To ask if £50 on a candle is worth it?

[Dishwashersaurous]

Close friends milestone birthday is coming up this month. Years ago we had all agreed that we would have a spa day for her birthday.

Obviously that is not an option at the moment and we can't even book for the future as don't know when spas will be open.

So I wanted send her something to recreate the spa at home experience. About £50 budget.

She's really into luxury skin brands etc . I'm not and therefore a bit shocked by some of the prices.

So is a neom candle at £50 worth it, or is there something just as good and nasty expensive.

Just feel like sending only a candle doesn't seem like much

@Barracker

I have a large Christmas Neom candle and chrome lid I won in a raffle years ago, divine Christmassy clovey fragrance. Each Christmas I lift it out and place it delicately on a coffee table surrounded by perfect pine cones. Each January I carefully pack it back away into its exquisite box, and its chrome candle cap into its own exquisite box.

I don't light the bugger though, are you mad, it's worth £70. I will never, as long as I live, spend that kind of money myself on smelly wax. I shall just keep lifting it out and putting it back each Christmas like a loon.

God just light it. What’s the point in just looking at it?

Yankee candles just look a bit naff and they can be a bit pungent. For the same price you can buy some nice soya wax candles from so many small candle making businesses. It's boom time for candlemakers.

But yeah, light the Christmas raffle candle. Let the poor bastard fulfil it's glowy and pleasantly scented destiny.

Good grief, no.

I would never spend £50 on a candle personally, but I do like books. And if I wanted a really special book for my research that cost £50, getting me a couple of cheaper ones wouldn't do.

I guess i'm saying, if she wants it, buy the candle. One person's utter waste is another person's utter joy.

Definitely not! Get her an elemis skincare kit instead.

I think these are an absolute waste of money, just couldn't, but everyone's different.

You need to be confident they'll like the smell I think, some are really overpowering.

@Barracker light the bloody candle before it loses its smell
Light it and let the wax pool right across so it gets the memory and doesn't tunnel. After that, you can burn it until the top layer is melted and blow it out. Will last ages, and you only need to burn it for a short time after the first burn

Jo malone yes well worth it especially for a special birthday gift I would be delighted

I bought myself a Diptyque candle for Christmas - better and longer lasting than champagne! I also like Arket candles - but didn’t like the white company candle someone bought me Spa - it smelt like toilet duck- it wasn’t great. I also bought a Diptyque candle for a friend and the helpful assistant in Space NK sprayed the tissue paper with the scent - so my friend could smell it before opening it and change it if she wasn’t keen.

Anguished responses to my tortured Neom not fulfilling its destiny are making me smile.
The truth is, its scent still fills a room even unlit. I've resolved I will light it when that begins to fade. I promise

@Barracker it's the cause of my insomnia tonight

I'd be really pleased with a Diptyque candle. (A yankee candle - or god forbid, several yankee candles - would probably be binned as the charity shops aren't open, and it's not as if you can regift them as no-one else wants them!)
Much better to buy one nice thing that's a treat than a selection of mediocre-rubbish high street stuff because you think it's good value.

If you can afford it , she’d love it

Jo Malone candles are my ultimate indulgence. Wild bluebell is lovely for spring.

I can't imagine spending that amount.
I'd buy hand made beeswax candles that smell faintly of flowers & honey and cost £12.

Much longer burn time And no one has torn up any rainforest to grow palms for oil

I got a neom candle free when I subscribed to red magazine, it's not a nice scent so rarely gets used. It was worth what I paid for it and no more.

I would normally never, ever spend that on a candle - seems completely daft and £50 would go a long way towards needed items for me.

However, one of the nicest gifts I’ve had (quite a while ago) was a Jo Malone grapefruit-scented candle. It was gorgeous, I can still recall the scent nearly 20 years down the line.

I think the only reason I’d hesitate is - it’s a milestone birthday and, once the candle is finished, then it’s gone. I’d maybe like more of a keepsake.

£50 for a candle is way too expensive. But I don't have candles in my house. But years ago,someone gave me two fragrant candles, so I lit both of them,and placed them in my fireplace area, then later.one of my three cats walked past them, and his fluffy big tail wafted over one of the candles, and almost caught fire on the little flame.I was sitting on my nearby sofa.so managed to scoot across and grab his tail before any damage was done.

If she likes expensive candles, it's a good gift.

If she doesn't, it's a criminal waste of money.

I wouldn't see any difference if get any extra pleasure between a £50 candle and a £5 one, like a PP says, you're literally setting fire to a £50 note.

Does she like candles? Have you seen them in her home? I think if you want something Spa like a set of essential oil bath oils from Aromatherapy Associates might be better received

One really lovely, luxurious thing is better than three cheaper things imo. There’s no logic in buying worse quality gifts just because it looks like a bigger present. I would be delighted to be given a luxury candle - I wouldn’t buy one for myself so it would be a real treat.

How would yu know if she's like the smell? Sounds like a potental waste of money, if someone ave me a candle and I knew just from the name I wouldn't like the smell I wouldnt even take it out of the box and would feel bad that someone had wasted so much money. I'd have rather had some flowers but obviously I'm not your friend, you know her, no one here does.

Wait tho op says she is into luxury skin care? So will she appreciate a 50 quid candle ?

Iv never been on a spa day so what do I know but I don’t equate the above with Then spending 50 quid on a candle ?!

A couple of posters suggested a cheaper candle ( agree something like white stuff rather than Yankee ) plus decent face mask , small bottle of fizz , I think this is deffo the best option and sort of acknowledges the whole spa day thing

Have you looked at Cire Trudon? They're probably my all-time fave, especially the Josephine scent.
I'd also love a Fornasetti candle, but really can't justify spending that much. Gorgeous designs though.