United Kingdom, May 19 -- Gwyneth Paltrow's vagina candle started out as a joke.

The 52-year-old actress' brand Goop launched their 'This Smells Like My Vagina' candle in 2020 and "broke the internet" as a result, but she admitted it wasn't a serious idea that she had when working with Heretic perfumer Douglas Little.

In a video shared on social media from her appearance at the 2025 Mindvalley Manifesting Summit in Los Angeles over the weekend, she said: "We were messing around with different scents one day and I smelled something and I was like, 'Oh, that smells like.', you know,"

"I was joking. And then [Douglas] was like, 'Oh we should make that a candle and put it on the site,'" the Oscar winner explained, adding sarcastically that...