I love the smell of a real tree but we have now gone artificial because it reallykind of bothers me that we cut down a tree to use and then throw out every year.It is probably just me but that is the way it goes. I do however trim my cedar trees each fall and use the branches for wreaths and in my out door plant pots so I still get the smell of those.

Cookies! I'm allergic to the other scents, but we don't decorate for the holidays. Seeing dead trees after New Year's always makes me sad.

I prefer a house that is scent-free, but I do like the smell of onions frying. A roasting turkey also smells nice. I could bring in some twigs of rosemary, since I have a large bush of it in the back yard, but I do not like an overwhelming fragrance of rosemary. But it does remind me of pine, and I'm not allergic to it.

I'm extremely allergic to cedar, as is everyone else in my family except my father, and he used to cut down cedar trees for Christmas trees until everyone complained too much.

Organic Essential Oils in pretty humidifier

10 drops Balsam Fir

6 drops Sweet Orange

4 drops Cinamon

Lovely!

Baking cookies. Now that I have a great kitchen and have counter space it's all the better.

My husband loves the smell of pine, me not so much. We have a fake tree so the hubby went out and bought a scent machine that smells of pine. Yuk I guess it wouldn't be Christmas without the smell of the old mans pine now. lol

Cinnamon for candles all the way! It's getting hard to find straight cinnamon with no apple mixed in though.

We buy live trees to transplant after Christmas; I hope it doesn't sound too "cheap" but we will often buy a smaller one and then use it again a year or two later! We also have a wood stove so if we do happen to buy a cut tree, it gets turned into heat at the end of the season. I find that the living trees don't give off nearly as much scent as the cut ones.

Other than that, cookies baking. Today was gingersnaps :-)

The smell of a real tree is a must for me. It takes me back to my childhood. I also use quite a few fresh-cut greens for various arrangements. This is a very simple small one from last year. I put these little clippings in water and added tiny pine cones (looks like some fell off) and candy canes. Every little bit just adds to the nice smell.

As much as I love real Christmas trees, I’m allergic to them. Touching them gives me hives up and down my arms. So, I buy good quality evergreen scented candles to burn instead. I also pick up a cinnamon scented holiday broom at Trader Joe’s every December. Between them, our home smells Christmas-y enough for us.

Yes...and the baking, too. This week I've been working on my Shortbread Cookies and Molasses Cookies. The house today smells especially good from the Molasses Cookies. This photo's from a few years back. Will be adding the simple dots of Royal Icing tomorrow. Great smell...good cookies! ;-)

clementines:)

(we had them very rarely when I was a kid and always around New Years'. so I still associate their smell with winter holidays)

also. Dyptique makes this amazing candle that's called "Feu De Bois"..:) it smells like burning wood but in very subtle way. nice on a chilly chilly night in SoCal..))

otherwise i don't know. I don't do anything special except for celebrating our holidays. Usually the house picks up the mood.

@aprilneverends, we're also in SoCal. Normally I don't use scented candles, but the Feu De Bois sounds nice. It's this time of year with our chilly nights I'm more than happy to have our fireplaces.

Color Zen I'm so glad you mentioned that! I usually have a pot of orange peel and spices on the woodstove this time of year! On that tomorrow :)

I'm in SoCal also but have not yet used any heating at night this season. I'm glad I do not have a fireplace, as chimneys increase homeowners' insurance rates significantly, plus fireplaces waste a lot of space where they are not needed. I'm near the beach, and so it does not get cold at night here. I had the A/C on yesterday. The good thing is that we can grow poinsettias outside here, although I do not have any at the moment. I do get a nice fragrance of citrus flowers when I go into my back yard at night now, however. Citrus flowers put out more fragrance at night than during the day, and I associate them with the Christmas season.

Yankee candle Mistletoe. Wonderful!

Nothing comes close to the smell of the real tree and then baked goods:) As for cutting a real tree, let's keep in mind that these trees are grown for this purpose, so we are not destroying forests. The dry tree can be used for fire, mulch, etc

This is my first time with an artificial tree. With all the familiar ornaments and trim, it looks quite real. Except no smell which I miss dreadfully. I'm off today to find a candle or something reminiscent of a real tree.

@Linelle, both Lowe's and Home Depot will give you all the fresh cuttings you want to help add some of that nice smell. I always take a bunch of them to use around the house.

We poke whole cloves into oranges in designs and set them around the house. My mother always did it when I was a kid and now it’s the smell of the holidays! Also Christmas trees and wreaths.

Thyme Frasier Fir candle or oils, the candle lasts for months. I've tried to many fir candles and this tops them all. They're amazing.

Yankee candle...Cinnamon stick or sparkling cinnamon ..Apple wreath..YC home for the holidays was a really good one ..but i think it's discontinued ..YC Spiced Orange

It has to be Thymes Frasier Fir scent…nothing else will do.

I think I used to have these but in a different scent..they're nice candles indeed, and one can use the container afterwards too-so pretty

I just tried a simmering potpourri for the first time and it made the whole house smell so Christmas-y! I had fresh peel from my breakfast orange, so I put it in a saucepan w/ water, a couple of broken up cinnamon sticks and a spoonful of whole cloves & put it on the stove over low heat. It's still going right now & I'll definitely do it again.

I also get the free trimmings from HD and arrange them around the house, since our tree is vintage aluminum. They don't sell balsam, though & that's the most fragrant, IMO.

I banish all things that are infused with stanky manly man sweat, and light seasonally scented candles as needed.

And no, even in Nebraska, I don't care if it means the mister has to disrobe out in the garage before coming inside to throw that stanky work stuff into the laundry. Yes, he does have the garage door down before he does it. ;)

I broke the bank and bought a Frazier Fir candle today. I'll light it tonight. What's funny is I looked for local stores that sold it. One was an upscale gift shop (where I bought this), and the other was a car wash!

Chloe, thanks for the tip about HD and Lowe's. What part of the store do you go to?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlIrELryQIU

Linelle, just go to their Christmas tree lot. They have piles of what they've trimmed from trees they sell. Like our tree, I bring them home and hose them off. I keep the extra branches/cuttings in water on our patio in case I need to replace any. Obviously the ones you use for decor that aren't in water can get dry.

I have never tried using such wax tiles. Are they good?

Omg. Stop SPAMMING.