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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOOP Has a Candle Called 'This Smells Like My Vagina'
Right now at Goop, you can buy a candle called Orchard or Church, or you can buy one called This Smells Like My Vagina.
Given that she has encouraged the public to consider steaming theirs and sticking rocks up there, maybe lighting a vagina on fire isnt that outlandish. According Goop lore, the idea came straight from GP (as insiders call her) herself. It all started as a joke between Paltrow and Heretic perfumer Douglas Little, with whom she frequently collaborates on her own scents. The two were sampling potential fragrances when she suddenly blurted out, Uhhh this smells like a vagina. (Remember that time she yelled VAGINA! VAGINA! VAGINA! to a roomful of HBS students? Okay!)
But Gwyneth has high standards, so they kept working on it until it had evolved into a funny, gorgeous, sexy, and beautifully unexpected scent. The Goop copy calls it perfect as a candle because whats better than inviting guests into your home, having them compliment you on the lovely scent, and then humbly saying, Thanks, its this new vagina candle I picked up?
The candle costs $75, and Goop says it sold out within hours at one of the companys events (it does match the other branding). High-end, wellness-y Brooklyn beauty shop Shen also carries the candle, but its currently sold out on its site.
https://www.thecut.com/2020/01/gwyneth-paltrow-is-selling-a-vagina-scented-candle.html?utm_source=tw&utm_medium=s1&utm_campaign=thecut
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)RandySF
(59,248 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Has that warranty claim been independently certified?
RandySF
(59,248 posts)The 47-year-old actress company is currently selling a $75 votive cheekily named This Smells Like My Vagina, according to a listing on Goops online store.
Per the product description, the item made by artisanal fragrance brand Heretic started as a joke between perfumer Douglas Little and Paltrow while they were collaborating on a fragrance together. The two were testing scents when the Politician star blurted out, Uhhh..this smells like a vagina, the website said.
While the two didnt end up bottling the funny, gorgeous, sexy, and beautifully unexpected scent into a perfume, they did think it would be perfect as a candle, the descr.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/people.com/style/gwyneth-paltrow-selling-candle-smells-like-vagina/amp/
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)How does one confirm that it smells like her vagina, as advertised.
How do you know that it is not some cheap knock-off vagina?
It could be anyones vagina, for all you know.
Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)Yavin4
(35,446 posts)Exactly. It could smell like Jessica Chastain's vagina.
Chellee
(2,102 posts)Dulcinea
(6,666 posts)Hekate
(90,828 posts)miyazaki
(2,251 posts)marble falls
(57,246 posts)Ilsa
(61,698 posts)Hekate
(90,828 posts)...a part and turned it down, but was also a fan-favorite to play at least one Elf role, I realized I was wrong all these years. Doggone skinny blondes look perilously similar.
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)and if I hadn't been a long time fan of LOTR, I would get them confused all of the time. I have a hard enough time differentiating between people whose general discriptions are the same.
I'm really glad GP was not Galadriel. CB was slightly older, and was a better fit for a queen elf as wise as Galadriel, and old enough that she witnessed the Light from the Two Trees of Valinor, if I'm not mistaken on the history of the elves, Middle Earth, Arda, etc.
Silent3
(15,278 posts)Hekate
(90,828 posts)Stupid memory. I did the google for my previous post in this subthread, and found out that while there had been a certain amount of push from fans, Gwen did not choose to be in LOTR.
In one sense I feel better that she was never an Elf. Honestly, every time Steven Colbert has Gwyneth on his show hawking her wares, I can't make up my mind whether she is deliberately running a con or whether she has gone completely loopy and lost her mind.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,342 posts)How old are we, again?
Hekate
(90,828 posts)ChubbyStar
(3,191 posts)Well done!
Kali
(55,025 posts)Marthe48
(17,031 posts)lolol
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)dollars. Regular, small candles. Not huge candles.
Check this out. $495.00. Gwyneth's candle is a bargain by comparison
?v=1563624818
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Beartracks
(12,821 posts)========
milestogo
(16,829 posts)dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)I wonder if she would have won.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)gynecologists, specifically the vagina rocks. I realize that doesn't affect her acting ability, but she has became quite controversial.
