Candle Blog

My kid brother still lives at home and he just turned 32! He’s a total mama’s boy and he has always been kind of a late bloomer. One day my mother told me that he’s been dating a girl for a while and he hasn’t said much about her. But my mother has noticed a rather strange smell “oozing” from his clothes and hair, when he arrives home after a night with her. She can’t quite put her finger on it, but she doesn’t want to ask him about it.
Anyhow, last week my brother was ready for the family to meet her, so we were all suppose to meet for dinner over at his girlfriends place. I tell you, the minute we walked into her apartment; we knew exactly where that strange aroma was coming from… Incense Sticks and strange gothic looking Incense Burners everywhere and the air was thick with Incense smelling smoke. So when dinner was ready, she might as well have served an old shoe, I wouldn’t have known the difference.
I whispered in my mother’s ear; “How about some nice smelling Scented Candles”! My mother looked my straight in the eye, and said; don’t you dare to say absolutely nothing! She wants my brother to move out real bad! So, some strange smelling Incense Sticks and scary looking Incense Burners are certainly not going to stop that from happening, Hey, I don’t blame her bit!

When I smelled Incense for the first time, it kind of blew me away, I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. But to me the peculiar aroma carried me off to a strange, funky underground parlor deep inside Bangkok somewhere. The scents kind of expect you to see women with their faces covered, only to expose a pair of beautiful deep brown eyes and men dressed in sheets and turbans sitting with their legs crossed on big comfortable pillows.