Andy Tauer of Tauer Perfumes is holding 24 days of giveaways for Advent again this year. To paraphrase his explanation from last year:
It is this time of the year again: Advent, with its warmth and scents bringing back memories from our childhood. It is the time of the year where we prepare for the holidays, a time to look back to 2011, and to look forward into 2012.
“Tauer” brings you an ADVENT CALENDAR December 1 -24 with lots of gifts and fragrant treasures.
Now Smell This is pleased to host the prize draw for December 1st. Today's winner gets a full bottle of the Tauer perfume of their choice: any fragrance sold on the Tauer website, or a bottle of Tableau de Parfums Miriam, or a bottle of Cologne du Maghreb. And there will be other prizes every single day for the rest of Advent; just check the Advent calendar page every day to find out how and where to enter.
For a chance to win the December 1st prize, leave a quick comment below telling us your favorite holiday (this holiday, or any other holiday) smell. The very simple rules:
- Be sure to use the “Post a comment” box; do not reply to another comment! All replies to comments will be deleted.
- Anybody, anywhere, can enter, so long as I have permission to use the email address in your reader account to contact you. If the email address in your reader account is incorrect, you might want to fix it.
- If you are the winner and you fail to send me your mailing details within a couple weeks, we'll have to pick another winner.
We'll be accepting comments through tomorrow morning (2 December, around 8-am-ish), at which point a winner will be chosen at random.
Ooh the Tauer advent marks the true beginning of the holiday season!
The first holiday smell that comes to mind is fresh-cut Christmas trees. The second is gingerbread lattes.
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while easter is far from my favorite holiday, I do enjoy the spring flower/bulb smells I associate with it for the promise of spring coming up! (lily, hyacinth)
I love the advent calendar 🙂
..but I’m never lucky… 🙁
Let’s see if this year is more generous with prizes than the last!
Growing up in Hawaii, the smoky sour smell of firecrackers on Chinese New Years is my favorite.
Have been waiting for Andy to do the advent calendar again as I had so much fun with this last year. My favourite holiday related smell has to be the pine, this instantly puts me into Christmas mood.
I love Andy’s Advent Calendar – it’s so festive. Thank you for doing it again this year.
My favorite holiday is Thanksgiving, but my favorite holiday smells are from Halloween. I love the smell of leaf piles on the side of the road and kicking through them on Halloween night when my kids trick-or-treat. I also love the smell of candles burning in jack-o-lanterns.
Thanks to you and Andy for this contest!
My favorite holiday smell is the smell of bayberry candles.
I love the smell of food during christmas, especially sugary sweet smells. Cookies, chocolates, love it!
And it’s great Andy is holding an advent calendar again!
My favourite Christmas smell is a smell of gingerbread layered with rose & fruit jam! My mum bakes it every year, it’s so yummy!
And also a smell of cinnamon, apple & orange tea!
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Cool! Thanks to Andy for this generous competition and to NST for hosting! Favourite holiday for me is Christmas and being that I’m downunder, Christmas equals Summer, which brings me to the smell of the beach & beach holidays – definitely one of my favorite holiday smells.
Sorry, please delete my previous post. Favorite holiday smell – balsam! Thanks, Andy and Robin, for this generous draw.
Thank you for hosting this first day
Many thanks to Andy for his generosity
My fav holiday is Easter- the spring, the hope for renewal
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Oh, how fun!
I love the smell of clove oranges – we used to make them with my mom, add red plaid ribbon, and hang them from the wooden beams in the kitchen at home. That, the icy air blowing off the lake and up the hill to our house, combined with woodsmoke from the stove = the holidays to me.
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My favourite holiday smell is the combination of the Christmas tree (fir), lamb roasting in the oven and the smoky smell of the fireplace.
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The Christmas tree smell… and spiced apple cider. 🙂
The countdown to Christmas has begun – and what a wonderful prize!
The smell that comes from the first time Mum unwraps the tinfoil from around the Christmas Turkey is pretty hard to beat, oh I get hungry (and festive) just thinking about it!
I vividly remember the smell of little marzipan animals we used to get in out Christmas stockings….almonds!
Thank you for this lovely competition…
I love Christmas time. It’s totally my favorite holiday.
The smell of freedom and adventure during my summer holidays… priceless! Please use my email address!
Thanks Andy and Robin!
My favourite Christmas smell is beeswax candles on the tree.
Hooray Advent! Thanks, Andy & NST!
My favorite holiday smell is bayberry wax, rich and green.
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Thank you so much for such a generous giveaway.My favourite christmas smells are those of pastries being baked from the patisserie next door in the morning and the smell of tiger balm( my nose needs constant attention during the winter cold)
Thanks to Tauer and NST!
