Holiday Gift Guide: Rodial Life & Style Scented Candle in Rehab

Welcome to the 2011 BBJ Holiday Gift Guide!

Sparkle, Neely, sparkle: This is the 2011 BBJ Holiday Gift Guide. For more gift-worthy items for everyone on your list, check out my other offerings.

So let’s all pause and acknowledge this. There’s always someone on your list you didn’t anticipate–maybe an acquaintance who bestows on you a most unexpected lovely gift that was thoughtful and so you. This always makes me irate, though I recognize it’s the polar opposite of the holiday spirit. But because those people come out of the woodwork every year (and they’re always people you barely know) I’m always armed with an arsenal of gifts everyone likes, so they’re perfect for virtual strangers. For anyone female, that gift is a CANDLE. They’re perfect for your weirdly corporate boss’s boss you swear ends verbal sentences with “Please advise,” even at her holiday table on December 25th. And I have the perfect gift suggestion for her: The Rodial Life & Style Scented Candle in Rehab.

This candle smells like the best beach vacation you’ve ever been on. Softly salt-air, vaguely coconut, a mild infusion of light almondy amaretto. Rodial has mixed up the most restorative scent and aptly called it Rehab to which you will have a most un-Amy Winehouse reaction. When they try to make you [smell] rehab, you’ll be like YES PLEASE, I NEED TWO OF THOSE.