A 13-year-old Ohio boy has launched his own line of scented candles meant for men, with fragrances that include bacon, New York-style pizza, sawdust and the smell of a fresh leather baseball mitt.
— Read more (and watch the news video) at Ohio boy sells manly scented candles at WCPO, or check out the Man Can website. Thanks to Tiara for the link!
That’s neat – I loved the smell of my softball glove, and the smell of sawdust is wonderful. The bacon one is funny – what a trick – imagine how someone would feel thinking they were going to get a great bacon-y meal and finding out it was just a candle!
I know my hubby would be severely disappointed to find no real bacon….Tania was right on the money in the Guide when she mentions men and alluring scent of bacon. Although that baseball mitt one might win him over….the man who has more baseball mitts than one would think humanly possible….
I think that would piss women off too. I love bacon.
What I am wondering is where he gets the fragrances to put in the candles? I’m afraid the bacon candle would just make me hungry all the time. I noticed one of the candles shown in the video was “Fresh Cut Grass”, and I would love to smell that. I have never cared for most of the (supposedly) feminine scented candles out there, at least not the inexpensive ones. Most of them seem to be based on really sweet, thick, cheap, cloying, synthetic vanilla, which I can’t stand (real vanilla is quite another matter).
or high-pitched , headache inducing white flowers that make you want to rip your nasal passages from your head….
It’s not hard to find the fragrance oils, pre-blended, online.
The Yankee Candle store in the local mall is a ‘test store’, they occasionally receive scents that are being test marketed. About
5 years ago they had two of the best scents they ever produced:
Leather, which indeed smelled of a broken-in baseball mitt and
Vanilla Oak, which smelled like the actual wood and not some bad synthetic.
Unfortunately neither was mass produced but I enjoyed the ones I purchased.
Vanilla oak sounds great, and way better than most YC.
Manly, yes, but I like it, too! (Anyone old enough to get that reference??)
I’d pay big money for a candle that really smelled like Fresh Mitt ; we’ll see if this is worthy.
(Yes, I got it!) 😉
Well, if it does really smell like Fresh Mitt, you can have it without paying big bucks.
Took me a few minutes to remember the product, but yes!
Sawdust could be interesting…I work in a high school and I love the smell as I’m walking by the wood shop!
I love that smell too!
There’s already a fragrance that smells like bacon — Sables!
Actually, I think Sables smells like maple syrup.
I love that he uses soup cans and donates all the soup. Some of those scents sound really nice!
Maybe a bacon candle burning each morning would help Mr. Ab. Scent’s addiction to the snooze alarm. I seem to recall one of those fun science articles discussing a combo alarm clock/bacon cooker in the works, but have no idea how it worked. If it would get the bacon out of the fridge and clean up after itself since bacon grease is such a pain, I’d be all over it.
The kids would get a kick out of a pizza scented candle. When I first read the article I thought of those novelty scented stickers from the 80’s that had all sorts of unusual scents like skunk, tacos, pickles and “cave.” 🙂