My favorite holiday is Christmas (of course!).
Valentine’s Day is my favorite holiday.
Pinon wood is my favorite smell.
My favorite holiday in the winter is Christmas. Smells of pine, orange, clove and the fire mean Christmas. And leading up to Xmas is Advent!
My favorite holiday smell is the smell of the kitchen as Thanksgiving dinner is almost ready–turkey along with the onions sauteed in butter until golden brown that my Dad uses for his stuffing
Thank you, Andy!
My favorite holiday smell is Christmas trees. That means pine, cedar, fir, any of it. And the ironic thing is that a few years ago I developed an allergy to Christmas trees! When the live tree is in the house more than 24 hrs or so, I get bad respiratory problems. But I can still enjoy them in other people’s homes (short duration) and outside.
Wow, Mr. Tauer is so generous, thank you!
My favorite holiday smell is at Halloween, love the outdoor fall smells mixing with candy and apple cider.
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Thanks for this opportunity Andy and NST, it really is incredibly generous.
Favourite Christmas smells: brandy flaming on my grandmother’s rich Christmas pudding, pine resin, champagne and prawns – yes i’m another one with a hot summer festive season.
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So, it’s the first day of Andy’s Advent calender again! Thanks for hosting, guys!
Well to me it’s still Xmas and New Year time. And it’s always feeled with oranges, amber, wood and spices. Last year it was a scent of Elixir des Merveilles. I am curious if it’s still remains the best one for this period to me.
I misread the instructions … my favorite holiday is Christmas – and my favorite holiday smell is Christmas cookies baking in the oven. Thanks for the draw! (delete my prior comment as it did not meet the rules).
My favourite holiday smell was definitely from New Years Eve when my parents, their friends and adult relatives would be wearing their best scents mingling in the living room with the scent of firewood, spirits, wiffs of cigarette smoke and baked deserts of some kind. Such glamour and endless possibilities for fun -until of course I was sent to bed at 12.01.
Does my anniversary count as a holiday? I got married last year, and I’m shocked by how great married life is (and that someone so nice loves me so much).
If my anniversary doesn’t count, than Xmas is my favorite holiday. Now that my siblings and I are grown, it’s the only time when we are all together.
I love Andy’s advent. SUCH A GREAT IDEA, ANDY! 🙂
Thank you for the contest, Andy and Robin! 🙂 And yes, you can use the email in my account.
My favorite holiday is Halloween, which happens during my favorite season and is full of the scent of freshly carved pumpkin, wet or burning leaves on the crisp autumn air and the sweet blend of candies at the end of the evening. But my earliest holiday fragrance memory would be my family’s Christmas tree when I was very young. The crisp yet warm smell of the pine tree, a hint of plastic and dust from the decorations, the smell of the paper wrapping and on Christmas morning, my mother’s elaborate Christmas bread filled with pecans, brown sugar, cinnamon and butter and topped with glaze and cherries… Thinking of these always makes me nostalgic.
My favorite holiday smell is definitely a blue spruce Christmas tree. Ginger cookies baking is a close second. I think the contest is lovely!
the smell of animal notes, the smell of a spicy rose.
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I’ll use the European definition of “holiday” to encompass vacations. Thus, my favourite holiday smell is that wonderful cacophony of scents at the seaside: the smell of Coppertone (for the sun) and Ungentine (for after the sun!) mixed with saltwater, hot sand, rotting seaweed, hot dogs and their condiments, and so much more. If I close my eyes, I can almost smell it now…
Let the Holidays begin!
I love the smell of carnations in any floral arrangement (any/all holidays) with their creamy peppery scent.
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Oh wow, this is great.
My favorite holiday smell hands down is the perfume of Christmas – a festive-wintery melange of clove-speckled oranges, butter cookies, cinnamon spice, incense and spruce. Sprinkled with fond childjhood memories, of course….
Oh, I’m so excited about Tauer’s Advent Calender! (I bookmarked it a couple of days ago.)
My favorite holiday smells: Homemade bourbon eggnog and the deeply missed smell of my mom- her skin plus Shalimar.
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For me, it is fresh smell of real Christmas tree..
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Probably my favourite holiday is a New Year and I love to wear these days Mandarine Tout Simplement by L’Artisan Parfumeur or ELDO Noel au Balcon.
White flowers at Easter and spices at Christmas!! 🙂
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My favorite holiday is opening day of the baseball season.
Well, I couldn’t wish a better Christmas, NST & TAUER, making the best holiday ever. I wish the best gift ever.
Christmas Eve, the smell of mince pies on the verge of burning but just rescued in time.