I really liked her in the late 90's, early 2000's.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)She comes off as a crazy airhead.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)This Smells Like My Dick, My Rod, or My Johnson
Docreed2003
(16,877 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,217 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)$2
Location location ....
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)EndlessWire
(6,569 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I guess I missed the sale.
3Hotdogs
(12,414 posts)that was 'posed to smell like that.
marble falls
(57,246 posts)Aussie105
(5,436 posts)She has one, it smells, and she wants everyone to know she has one and what it smells like.
(I'm guessing, like fish? Or yeast?)
A little bit off beam there, GP!
What next?
GP: 'Hey, that smells like my armpits after a week of not washing! There must be a market for that!'
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Last edited Sat Jan 11, 2020, 08:00 PM - Edit history (1)
they don't smell. I often wear jeans and shirts around the house several times, even pulling jeans out of the laundry hamper, because I bathe twice a day and use 1/5th the water for the two that people use for one bath, my body is really clean.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Gosh, I hope that's a typo!
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)sl8
(13,900 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Good catch.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Kaleva
(36,354 posts)I wash my bad touch areas daily with a washcloth.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)My shower runs only about a minute and a half, 2 minutes when I shampoo my hair (twice per week). I save around 21 gallons of water per bath compared to what a person that does a regular shower use (2.5 gallon per minute shower flow for ~11 minutes). I bathe twice a day and use less that 12 gallons of water total. Some people cut their baths out of concern about wasting water, that really is not necessary.
Kaleva
(36,354 posts)Have the shower on long enough to wet down then turn the water off as I lather up and scrub down, Then turn the water back on long enough to rinse off. I also had the bathtub drain plugged so I could scoop out the water and put it in a 13 gallon plastic tote which. That water I used to fill the toilet tank with after flushing.
As I didn't get enough water for toilet flushing from taking a shower, I saved the wash water from my top load washing machine. The rinse water was saved in another tote and I used that for washing the next load.
I'm not so hard core anymore but I could go back to that if needed. If I remember correctly, I think I used on average about 300 gallons a month for all things.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Just think, even with me, I use maybe 25 gallons of water each day, for all activities. Just imagine is every average person did the same, daily water usage would plunge, that is even without hitting the more spartan usage you seem to aim for. But if the average person used your usage, we would not be facing a potable water crisis at all.
Kaleva
(36,354 posts)jpak
(41,759 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)whathehell
(29,094 posts)In which case you may need a checkup, since only infected vaginas smell that way
https://www.healthline.com/health/vaginal-health/what-you-need-to-know-if-your-vagina-has-a-fishy-odor
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)I was being sarcastic.
But what woman would want to have candles that smell like someone elses vagina? It boggles the mind.
3catwoman3
(24,051 posts)A nice lavender or citrus will be just fine thank you very much.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)The foray, albeit unwitting, into Gwyneths mind definitely has the ick factor doesnt it?! The ultimate self adulation on steroids and way, way too much information.
whathehell
(29,094 posts)I can only imagine that she's very strange.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)The thought of buying candles that smell like Gwyneths vagina had me go to the worst scenario. Having lived to the ripe old age of 71 I know my way around the subject of vaginal health.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Diet may play a part, I know that my body leeches a garlic scent if I eat fresh garlic.
ornotna
(10,807 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)It has the light smell of brine, actually a pleasant smell. A properly maintained vagina on a healthy woman should not smell.
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)Walk up behind Trump and see if he grabs it.
lol
Aussie105
(5,436 posts)how many will be sold to groups of teenage boys who will hide away, light it and loudly go 'IS THAT WHAT THEY SMELL LIKE!'
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)Disappointed!
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Vaginas run the spectrum, from foul to intoxicating. It all boils down to how well they are maintained and whether a person has an illness or a bad diet.
Dagstead Bumwood
(3,650 posts)Beats pumpkin spice.
MuseRider
(34,120 posts)that was good. Seriously, I HATE the pumpkin spice everything and would probably hate this worse but that was one clever response, at least for me. Thanks for a belly laugh before I go back out in the cold!
area51
(11,922 posts)if Paltrow's 15 minutes of fame are ever up.
