Jimmy Fallon was laughing about it, because what else can you do, so I had to check it out and it’s true.

One person in my family loves Yankee Candles so I went to a crowded mall some years ago, something I rarely do this time of year (or any other, to be fair), and bought her one in a jar for Christmas. Or was it two. Vanilla scented, and even just sitting there unlit it was like having baked cookies in the room.

But it’s true. This year the company got slammed with a fair number of bad reviews: people complaining they’d been sent candles with no or almost no smell at all, wanting to know what had gone wrong with their manufacturing this year? It was just not up to snuff.