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Candles that smell like Yankee Candle Pink Sands

Pink Sands is fruit and florals sitting on a spiced vanilla base, which is what stops it being just another tropical candle. Copies usually keep the melon and lose the spice, and that base is the reason the original lasts in a room.

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How they compare

Yankee Candle Pink Sands compared with its closest matches
CandlePriceSizeBurnPer hour
Yankee Candle Pink Sands22 oz110 hrs
Love Potion (Brooklyn Candle Studio)$34.007.5 oz50 hrs$0.68
Sunday Morning (Brooklyn Candle Studio)$34.007.5 oz50 hrs$0.68
Sweet Grapefruit (P.F. Candle Co)Best value$24.007.2 oz40 hrs$0.60

Burn hours are as stated by each maker, never measured by us. Where a shop publishes a different figure we record both and say so. A dash means we have not verified that price ourselves yet.

The original

What Pink Sands actually smells like

Top
First impression, fades fastest
  • Bright citrus
  • Juicy melon
Middle
The body of the scent
  • Osmanthus
  • Sweet florals
Base
What lingers in the room
  • Jasmine
  • Spicy vanilla
The matches

How close each one gets

  • Love Potion

    Brooklyn Candle Studio

    Mandarin, lavender and jasmine. Florals over citrus in the same shape, with lavender where the original has osmanthus.

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  • Sunday Morning

    Brooklyn Candle Studio

    Pear and bergamot over jasmine and gardenia on amber woods. Fruit, florals and a warm base, which is the Pink Sands structure.

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  • Sweet Grapefruit

    P.F. Candle Co

    Peach and pink grapefruit over mandarin, on musk and vanilla. The fruit half with a vanilla base, and none of the spice.

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Questions

What people ask about this scent

Are those the maker's note tiers?
No. The maker publishes these notes as a flat list without a top, middle and base. The grouping shown here is ours, arranged to make the accord readable, and it should not be read as the maker's own structure.
Is Pink Sands a tropical scent?
Only at the top. The melon and citrus read tropical, but the osmanthus and spiced vanilla underneath are closer to a floral oriental, which is why it works indoors year round.

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