Under one Voluspa TikTok, someone asked the question every mint skeptic has: is this a mentholated, cough-drop mint or a sugary candy-shop peppermint? People who burn it answer firmly for the second. Voluspa pairs crisp peppermint with the warm, buttery smell of fresh-baked cookies, and fans reach for words like vanilla-y, bright and sweet without being cloying. The most precise description belongs to a candle YouTuber who doesn't usually like gourmands. She finds nothing truly buttery or bready in it, just a clean peppermint resting on a soft, fresh white chocolate. A UK reviewer puts it more simply: peppermint cookies.
That restraint is why it converts people who normally skip food scents. In a Reddit thread about a holiday sale, two commenters said it's the one edible-smelling candle they allow themselves, one person rebuys it every year even though it burns quickly, and a TikTok commenter keeps it lit all year.
Light on its feet
Throw is where the hype runs ahead of the candle. The same YouTuber calls it light, says a macaron-size mini barely registered, and points people to the 3-wick tin, a shallow red-and-white striped tin she counts among Voluspa's prettiest packaging. A Reddit regular agrees the 3-wick is the one to get, saying it fills an open-plan house. The UK reviewer who splurged on the 5-wick hearth found it fragrant even unlit, but after more than four hours on its first burn the wax still hadn't melted to the edge, which she suspects came from trimming the wicks too short.
The lineup is wide: a $16 mini tin, the 6.5 oz Classic at $30 (about 40 hours), the 12 oz 3-wick tin at $32 (also 40 hours), the 18 oz jar at $48 for 100 hours, and the two hearths, $98 and $275. Sales help; one Reddit poster found an 18 oz jar for $18 at Anthropologie during a holiday markdown. And if you'd rather December smelled like a tree than a cookie tin, its sibling Noble Fir Garland is the other half of Voluspa's holiday pair, and one reviewer thinks it performs a touch better.
