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And it's even stranger and more desperate than THAT. Because, you know, of the 26 Wickless Candles pictured, no fewer than 18 are scented like foodstuffs, and primarily dessert-type foods at that. (Please note that the hot-cocoa and candied-apple scents are currently out of stock.)

So what we have here, fellow humans, is essentially an electric warmed-wax air freshener which causes the ambient atmosphere to smell like . . . pumpkin pie? Snickerdoodles?

In the richest nation on earth (well, except of course for Bahrain (or however you spell it), we have, running off (and probably made of) petroleum products, air fresheners which are scented to smell like food that most of us virtuously eschew with something akin to eschatological horror for fear of Getting Fat.

A clear case of Much Heat But Little Light.

Something is very, very wrong here.

Wow. Though I can sorta understand (people in college housing, where candles are against the contract). As I sit in student housing burning a huge cheap candle from CVS.

I happen to live near the central headquarters and the largest storefront for Yankee Candle - The "Scenter" of the Universe (their tagline, not mine). If you drive within a few miles of the place, you can begin to smell those obnoxious scents wafting in the air. I have always suspected that they've figured out how to add some kind of brain-freezing phermone to their candle-scents, because I often see perfectly happy families driving near the YC mega-store and suddenly get a glazed look in their eye. Then they turn in droves into the humungous parking lot. Later, they drive away with bags full of pumpkin-spice and candy-apple candles wondering what the hell they are going to do with them and why they thought they were so crucial to their lives.

Russell may be on to something. I went there once (or at least to somewhere very similar), and it truly was mind-numbing. Research is called for. We need to know: what are they burning (or possibly merely warming) in the Oval Office?

Scenter? SCENTER?!?!?

I just actually physically died.

I got a Yankee Candle Pumpkin Spice candle as a gift once and I was quite fond of it. I just burned it, though, like normal folk.

Duh.

The heat has fried my brain.

I've only just realized something:

Candles *release* their scent without the aid of any warming whatsoever.

It not like the heat goes in there and unlocks little imprisoned molecules of pheromones.

Scents just waft off into the air unassisted.

Which makes the whole thing even more pointless.

actually, there is a good uses for a candle warmer. for those of us who arent allowed to burn candles, for example in a dorm situation, it is perfect. so dont bash a product unless you have fully exhausted all of its uses and purposes. i think it is great in my dorm room, and it keeps me from getting in trouble with the staff.

Are you knockin my candle warmer? Hah!

I'm with you, candles are for burning and I am always BURNING one as long as I am in the house.

My candle warmer is used to melt wax to make new candles from what's left of the old ones. AND to keep my coffee hot if I am not using it for wax.

A wickless candle seems about as appropriate as plastic glasses I guess. They have their uses and some people love them. They just aint for me. And hearing the phrase makes your mind do flip flops.

The point about wicless candles that blows my mind is that after the scent dissipates all that wax is good only for throwing away or making unscented candles because adding MORE scented oil can result in a fire hazard and wax can only absorb so much oil anyway.

So if you want a medium that releases scent use water and potpourri liquid on the warmer or for the food scent inclined, throw a handful of cookies in the water.....Then have cookie soup when you get hungry enough.