My current favorite is the Honey Cinnamon Butter scented candle I got from Texas Roadhouse. Other than that, I like banana nut bread and blueberry muffin candles. To burn, not to eat.
@sammydog01 Back around 1970 or so, a fellow student and his partner had an old van that was mostly stripped out on the inside. It looked like an iconic hippie explosion with beads, curtains, pillows, and candles. I only saw it from the outside because there was a distinct odor of cannabis. A moving vehicle with lots of flammable cloth stuff and open flames, driven by someone smoking weed. What could possibly go wrong?
@rockblossom Driving sounds scary for a number of reasons but it sounds like a sweet place to park. As long as the candle was strong enough to cancel out the pot.
@IndifferentDude Very interesting, and not what I would have expected Gwynnie’s Vajayjay to look like exactly…
/giphy vagina
This is what came up for me…
@IndifferentDude Has the FTC verified the scent?
Has the FDA certified it as nontoxic?
Has the EPA ratified it as neither polluting nor contributing to global warming?
Has Anthony Fauci testified that it didn’t originate in a Chinese lab?
[I expect something useful in return for my tax dollars.]
@callow Probably because most are made from paraffin- a petrochemical.
Despite the Meh critique of the Amazon blurb, paraffin candles are actually harmful to be around in any quantity in a closed room.
Soy and especially beeswax candles are much less so, but good ventilation is still a good idea.
@Kidsandliz Especially birbs- their air sacs and small size make aerosol toxins out of things that hardly bother us- like using non-stick pans in the same air space [like anywhere in the same house].
I voted awful because I just don’t like candles. Some smell nice when they’re on store shelves, but they’re not allowed in my house because cats and candles don’t mix.
I love burning candles. Either flower or manly scented. I just got two from bath and body works that are great, leather and brandy and smoked vanilla and musk. I can’t stand anything that smells like food, sweet or vanilla (except for the one I bought, it’s not a true vanilla smell).
I’m not a big fan of open flames in the house so I mostly use pure fragrance oils or wax melts. Sprays and those plug-in fresheners smell like chemicals and give me a headache. Anything advertised as “with the scent of Febreeze” is an automatic HellaNO! I use a lot of peppermint oil inside cabinets and under the sink because it repels rodents and many insects. A drop of pure lavender oil in the corner of the linen closet and dresser drawers helps keep clothes fresh. Using wax melts as a winter air freshener, my favorite scent is Dried Lavender & Oak or Balsam & Cedar from Yankee Candle.
@blaineg I ordered a perfume scent called “Petrichor” from Demeter for use on a diorama, not to wear. They also sent me a sample size of a roll-on perfume called “Glue” - which smells remarkably like airplane glue. I have no idea what to do with it. If it had been real glue I could use it to glue stuff, but it’s just a glue-smelling oil. I did some checking and found that the company sells perfume oils with names like “Paperback” “Sushi” “Laundromat” “Funeral Home” and “Earthworm”. It made me wonder what kind of people would want to wear those scents - before realizing that I don’t really want to know.
@blaineg@rockblossom Demeter is a funny company! I don’t find their scents very accurate. They have one called kitten fur that doesn’t smell anything like a kitten - just sort of mildly floral. A clean healthy cat smells like beeswax, in my opinion.
@blaineg@Kyeh I just found another one: Turpentine. If I ever need to add to my cred as a barmy old lady, wandering around exuding the scent of turpentine and model airplane glue should do it.
For the most part they are bad.
My current favorite is the Honey Cinnamon Butter scented candle I got from Texas Roadhouse. Other than that, I like banana nut bread and blueberry muffin candles. To burn, not to eat.
Nothing flowery please
Sage & Citrus (Yankee Candle)
@ircon96 I have that in my car. Not the candle, that would be crazy.
@sammydog01 Back around 1970 or so, a fellow student and his partner had an old van that was mostly stripped out on the inside. It looked like an iconic hippie explosion with beads, curtains, pillows, and candles. I only saw it from the outside because there was a distinct odor of cannabis. A moving vehicle with lots of flammable cloth stuff and open flames, driven by someone smoking weed. What could possibly go wrong?
@rockblossom Driving sounds scary for a number of reasons but it sounds like a sweet place to park. As long as the candle was strong enough to cancel out the pot.
@sammydog01
It most definitely has to be, without a doubt, Gwyneth Paltrow’s personally made candle called “This Smells Like My Vagina”!!
Details here: https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2020/jan/13/why-is-gwyneth-paltrow-selling-a-candle-that-smells-like-her-vagina-goop
/giphy vagina
@IndifferentDude Very interesting, and not what I would have expected Gwynnie’s Vajayjay to look like exactly…
/giphy vagina
This is what came up for me…
/giphy Gwyneth’s vagina
@IndifferentDude Has the FTC verified the scent?
