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Eau d’Male

I guess it had to happen. Something as non-macho as a candle is now being targeted at adult males. Nothing is sacred these days, after all. It all started going downhill when everybody started getting Facebook and Twitter accounts, and now the masses - both male and female - can share their feelings and the trials and tribulations of daily life whenever they, ahem, "feel" like it. So now we are hit with the marketing that we smell bad, and Yankee Candle has the solution. Their collection has four scents for now: Man Town, First Down, Riding Mower and 2 X 4. Housed in the same containers their regular candles occupy, the company says these testosterone-oozing hunks of hot wax are designed for, as the company website puts it "the basement, garage, man cave or an entire bachelor pad"/Jerry Hitchcock, Coeur d'Alene Press. More here.

Question: Would you want scented candles to emit a "man smell"?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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