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[–] vodka@feddit.org 43 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Yankee candle rating dropped sharply (or at least statistically significant) during covid with reviews of them being negative because they had little to no smell.

Loss of smell being a covid symptom.

Edit: oh and yeah it would go up and down based on larger outbreaks. So it followed the early waves of mass outbreaks basically 1:1

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 week ago

Which is wild in retrospect because holy shit they smell SO strongly.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What's more surprising to me is that there's a big enough stream of reviews for a candle to see this effect.

[–] vodka@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

People are extremely opinionated on scented candles it seems.