I find these candles SUPER! Have you standing in the hall in lanterns. Time at 18:00 clock they begin to flicker, it looks soo from realistic! I look forward every night out. The real candles that were previously in the lanterns, I have very rarely turned on. This Sompex candles are not quite cheap, but I would have just as often been the real candles on which would in one year become more expensive! At the dinner table, I would always prefer real candles, the advantages of the "fake candle" catch only from a certain distance of (1.5-2 m) because they act very naturally, are super handy, because it and all by itself to go out after five hours and again because no wax runs out somewhere! I definitely will not get that for my lanterns in the garden!