My favorite holiday smell would be pomanders! The sweet and earthy smell of clove-and-orange combination is just heavenly to my nose. 🙂
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Love the period between Christmas and New Years…great time to wind down and also gear up for another year. Wood smoke and pine is one of the best smells ever… wouldn’t be Christmas with it! And a little L’Air du Desert Marocain spritzed in for good measure never hurts!
Thank you Andy! Xmas is here!
My favourite holiday smell……I can’t narrow it down to just one! The smell of sun tan lotion on a hot beach, mixed with briney salt from the sea.
And Le Labo’s Patchouli, because it smelled incredible in the cold, dry atmosphere of a Montreal winter. The quality of the atmosphere really brought out the beauty of the scent and it’s never been the same anywhere else for me.
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Yay, my favourite advent calendar!
I love Christmas and the rich, spicy scents of cinnamon and cloves mixed with saffron and orange peel. Add some fir tree and a giant log fire to the mix and I’m in Christmas heaven.
I know it’s pretty expected, but I love the smell of fresh christmas trees in a warm house.There’s something about coming in out of the cold and being embraced by the warm, yet refreshing scent of real pine… Thanks to Andy for offering the giveaway, and thanks to you for hosting it today!
I think my favorite holiday smell is spiced cider during the holiday season!
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Advent weeks are baking-intensive times, with cinnamon, cloves and star anise clouds wafting through all rooms. I like wearing (the discontinued?) Diptyque Opôné for my baking sprees (and only then), but a couple of Andy Tauer scents could fit well too :-). BTW my favourite holidays are however summer breaks..
Although I love the smells of Christmas, my favorite smells are actually just around Halloween: the scent of burning fires in the autumn air as the leaves are falling and the air is turning crisp; the smells of just-pressed apple cider and fresh, clean hay, and the delicious chai tea I start drinking. It feels like such a special time of year, when you really feel on the cusp between seasons.
My Christmas Holidays make me always think of my grandmother’s house, where after coming back to Church, we used to have a dinner nearby the fireplace …..So the holiday smell is very linked to Incense and burning woods !!!!!!!!!!
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New Year’s eve, the smell of fire logs mingling with the smell of tangerine zest. One more month to go! 😀
Well, what a great tradition. Things cyhanges fast these days, it is good to know some things remain.
If the weather cooperates, we have a picnic on the beach on New Year’s Day. I love the smell of the sea combined with mimosas.
while the xmas holidays are somewhat stressful for many, the scent smorgasbord is beyond compare: resinous fir trees, baking spices, all carried on the cold clear air of winter. it will always evoke such incredibly strong images.
My favorite holiday smell… pine needle from a real Christmas tree. I know it’s going to be a nightmare to dispose of and I’ll be cleaning up the dropped needles for weeks but that fresh green pine tree tang gives me an instant lift.
My favorite holiday smell has to be a combination of hot (fire and baking) and cold (fir trees and snow): spices, tangerine, fir tree and smoke/incense.
The Tauer Advent! Can’t believe it’s been a year already. Time flies!
My favourite holiday smell would be the crisp smell of fresh fallen snow in the mountains, early in the morning. And then the smell of hot chocolate by the fireplace in the evening 🙂
I love the scent of fresh-brewed coffee mingled with anything baking in the oven–and I don’t even drink coffee!
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My favourite holiday smell has to be during summer, and more specifically, the smell of figs and bay trees on a hot day in southern Croatia, when the bay oils are released. So evocative!
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pine, I can’t help it.
Christmas smells are my favorite – fir, pine, and bayberry candles!
Same here, 2011 seems to have flown by!
I would so love to win a bottle of the Maghreb, but just entering the draw and all the excitement of it is fun!
Thanks for hosting this, and thanks Mr. Tauer for being so very generous again.
My favourite holiday is not Christmas. It might be the 30th of April, which is called the Queen’s day in Holland.
I love Christmas smells of pine and especially the incense and candles of an old church………
My favorite holiday smell: Cloves during Christmas.
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Yay! I’m so excited for this advent contest.
There are so many good smells around the winter holidays, it’s hard to choose a favorite! One smell that makes my holidays feel complete and personal, though, is cardamom.
My mother’s family is Danish and they have lots of recipes for pastries around Christmas, all of which use a dash of fresh-ground cardamom. Something about that smell transports me to whole day baking sessions with my mother and sisters, the laughs, the coffee, the good-natured arguments over whether the dough needs more flour.
Aww, Andy Tauer is such a sweetheart, and his advent calendar exemplifies the fun, generous spirit of the holiday season. Not that I’ve ever won, mind you, but hope springs eternal!
