Thanks. I've actually been using Feast Watson's fine rubbing oil which appears to be broadly similar in concept. The advantage of that is that you can apply it to the unsanded bare wood with 0000 steel wool, and the rubbing both works in the waxes and resins, and smooths down the wood at the same time. After that I finish with Gilly Stephenson's cabinet wax. Similarly, it takes a few weeks to harden but it gives a lovely finish.
The only reason I originally used those products was that I already had some left over from restoring an antique cabinet about 8 years ago. They were both still good! Try that with a can of synthetic lacquer....
My approach is that a lot of people here are not going to have a suitable place where they can spray smelly lacquer, or be able to justify buying more than a spray can.
Many people living in flats will be limited to working on a kitchen table, so a finish that you can apply like furniture polish and doesn't smell a train full of girls putting on nail varnish scores a lot of points :-)