So I've been reading Jennifer Donnelly's new book, REVOLUTION, and I'm admiring all the sensory details. Like, I can really smell and taste Paris as I read this novel. Feeling all inspired, I started a list of scents I associate with the holidays. Didn't get too far. Would HEART it very much if you added some of your own.
The flesh and rinds of clementines (Oooo! That could be a line in a poem!)
Cocoa flavored with peppermint
The sharp, peppery scent of air right before a snow storm
Fir and balsam, juniper berries and pine
Fat waxy candles
Wood and wood smoke
Go for it, guys!
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Cloves and cardamom. Two spices that seem very christmassy to me.
Fake cinnamon-scented pine cones. I love it, but I'd only admit it here.
(my word-veri is "warvxqd" and I am not making that up. were that a real word, I'd kick scrabble's booty.)
I walked into our house the other day when our daughter was "building" her gingerbread house. The gingerbread smelled glorious earlier in the day. But when she was decorating I walked in and thought, "Mmm, it smells like our house is candy-coated." (On the bad side, that smell is guaranteed to add intake calories.)
I'm assuming you're sniffing modern Paris. Cuz I don't think I'd like open sewer smell. :)
Oooh, Becca, I love me some scrabble too. My husband won't play with me. He doesn't like to lose. ha ha
Favoritis smells, huh?
Hot Apple Cider - although I don't like the taste.
Icy fog - it has a smell, yes it does
The Christmas Ornament Box
The Colorado Blue Spruce in my living room. Yum.
Mine are all food. Apple cider, egg nog, gingerbread, candy canes, peanut brittle, fudge. I think I gained two pounds just writing that.
The heater. It smells so good to cold feet.
Mint and Chocolate! Fudge anyone!
The smell of homemade candy being made at the stove: caramel, toffee, taffy, fondant.
That sharp tang of pine trees when you're snow-shoeing.
Bayberry candles.
The fragrance of cinnamon-sugar almonds still floating in my house since I made them yesterday.
Mmmm homemade bread.
I'm with Lucinda - as much as I have always loved Paris, the smells I associate with it come from 1970, when I first visited, and it was not pleasant. I love the smells of wassel, Finnish pulla (mostly because the cardamon), fresh Christmas tree scent, a (really) crisp Finnish morning with new snow and evergreen trees.
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