$30 for a "reinvented" candle where the gimmick only lasts 2 hours out of its 32 hour lifespan. This feels like an idea that either stopped early or went on for way too long.

Feels like a candle designed by people sitting around a table asking "How can we charge more for the less in this market?"

The Prolapse Candle. 😂😂😂

I'm glad to see that it can't be depended upon for light when the electricity shuts off. I prefer a $5 Glade in a little glass. Safer, smells good, recyclable and doesn't break the bank. Thanks for the demo. Love your videos.

as someone who makes candles, the tunnelling is caused by the wick. It's the wrong size wick for that candle lol

Not me watching a video about a product I have zero interest in just cause freakin reviews are always solid anyway! Lmao

I usually just melt the left over with replacement wicks I have on hand for that purpose.

The dim light from this candle concerns me. It seems like it would be easily missed on the way out the door, which makes it more of a fire risk than your typical candle that burns a lot brighter.

The wooden wick makes me think it's more of a incense/scented candle than a light the room candle. Hope the scent is long lasting or strong. And I don't think tunneling is a bad thing with that product, since you don't have it in a jar or bowl to prevent the wax from spilling out otherwise.

You probably want the candle to “tunnel”, otherwise you’d have wax flowing all over. Wood wicks are supposed to make a pleasant cracking noise, similar to a campfire. You didn’t mention that, but the wick might not have made the noise.

That is a ton of left over wax there, I know you can keep it from tunneling with a regular wick, but a square wooden one and naturally with the sides already raised, there really is no way.

I liked the time lapse of the candle burning down. I agree that it's too spendy for a 2-hour gimmick and then a regular candle for the scent only, not the flickering light type of candle.

One issue I can see right away, the way it burns could be considered dangerous. I know most people have common sense, but could cause issues if you have it a bit close to a wall.

Some tunneling is necessary since it has no glass shell to hold the wax. If it all melted, it would run out like lava from a volcano, and wouldn't last 30 hours. Not a fan of the burn. Maybe if it was a three wick design inside it would burn more brightly and be more efficient, but a candle is always a tradeoff. If they do free shipping, that would help a lot!

I look forward to getting one from the dollar store soon, lol. Thanks James ❤

You may have needed to trim down the wood wick before the first time you lit it. I trim my regular wicks to 1/4 inch each time I light them.

As a beekeeper who makes candles, I can say that trying to reinvent them is like reinventing the wheel. They've been around for thousands of years, unchanged, for a reason. I personally grow lavender flowers that I then turn to oil and use to make candles.

Wanted to start off by saying that I love your videos. That said I was wondering why you are using a 3rd party stop watch app with ads, on your phone? The iPhone has one built in if you click on the clock icon then stopwatch. Just a small observation I've noticed across several of your videos. No biggie, keep up the good content!

here Ikea sells scented candle for 5 dollar which las 40 hr and also comes with glass base which you can repurpose later for other things . smells good too .

I get better results from $7 candles from the grocery store. Plus they have a glass container so I can melt the extra wax down to prevent the minor amount of tunneling that does happen. I'm usually only left with 1/8 in of wax when the wick dies! I think it looks cool, but definitely a no-go!

I make candles, and it looks like the wood wick they used is too thin. Otherwise the candle looks like fun.

If you’ve no experience with a wood wick…check out Woodwick candles. Also expensive, but I like them. Great scents AND an awesome sound…like a fireplace.

A $30 candle? I'm already out.

So like, my biggest issue here is that they took away the inside to account for the outside not burning correctly 😂. This is just less candle, and you could just buy one of the spiral ones that burn evenly 🤷🏽

Seems to be less of a candle, less materials. Naming it reinvented. Charging you more. Nice review!

was hyped to see this in action but let speechless. im a rookie candle maker, I use wood wicks regularly, and that is so not the way they are supposed to burn. before lighting a wooden wick you are supposed to trim it down (thats every time before), BUT even if you dont (or forget)they burn with a crackle sounding litle a tiny campfire. the flame is usually 3/4+ of an inch high and constantly dances. if the scent load is to high or the wax is crappy it will effect how the candle wick burns as well. i believe this is no fault of your own. had it burnt well the side would have melted then like a pillar candle you gently sqeeze the sides to allow the flame to melt the wax. the other thing to note is candles do throw scent when burning, but with most, they throw more scent just after being extinguished. the melted pool of wax release the scent.

