If you want to try one of these apple scents from Pure Integrity, but you're not really into bakery or cozy type scents, then I would definitely go with this one.  It's SO strong and smells just like a bushel of crisp juicy, perfectly ripened Macintosh apples.  This candle stood out to me among the other apple scents as having the strongest scent throw of them all.  It packs a POWERFUL punch!  I lit this candle in a room adjacent to my kitchen, where I was burning their Hot Apple Strudel scent.  Hot Apple Strudel is strong, but Macintosh Apple just took over the air in my house! Pure Integrity definitely got this one right. Their scent description for Macintosh Apple is dead-on:

"The luscious refreshing scent of crisp, ever so fresh Macintosh apples. It is seriously like biting into a crisp, flavorful Macintosh apple. Brilliantly fruity!"






Apple Crisp:

I think this scent should be called "Apple Cinnamon" instead of Apple Crisp.  I've eaten my fair share of apple crisp and just love that brown sugary, crumb topping.  My nose just can't find that part of an apple crisp in this scent and to me, that's the best part! It might just be me, but I don't think so.  Don't get me wrong, this scent is really nice and strong, but it just doesn't smell like an apple crisp to me.

The description of this scent of the Pure Integrity web site says:

"A lively, warm combination of oven baked apples with a hint of cinnamon.  Very soothing & appealing, especially on a cool fall day. Absolutely delectable!"

This description is totally consistent with what I'm smelling, it's just the name that doesn't fit.  This candle fills the air in my home with that naturally sweet smell of cooked apples... you know what I mean?  I hope so. It just doesn't smell sugary.  This natural baked apple smell is the domanant part of this scent.

This is the second apple candle that I burned from Pure Integrity...Hot Mulled Cider being the first.  When this candle first filled the air in my home, I noticed right away that this scent smelled spicier than the Mulled Cider.  It's not an overpowering smell of cinnamon though, just enough to compliment the apples.

As usual with all of my Pure Integrity candles, this scented candle is very strong.  It completely filled my family room and beyond.  I left the candle lit when I took my dog for a walk in my neighborhood (don't do this at home folks!) and when I came back in my house, the scent greeted me in a big way.

Overall, this is a nice, strong scent for Fall that I'm sure a lot of you would enjoy if you like the combination of apples and cinnamon. Just be aware that you will not smell an apple crisp with that yummy crumb topping.  If you're really after that apple crisp scent, this isn't the candle for you.

Hot Apple Strudel:

As soon as I lit this candle for the first time and the scent started filling the air, I knew it was going to be one of my favorites among my apple candles.  At first, I thought it was sweeter than the other scents and that must be why I liked it so much.  Even though I thought it must be a sweetness I was smelling, this candle was still a mystery to me!  I was having such a hard time describing what I was sniffing every time I burned it.  I could tell it was obviously an apple scent, but it just had a totally different quality to it than the other apple candles I tried before this one.

I later learned from Teresa, at Pure Integrity Soy Candles, that Hot Apple Strudel has green apples in the scent.  That totally solved the mystery to me!  I realized it wasn't a sweetness I was noticing, it was actually a tartness from the green apples.  I can't believe I didn't pick up on the tart quality of this scent before I talked to Teresa.  I guess with all of my apple candles, I just assumed that all of the scents were made to smell like red apples. I forgot about the other colors!

This is the only apple scent out of the 5 that has a tart note to it. I really enjoyed my Hot Apple Strudel... I think because it just smelled so different from the others.  If you prefer the smell of tart over sweet, I would go with this one.

Besides the green apples, Teresa also told me that this scent has cinnamon, nutmeg, a bit of dough/pastry and some kind of sweetener in it.  Ah-ha!  There is a bit of sweet!  I can pick up on a bit of spice, but not too much.  I can smell just a tad of the doughy, pastry part but it doesn't stand out among everything else in the scent.  All the "ingredients" in Hot Apple Strudel just blend together in such harmony...making this a beautiful, tranquilizing experience for my nose and the rest of me.  :-)  I found myself breathing this strong scent in deep...over and over... I just couldn't get enough!

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