don't buy these candles

It's 4 am, my apartment is filled with smoke, and if I don't flap the smoke away from the fire alarm with a blanket, the alarm's going to go shrill again and wake my neighbors. A quick flashback: at 3:30 am, I couldn't fall asleep, so I got up and decided to draw myself a bath. I lit a couple candles, set them on the edge of the tub (as I always do), and browsed the internet while the bath was running. Three minutes later, I hear a loud snap, and check in on the bath. One of the candle's glass casings is broken, and the candle's top surface is on fire like a lit pan of oil. Now, I'd read as a child that water can actually aggravate fires, but the bath was still running, and it was too easy to splash some wetness in the candle's direction. The candle's flame paused, cackled, and jumped two feet in the air. Now, the fire alarm was screaming, and smoke was clouding my vision, and I went running. I got my fire extinguisher and sprayed the mother fucker out of existence, and I now have a bathroom that looks like a lunar landscape: mountains of white powder everywhere.

The candle-culprit, by the way, was one of those candles that's made out of gel, not wax. They're manufactured by Identity and look like this:

I wouldn't trust them.