Last weekend I started sharing a few of my holiday traditions beginning with the great and mighty Christmas tree. I also wrote about how Christmas has a “smell”, and upon further reflection I’d like to revise that statement to; “the entire cold weather season has a smell to me.” It starts in late September with pumpkin (all things, all day, everyday pumpkin), moves to frasier fir or anything woodsy/cedar (hence the Christmas tree), and ends with gingerbread.
My mother and I have been baking homemade gingerbread cookies for years and that tradition, that smell, is a big part of my holiday season. And just like my obsession with pumpkin I don’t limit gingerbread to just cookies. There’s gingerbread houses, gingerbread coffee (how amazing are the gingerbread mug toppers?!), gingerbread ice cream, and of course that spicy and sweet gingerbread smell wafting through my home thanks to Thymes spot on Gingerbread fragrance. From their candle and soaps to their lotion and reed diffusers I’ve got this fragrance in each and ever room. Isn’t it amazing how warm and fuzzy feelings and years of memories can be represented in a scent? Truly, MKR
P.S. Thymes is offering a free Fragrance Studio Sample Kit (a sample set of 18 fragrances) with any purchase of $25 or more. It’s a great gift to give yourself or friends and family this holiday season (their packaging is beautiful)!
…AS PICTURED…Jonathan Adler Muse Mug, Waiting On Martha || Gingerbread Mug Toppers, Williams Sonoma || Gingerbread Candle & Lotion, Thymes c/o
*This story was in collaboration with Thymes, a brand I love and adore. Opinions are 100% my own. || All images original to Waiting On Martha
I love this post beautiful!!! I love reading all of your posts 🙂
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Growing up in a large family, my mom and her sisters always instilled the importance of tradition and family to all of us kids. Now that we are older and have starting having our own families we still carry on some of those same traditions in hopes that our future generations will do the same. We never made gingerbread houses growing up the aroma of gingersnaps on a Sunday after noon brings me to an old tradition with our grandmother.
Great Post. xo,
Alaina