Send Me To Sleep | Candles (Voice Only)
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Hello, it's your host Andrew here. If you're enjoying Send Me To Sleep so far and you'd like to help support the show, the best way to do that is Send Me To Sleep Premium. Over there you'll get ad-free episodes as well as access to all of our bonus episodes. You can find a link to a 7-day free trial in the description notes. Thanks so much for listening and here's just a few ads before the show begins. I don't know if you've ever had an experience like this before. But it's something that's happened to me so many times in my life. But you might be walking through, say, a garden center or some kind of gift shop or a department store or maybe a marketplace. And suddenly you'll just get stopped in your tracks by the smell of something wonderful wafting into the air.
And you'll look around you and inevitably, well, it's going to be one of two things. It's either soaps for sale, or I find more often than not, there is a display of scented candles nearby and i don't know about you but personally there is no greater simple joy in life let me try and rephrase that there is no simpler most joyful activity one can indulge in in life than taking a moment to stop at the candle display and just smell what's on offer have a little explore of the various scents that are available to you Because I think, you know, smell, unless you've got, you know, particularly, particularly powerful sense of smell, like my partner does, you know, then it can end up being a little bit of a curse sometimes, I think.
But for me, I think most people, especially for me, because my sense of smell is actually fairly dull sometimes, but I forget about it as a scent, as a scent, as a sense. I forget about smell as a sense. And for that reason, you know, I don't often indulge in smells. If I remember to, which I try to more often than not these days, i'll stop and smell roses when i see them that's a that's a top that's very close to the top in terms of of simple joys in life but um you know when you have a display of scented candles in front of you it's you know almost akin to a chocolate box of of sense to explore and enjoy.
What does Andrew say about the experience of smelling candles?
And it's a strangely serene and peaceful thing to do, you know, to have all of these sensory experiences in front of you. and to close your eyes and try and focus out of any sound around you and to pick up that candle and just take in that one smell and experience it in that moment singularly. I think there's something very peaceful, very meditative about that experience. And if you've never done that before, you know, just explore the candle shop or the candle section of a shop. I highly recommend it. I'm lucky to have quite a big candle shop in my hometown which I don't live in anymore but was there for a while owned by one of the big brands for candles and I mean you know without showing any bias I think there really is only one big brand for candles and I won't mention it but whichever one you're thinking of is probably the one and so it's their store
and to give away a little more of a clues to the company, I suppose, they have a habit of naming their candles in really particular ways. Every scent of theirs has a name And in some ways, you know, of course, as a name should, it tries to evoke the feeling of the scent that they've created. And I mean, it has a broad variety in naming style. You know, some are simply called lavender and smell of lavender. and then you have things like fresh cotton which is you know not quite a smell and if you smell their fresh cotton it doesn't really quite smell of fresh cotton but it evokes that sort of feeling And then they'll move on to slightly more abstract things, I suppose, like, you know, Christmas day.
And that would be a Christmas themed candle that had, you know, winter spices in it, which sort of makes more sense. And then they'll have, they'll have ones like a child's wish which to me I've always found quite funny as it is a stretch almost too far into the abstract and to attempt to create a scent that evokes the idea of a child's wish very silly but of course with so many different scents to the candles
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