smells like christmas

sured

can anyone remember being a child and it used to smell like christmas?:j
i have tried for years to recreate it, is it the fruit, wine, chocolate, tree, sherry, cake, pudding, or a combination of loads of things?
when i walk in a house now it never seems to have that smell, even my mams house doesnt anymore, why?

kaja86

Yes!!! I know the smell you mean!!!
I think it's the tangerines in the bottom of socks (or if you are posh stockings!!!)
I still smell it here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

piglet6

For me its the combination of tree, mince pies/christmas cake and tangerines!

I know what you mean about it being difficult to replicate, though - maybe its just one of those things that gets more diffuclt to smell as you get older... (in the same way as creme eggs get smaller as you get older - that kind of thing! :rotfl: ).

Piglet

chesky369

Whenever my son and daughter arrive on Christmas Day, when I'm in the middle of cooking, they immediately say 'the house smells fantastic'. But I haven't even noticed it. So perhaps the smells are still there but we can't register them. I do find that the various stuffings, mulling the wine, all helps.

tru

Mulled wine, oranges, cinnamon and tinsel (yes tinsel DOES have it's own smell and it's lovely)

sured

i normally buy tangerines but i never put them in socks like mam used to, so i may try that.
i know what you mean about not noticing the smell, but a couple of years ago i was delivering meals on wheels and when i went in this house the christmas smell immediately hit me, and it was in the summer

kingshir

Real fire, pine tree smell (or pine essential oil) mince pies recreate the smell for me!!

sured

has anybody tried the christmas airfresheners that are advertised, if so would that work?

joeblack066

For me its a real tree every time! Can't afford one this year but have a bottke of essential Oil stashed somewhere that will do the trick!

scuzz

This will sound daft, but our decorations had a certain smell when I was little

Also the food mixed with booze and the heating

tru

sured wrote:

has anybody tried the christmas airfresheners that are advertised, if so would that work?

I buy the ones made of glass with gel in them - I can't remember what they're called or who makes them, I recognise them when I see them in the shops :rolleyes: I get the mulled wine flavour and put them all over the house