I saw a 10,5 ounce candle at a store yesterday called Carby Musk Candle. It cost $80. As in eighty. Dollars.
Is it some sort of a status symbol? What am I not understanding?
Yes, I smelled it. It has a strongly masculine scent. Is it supposed to attract dudes? Or make women feel like they have a dude? Because I’m very certain there’s no man on the planet who’d buy it.
Well, Clarisa, I personally would never buy ANY scented candle that is advertised as releasing ANY “alien but supposedly pleasing” specific odor into my house! I definitely like the CLEAN, ESSENTIALLY ODORLESS “non-smell” of my house after the once-every-three-weeks maid service comes to my bachelor home and performs a complete wall-to-wall deep cleaning of every single room in my house.
When I first hired the maid service years ago, I had to train them not to complete their cleaning work by spraying a can of artificial scent like “mint” or “cinnamon” or “woodland forrest” to stink up my house until it dissipated. They learned that lesson well, and now my household smells like a rose (a beautiful flower essentially odorless to humans) all year round.
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Have you ever read up on the stuff that goes into most candles? They’re basically chemical warfare agents. Zero regulation about what can go into the wax, the ‘fragrance’, or the wicks (which, if from China, often contain lead to enhance brightness IIRC, which gets released into your house as smoke particulates, yay).
If you’re not eating it, they can legally put anything in there, without regard to toxicity.
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Scents are subjective so no comment there, but the high price is certainly a status symbol. Has to be. I recently came upon a brand called ‘DS and Durga’ which also sells candles for $70.
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“Carby Musk Candle”
Very different from the Keto-ey Musk Candle.
The former smells like Elon Musk after eating a big plate of spagetti with cheese and potato sauce topped with breadcrumbs.
The latter smells like Elon after eating 3 pounds of raw ribeye topped with broccoli and avocados.
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