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San Francisco Chronicle
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
Punk band releases record that ‘smells like Gwyneth Paltrow's vagina'
An Australian punk band that toured with BottleRock headliners Green Day earlier this year has released a limited-edition vinyl record infused with a scent they claim smells like Gwyneth Paltrow 's private parts. Titled '¯_(ツ)_/¯,' the scratch-and-sniff vinyl for Private Function's latest release is inspired by the Goop candle famously labeled 'This Smells Like My Vagina,' once sold by Paltrow's wellness brand. The candle, which has since become a high-priced collector's item, now goes for more than $700 online after selling out through Goop. 'This was potentially the greatest thing anyone had ever done, and everyone at Private Function was beyond impressed,' guitarist Lauren Hester said in an Instagram video Wednesday, May 21. 'We immediately tried to buy one, but due to the overwhelming demand, it sold out instantly.' View this post on Instagram A post shared by PRIVATE FUNCTION (@privatefunction69) Undeterred, the band commissioned a French perfumer to analyze and replicate the candle's scent. The result was infused into a special 'Goopy' edition of the vinyl, which went for $150 AUD (about $96 USD) before quickly selling out. '$700 USD dollars to smell Gwyneth Paltrow's vagina is quite frankly classist,' Hester said. 'We at Private Function think that every working class person deserves to have access to the smell 24 hours a day.' This isn't the group's first unconventional vinyl release. Their 2022 album, '370HSSV 0773H,' was pressed with the band members' urine sealed inside. A previous release featured vinyl embedded with bags of white powder. In March, Private Function joined Green Day and AFI, two Bay Area punk veterans, on the Australian leg of their stadium tour. Fans still curious about Paltrow's fragrances can visit Goop's Marin County location at 2215 Larkspur Landing Circle. The company's former San Francisco store, located at 2121 Fillmore St., closed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Business Mayor
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Business Mayor
Gwyneth Paltrow's ‘vagina candle' is still burning bright – at five times the original price
I have a foolproof way to make millions. It's a little tricky to execute, but hear me out, OK? Step one: find a time machine. Step two: travel back to 2020. Step three: quickly, before they all get nabbed, buy the entire stock of the This Smells Like My Vagina candle that Gwyneth Paltrow notoriously sold on Goop for $75 a pop. Then come back to 2025 and sell them on eBay for $400 each. Seriously, that's what they are going for now. We're talking a 433% return! How do I know this? Not, to be clear, because I am spending my evenings searching for vagina-scented candles. No, I know this because the chatter around Paltrow's candle is impossible to fully extinguish; it keeps popping back up in the news. In 2021, for example, there was a big hoo-hah because a Texas man claimed that the candle exploded on his bedside table. No one was injured but a lawsuit was filed for the Texas man and others who 'through no fault of their own, bought defective and dangerous vagina-scented candles'. That case was later dropped. The candles are now back in the headlines because Paltrow was speaking at an event called the Mindvalley Manifesting Summit over the weekend and revealed that her famous creation originally started off as a joke. The perfume team were apparently messing around with scents when she said, 'Oh, that smells like … you know.' And, well, you know what happens next. Paltrow also revealed that she thinks her candle was very 'punk rock' and challenged the shame around female sexuality. And if you don't agree, she thinks you should 'go fuck yourself'. Anyway, back to the details of my get-rich-quick plan. A time machine might seem preposterous but, according to the Mindvalley Manifesting Summit's website, manifesting means 'bending time and reality through intention, intuition and aligned action'. So manifest the damn thing and start getting that vagina candle money! Perhaps you're wondering if it wouldn't be easier to just manifest a bunch of cash instead? Yes, come to think of it, probably. Although, honestly, you shouldn't take financial advice from me. I started my working life as a corporate lawyer, then went into advertising, and now I am a freelance writer. Instead of climbing the career ladder chasing pay rises I slithered down it chasing pay cuts. Still, here I am living the dream and writing about vaginas for a living. It's very punk rock! Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist
Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Go F*** Yourself': Gwyneth Paltrow Has A Message For Anyone Still Hung Up On Her Vagina Candle
Gwyneth Paltrow is absolutely not here for anyone making fun of her infamous vagina-scented candle. The Oscar winner and polarising wellness guru's brand Goop made headlines in January 2020, when the company announced a new product, a candle titled This Smells Like My Vagina, was going on sale on its website. Five years later, the candle is still generating plenty of headlines (as are its successors, This Smells Like My Orgasm and Hands Off My Vagina), with Gwynnie being asked about both the product and the media furore it created during a Q&A for Mind Valley over the weekend. Standing by the candle, the Sliding Doors actor said: '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 [about]. And I sort of loved this kind of punk rock idea.' Gwyneth then added: 'We are beautiful and we are awesome and go fuck yourself.' View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mindvalley (@mindvalley) Around the time the This Smells Like My Vagina candle first went on sale, Gwyneth told US talk show host Seth Meyers: 'I think women, a lot of us, have grown up feeling certain degrees of shame around our bodies or whatever. 'So, this is a little bit of a subversive candle for all of us out there.' Gwyneth later claimed that the candle was never intended to 'actually smell like anyone's vagina', instead having scents of bergamot, geranium and cedar juxtaposed with damask rose and ambrette seed. More recently, the candle made headlines for a rather different reason when it was reported that at least two had exploded, leading to a disclaimer being added to its packaging telling users not to burn it for more than three hours. Gwyneth Paltrow Sums Up Her Infamous Ski Trial In 3 Words We Were All Thinking At The Time Gwyneth Paltrow And Meghan Markle React To 'Beef' Claims In Truly Epic Way Gwyneth Paltrow Shares Complicated Feelings About Working With An Intimacy Coordinator For Timothée Chalamet Sex Scenes