I've bought 12 of these over the years but only when they have sales. Mostly I love how clean they burn and the smell is always great. Not annoyingly cloying and fake like most others. I'm not a fan of the wood wick because of how it burns but it's a MUCH better smell than candle wick to me at least. The trick to the tunneling is to just fold the sides in when its still a little warm or just break them off and lay them around the wick to melt the next time. The tunneling is due to the wide wood wick and isn't exclusive to Spiral Light Candles though it is a bit worse I think. All in all it's not a bad candle imo.

This candle reminds me of the long coiled candle you reciewed. That one seems to do what this candle's gimmick is trying to do but fails because it is way too short a burn time.

The time lapse was so satisfying.

I stopped using candles years ago when I got a cat. Don't miss them. I keep my house clean so nothing to cover up with scents aside from maybe a temporary cooking odor at which point I use my plug in mini crockpot warmer which I add water to & sprinkle these corn cob potpourri bits I got from xmas tree shop for $1 a bag that I have had for many yrs & will b sad when they run out cuz they smell so good. Nothing overpowering or perfumey. A clean scent. Christmas & fall scents were my favorite.

When I used candles. I would trim the outside of the candle. So you could see the light of the candle. You can get wicks for candles and melt what you cut off and make new candles.

Getting Whataburger with my wife then we're going to watch this, so excited lol 😀

2:21 It sounded like you were about to say "the next decade"! lol

A candle's wick and flames has a specific range of heat it gives out to melt the wax around it until it's too far out to melt. This means based on the wick, a candle has a limited 'size'. This is why something smaller is more efficient, as it will use up more wax on the way down. But there is also an alternative, if you use a wick that doesn't burn itself out down like a steel wick, that draws the wax out from the surrounding area, but that means you'd need to make a enclosed candle that can heat up and melt all the wax to use them up efficiently. Maybe this is where the use of water could come in handy, as wax floats on water, a candle that makes use of water (since wax is hydrophobic) would be handy to float on and use up all the wax that comes down.

Interesting. Glad you showed us. A no go for me. TY sir 👍

I purchased a MainStays candle warmer lamp & like it a lot. Candle melts evenly & lasts super long. I'm still on the same candle since April 21st & I'll keep the lamp on for sometimes 4+ hrs about every day & still, the candle is less than a quarter used up.

If I'm not mistaken, wood wicks are supposed to have wax absorbed into them so that you are burning the wax and not the wick.

You can use the tunneled candle as a candle holder for tealights or small scented candles....I would purchase on that alone if I were a candle person....

This is the most unimpressive candle I've ever seen.

You would have thought they would have had the wick that was spiraling down the candle go down further so it would stop the tunneling because there would be less candle to Tunnel into

I actually really dig these candles. The scents are pretty great, and the gimick is fun. They are a bit expensive for daily use, but they make fun gifts and occasional treats.

0:40 Ok, I love 🕯️ candles. The smell, the flickering of the flame, etc… But we shall see!!! 2:29 🤔 umm at this point it looks similar to those wine bottles that have a candle stuck into the top, usually the single candle has various different colors of wax running down around the outside of the wine bottle. I had one it was gorgeous. This candle is one color, wax is running down the inside. Thanks for the review!!

right off the bat, it seems like an exploitation of the fact that most people don't know how candles work. the WAX ITSELF burns, the wick, hence the name, wicks up the wax

Thank you for your videos.

Thank you for the review. I was wondering how this candle would hold up, and here you go reading my mind.

The best part of the csndle is the rotation of the wick in high speed. So overall the is a hard no for me. Thanks for the video and review

That's so cool. I love candles . Never seen this before

They should keep the wooden wick however make it slightly taller and as it goes down splits off to separate wicks closer towards the edge to help melt some of that wax. the offset is it may melt too much if there's too many wicks as i did something similar with a regular glass candle that wouldn't burn too well. Added another wick which helped but too much where there was more wax pooling at the bottom. Draining it a bit helped as it kept the wick a bit higher. Any rates just my 2 cents.

The timelapse on the first two hours was very satisfying. Worth $30? Probably not lol. Fun to watch in the beginning though

Personally for candles, I like them from the Magic Candle Company both for their scents and long lasting candles. (up to 80 hours) they also have wood wick candle that don't tunnel unless you have a strong breeze on them.

