Gwyneth Paltrow Reveals The Story Behind Vagina Candle

Gwyneth Paltrow Finally answered the burning question that many had after launching his candle flavored with the vagina.

During a question and answer session at the Mindvalley Manifesto summit in 2025 in Los Angeles, the actress addressed history behind the now decontified product. A video of his response was shared by the showrunners and the founder of Mindvalley, Vishen Lakhiani, in a joint article.

Gwyneth Paltrow has teamed up with the founder of heretical perfume Douglas Little to create a controversial candle from its Goop brand “It smells like the candle for my vagina” in 2020. The product had notes of geranium, citrus bergamot, absolute cedar, damask rose and cluster seeds.

During his interview with questions and answers with Lakhiani, Paltrow was asked what motivated him to release a candle that would have felt his vagina. The CEO of Mindvalley wondered with playfulness why the actress of “Iron Man” jumped in something controversial instead of starting little, asking:

“Before launching a candle entitled” This smells like my vagina “, was there a part of you who thought, you know, maybe I should start with the Lavender Room Spray?”

The question made Paltrow and the crowd laugh before explaining the famous origins of the candle. “You know, this product is so fascinating because we played one day with different perfumes, and I felt something,” recalls The Entertainer about her collaboration with Little, addition::

“And I said to myself: ‘Oh, it smellsYou know. I was joking. And then he was like“Oh, we should make a candle and put it on the site. And I thought he was joking, and I said to myself: “Yeahcertainly. It looks like a winner right there.“”

Paltrow noted that Little had launched the product on his website after giving him her joking approval and they broke the internet with “it smells like my vagina”. Despite the candle that begins as a joke, the personality of the television refused to remove it for a unique reason.

“I kept it on the site because there is an aspect of the sexuality of women that I think we are socialized to feel a lot of shame. And I loved this kind of punk rock idea. We are beautiful, and we are great, and go ahead,” said Paltrow, winning more cheers of the crowd.

She received more praise in the Comments section of the Instagram publication, with the fans greeting her for having ruled and launched an unconventional product.

“There is a quiet power in a woman who tells her truth like that. It sounds deeply, as a reminder of something we have always known,” someone wrote.

Paltrow’s love continued with another IG user greeting his bravery with the comment:

“See this beautiful, humble and funny woman on stage, so raw, so real, if herself, although she is an actress winner of an academy and what we literally Calling a star was … so inspiring. He teaches All We are aware, real and humble is a “price” that we must pay if we want to have an impact. “”

“When your candle triggers cultural reset and tells the patriarchy to sit … emblematic. Gwyneth really said” aromatherapy with an attitude “and dropped the microphone,” added a fan. Another supporter applauded his bravery, writing: “Now, I call it as daring and beautiful.”

The positive responses to the candle arranged from Paltrow occurred three years after its viral advertising of the Super Bowl. Breath Covered history in 2022, reporting that Paltrow and other celebrities joined Uber Eats for a hilarious announcement.

They all ordered wild products like their meal, the founder of Goop taking a bite from his “It smells like my vagina candle” and joking about this subject having a “not bad but funny” taste.

Paltrow has expanded its range of candles inspired by women’s health in honor of Roe c. Wade in January 2022. She launched products like “Hands Off My Vagina Bougie Perfumee” and announced that $ 25 from the sale of each candle would be given.

The profits went to the project of freedom of reproduction of the ACLU Foundation to protect the “basic rights and freedoms” of women. In his statement, Paltrow noted that his products on the theme of the vagina aimed to make women in return their power, declaring:

“The word ‘vagina‘ holds a lot of power. And yet there is a recurring need to say: without facing. Maintains our vaginas in any context where they are not guest. Your reproductive organs, your choice. “”