A few notes of clove, citrus, ginger, pine… It doesn’t take much to open a trunk of memories: moments spent by the fireside, gingerbread cookies made with the children , the gatherings around the tree for the opening of gifts or the days spent hurtling down the ski slopes before dropping the last piece of the puzzle, a hot chocolate in hand… Let’s close our eyes to smell our little holiday pleasures !
A walk in the forest with Pure Living
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If you don’t have a real conifer under which to place the gifts, you can always pretend to have one with the refreshing essences of one of the most majestic representatives of our forests. Taken from the Les saisons de Lucia collection, Douglas fir is presented here in the form of fragrant tablets to slip into drawers and closets ($24), but you could just as well opt for the fragrant Christmas ball, the hand soap, candle or home fragrance.
From $13, at the Pure Living boutique
The après-ski way In a garden
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The Quebec company knows how to immerse us in a festive atmosphere and once again presents tasty Christmas collections, Candied Fruits and Christmas Delights, which smell like cake and gingerbread, then Mon Beau sapin aux fresh spruce. She adds sparkling olfactory notes that can be enjoyed all winter long with Snowflakes. Dans un jardin home fragrances are available in a range of products according to the collections.
From $8.95, at the Dans un jardin boutique
Ruby Brown’s Rudolph
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Tribute to one of the most adorable figures of the Holidays by name and to Canadian nature by its scents, Rudolph offers us an olfactory journey through a forest of balsam fir trees. Presented in the form of a candle, it is one of the delicate compositions developed in Montreal by Ruby Brown. For 45 hours of little olfactory happiness!
Sold for $50 at the shop, Ruby Brown
A festive cleaning with Pure
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Because household chores don’t stop with the holiday season, you might as well make the house sparkle while having a festive heart! Like all Pure products, the Cranberry, Pine & Cinnamon Scented Multi-Surface Cleaner is made with natural, biodegradable ingredients. It is presented with a soap and a room fragrance.
$32.99 for the trio, at the Pure store
Gom•mee’s Little Pet Biscuit
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Initially dedicated to the manufacture of products for hotel complexes, the Quebec company Gom•mee has added a wider clientele with care for fragile and sensitive skin. Designed for children first, the range does not think less of their parents. With her duo P’tit-pet, she offers a moment of joy to the whole family on a gingerbread man frame just out of the oven! It is also said to be extremely effective in calming the manifestations of anxiety and fear when going to bed. The set includes a room spray as well as a cheekbone and lip balm for biscuit-scented kisses.
Sold for $14.95, at Gom•mee
The iconic scents captured by Soja & Co.
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Soja & Co. offers another irresistible cocktail of scents: top notes, bergamot and orange, middle notes, cloves and ginger. Everything fades on a finish of cinnamon and vanilla sugar. An experience to discover with the ginger and candied orange zest scented candle. However, two other scenarios are available to us with Fir tree and cactus flower and the gourmet Espresso. Undecided? Treat yourself to these three iconic fragrances in one box.
$60 a set, at Soja & Co.
By the fireside with Replica
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Parisian house Margiela encapsulates iconoclastic scents with Replica, a collection that reveals personal yet universal sensory experiences. On each of its minimalist and sophisticated bottles is displayed the moment captured: Chamonix, in 1971, for the fragrant candle Au coin du feu which immediately transports us to a crackling hearth, enveloped in the comforting smells of roasted chestnuts, wood and cloves.
$78 a candle, at La Baie
The gourmet flavors of 4T
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It’s hard not to find what you’re looking for among the five Christmas boxes designed by 4T. While the company primarily targets new and expectant mothers, many others will want to get their hands on the Granby-based company’s 100% natural and essentially organic products. We like Mon beau fir tree and The sweet night. C’est l’hiver is however the box for which we melt while waiting for snowflakes which do not melt! The set includes a Christmas Chai, Room Mist and Enchanted Forest Body Balm, plus a Gingerbread Lip Balm.
The set is sold for $60, on the 4T store