The Yankee Candle Company, Inc. Extends the Exchange Offer for Its 8 1/2% Senior Notes due 2015.

SOUTH DEERFIELD, Mass. -- The Yankee Candle Company, Inc. ("Yankee Candle") announced today that it has extended its exchange offer of its 81/2 % Senior Notes due 2015, Series B, which have been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, for all outstanding 81/2 % Senior Notes due 2015 that were issued and sold by Yankee Candle in February 2007, in a private placement offering (the "outstanding notes").

The exchange offer for the 81/2 % Senior Notes due 2015, previously scheduled to expire on May 21, 2007 at 5:00 p.m., New York City time (the "original expiration date"), will now expire on Friday, May 25, 2007 at 5:00 p.m., New York City Time, unless further extended by Yankee Candle.

The exchange offer for the 93/4 % Senior Subordinated Notes due 2017 that were issued and sold by Yankee Candle in February 2007 in a private placement offering under CUSIP number 984756AC0 and CUSIP number U98441AB1 expired as of the original expiration date.

Approximately $324,150,000 in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding 81/2 % Senior Notes issued pursuant to Regulation 144A under CUSIP number 984756AA4 were tendered in the exchange offer as of the original expiration date, with an additional $25,275,000 of Regulation 144A Senior Notes tendered pursuant to the guaranteed delivery procedures. Approximately $600,000 in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding 81/2 % Senior Notes issued pursuant to Regulation S under CUSIP number U98441AA3 were tendered in the exchange offer as of the original expiration date.

The extension of the 81/2 % Senior Notes exchange offer is intended to allow additional time for holders of the remaining outstanding notes to tender their outstanding notes in the exchange offer.

Copies of the exchange offer prospectus and letter of transmittal may be obtained from the Exchange Agent, HSBC Bank, USA, National Association, at [phone].

This announcement is not an offer to sell any securities or a solicitation of any offer to buy any securities. The exchange offer will be made only by means of a written prospectus.

The Yankee Candle Company, Inc. is the leading designer, manufacturer, wholesaler and retailer of premium scented candles, based on sales, in the giftware industry. Yankee Candle has a 37-year history of offering distinctive products and marketing them as affordable luxuries and consumable gifts. The Company sells its products through a North American wholesale customer network of approximately 16,300 store locations, a growing base of Company owned and operated retail stores (426 located in 42 states as of March 31, 2007), direct mail catalogs, its Internet websites (www.yankeecandle.com, www.illuminations.com and www.aromanaturals.com), international distributors and to a European wholesale customer network of approximately 2,600 store locations (through its distribution center located in Bristol, England).

This new release contains forward-looking statements. The words "will," "expect" and "intention" are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Such items are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those set forth in such statements. Successful completion and timing of the exchange offer are dependent on factors, including (without limitation) investor acceptance of the exchange offer, risks and uncertainties related to the capital markets generally, effectiveness of any required registration statements legally required to effect the exchange offer and other similar requirements applicable to exchange offers generally. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak to results only as of the date the statements were made. Yankee Candle undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.