When you light a candle (especially the first time) you're supposed to trim the wick to 1/4-inch (~6 mm.) If the wick is too long it will burn too hot, and not only can it then burn faster, but it will produce much more soot which can stain the candle or it's jar, or even walls and ceilings over time in an extreme circumstance. It will also negatively impact the air quality in your house since soot is a PM 2.5 particle and a major fine-particle pollutant. On the industrial scale soot is driving epidemics of heart disease and asthma, so you know it's not the kind of thing you want to be breathing at all, let alone habitually.

For $30 it’s a direct competitor to something like Yankee candle. Is the novelty worth it? Maybe once

I’m too high for this…I just tried to smell the screen as the candle was brought close up😂😂😂🤦🏼‍♂️

A fine example of something solving a problem that does not exist.

How was the fragrance during the second burn? Does that even help improve the desirability of this candle? Also, thank you for teaching me a new meaning to the word tunneling.

I've had wood wick candles that had a much better flame than that. And they weren't anywhere near $30. One even had a wick that was 2 inches across. It was awesome.

I think for a wood-wick candle to work properly, it has to be a very soft, oily "wax" with a very low melting point. I think those type basically have to be in a glass jar. This candle appears to be made of regular scented candle-paraffin, so it doesn't surprise me that the wood-wick part at the end just smolders in such a useless way.

If you want a bigger flame with a wide wood wick candle like that then...treat it like any other wick and pour just a little wax out. The flame will get bigger because it’s not getting snuffed out by all the melted wax. If the flame gets to big just add a little wax back.

To prevent tunneling you can wrap the candle on tin foil, but you'd usually do that for a short time to fix a tunneling issue, i have a feeling this candle with tunnel no matter what unless wrapped, which isn't great

After burning both candles, you can use the leftover candles wax in a wax melter to use all the wax and get more of your money's worth.

Man you got 🔥 burned on that deal. Lol love your Chanel. Jake from Jacksonville Florida

I love these candles, insane pricing tho for how quickly the spiral is done

Why do you use a timer with ads on your phone?

It seems to me like they cold easily have made the first part last a LOT longer by making the spiral wick tighter together. This would have more evenly filled in the center. Then they could have also put multiple (maybe 3 or 4) smaller wood wicks in the center section for a more even burn. This probably would have resulted in longer life as well as more efficient burning.

I love the idea of this

I bet Bailey made him order the bark scent.

So...this ultimately looks like they found a way to make a candle look large while actually not containing much wax. it's like somewhere between 50 to 60% hollow. So they can basically make 2 or 3 of these with the wax that would normally be in a candle this size, but marked it up like 4 to 6 times the amount of a candle that size. It looks like it's not hard to make either. seems like the wick is cast by it's self and then inserted into this, or a second casting is done after, just judging by the width of the inner ring on top of the candle. Also the wood wick they gave you wasn't pre-soaked in wax which is why it burned away most of it and had a terrible flame the first time you lit it. You are supposed to melt wax and dip the wood wick in it for a little while to get the wax to start "wicking" up the wood so that it protects the wood from being burned away completely. In other words, the manufacturer doesn't even understand how wood wicks work, because this one isn't prepared to be one. Their method eventually works but results in the tunneling and ultimately shorter burn times, because the first time you burn it the flame is too weak and burns away the wick too quickly, to melt a larger portion of the wax. The more wax you have in the basin the longer it takes to burn through. The wick of a candle only burns above the level of where the melted wax is sitting. The only way you could have fixed this is to have been taking a hot spoon and dipping out melted wax to pour over the wick as the first wick was burning and even then it wouldn't really saturate the wood like it's supposed to. Either way the wick being long and narrow will cause it to burn oblong if it were working properly, it would be better for them to slot two wood wicks together so it burns in a cross pattern. It would burn more efficiently. But their advice not to let it burn down past the last 1/4 inch strikes me as wanting a quick way to shut people up when they complain the candle melted all over their electronic device they shouldn't have set it on. If you have it in a dish like what you used, you can probably let it burn it's self out without worry of overflowing. really this is why candles in mason jars are far better, they burn way more efficiently and don't have any concerns about melt through.

Candle Manufacturer seeing how much empty space Chip Bags have: *and i took that personally*

How was the brightness?

