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15 scented candles that smell like your favorite food, from fries to apple pie

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Smell is inextricably linked to food. If you can’t smell anything while eating, your food simply doesn’t taste right (if, like me, you lost your sense of smell during a COVID infection, you know all about this). And vice versa: if your food smells delicious, you want to dig in immediately. Or buy that delicious freshly baked croissant (handy supermarket trick!). Would you like to be able to smell your favorite food at home all the time? Then these scented candles are just the thing for you.

Foto van culinair journalist Jeske van Steen

We see scented candles that smell like food fairly often. For example, Hema released a scented candle with the smell of stroopwafels, and Ikea introduced a candle scented like their famous Swedish meatballs.

Popcorn, bacon and curry

But The Stinky Candle Company has an absolutely enormous selection. From fries to popcorn and bacon to peanut butter, this brand has turned them all into scented candles. Don’t be misled by the company name: most of the candles don’t stink. But tastes (or noses?) can differ, so the garlic-scented candle or curry-scented candle might not be quite your thing. Either way, these are the 15 most unusual food-scented candles they offer.

Image: The Stinky Candle Company

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