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Warning: This article contains spoilers about the movie Saltburn.
Saltburn actor Jacob Elordi smells his own bathwater candle during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Elordi also recreated part of Saltburn’s notorious bathtub scene. Saltburn fans can now buy Jacob Elordi bathtub candles via popular online retailers such as Etsy and Amazon.
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Saltburn actor Jacob Elordi takes a whiff of the candle based on his bathwater while recreating one of the film’s most infamous scenes. Elordi plays Felix Catton, the son of the aristocratic Catton parents, who invites his lower-class friend Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) to the Catton family’s Saltburn estate for the summer. Saltburn has gotten largely positive reviews and includes several highly-discussed scenes on the internet.
On an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Elordi smells his bathwater candle. Host Jimmy Fallon presented Elordi with a “Jacob Elordi’s Bathwater” candle, asking him if he wanted to sniff it.
After taking a good sniff, Elordi lowered his chin into the waxy vessel and began mimicking co-star Keoghan’s infamous slurping from Saltburn.
Behind The Saltburn Bathwater Candle Lore
While Saltburn contains a number of highly-discussed sequences, the bathwater candle comes from the notorious bathtub scene. In this scene, Oliver catches a glimpse of Felix bathing whilst engaging in self-pleasure. The scene then cuts to after Felix’s bath wherein, after the water has drained away, Oliver sneaks into the bathtub and begins lapping up the liquidy remnants around the tub drain.
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This scene gained such notoriety that multiple sellers began marketing Jacob Elordi bathwater candles online. Now, Saltburn fans can find Elordi-inspired candles on popular sites like Amazon and Etsy. Elordi’s co-star Keoghan has publicly referenced the candles, once joking that they were sold out because he had already bought ten of them.
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Saltburn’s bathtub scene is so distinct that it has caused controversy online, thus making several of the film’s actors feel the need to defend it. Elordi has said that he “was really excited when he read that scene” given how different it was from scenes that are typically portrayed in a mainstream film. Keoghan described the Saltburn scene as “almost like a sacrifice,” explaining how integral the bathtub sequence is to Oliver’s character. For all the flack that the bathtub scene has gotten, it is good to see Elordi able to lightheartedly address it, even while smelling his weird candle.
Source: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Saltburn
Written and directed by Emerald Fennell, Saltburn is a 2023 comedy-thriller film. When Oxford student Oliver Quick is invited to his friend Felix’s family’s wealthy estate, Saltburn, for a summer vacation, he is drawn into the world of eccentric characters and increasingly chaotic events as his obsession with Felix comes to a head.