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Perth Now
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Gwyneth Paltrow's infamous vagina candle started out as a joke
Gwyneth Paltrow's vagina candle started out as a joke. The 52-year-old actress' brand Goop launched their 'This Smells Like My Vagina' candle in 2020 and "broke the internet" as a result, but she admitted it wasn't a serious idea that she had when working with Heretic perfumer Douglas Little. In a video shared on social media from her appearance at the 2025 Mindvalley Manifesting Summit in Los Angeles over the weekend, she said: 'We were messing around with different scents one day and I smelled something and I was like, 'Oh, that smells like…', you know,' 'I was joking. And then [Douglas] was like, 'Oh we should make that a candle and put it on the site,'' the Oscar winner explained, adding sarcastically that the idea 'sounded like a winner. 'All of a sudden, it was literally on the website. And then we broke the Internet again. And then it took us a long time to live that one down.' But the 'Iron Man' actress loves the "punk rock" message of the candle, which she thinks hepled tackle the "shame" women can feel about their sexuality. She added: 'You know, that product is so fascinating. 'It took us a long time to live that one down, but I kept it on the site because there is an aspect to women's sexuality that I think … we're socialised to feel a lot of shame. "And I sort of loved this kind of punk rock idea. 'We are beautiful and we are awesome and go f*** yourself.'' The candle has now been discontinued, but was followed by 'This Smells Like My Orgasm', 'This Smells Like My Prenup' and 'Hands Off My Vagina'. And Gwyneth - who has Apple, 21, and Moses, 19, with ex-husband Chris Martin and is married to Brad Falchuk - previously explained the range was designed as a "feminist statement". She told Us Weekly magazine in September 2020: 'You grew up getting messaging around the feminine care that was heavily scented with synthetic fragrance and all this kind of thing. I just felt like it was time to make a bit of a feminist statement around accepting who we are and our femininity. 'I feel like once people get past the initial shock of it and you really start to unpack what it means and what it's saying, it's pretty cool.'
Daily Mail
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Gwyneth Paltrow DEFENDS selling Goop's controversial 'This Smells Like My Vagina' candle
Gwyneth Paltrow suited up to attend the Mindvalley Manifesting Summit 2025 in Los Angeles on Saturday where she was confronted about Goop's controversial 'This Smells Like My Vagina' candle. In 2020, the 52-year-old Goop CEO-founder teamed up with Heretic Parfum founder Douglas Little to create the $75 candle scented with geranium, citrusy bergamot, cedar absolutes, Damask rose, and ambrette seed. 'That product is so fascinating because we were messing around with different scents one day. And I smelled something and I was like, "Oh, that smells like... you know,"' Gwyneth recalled during the sold-out Q&A. 'I was joking. And then [Douglas] was like, "Oh we should make that a candle and put it on the site."' Paltrow thought Little was kidding and she sarcastically agreed that it 'sounded like a winner.' 'All of a sudden, it was literally on the website. And then we broke the Internet again. And then it took us a long time to live that one down,' the Oscar winner said of the discontinued candle that now sells for $400 on eBay. 'But, I kept it on the site because there is an aspect to women's sexuality, that I think, we're socialized to feel a lot of shame. And I sort of loved this kind of punk rock idea. "We are beautiful and we are awesome and go f*** yourself."' But it wasn't all rose-scented success as Texas customer Colby Watson filed a $5M class action lawsuit against the lifestyle brand in 2021 when his vagina candle allegedly 'exploded' after burning for 'an estimated three hours or less.' Months earlier, London customer Jody Thompson alleged that her vagina candle 'exploded' in her living room and sparked a similar 'inferno.' In 2022, Goop released a $75 'Hands Off My Vagina' candle benefitting the ACLU in honor of the 49th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, which was overturned by the Supreme Court the same year. Justices Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett, and Brett Kavanaugh all declared Roe v. Wade was 'precedent' and 'settled law' while under oath during their confirmation hearings, but then promptly overturned it with Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas. The LA-born nepo baby originally launched Goop in 2008 as a weekly e-mail newsletter providing new age advice before expanding the brand into e-commerce, a wellness summit, a print magazine, a podcast, and a Netflix docuseries. On the personal front, Gwyneth has two children - daughter Apple, 21; and son Moses, 19 - from her decade-long marriage to Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, and they 'consciously uncoupled' in 2013. Apple has been acting in plays when she's not studying law, history, and society at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. Moses fronts the band Dancer Dancer Dancer Dancer when he's not busy with his freshman studies at Brown University in Providence, RI. But it wasn't all rose-scented success as Texas customer Colby Watson filed a $5M class action lawsuit against the lifestyle brand in 2021 when his vagina candle allegedly 'exploded' after burning for 'an estimated three hours or less' Paltrow originally launched Goop in 2008 as a weekly e-mail newsletter providing new age advice before expanding the brand into e-commerce, a wellness summit, a print magazine, a podcast, and a Netflix docuseries (pictured in 2020) Last year, Paltrow wrapped her role as Timothée Chalamet's much older love interest in Josh Safdie's solo feature directorial debut Marty Supreme, which hits US theaters December 25. A24's $70M-budget ping pong drama also stars Tyler the Creator, Fran Drescher, Penn Jillette, Abel Ferrera, and Sandra Bernhard. The empty nester will also have a cameo in Rachel Israel's indie comedy Miracle on 74th Street alongside Drew Barrymore, Jill Kargman, Justin Bartha, David Krumholtz, Christine Taylor, and Jason Biggs.