$30 is actually a good deal for a decent candle. Craft candles made from good quality ingredients (NOT paraffin/petroleum based) go from $40-100. Most of the candles at bath body works are paraffin and are unhealthy compared to coconut/vegetable/soy/beeswax. And to prevent tunneling, wrap aluminum foil around the sides and partially cover the top. Just leave a thumbs-width hole in the center for oxygen.

I could see myself buying one!

sorry i missed something, how long should i let this burn?

Save your money and get the UCO candle lantern....they come in single candle and 3 candle versions and are very nice, durable and pleasant looking too.

the wick is burning he wax underneath more than the wick itself, usually its soaked in it though, when it only has overnight to sit in the freshly melted wax, it won't have that much time to actually penetrate the wick. Also trimming the wick before lighting it woulda likely helped too.

please review one of those spinning drink chiller

Could you tell the time with it?

To prevent tunneling on a candle in a glass/metal container, put aluminum foil around the candle. It will help keep the heat in the candle and melt the wax evenly.

Tip for you: the wax is the fuel of the candle fire. An ideal candle burns all the wax. So, as more wax is left, as less quality does it have. This, because sooo much wax was left, is a bad product and it is not worth even $10.

Is the candle that you are showing the small medium or large one

a wood wick as the second wick was a bad choice by them. a larger cotton wick would have been better.

I wonder if you could make a oil lantern that also uses a mantle to increase the light output

I’ve purchased $20-$30candles(free shipping) but it was custom and I’m not burning it. The only perc of this is getting a wax melts from the leftover wax, but it’s a decent concept

Wax is the fuel, so hallowing out the center, do you not lose most of your fuel? Could someone do a test with one solid candle and one of these.

Rolling the rim inwards once you get to the second wick is a pro move.

If the candle had a glass shell around the exterior where the lower half should have been, there might have been less tunneling. Also, you could have trimmed off the remaining upper spiral of the wax to leave a more level candle, but that is something only people who use candles often learn along with trimming wicks. While I do love the scents, constant use of oil or wax candles, diffusers, "plug-ins", incense, and sprays usually leaves some form of debris on the ceiling, walls, and windows. Today, I feel it's an overuse and simple containers of potpourri would often work just as well in areas that do not already have an excess of aerosol debris from things like hair sprays or kitchen smoke and oils.

It is worth it. For a high quality candle, this is a worth it solution. Spending a fraction on cheap candles leaves a lot to be desired.

I'm guessing tunneling is intended due to the candle not having a glass container. If the entire thing melted, it would spill over and make a mess. This way, the walls of the first wick make up it's "container". And since it lasted as long as advertised why is it an issue anyway. The problem with a candle with a normal wick tunnling is that it piles on top of the wic itself, rendering the candle unuseable, this doesn't happen with this wood wick so it's not an issue really.

The wood wick is clearly underwicked, my guess is that they need the consistency of the wax to be that 'thick' for it to mold properly, to my eye it almost has a consistency of sealing wick, plasticky even a word? The cotton wick for the spiral part is of proper size, it's quite impressive to see it work well actually. Probably deliberately underwick the wood wick because otherwise it might catch fire? Since it is a pillar candle, tunneling is expected when it is that wide. If it were me I'd add narrow wood strip to the middle of the wick to keep the flame going. I thought 04:20 was the booster wick but on the subsequent shot it's gone and the flame is ー instead of へ

Is this longer than a regular candle?

Hmm, maybe we can chisel the internal wall as the tunnel form when you burn the wood wig.

Strangest candle I ever saw was a candle alarm clock. Directions were lay face down and it had increments with a corresponding timer. lol scary

This candle is a big bummer. An expensive novelty.

you're supposed to put it in a proper holder, not just on a plate. the holder would help it better retain heat and prevent *some* of the tunneling. but i do think it would still end up tunneling, that wood wick was not enough. i am surprised they didnt go with a + shape wood wick instead with how wide the candle is.

Honestly, they could have had the spiral go down a little lower and had the center raised up like a tower candle so that tunneling wasn't so bad.

Needs a wider wickin a cross pattern

maybe since is a candle wih no "container" it´s supposed to tunnel to prevent leaks?

A cool idea if you have money to burn. Candles serve 2 purposes though, light and smell. I've never sat and watched a candle burn lol, but hey if your into that then this is the candle for you.

Is the flame on the edge more dangerous than in the center?

Melt the remaining wax in a pan and make a smaller candle to use up the wax . You can buy wicks really easily

missing the opportunity to say "a big wick needs a big bic" is criminal xD