Scents of the season

I love kitchen smells.  Show me a cinnamon candle and I'll have it burning before you say pyromaniac.  And this is the perfect time of year for kitchen smells.  When it is cold and crummy (or weirdly tepid and humid as it has been this year), I love the suggestion of warm and cozy comfort provided by all the good kitchen smells.  I simmer spices on the stove, which not only smells nice but adds some mositure to the air in the house.  Inside air can be very drying in the winter.  My favorite spice combo is cinnamon sticks, whole cloves, and whole allspice with an orange peel. 

This also the time of year I like to pull out coconut scented body wash.  This is the only time of year I really like coconut scented stuff and I think it is because it reminds me of suntan lotion and summer.  Not a bad association when it is dark by 5:30 pm.  Some of my favorites and Bath and Body works Coconut Lime Verbena but this year I found something new at Earth Fare, EO's Coconut, Vanilla and Tangerine.  It wasn't bad.  I could do with a little less Tangerine.  For whatever reason I love the orange smell mixed in with the kitchen smells in candles and such but don't particulary enjoy walking around smelling like an orange.  But the EO product does have the added distinction of being free of a lot of the chemical addivites in other body washes.  

Do you have particular scents you like at different times of the year?

Comments

[Janie]

I really enjoy your blogs. You're such a good writer!
OK, I like lemon soap, flower-ish lotion and cinnamon, pumpkin and apple smell in the kitchen. A cozy home is the only good thing about winter. And snow. And adorable 7 month olds in cute winter outfits. (-;

[Natalie Shipley]

Thanks! I like the flower scents too. Usually switch to those about April. Wish we could get some snow this year! I'd love to take the 7 (nearly 8!) month old out to play in it.