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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :

Last night Nigella (pbuh) [Overused]

said a dozen times "mmmmmmmmmm now that smells like Christmas" and la vie en rouge said a similar thing on another heavenly thread about mince pies.

quote:
Originally posted by la vie en rouge:

[ETA mince pies rule - the moment I opened the jar of mincemeat, it smelled like Christmas.]

What is the 'smell of Christmas' for you?

[ 18. December 2012, 09:57: Message edited by: Boogie ]

Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :

Burning brandy.

Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :

Cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg mingled together, wherever they happen to be: in hot sauces for puddings, in the aroma of mulled wine as you walk through the door of a pub, in wafts as you pass a market stall selling Christmas wreaths.

Posted by Mary LA (# 17040) on :

Out here in the very hot Overberg, it has to be the smell of ripe honeydew melons, locally known as spanspek.

Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :

The smell of the pine Christmas tree does it for me [Smile]

Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :

Sadly I'm often reminded of cleaning products by the fresh smell of pine - reverse psychology or something.

Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Boogie:
The smell of the pine Christmas tree does it for me

Ditto!

Once, when I was a kid, I got a little plastic box with a Santa on it. I put in some needles from that year's tree. And it worked- I could open it and smell Christmas all year long!

ETA: Those pine products don't smell anything like trees to me. Besides they are one of my few true allergies. My throat partially closes whenever I breathe fresh fumes from the stuff and my voice sounds like a two pack a day smoker. [Frown]

[ 18. December 2012, 15:02: Message edited by: Lyda*Rose ]

Posted by The Machine Elf (# 1622) on :

Last year we had to open the car's roof when driving to my parents for new year's due to the after effects of Brussels sprouts.

Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :

quote:
Originally posted by The Machine Elf:
Last year we had to open the car's roof when driving to my parents for new year's due to the after effects of Brussels sprouts.

I was waiting for that one!

Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :

Freshly baked mince pies.

Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Boogie:
The smell of the pine Christmas tree does it for me

What about the artificial smell of tree spray for applying to artificial trees?

It may be good to artificial people. But not to this real one.

Posted by Laxton's Superba (# 228) on :

Dust burning on the element of the electric log fire we only ever used on Christmas day as it was in the "front room" where no-one ever went. Ah, the joys of the early seventies.

Posted by Graven Image (# 8755) on :

The smell of snow in the air. Hard to describe but the air has a certain smell when it is about to snow.

Posted by churchgeek (# 5557) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Graven Image:
The smell of snow in the air. Hard to describe but the air has a certain smell when it is about to snow.

I was about to post this too! I don't get to smell that here in California, though.

Pine can do it for me, but not always. Like Ariel says, sometimes it just smells of cheap cleaning products.

Spices, especially cinnamon and clove, really smell like Christmas to me. Either alone, or in combination with other scents, like baking, hot apple cider, a wood fire, or the aforementioned pine.

And peppermint!

Posted by Lothlorien (# 4927) on :

No smell of snow down here but Sydneysiders can easily tell if the day will be a December scorcher by the smell of the early morning breeze. Then there is the tang of salt wafted in on the afternoon sea breeze for those of us in close distance to the the water.

Another December smell is the whiff of bushfire smoke blown into Sydney by a hot northerly wind. I could smell a fire from up near Gee D's and Mr Curly's way today. There's the smell of hot tar as the rain from a thunderstorm hits it.

What really says Christmas and holidays to me is the distinctive smell of the Australian coastal bushland. Again, hard to describe but very evocative with some eucalyptus, hot sand, other vegetation baking in the sun. This evokes memories of beach holidays, and of camping in the bush.

School has broken up for public (state) schools today till late January or early February. Sydney is starting to party and the month of January has many events. Opera in the Park, Jazz in the Vines, Carols by Candlelight and the Festival of Sydney along with New Year's Eve and fireworks. All this and Christmas are bound together.

And prawn shells and peelings left in some public litter bin after a Christmas beach party.

[ 19. December 2012, 03:56: Message edited by: Lothlorien ]

Posted by ExclamationMark (# 14715) on :

Wood smoke curling from a chimney on a frosty evening. Preferably elm wood or at a piunch fruit wood like apple, pear or plum: each has its own fragrance.

Here in the new Jerusalem, in the big city, our neighbours have an open fire and burn elm logs. The smell takes me back to a cambridgeshire village on a December night long ago when the carol singers arrived outside my parents house as we bought our 9 month daughter there for her first Christmas.

They sang "Away in a manger" on a cold frosty night as only the east can produce and our daughter watched, wrapped up in a blanket, her eyes shining. A moment of heaven.

[ 19. December 2012, 04:27: Message edited by: ExclamationMark ]

Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :

Sorry to break the spell, but the only association that float up from the distant past are the greasy smell of turkey carcass and the sulphurous whiff of sprouts.

It's seasons that I notice: from the watery smell of the first frost to scent of spring. If there's a Christmas/ New Year one, it's the smell of old stone, and wet vegetation with somewhere a rift of low cloud drifting over a sodden hillside. It's a midwinter walk at Tollymore.

Posted by Kitten (# 1179) on :

The smell of cigar smoke takes me back to Christmas afternoons as a child, particularly if mingled with chocolate.

My father only ever smoked cigars at Christmas often while I was making inroads into a selection box

[ 19. December 2012, 11:54: Message edited by: Kitten ]

Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :

Glad you put that second paragraph there, kitten. I was thinking you smoked cigars as a child for a moment.

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