Daily Mail
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Gwyneth Paltrow brutally slammed as 'out of touch' over 'fake PR story' about Goop brand
Gwyneth Paltrow has become synonymous with her brand Goop. Since the actress launched the wellness company in September 2008, she has become renowned for revolving her life around it. It has become an e-commerce site, lifestyle publication and even a Netflix documentary titled The Goop Lab With Gwyneth Paltrow. But Paltrow recently attended the 2025 Mindvalley Manifesting Summit and spoke about the now infamous 'This Smells Like My Vagina' candle and how it came to be. The now viral video is making fans question just how hands-on the actress actually is with her brand - and how much truth there is to a story she keeps telling. In 2020, Goop released a candle called 'This Smells Like My Vagina' with the company Heretic. Paltrow was asked about the candle and said, 'That product is so fascinating because we were messing around with different scents one day.' The entrepreneur explained that she was working with the perfumer Douglas Little to create scents for Goop, when she jokingly picked one up and said, 'This smells like my vagina.' She said that even though she was joking, she thought it would be cool of someone to actually put that phrase on a candle. 'What a punk-rock, feminist statement to have that on your table,' the businesswoman said when she first told the story to Jimmy Kimmel back in 2020. She went on to say that Little actually made the candle - which Paltrow assumed was the only of its kind. 'All of a sudden, it was literally on the website,' Paltrow said. And while story emitted applause and laughter from the audience both times she said it, fans are now becoming increasingly dubious. Some pointed to the story as proof that Paltrow isn't as enmeshed with the brand as she says she is. 'It is possible she has little to do with the day to day running of the business,' one Redditor said. 'A lot of these celebrity businesses are run by actual business professionals and the celebrity takes all the credit. Fans called Paltrow out, claiming her story was more than likely a PR stunt 'It's not like she's designing products or has a background in marketing and finances. She may just be the mascot.' But others accused Paltrow of fabricating the entire story for the sake of an exciting PR spin. '"I just make jokes and then my team goes rogue without thinking of potential PR issues, and I have no say in what is produced, labelled or goes on the website for my own brand." Sure, Jan,' one Redditor commented under a thread of the video. 'Out of touch millionaires really want us plebs to believe they say things jokingly in meetings and entire product launches happen by accident?' another added. 'Hate these fake PR stories,' another Redditor chimed in. 'They knew it would sell because of the buzzy name, no need to be cheeky.' But they are right about that - the $75 candle sold out immediately when it hit the market.
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Gwyneth Paltrow Has Salty Response For Critics Of Goop's Vagina Candle
Gwyneth Paltrow had some choice words for anyone still offended by Goop's cheeky, headline-grabbing candle. Speaking at the Mindvalley Manifesting Summit in Los Angeles on Saturday, the actor and lifestyle entrepreneur addressed the backlash to her brand's 2020 product, 'This Smells Like My Vagina,' calling the reaction 'fascinating.' The $75 candle was inspired by an offhand joke Paltrow made while testing scents with her team. 'We were messing around with different scents one day and I smelled something and was like, 'Oh, that smells like… you know,'' she recalled in a video shared by the summit's Instagram. 'I was joking!' View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mindvalley (@mindvalley) When her collaborator, perfumer Douglas Little, suggested turning the scent into a product, she thought he was joking, too. But soon enough, the candle, described as having notes of 'geranium, citrusy bergamot, and cedar absolutes juxtaposed with Damask rose and ambrette seed,' was live on Goop's website. 'It took us a long time to live that one down,' Paltrow admitted. 'But I kept it on the site because there's an aspect of women's sexuality where we're socialized to feel a lot of shame. And I sort of loved this kind of punk rock idea.' Then she put it even more bluntly: 'We are beautiful and we are awesome. And go fuck yourself.' Paltrow also reflected on the candle's cultural impact during a January 2020 appearance on 'Late Night with Seth Meyers,' describing it as a statement as much as a scent. 'You know, I think women; a lot of us have grown up feeling certain degrees of shame around our bodies or whatever,' she said. 'So this is just a little bit of, you know, a subversive candle for all of us out there.' Gwyneth Paltrow Slams Her Hit-And-Run Ski Trial As 'Everything Wrong With Our Legal System' Gwyneth Paltrow Welcomes Back Carbs And Social Media Users Find It Hard To Digest Gwyneth Paltrow's Daughter Reveals What She 'Avoids Like The Plague'
