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

£50 on a candle? Seriously?

I use Neom and Jo Malone

I love them and definitely think they’re worth it

I love a Neom candle

Here's another suggestion

www.stoneglowcandles.co.uk/fragranced-diffusers/

People would put a £50 candle in the bin? Seriously? Not give it to someone or put it on ebay? Just throw it in the bin?

Diptique are amazing, the best.

I'd love to be bought a £50 candle because I'd never buy one for myself. I think it's a nice gift.

No, not worth it. Fifty squids on a candle is nutty and your friend might well be horrified to know you've spaffed that much on a candle for her. I would be.

Do you even need to ask?

of COURSE it's not bloody worth it! It's a rip off, and only a twat would spend that on a fooking candle.

Don’t buy a cheaper candle and extra stuff she doesn’t really want. Just buy the candle if that’s what she likes.

I love diptique candles and for me they are worth it. I would definitely rather just get the candle that a pile of cheaper gifts I don’t really want but which come to the same value. But obviously only spend what you can afford.

Yes, I love diptyque too.

Some posters see it as a waste of money but wouldn’t think twice about getting a takeaway delivered a couple of times in a week.

Or spending that in a week on fags

Diptyque are the absolute king of candles - they smell amazing and so strong!

Everything else is total crap in comparison.

Fine if she’s into that kind of thing & would appreciate it.
I once got a friend some Clinique products. She’s not into expensive things & actually thought they were free samples due to the small sizes she asked me sometime later “what was in those free samples you gave me” or something similar

Fine if you're loaded. But for most people it would be difficult to justify £50 on a candle

Money to burn sort of statement. Rather reminiscent of the Enfield character - but less subtle

Why not just set fire to two twenty quid notes and a ten?

Burning money smells gorgeous. Honest.

Scents are so personal. You need to be 100% sure you are buying one she likes.

I love scented candles and diffusers but if it isn't a smell I love it goes straight to the charity shop which in practice means 99% of the hostess gifts I receive. And it's nothing to do with relative cost. I've passed on Neom and Jo Malone before now but last year someone gave me a Yankee Candle in a fragrance I'd never heard of and I loved it. It turned out it was a discontinued scent and they had obviously regifted it because it was years old but I didn't care because I liked it so much. I managed to track a couple more down on EBay but they have gone up to silly money now.

@Practicebeingpatient
@Tonimacaroni80

YOU ARE NINE MONTHS TOO LATE

I had a conversation with DIL about a Christmas present for my adult SD. An expensive candle was suggested. I was shocked at the price (this one was £32) but DIL said SD loves these candles, wouldn’t buy it for herself, and would know the price and definitely appreciate it.

I bought it, it’s wrapped and the difficult present I spend ages worrying about every year is sorted.

@DameCelia

Never mind. It might still be of interest to other people who didn't have the pleasure of reading it 9 months ago. Just like it was to me.

I had a Jo Malone £50 candle. I was so unimpressed. Barely smelled. Better off looking for an artisan maker with good reviews.. or non-chemically / soy ones in TK Max

I know this is an old thread.

To me, the idea of presents is to get something you would splash out for yourself.
Quality, not Quantity

wouldn’t

@Bluntness100

Yes I think so, I have bought my daughter three now, she loves the happy one.

Sounds like she loves that kind of thing, and will probably take pride of place and she will enjoy it, use it for special occasions. It’s a great idea.

I’d defintely do neom over diptyque in this price range, as with diptyque you’ll get a tiny candle.

@Bluntness100 darling, light it and enjoy it. Could still last a couple of years if only using at Christmas … shrouds don’t have candle pockets 👼

I know this is an old thread but at this time of year I like the White Company Cassis and Winter scents.