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?

Oh but they smell so nice and look right posh in your bathroom

Diptyque mimosa is stunning.

Don't they sell Yankee candles on QVC? Says it all really, you might as well get some tea lights from ikea and spray a whole canister of poundland air fresher on your net curtains

I buy the Yankee candle wax tarts for 80p from an outlet store.

They smell much better than candles.

This thread is making me laugh.

sock why are you punching your sister in the face?

Because a few days ago she went shopping (with my money) and brought 6 of the fucking things because they would look nice in my bathroom.

Apparently I didn't have enough of a relaxing ambiance in it and these solve this highly important issue.

Ha drags me right back to my graduate placement days. Proper country hick first month in an ad agency and went into Jo Malone with a colleague. I'd set myself a monthly "treat" budget and smelt those divine candles so decided it could be part of my treat.

Never looked at the price because its a candle right?

Snotty shop girl + new colleague looking at me as I did this at the till seeing my months salary halved so I snootily went through with the purchase.

Then crept back a day later and returned it.

Never ever again even if I can afford it now.

And I don't like them they smell funny,I like Yankee candles especially the sage one its nice.

I do not like poncey pale ill looking stupidly expensive with lids that are just waiting for someone to stick finger prints all over candles that then sit on my windowsill taunting me

I just brought a job lot of the discontinued Glade "sparkling snow" candles. I love the scent and they worked out at £2.50 each.
Cannot fathom why you pay more for "smell" but then that's what Christmas is for...getting something better than you would normally use be it candles or bubble bath.

I don't get the whole candle thing at all, even at a fiver a pop they seem overpriced to me.

They used to have candle parties, where you could spend the whole evening feeling queazy at the artificial smells. I avoided those like the plague.

Each to their own I suppose.

Arf at socks sister - have they been lit yet - could you return them?

6 candles with your money!

I thought you had posted on the wrong thread with your first comment.
Maybe you thought you were on My sis shagged my DH - but no.

Oh gawd yes - I feel ill even walking past Lush, vile cloying stench that sticks to your clothes.

In my sisters defence she was trying to be helpful she just tends not to think.

See I once was someone who never understood how you could spend forty quid on a candle. And then I filmed a famous designer in her vary naice house who said she created a "perfume journey through her home" - every room had a different candle according to her idea of what the ambiance was. Sounds wanky, smelled divine. And THEN I went to my bosses apartment for dinner. Her living room smelled amazing. Like she'd sprayed an incredible perfume over everything. It was a diptyque candle and I fell in love. I bought myself one for Christmas three years ago and was shocked at how fucking good it was - they really scent the house with a beautiful non synthetic smell. Honest. They smell nothing like glade, it's not just candle snobbery. Slap me with a wet fish if you want but it's just true.

I'm freelance and setting up a business ATM and I just cannot justify spending that these days. But love them, I love the smell. TK Maxx have some great ones (although it is hit and miss. If you spot a demented lady furiously googling candle makes in the aisles it's me)

Thanks to a thread here about candle making, some soy wax and oils I've created my own perfume journey through my crappy little semi. My hall is lime, basil and mandarin. My kitchen is "baies" - a total diptyque copy - and my living room is frankincense and myrrh. Sound swanky, smells fucking gorgeous.

I may have to go to wanky candle rehab.

I'm new to the world of scented candles but have currently got my Yankee pine and apple on the go (as my Christmas Eve is nearly done)

I could not justify spending shitloads on a candle though, even if it smelt of angel farts and gold m

If you live in London try out Muji candles. They smell divine and at £3.50 a throw compare somewhat favourably with Jo whoever: www.muji.eu/pages/online.asp?Sec=17&Sub=71&PID=4475

Vanilla
Strawberry and watermelon
Thai orchid
Champagne and elderflower

Are our faves

I'm new to the world of scented candles but have currently got my Yankee pine and apple on the go (as my Christmas Eve is nearly done)

I could not justify spending shitloads on a candle though, even if it smelt of angel farts and gold molecules! I quite like ambi pure! ;)

Thanks to this thread, it has now dawned on me that someone was trying to impress me by talking about going shopping for Jo Malone candles! I just thought it sounded terribly dull and a bit of a chore oh well...

Scented candles are a lot like smelly teas, they smell close up but it doesnt linger. £260 is eye-wateringly expensive.

Muji ones linger! They're brilliant. And no, I'm not paid by the company to say so. Nice natural smells.

But do avoid the log fire one. That's plain weird.

There's a shop nearby that sells Yankee Candles, the smell is dreadful, I feel nauseous when I walk past.

Nothing compares to a Diptyque candle. You only need to light it for half an hour to fill the house with beautiful scent. Baies in winter, Verviene in summer.

I like Impulse