NB: This may not be a word-for-word transcript.Why This Luxury Candle Costs $660Narrator: This massive Trudon candle will set you back $660. Sylvie uses this contraption to make sure each of the five wicks is perfectly straight as she fills the glass container with specially formulated wax.Christine Agin: The more the wick is straight and centered, the more perfect the burn will be. Narrator: That’s why Christine will spend the 2 ½ hours it takes to straighten 3,000 wicks on these smaller candles by hand. And while these cost less than the five-wick candle, at $52 each, they’re still more than three times the price of a $17 Yankee candle of similar size.Every step of the process at Trudon’s candle factory in Normandy, France, has been honed over 350 years to create candles that burn evenly, smoke-free, and don’t sputter. So, what made these candles good enough for Marie Antoinette? And why are they so expensive?Trudon goes back to 1643, and back then, its products served an
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