Scent Pod

Gold Canyon's Rustic Scent Pod Warmer (with auto-timer!)

Wick to wickless, for yankee or southpaw, our scents run around circle e to pier one like nobody's business! Good for your home interiors, bath and body works virginia, they don't have a woodwick (but you won't miss it). Have no allusion's, get to the root of it - even colonial folks in chesapeake bay celebrating home will agree that swan creek near the glade is flooded with scentsy from my Gold Canyon Candles! For your partylite mia bella, leave the white barn to the dreamers and yumlicious spotted hog - even if there's a blue moon in tyler over the archipelago, Gold Canyon won't let you down!

Small is the new BIG

I have many friends who own their own businesses. Direct Sales has been a lifesaver for many of them. Many times, you don't even have to have a home party to order, you can order right on their website and it can be shipped to you directly. If you do not have a favorite consultant for a company that you have in mind, please ask, and I am sure I can put you in touch with a consultant!


Something to keep in mind this holiday season: You, the customer, are our everything. Spending $100 at a BIG BOX store during the holidays won't make a difference to anyone; but spending $100 through a home business owner for Christmas means our business can continue; it gives us our pay, provides for our families, helps us meet our personal goals, and helps us continue to do what we love without using harsh sales techniques. The big stores will not care about you the way we will! You mean the world to us - shop a home/direct sales business for Christmas this year!


If you are a business owner or direct sales representative and you would like to be listed in my holiday gift guide this year, please fill out the information below:

Nine down; Two hundred ninety-one to go

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Don't forget about the Pink Sugar Cookie Challenge!

As you may have already read, I have set a personal goal to sell 300 Pink Sugar Cookie candles with a portion of the proceeds benefiting the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.  So far, I've sold 9!

Will you help me?

Of course there is something in it for you too!  FREE Gold Canyon!  Candles, Wickless Warmers, Diffusers, Essential Oil Cleaners, EMERGE Spa line - you get to pick!

Click here to download the form from MediaFire.  Print it out and get busy collecting orders.  Once you've reached YOUR goal, we'll get together to pick out your free Gold Canyon.  It will all ship right to you.

Think of it as the World's Easiest Catalog Party.  

EVER!

What would this be if I didn't do a contest?  Not a Noel Giger event!  So - I've got a basket FULL of goodies.  You'll get one entry for each candle you sell - and those who buy will get an entry as well!  There will also be a prize for the person who sells the most!

You can also just order the candle, the shipping is a little more, so why not go ahead and gather some orders?

Noel Giger - DFW Gold Canyon - Fragrance Consultant - Dallas Fort Worth on Facebook

DFW Pet Costume Contest

Submit a photo of your pet in costume to win!  E-mail your photo(s) to contests@noelgiger.com 

Please include your name, your pet(s) name(s) and contact phone number. Photos must be received by midnight CDT October 39, 2011.  Winners will be announced October 31, 2011.

First Place Prize ($125.00 Value!):
$75.00 Gift Certificate to Country Meadows Pet Inn & Doggy Day Spa, *Free 8x10 Pet Portrait from The Pet Fur’tographer, and a 26 oz Clean Sheets Heritage Candle from DFW Gold Canyon!

Second Place Prize ($65.00 Value!):
$50.00 Gift Certificate to CountryMeadows Pet Inn & Doggy Day Spa and a full-size Homeology All-Natural Lavender Eucalyptus Sweet Orange Floor Cleaner: safe for all surfaces, including ceramic and wood floors from DFW Gold Canyon

Third Place Prize ($34.00 Value!):
$25.00 Gift Certificate to CountryMeadows Pet Inn & Doggy Day Spa and a Clean Sheets Auto Freshener (pack of 3) from DFW Gold Canyon

Sponsored by: Country Meadows Pet Inn & Doggy Day Spa, DFW Gold Canyon and The Pet Fur’tographer http://www.thepetfurtographer.com

*Free 8x10 for the first prize winner to be claimed at Country Meadows Pet Inn on Dec. 4th while she is on site doing pet and family portraits. 

Get Goldie, Go PINK!

Goldie thinks you should GO PINK and SAVE THE HOOTERS! 

I'll donate $1.50 to Coach Jenny Mill's treatment fund  for each Owl Lantern sold in October! 

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Don't forget about the Pink Sugar Cookie Challenge!

I have set a personal goal to sell 300 Pink Sugar Cookie candles with a portion of the proceeds benefiting the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

You can get in on the fun too!

Oh - do you like FREE?  I thought so!

Click here to download the form from MediaFire.  Print it out and get busy collecting orders.  Once you've reached YOUR goal, we'll get together to pick out your free Gold Canyon.  It will all ship right to you.

Think of it as the World's Easiest Catalog Party.  

EVER!

What would this be if I didn't do a contest?  Not a Noel Giger event!  So - I've got a basket FULL of goodies.  You'll get one entry for each candle you sell - and those who buy will get an entry as well!  There will also be a prize for the person who sells the most!

You can also just order the candle, the shipping is a little more, so why not go ahead and gather some orders?

Noel Giger - DFW Gold Canyon - Fragrance Consultant - Dallas Fort Worth on Facebook

PINK OUT

I'm very excited about October for Breast Cancer Awareness and Fundraising!

I have set a personal goal to sell 300 Pink Sugar Cookie candles with a portion of the proceeds benefiting the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

"How?" you say... I'm glad you asked!

Last year I sold 2.  To be fair, I didn't sign up with Gold Canyon until the end of October though!  This year, I've been planning PINK Parties since - oh, about July!

In fact, when I approached members of 2 of my networking groups about doing joint parties, the response was so overwhelming that I have planned a HUGE PINK Party for October 14th!

http://www.tinyurl.com/pinkparty2011

I'm also encouraging each of my October hosts to plan PINK Parties and pre-sell the candle for their party sales.  

But what about you?  Out there in blog land, maybe far away from good old Dallas Fort Worth!  Well - you can get in on the fun too!  

Oh - do you like FREE?  I thought so!

Click here to download the form from MediaFire.  Print it out and get busy collecting orders.  Once you've reached YOUR goal, we'll get together to pick out your free Gold Canyon.  It will all ship right to you.

Think of it as the World's Easiest Catalog Party.  

EVER!

What would this be if I didn't do a contest?  Not a Noel Giger event!  So - I've got a basket FULL of goodies.  You'll get one entry for each candle you sell.  There will also be a prize for the person who sells the most!

You can also just order the candle, the shipping is a little more, so why not go ahead and gather some orders?

Noel Giger - DFW Gold Canyon - Fragrance Consultant - Dallas Fort Worth on Facebook

Home Alone #Owling

I can't believe that Momma forgot about me on Sunday!  I know she was way busy, working in the Nursery at The Crossing Church, attending a meeting for parents of Down's Syndrome babies with the Dallas Down's Syndrome Guild and attending Brandy's Premier Designs Mystery Hostess party - but hey!  I was a little lonely!

I finished my masterpiece - what do you think?

I had a Coke (and a smile)

I shivered me timbers

I took a nap

I caught up on some genealogy

I hunted some big game

And I played dress up too!

How was your weekend?

check out Goldie's first day...
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