Gift of Scent

If I’ve learned anything from the year 2020, it is the importance of being true to who I am. Life is way too short to be anyone other than exactly who I am. And that lesson has had me asking myself a lot of important questions about how to show my personality in every aspect of my life. I’ve been thinking about my personal style and trying to make small shifts in my home decor, clothing, etc. One of the things I’ve figured out is my signature fragrance combination! I would use the term “Outdoorsy” to describe my signature fragrance combination. My home always smells like some combination of these aromas:  Apple Orchard, Pine Grove, and Mountain Air. I love how my signature “Outdoorsy” home scent makes me feel right at home the minute I come in the door, and I take my signature scent with me with Aromables® and other vehicle fragrance products from The Gift of Scent. Do you know your signature scent? We’ve put together some ideas for signature scent combinations,...

By the time Christmas comes around after the rest of the holiday festivities each year, my nervous system is taxed. Between shopping, cooking, family events, travel, and the general stress of the season, I’m in need of a spa day. Massage, facial, body scrub, pedicure, manicure…I’d love it all. While I would love to receive a spa day as a gift, it rarely makes my final list for Santa. Why? Because I can so easily make my own spa experience at home with bath and body products, candles , and fragrance products from The Gift of Scent! Here’s how to give yourself the full spa experience from the comfort of your home! Pamper Your Tired Feet: The first thing I do to start my spa day is to pull out my warming foot bath. I fill it with water, add ¼ cup of Epsom Salts, 3-4 drops of Belle Aroma® Pure Lavender Essential Oil , and a few tablespoons of coconut oil to the hot water. I also put on my Grapemist Cuddle Spa Neck Pillow after heating it in the microwave ...

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I don’t know about y’all, but I could use a retreat to a cabin in the mountains right about now. After adjusting to the “new normal” of daily life and getting antsy hanging around at home, I just want to hole up in an idyllic cabin somewhere and disappear for a few weeks. But since travel restrictions are still in force throughout most of the country and I won’t be able to enjoy the idyllic country life anytime soon, I’m turning my apartment in the city into a cabin in the woods…aromatically! Here’s how: DIY Fire Place One thing I look for in an Air BnB listing for a cabin in the woods is a working fireplace…but since I’m living the apartment life, I don’t have a fireplace, so I’m creating one with this combo of fragrances : • In my Glitter Domes Santa Home Fragrancer , I diffuse Pine Grove Fragrance Oil and light my Montevideo Bisby Hand Poured Soy Candle . The candle gives me the flicker of the fire and aromas of embers, firewood, and wood smoke, and...

Mentha x Piperita in Latin. We call it “peppermint,” a natural cross between water mint and spearmint.  When the flowery parts of this hybrid plant are pressed and compounded, the emerging oils become the wonderfulness of peppermint essential oil (EO) used in the making of candy canes that pop up everywhere this time of year.   Candy canes herald in good times, but the value of peppermint EO is way more than sight, taste, smell, and just one season .   The nose-tickling component of menthol is the reason. It’s medicinal and therapeutic, helping to throw off congestion, bad breath, headaches, digestive issues*, bacterial infections, inflammation, fatigue, muscle and joint soreness, dandruff, hair loss, bugs, and more! Check out the “Nutritional Watchdog” online blog for a great article about the many uses of peppermint oil, with links to important studies and resources that support these claims.   Peppermint’s menthol component is ant...

Is anyone else already watching Hallmark Christmas Movies? No? Just Me? OK, maybe a better question is, how many of you WANT to be watching Hallmark Christmas Movies right now? That’s right, all of you! I’ve never been on set for a Hallmark Christmas Movie myself, but I don’t have to be there to know exactly what it would feel like. Here’s the recipe for a good (and somewhat cheesy) holiday movie: 1 part a relaxing, but exciting, “holiday spirit” atmosphere 1 part snowy mountains Dozens of candy canes A real evergreen tree decorated to the max 1 part falling in love by the fireplace 1 part baked goods 1 part light family drama that works out in the end Just mix it all together and add some hopeful and uplifting music—with some sleigh bells, of course! While I will, sadly, never star in a Hallmark movie, I love that I can create the feeling of being there with holiday fragrance combos from The Gift of Scent ! I want my guests to get in the Christmas mood right ...