Coronavirus restrictions are beginning to lift across Australia, but if you’re not sure about hitting up a pub yet, or you’re missing the smell of a music festival, why not invest in a candle that purports to smell like those experiences.
Two UK companies have come together to launch a series of candles called Scents Of Normality, with options to get your nose around including ‘The Local’, ‘The Cinema’ and ‘The Festival’.
Uncommon Creative Studio has teamed up with fragrance brand Earl of East for this deadly set of candles, with all proceeds going to Hospitality Action. The charity is helping hospitality workers who have either lost their job, or had reductions in pay or hours amid the pandemic.
“Introducing ‘Scents of Normality’. An exclusive candle collection that smells like the places we miss the most during lockdown,” says the Earl of East website. “This limited series comes in three evocative scents, reflecting some of the nation’s favourite hangouts: The Local, The Cinema and The Festival.”
Each of the three candles on sale come with some pretty evocative product descriptions.
The Pub is being sold with the following descriptor: “Top notes of spilt beer, hair pomade and chip fat jostle amongst a pungent base of varnished teak and sticky carpet. A waft of testosterone gives way to the ersatz-lemon of a urinal block, as the salted breath of pork scratchings is soused in cheap rosé and freckled with cigarette ash. A potent fragrance that lingers, like the melancholy ramblings of an old inebriated.”
The Festival is described as: “A floral haze of cut grass, burned skin and sun-warmed cider, with just the merest shimmer of distant portaloo. Top notes of burger van and singed candyfloss bloom above an earthy bed of unwashed hair and dew-damp sleeping bag. A resonant bouquet, tied with a ribbon of sweet cannabis smoke.”
The Cinema: “A heady fusion of salt popcorn, foam banana and glistening hot dog, enveloped in a fug of recirculated air. A waft of cloistered contraband chicken meets the allium tang of adolescent boredom, laced with juicy notes of melting slushie syrup. An evocative blend, with just the faintest whisper of third base in the back row.”
They’re not cheap though, selling for 45 quid a pop. You can check them out or make a purchase here.
Check out The Cinema, The Local and The Festival candles:
