The “world’s most expensive candle”, named Smells Like Capitalism, has been put on sale priced at £2,021. Its maker, Flaming Crap, says it “gives off an aroma of musky leather aroma with notes of Great British sterling kept in an off-shore account”. It was inspired by Gwyneth Paltrow’s “This Smells Like My Vagina” candle.
£6.2m stamp ‘smaller than expected’
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