Has the FDA certified it as nontoxic?
Has the EPA ratified it as neither polluting nor contributing to global warming?
Has Anthony Fauci testified that it didn’t originate in a Chinese lab?
[I expect something useful in return for my tax dollars.]
I would like a candle that smells like a freshly blown out candle
@steveml That genuinely sounds amazing.
@steveml I like the smell of a freshly blown out match- weird but true.
Anything pine or balsam or evergreen.
Whiskey Boat Candles
I actually by this one for my wife at Farmhouse Vineyards because I like it too.
Baked apples
1803 soy candles smell great!
Most other candles smell like chemicals to me.
@callow Probably because most are made from paraffin- a petrochemical.
Despite the Meh critique of the Amazon blurb, paraffin candles are actually harmful to be around in any quantity in a closed room.
Soy and especially beeswax candles are much less so, but good ventilation is still a good idea.
Gotta watch those fake scent things (candles, air freshener scents…) as some, over time, kill animals or make them very sick.
@Kidsandliz Especially birbs- their air sacs and small size make aerosol toxins out of things that hardly bother us- like using non-stick pans in the same air space [like anywhere in the same house].
Thymes’ Frazier Fir!
@romellex YES!
I voted awful because I just don’t like candles. Some smell nice when they’re on store shelves, but they’re not allowed in my house because cats and candles don’t mix.
not those “starlet” vagina scented candles someone was selling a bit ago…
Nearly all perfumes give me a headache, so scented candles are Right Out around here.
@werehatrack Me too. Other than baby powder or lemon, Everything scented gives me a 3day migraine!!
@cristysue @werehatrack
I love burning candles. Either flower or manly scented. I just got two from bath and body works that are great, leather and brandy and smoked vanilla and musk. I can’t stand anything that smells like food, sweet or vanilla (except for the one I bought, it’s not a true vanilla smell).
I’m not a big fan of open flames in the house so I mostly use pure fragrance oils or wax melts. Sprays and those plug-in fresheners smell like chemicals and give me a headache. Anything advertised as “with the scent of Febreeze” is an automatic HellaNO! I use a lot of peppermint oil inside cabinets and under the sink because it repels rodents and many insects. A drop of pure lavender oil in the corner of the linen closet and dresser drawers helps keep clothes fresh. Using wax melts as a winter air freshener, my favorite scent is Dried Lavender & Oak or Balsam & Cedar from Yankee Candle.
It has to be from a place like Yankee Candle. Walgreens scented candles make me throw up in my mouth a little just sampling them in the store.
Klotz racing oil.
@blaineg I ordered a perfume scent called “Petrichor” from Demeter for use on a diorama, not to wear. They also sent me a sample size of a roll-on perfume called “Glue” - which smells remarkably like airplane glue. I have no idea what to do with it. If it had been real glue I could use it to glue stuff, but it’s just a glue-smelling oil. I did some checking and found that the company sells perfume oils with names like “Paperback” “Sushi” “Laundromat” “Funeral Home” and “Earthworm”. It made me wonder what kind of people would want to wear those scents - before realizing that I don’t really want to know.
I’m feeling much the same about your candles.
@rockblossom I build scale models, and the “Glue” perfume cracks me up. I’ve posted it on a modeling group.
@blaineg @rockblossom Demeter is a funny company! I don’t find their scents very accurate. They have one called kitten fur that doesn’t smell anything like a kitten - just sort of mildly floral. A clean healthy cat smells like beeswax, in my opinion.
@blaineg @Kyeh I just found another one: Turpentine.
If I ever need to add to my cred as a barmy old lady, wandering around exuding the scent of turpentine and model airplane glue should do it.
@blaineg @rockblossom Some fanatic model builders might find it very alluring !
I do wonder who buys those, though.
@Kyeh @rockblossom I was figuring their spouses might find it useful, to lure them away from their workbench.
And more: https://www.gorillacandles.com/collections/motor-city-candles
And many, many more: https://www.gorillacandles.com/
Something for everyone: Rain, Fresh Cut Grass, Gorilla Farts, Sawdust, Comic Book, Night Crawler, etc., etc., etc.
Crap, I might actually have to try some of them.
@blaineg I hope you let us know what they’re like, if you do.
Castor bean 2-stroke racing oil. Mmmmmmmm!
@blaineg But do you have to pay for it in tire bucks?
Maybe not scented.
@blaineg Is this, by any chance, called “Dumpster Fire”?
Yes, it’s a candle.
@blaineg Does each section smell the way it looks - carrots, etc?