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Why?
I get a headache just getting near one.
Unlit.
Gah!

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by hal 9000

How many do you want me to send you already lit?

That will save the problem of you getting headaches from the unlit ones if they come prelit. :D

Though it may be a very small fire hazard in transit. :^0

Col

by boxfiddler Hot topic

they're spicy, woodsy, musky, they're fine by me. Go all fruity and sickly sweet and I'll puke all over your floors. :|

by ansugisalas

I don't know this, but I assume that I could probably handle it if it was just some natural spices melted into the wax, but these things seem to be chuck full of something unnatural.
Probably white musk or something... and worse. And it's not by association, either. If I suddenly get a twinging nausea-like headache in my lower brow while in a store, I know they're around, even if I hadn't spotted them yet - and I'm not allergic, even.

by gsg

I find that most bother me. I did find one with natural 100% beeswax with all natural scents that doesn't bother me. It's scented with almond oil and orange oil. Most people don't like the natural ones becuase the scent is milder and doesn't last as long. Mine also has a wood wick so there's not as much of that black, oily soot.

by nexs

You're allergic to Chemicals... It's a wide spectrum though - you may be in danger!

by cmiller5400

Those vile smelling, puke inducing, head hammering pieces of wax are completely ridiculous. Who the heck wants to smell "clean crisp sheets", "Spring Waterfall", Lilac, and my personal nemesis, Vanilla. {Shudder} I can't stand the things. I want to puke just thinking about them.

Now if they only made "real" candles like "dirty sheets", "toxic waste dump", "Ripe City Cab", and my personal favorite: "Mornin' after bean burritos"... :p ]:) :O

by boxfiddler Hot topic

*gasp, puke, run for the hills*

On the subject of vanilla, Celestial Seasonings TOTALLY ruined its Bengal Spice tea by adding vanilla to the mix. :(

by gsg

Most of the time when "vanilla" is added to something, it's not the real stuff, but a chemical called ethylvanillin, which is manufactured through a process that I believe starts with wood fibers. I can usually tell when that's been used, because it's very strong, cloying, and has a slightly off, or spoiled taste to me.

Give me the real thing any day.

by hal 9000

I was thinking of the Irish Alarm Clock which is a Scented Red Candle divided into hours of Burn.

You stick it in your _A$$ push it down for the number of hours sleep that you want and then light it. When it reaches the Mark it wakes you up. I'm not really sure what happens to the rest of it but Mr A. Joyce used to sell them before he got into the Air Line Industry where he started to worry about [i]"Tree Unions"[/i] whatever they are.

Not sure how well they sold but I'm reliably informed that the company that Mr Joyce bought used to be really successful until he brought it and changed what they sold. ;)

Just like QANTAS. :^0 :D :^0 :D :^0 :D

The sensible people just ignore him ;)

He had to close down that business because too many people complained about But Plugs that they found extremely hard to move after a week of using the Irish Alarm Clock. Apparently Mr Joyce tried to charge his customers extra for the But Plug as it was a Very Serendipitous Side Effect. :0

But here I was thinking that you where talking about those stubs of Scented Candles. Is that Correct?

Personally I think I would find those things very offensive. :p

Col

by nexs

I guess I'm one of the many who don't have quarrels with the artificial scents, so I wouldn't know and I haven't been interested enough to research it....

by delbertpgh

Probably you don't have those in Finland. It's a store that specializes in candles. I don't know if they have any that aren't scented. I confess to not understanding why anybody buys them. I guess it's a chick thing.

I don't know how anybody can stand to work in the store. I feel claustrophobic just walking into the place. I think that there must be people who have alergies who would drop to the floor suffocating if they ever entered Yankee Candle. Lord, the stink is overpowering.

by seanferd

If you buy candles there and give them your address and email address, they send you notices and coupons for a free candle if you buy 2 (or something like that). Oh, whoop-whoop!

He's offered to let me use one of the coupons, but like I'm paying ten dollars each for a couple of candles that make me gag just to get a free one.

He also stuck one of those cards with scented gel on it on the furnace filter. I though we were going to die. Why would they even make those things? Why do stores carry them? Who the hell is buying them?

by charliespencer

Yankee Candle is her seventh level of Hell. Victoria's Secret 'Heavenly' is the only perfume she can wear.

by jamesrl

We have a rule in choirs - no fragrences of any kind - avoid perfumed soaps even. Because there are some people whose vocal chords tighten after exposure to these chemicals. And even if there were not, you don't want to sit for 2 hours beside someone who is wearing something that makes you gag. You can't just leave.

by gsg

You couldn't pay me to set foot in a Yankee Candle store. I didn't drop to the floor, but it did take a few puffs of an inhaler and a few doses of benadryl to open up the lungs.

by hal 9000

I know a few people who make Cheap Lingerie and sell it for Outrageously Expensive Prices.

They of course call themselves Designers so that Justifies the Price of garments that fall to bits as you wear them. ;)

Col

by seanferd

I was wondering if someone would make the connection to nilla wafers.

I think nilla comes from the same corner of the world as the nearly extinct nauga.

by seanferd

I just hate the overbearing candles. Even the "light" scents can be smelt a mile downwind outdoors.

P.S., the cards with scented gel come from home stores, not YC. (Just in case I conflated the two things for anyone.)

by boxfiddler Hot topic

about fragrances. A lot, if not most, of most companies fragrances are downright putrid.

by charliespencer

were pretty much wiped out in the '60s and '70s, hunted down for their hides. After decimating the species, the industry turned to Corinthian cattle as a source of leather.

by nicknielsen

We'd set up a table in the student union with a "Save the Naugas" sign, a picture of some large not-so-familiar animal (candidates included gnu and okapi), and a collection jar and see how many suckers-I-mean-donors we'd get...

(We [u]did[/u] dispose of the money ethically by giving it to the local animal shelter.)

by charliespencer

Scented detergents and dryer sheets are particularly despicable. The scent transfers to the bed linens. You lie there all night inhaling it and then wonder why you wake up congested.

by ansugisalas

After letting that grain of ignorance gnaw at my soul for a few days, I googled "nilla wafers".
Beyond the product I had surmised to exist, which I had never heard of, I found this:
http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2008/10/homemade-nilla-vanilla-wafers.html

And I quote : "Instead of boxed wafers, I made my own, using real vanilla and butter..."
Real vanilla... as opposed to imaginary vanilla, I expect.
And real butter... because cooking something is beyond the point if it is not satisfying to eat.
If a satisfying experience is not desired, just but the base ingredients (grain, in this case) in a pot and boil until chewable and germ-free :p :D

by charliespencer

as opposed to 'vanillin', an artificial flavoring common in many packaged baked goods in the US. It is a sin and an abomination and thou shall not be abideth.

by oh smeg

The materials used where unsuitable and they would part company from what they where sewn to by tearing along the line of stitching. So the elastic would remain in place but the rest would simply fall off. ;)

It comes not from sewing the garment incorrectly but from using what Looks Good but is unsuitable for the job. A perfect example of built for show not go. ;)

Interesting I logged in as Hal and get Smeggy when I post. Seems that TR is broken yet again. :^0

Col

by ansugisalas

I just refuse to acknowledge it as any kind of vanilla ;)
For me vanilla vanilla is the only vanilla :D

by ansugisalas

that it's possible to wear a garment for so long that it actually disintegrates...

Personal hygiene of course demands that all disintegration of clothes be handled in the sanitized conditions found within the Washing Machine :p :D

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