Aha, it's been some years since I checked out the candle collection at Gucci, and lo and behold, they are still making candles I want and can't afford. This one is the Mehen rose print ("The scent, Mehen, combines aquatic ingredients such as Persian blue salt, seaweed and water moss with licorice, capturing the essence of a water snake. The name Mehen is a reference to the Egyptian deity—a coiled up snake—recalling the various depictions of the symbolic animal throughout the House narrative") and it's $430 (house narratives don't come cheap, my friends, but monthly payments are available), which is about $380 more than I'd like to spend and it's an aquatic which I probably would not like anyway.
A comparative bargain and probably one I'd like better anyway, the Inventum Medium Flora print candle ("The scent, Inventum, infuses the space with delicate notes of Taif’s ancient Damask rose, which set a relaxed and intimate mood) is a mere $325.
And yes, they're still doing incense dishes. The kitty ("The cat head appears at the center with a hole to hold an incense stick. "XXV"—the number favored by Creative Director Alessandro Michele—appears at the top along with a playful take on the House name: Guccy") will run you $200, and the matching incense sticks, currently available in 5 fragrances including the Inventum mentioned above, are $80 for 25.
That first scent profile sounds absolutely hideous!
Seaweed, water moss (aka algae) and licorice? I think someone was smoking the seaWEED when they came up with that one.
Yes, but the little jar it comes in is cute, cute, cute. The high end designer houses seem more and more desperate as the plague wears on, don’t they?
It is. I like the little feet.
Or they were smoking when they put the rose scent in the WRONG jar. Something went wrong, for sure.
Seaweed and licorice actually sounds yummy to me; it’s the “aquatic” that puts me off.
I can’t get over the thought of having a payment plan for a, ummm, candle. ?
Right? College tuition, yes.
Agree about the notes list. You’d think it would be a rose scent given the design. But now I don’t have to want it.
This one sent me researching.
I already knew that Persian is an old word for Iranian, which I guess would not exactly be great marketing.
And apparently there is a lake in Iran that produces a blueish salt. I am not sure whether perfume derived from Iranian salt would violate US trade sanctions.
However Sea Moss is an Atlantic algae, not anywhere close to being Persian.
There is a licorice fern, which grows in various woody parts of the US, but I could not find any licorice “water moss.” I suppose if a child was chewing on licorice at a beach you could end up finding a piece of licorice in the seaweed that washes up on the beach. I don’t think either a water snake or myself would care to smell that chewed up piece, much less buy a pricey candle to do so.
In the real world, it sounds like this is a salty beach scent, with a touch of fennel (or “absinth). I am very fond of Sel Marin, and had it been described as a salty marine-touch of fennel candle, I would be intrigued, if not an actual buyer.
We have licorice fern here. I try it from time to time but it always just tastes like soil (I probably need to give it a good scrub before tasting).