Vancity Box is a subscription box featuring small businesses from Vancouver and the surrounding areas. I live about an hour south of Vancouver, but it’s a quick bus ride and SkyTrain trip downtown, so I go there pretty often for the shopping, the food, and just to get out of my sleepy little town. Vancity Box has been growing and tailoring their box based on feedback, and it’s definitely working. For a while they were only featuring one company in the box, and last month they switched to the more assorted box they had started out with, much to my delight.
DEAL: Get 15% off your first box. Use coupon code HELLOSUB15.
Vancity Box doesn’t send an information sheet or card, so values are always a bit of a sleuthing exercise.
Luscious Soy Wax Candle ($16 CAD) This candle is huge! It’s made of soy wax and has a scent of musk, pear, and vanilla. It has a great throw and smells amazing. You can use the wax as a massage oil.
Suit & Tie Candle (~$5) From the same company is a smaller candle in a scent called Suit & Tie. Musk, leather, and black pepper make up this scent which is definitely more masculine but still clean and fresh smelling.
Hooray Truffles Blackberry Ginger Balsamic Infusion Truffles ($10.99) I love the idea of a truffle infused with balsamic, but the complexity of these truffles was lost on me. They are sweetened with date and so all I tasted was fruit. The ginger and blackberry were muddled in there somewhere.
Hooray Truffles Naked & Intense Truffles ($10.99) These are far simpler but I could still taste the date flavor.
Each box contains 4 individually wrapped truffles to share!
This Vancity Box had a value of around $40 CAD which is not bad. I think this was a great Valentines Day themed box. I wish there had been a bit more variation on the products but the quality was overall wonderful – the candles smelled great and the truffles, while not my taste, were high quality and would be a lovely gift.
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