Gwyneth Paltrow is standing by her vagina candle.
The actress defended her resolution to promote Goop’s controversial $75 “This Smells Like My Vagina” candle throughout her Saturday look on the 2025 Mindvalley Manifesting Summit in Los Angeles.
“That product is so fascinating as a result of we had been messing round with completely different scents in the future. And I smelled one thing and I used to be like, ‘Oh, that smells like … you realize,” she stated onstage, per a clip shared on Instagram.
The concept started as a joke between Paltrow and Heretic perfumer Douglas Little, she shared.
“I used to be joking. After which [Douglas] was like, ‘Oh we should always make {that a} candle and put it on the location,’” the Oscar winner defined, including sarcastically that the thought “gave the impression of a winner.”
“Abruptly, it was actually on the web site,” Paltrow, 52, stated. “After which we broke the Web once more. After which it took us a very long time to dwell that one down.”
“However I stored it on the location as a result of there’s a facet to ladies’s sexuality that I believe we’re socialized to really feel a variety of disgrace. And I type of liked this sort of punk rock concept, ‘We’re lovely and we’re superior and go f–okay your self,’” she concluded.
The now-discontinued candle contained scents of geranium, citrusy bergamot, cedar absolutes, Damask rose and ambrette seed, and now sells for $400 on the resale market.
After the success of the unique scent, Paltrow went on to introduce “This Smells Like My Orgasm” and “This Smells Like My Prenup.”
She determined to launch an identical product in 2022 referred to as the “Palms Off My Vagina” candle.
That candle contained notes of coconut milk and Damascena roses blended with uncooked vanilla, hinoki cypress and hints of toasted cacao “for added depth and sensuality.”
Launched in honor of the anniversary of Roe v. Wade that 12 months, the model donated $25 from the sale of every to the ACLU Basis’s Reproductive Freedom Venture.
