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Albisa’s Cafe con Leche Candle is All About Comfort

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UPDATE: 11/6/2020 – COMMENTS CLOSED – WE HAVE A WINNER! 

Congratulations to Tee Burgess, the winner of the “Cafe con Leche Candle” from Albisa Candles.

Please send an email with your mailing address so we can get your fabulous Cafe con Leche Candle out to you ASAP! Congratulations! 

Thank you all for your participation! 

Also, CHRISTMAS IS COMING!  Please go bookmark Albisa Candles – HOME OF THE CUBAN BREAD CANDLE and give them some love on Instagram too. 

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Welcome to the 4th MBFCF Fourteen Years in the Blogosphere Giveaway of 2020.

Are we having fun yet?? 

Today I’m super excited to share that my friend, the brilliant Isabel Alvarez, owner of Albisa Candles has done it again. 

You’ll remember that she’s the one who came up with the mind-blowing Cuban Bread Candle. Please read about that here – Albisa Candles – Home of the Cuban Bread. 

Full disclosure – I got one for every one of my Cuban Family members for Christmas last year, but that’s not important right now. 

Isa has now created a candle that smells like CAFE CON LECHE. As in, you close your eyes and you’re a Cuban kid again and mami is waking you up for school with a nice hot cup of Café con Leche. It’s perfection. 

Seriously, I closed my eyes and I experienced a type of visceral comfort that is super needed in these strange times we’re living in. I time traveled so hard when I lit this candle that I almost wept. (Also, I’ve never been accused of being too dramatic. Shut up.) 

Today’s giveaway is one of these highly coveted Café con Leche Candles from Albisa Candles.

1)To enter the giveaway for the Café con Leche Candle please leave a comment right here on THIS POST – then please go visit the Albisa Candles site and check out her shop. Come back here and tell me what your favorite candle scent might be.

2) Also, for a 2nd entry, go follow @albisacandles on Instagram.

3) Come back and leave another comment and say, “I liked Albisa Candles!” (We will work on the honor system here. Don’t make me spank you.)

I’ll be choosing ONE winner on Thursday, October 15th, 2020 at 11:00 am PST. You have until then to enter. 

If you’re the winner, I advise you to get tissues. That is all.

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  1. Brian Barreto says

    Cafe con leche, and the smell of fresh tobacco will always take me back to my Abuelas house in Ybor City!

  2. Norma Egea says

    oh wow! I didnt even know that this existed! My choice would DEFINETLY be “Todo lo malo echa pa’ ya”. One can never have too much protection from el mal de ojo!

  4. Norma Egea says

    This is awesome. I didnt even know there was such a thing as CUBAN CANDLES! I LOVE all things Cubano, and I love candles! So this is a win win for me!!

  5. Sandra Z. says

    I did not know about the cafe con leche candle!!!!!!!! I order the cuban bread one all the time. The smells of home (Miami)!! I live in San Jose, CA now where there is NO cuban bakery to be found!!!!!!!☹ Albisa candles provides me a huge service with those comforting smells!!

  9. Ava Reyna-Balsamo says

    I still think the Cuban Bread candle is my favorite-with my CARB-lovin’ self! and yes, I followed Albisa candles on IG!!Thanks for the giveaways! You rock!

  11. Debra B says

    I think I would love the cafe con leche candle. Can you imagine that with the smell of Cuban bread? ❤️

    • Ody says

      Would love to win this candle!!! I’ve heard so much about it. The smell of cafe con leche reminds me of when my mom would wake me up with a mug of cafe con leche in bed through out all of my school years!

      Beso!
      Ody

  23. Leyla Bello says

    I love Albisa Candles! I bought tins for my house and my sister’s. I made a mental note to get a Café con Leche candle for me come Christmas, but actually I am a case of Christmas in July.

  26. Carina Zatarain says

    Cafe con leche is the smell I would wake up to every Sunday morning as a child and is still my comfort scent till this day. Love it. I would light this candle every day and have to make un cafecito to go with it!

  35. Susan Alonso says

    Café con Leche candle, that is wonderful! I think I need this in my home to burn every morning.

  36. Susan Alonso says

    My favorite would be hard to decide between cafe con leche coffee ☕️ and Cuban bread 🥖

  38. Kristina says

    I’m dying to know what other flavors she has! So I liked Albisa Candles on IG and will check that out now.

  40. Josy Garcia-Arauz says

    Wow thank you for introducing me to Albina candles! I’m super excited to get some for my sister who misses all things cabana. She’s been stationed in Arizona for 5 years. Nothing Cuban over there but her 😄

  45. Faustino J. Rodriguez says

    Thank you Marta for another great giveaway! Havana Nights sounds very nice also Trico Tri for Halloween. The Cafe con Leche candle has to be the top pick for me.
    I also followed Albisa candles on Instagram.

  50. Carie says

    The Cuban Bread candle has peeked my curiosity. But the Todo lo malo echa pa’ ya, looks like a winner! Thanks!

  52. Irma Perez says

    I would love the cafe con leche scent! When it’s late in the evening and I’m craving cafe, but know I shouldn’t, this candle would hit the spot!

  54. Javier Sanchez says

    I love cafe con leche!! I can’t decide on my favorite smell. I’m in between the Cuban bread candle or the cafe con leche one! Both would take me back to my childhood that’s for sure!

  55. Lisa says

    There are so many choices of delicious scents but I think my favorite would be the Cuban bread scented candle.

  57. Melody Peña says

    My favorite candle scent would definitely be cafe con leche 😍 I have been drinking cafe con leche since I was 5 years old ~Cuban style~ and it is the only thing I drink every morning! Would love to be able to smell it all day long too!

  58. Carmela C. says

    Cafe Con Leche candle I would love to have and smell. I am also intrigued with “Todo lo malo echa pa’ ya” candle and its scent.

  65. Vilma Fuentes says

    Shut the front door!!! There’s a cafe con leche candle out in the world and I don’t own it?!? I know it’s pumpkin spice everything season right now, but it’s café con leche season year round!!

  69. Pilar Vasallo says

    I visited the Albisa website and the candle that intrigues ne the most and that I would love to try would be the Todo lo malo echa pa’ ya. For one, we can never have enough protection from the evil eye casters (AKA el mal de ojo). Additonally, as a huge fan of Pitbull (el Cubanito de la Saguesera de Miami), the name of this velita reminds me of one of my favorite songs of his. Lastly, the description of the scent sounds like a candle I would love to own to help ward off all those bad juju. I can just imagine how great that sag, cedar, sandalwood and the brown sugar must smell. Mmmm llevate todo lo malo!