Turbineguy
(37,370 posts)dragged down to trump's level.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)It amazes me that there are people out there who take her seriously.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)seriously: WTF
Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)But then again, I never paid her much attention. Everything else going on in the world. And super-rich Gwynneth (sp?) Paltrow wants to give us a heads-up about WHAT?
Frankly, I prefer Leonardo DiCaprio's way of comporting himself.
eppur_se_muova
(36,296 posts)... or perhaps it was.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)intellectual New York liberal family. I would have thought she could have used her celebrity to do some good for the world instead of hawking high-priced, ridiculously useless items on a vanity website. She is absolutely worthless.
Blue Owl
(50,507 posts)n/t
DinahMoeHum
(21,809 posts). . .that you're supposed to literally shove up your ass. . .
Kaleva
(36,354 posts)Qutzupalotl
(14,331 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,197 posts)Power outages, aroma therapy, candlelight dinners, church socials...
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Mourning the death of common sense.
Kaleva
(36,354 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)GemDigger
(4,305 posts)I shudder.
Kaleva
(36,354 posts)3catwoman3
(24,051 posts)Last edited Sat Jan 11, 2020, 07:18 PM - Edit history (1)
And sold out? For $75? People with more money than sense.
Or would that be scents? Or cents?
Grammy23
(5,815 posts)that smells like Vagina. Send me a dozen.
Orrex
(63,225 posts)Can't seem to find the link right now...
Codeine
(25,586 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Ethically sourced fair trade gluten free vegan free-range organic non-GMO vagina.
JDC
(10,133 posts)This is obscene on its face. Just a preposterous presentation of self important asshole-ism by GP and her stupid "brand"
3catwoman3
(24,051 posts)...could have had a good time with this thread.
Im laughing so hard I can barely breathe.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)This little light of mine,
Im gonna let it shine...
Hide it under a bush, no!
Im gonna let it shine..
3catwoman3
(24,051 posts)Hekate
(90,828 posts)Bettie
(16,128 posts)WTF is wrong with the world.
I don't care what it smells like, no candle is worth 75 bucks!
Aristus
(66,467 posts)When You Really Want To Light Up A Room...
Beartracks
(12,821 posts)I am soooooo sorry. I couldn't help myself.
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sl8
(13,900 posts)Last edited Sat Jan 11, 2020, 05:20 PM - Edit history (1)
llmart
(15,555 posts)Sometimes I wonder if I come to DU's website every day for the news and views or just because some of the posters are so quick-witted and have such bawdy senses of humor.
If Paltrow's nuttiness is just a PR stunt, then at the very least she's got people talking about her or googling her name to see who the hell she is.
3catwoman3
(24,051 posts)...some of the members are so quick-witted or have such bawdy senses of humor. That is EXACTLY why I come here and what attracted me to DU in the first place.
That, and the general intellectual sophistication of the members.
delisen
(6,044 posts)the dead and dying scorched critters in Australia, and the dreadfully privileged Paltrow marketing her $75 candles to the vapid class.
tavernier
(12,406 posts)This Smells Like My Ass Hole.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)MineralMan
(146,333 posts)Not to everyone, but to some. Perhaps Goop is all a big prank. I mean there is enormous humor in getting people to pay $75 for a candle with the name, "This Smells Like My Vagina." Think about it. Ms. Paltrow is laughing her perfumed ass off right now. As well she might.
A marketing prank. And a very good one, at that.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)MineralMan
(146,333 posts)Sonny Mirviss
(77 posts)At least where I grew up.
abakan
(1,819 posts)klook
(12,167 posts)jmowreader
(50,562 posts)Kaleva
(36,354 posts)DBoon
(22,397 posts)This however is another dimension of absurd scam
tblue37
(65,489 posts)krispos42
(49,445 posts)As an aside... prove it.
11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)(although with no extracurricular research during the last 30 years, in which time I have been happily married), I can state categorically that no two smell exactly alike.
DenverJared
(457 posts)but some may buy it just out of curiosity, primarily men. Although $75 is quite steep