To have nearly fainted at the price of Jo Malone candles

[MarjorieChardem]

Thought I'd look at some stuff for my Mum's birthday and heard good stuff about the Jo Malone candles so just had a quick look on Amazon...

EIGHTY FUCKING QUID!!! For a candle. That you burn. I mean it could smell like unicorn farts and rainbows and eighty quid would be ridiculous! I am frankly stunned.

Why though? What am I missing here? What else should I avoid for the sake of my blood pressure?

I agree with herethereandeverywhere.

I can make a 4 wick candle last almost a year. I only burn them for about 2 hours at a time.

Smell is so personal isn't it? I've personally never smelt an essential oil that didn't smell of a) disinfectant or b) olbas oil

So jealous Krabby! I've never forked out for a 4 wick one - always worried I'll get bored of the same smell for so long - silly as I haven't got bored of any yet - although I don't love Pomegranite noir like I used to.

My lovely friend has quite a few of them, smell gorgeous but I couldn't justify it personally.

FACT: the Zara Home ones are the best... £19.99 each for a large three wick candle that makes the whole house smell fantastic. They are my working at home day special treat and all visitors comment on them....

for every body candles are 6 quid in tk maxx and smell great.they are soy and sooo much better than yankees

You are paying for the poncey name,not the candle.

It is nuts. A supplier at my old work used to send them for Xmas. We had a policy that you had to donate gifts over a certain value to charity. I got given a Jo Malone candle and had no idea they cost so much and I had to give it up.

It's a sad fucking indictment of the world we live in that some people can spend enough money to feed hundreds of children in a candle. It really is just saying 'Look at me, I'm so rich I can spend £80 quid on something completely pointless.

It is very look at me.

It's a bit sad when candles are used as status symbols.

I buy tk maxx or ones from next,was once bought a diptyque nice but v pricy

If someone wants to spend their money on an expensive candle so what?

It creates jobs, generates tax, doesn't harm anyone. Who cares.

Jo Malone candles are lovely. They last for ages and smell beautiful.

Candles only smell when you blow them out.

C`mon, admit it.

So no one who buys a Jo Malone candle gives to charity then SeaSick. Think you may be a bit wrong there.

I can afford them and I give a lot to charity. What's the problem?

Unless you're into candles, people don't know that they're expensive.

I would never consider a candle a status symbol! I just like the smell.

So buy one a glade one then.

They smell just as nice.

Glade

There's one in the loo at work. It does not smell nice.

No, they really don't Usual.

Glade anything make my eyes itch.

They don't look quite so poncey on the sideboard,I will give you that.

Yankee are to candles what Impulse is to perfume. They are vile and cheap and synthetic. Jo Malone, Miller Harris, Diptyque, etc are gorgeous and actually much better value.

Oh I love miller Harris products her candles are lush

Candle snobbery,only on MN.

I don't get the synthetic vibe from Yankee at all.

Sometimes I put a dab of Lenor on a cotton ball and tuck it behind the radiator. Which is not any kind of aspirational at all