What is Your Favorite Holiday Scent? Why?

When I think about holiday scents, it’s hard to choose a favorite.  But, I love smelling a fresh Christmas tree.  I’ll tell you why I narrowed it down as my favorite holiday scent.

The smells of the holidays are in the air.  You can’t miss them … pumpkin spice, cinnamon, and the smell of Christmas trees.  Grocery and retail stores are bound to have something out that, as you pass by, will remind you it’s the holidays.

What is your favorite Holiday scent?

Does any particular scent really get you into the Christmas spirit?

My Favorite Holiday Scent

For me, it’s the scent of a live Christmas tree.

As I pass Christmas trees, I’m reminded of what Christmas used to smell like in our home when I was growing up.  The green and fresh smell of a live tree wafted through the small house and it was blissful.

As adults, we’ve relinquished our senses of that familiar and lovely smell though.  Hubby and I exchanged the smell and the hassle for pre-lit trees without a scent.  And, I’m willing to bet many of you have, too.

We were in favor of not having to water a tree or chasing a toddler out from under it.  We favored lights already on the tree that could change color at the flip of a switch.  And I especially love that there’s virtually no clean up since it generally won’t be dropping it’s needles all over the floor.

I won’t lie, though.  I miss the smell of a fresh cut Christmas tree.  It’s my favorite holiday scent because it reminds me of Christmas time when I was growing up.  A time when my life was so much less complicated.  It’s reminds me of my youth, playing with my newly acquired Christmas presents as the adults ran around like mad making all the Christmas lunch “fixin’s.”

Now, I’m the adult running around like a chicken with its head cut off.  My husband and I are the ones catering to our kids as they sit playing with their new toys, oblivious to how much work is being done in the background.  We’re the ones ensuring our children carry happy memories of the holiday.

But, we don’t have that one Christmas scent, because we chose less work.  And I wonder if they’ll have a favorite holiday scent in the absence of a real tree.

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Tell me: what’s your favorite holiday scent and why?