New Year’s Day (also my Birthday!)
Oh goodie! I’m so excited. I love the Advent Calendar contest even though I didn’t win anything last year. It was just fun to play every day and Andy is so generous.
My favorite holiday smell is pine which I don’t get enough of since we have an artificial tree.
I love Christmas and the smell of mulled cider: cinnamon, cloves, ginger, nutmeg, apple and orange.
Andy’s Avent Calendar is such a wonderful treat each year!!
My favorite holiday smell is of the gingerbread houses our family and extended family and friends make every year. Each year, the day after Thanksgiving or so, we each make and decorate a ginigerbread house and then place them on top of the piano. It is wonderful to walk past that room and get the smell of the sugar candy and the gingerbread..it’s magical.
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I always look forward to Andy’s advent calendar – thanks NST and Andy! You may use my e-mail address if I’m lucky.
I’m all about woodsmoke… through and through. And gingerbread! Happy Holidays, everyone! 🙂
What fun! You may use my email address should I be so fortunate! I love Christmas!
My favorite holiday smell is the smell of the Christmas tree every morning as I come down the stairs.
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I really like the Advent Calendar but I have never win anything… yet!
My favorite smell is from a punch that my wife makes for xmas, it is delicious and it smells amazing! It is served hot and has a lot of fruits and is really yummy, I can’t wait!!!!!
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And Happy Holidays to everybody!!!
Thank you to the lovely Andy Tauer for the opportunity to win one of his beautiful prizes. My favorite holiday smell is the same as most of the commenters– Christmas trees! Nothing like that gorgeous mountain, out door smell in the comfort and warmth of your own home. I look forward to it every year.
Great to see another advent calendar from Andy!
For me, no holidy smell even comes close to the smell of Christmas Eve – christmas trees, pine needles, pomegranates and perhaps a dash of frankincense.
Spices! And at this time of year, these tend to mix with other, boozier aromas… so much the better!
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Bring on the cheer ^_^
Yay! The most awesome givaway is back! Andy is so generous. And I love that Robin is hosting the first one!
Nothing like the aroma of walking in the door and catching a whiff of a fresh Christmas tree! It just makes me feel content, happy and nostalgic.
Pine, woodsmoke, spices.
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First of all, thank you for this great opportunity to take part in Andy’s Advent Calender, it is very smart and interesting game 🙂
My favourite holiday smell is a smell of Champagne wine!
My favorite holiday smell gingerbread cookies for Christmas – totally. You can use my email address.
My favorite holiday would be christmas because of the smells and colors. I feel renewed by the creativity.
I have never been lucky in this generous Tauer draw, so I cross my fingers. Maybe this time my luck changes!
My favorite holiday smell is my grandma’s Christmas turkey sauce! Delicious!
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This is my first time entering in the advent draw. Going back to my honeymoon in Greece (Kreta to be exact) 29 years ago, I can still remember the smell in the first hotel. Unforgettable. A mix of Greece, excitement, olive oil etc.
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Ohh, again Andy’s project, I love it! For me it’s pine needles’ smell that I love. Sure can you use my e-addy! Thanks!!!!
Llllove Advent Calendars, thanks Andy&Robin!
My favourite holiday is Christmas and favourite holiday smell would be clementines and pine nuts/cones. xx
Fraser Fir – especially when decorated with Xmas baubles! I’m still looking for the perfect perfume that reflects this sweet/piney smell. Room sprays have been closest so far…
Oh, and you may email away! Thanks!
Andy’s Advent is always amazing!
Interesting question about holiday smells. If you just asked about a favorite holiday, that would probably be Easter, but it isn’t associated in my head with any smells. Perhaps a favorite holiday smell is the fizzy smell of a glass of good champagne.
In the past, I took a week off in November. In the afternoon I took my dog for a walk. After, I normally bought roasted chestnuts. At home I peeled and buttered them and added a touch of nutmeg…
I still connect the smell of this with November, or vice versa 🙂
My favorite holiday smell(s): bayberry candles, pine boughs, sugar cookies, wood fire, mulled wine–all together! Many thanks for hosting this drawing. You have my permission to use my email in my reader account.
I like this advent time so much! But even better I like the smell of oranges and cinnamon bun during the Christmas!
Take care!
Is Andy Tauer Santa? 😉
My favorite Holiday smells are fresh dill for matzo ball soup and pine and fir trees. After the holidays when everyone tosses their trees out on the street, the air is filled with the scent, and it’s delicious!
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Oh forgot to mention my favorite holiday-smell!
It must be the smell of a real christmastree in my home….nothing can beat that!
I love Christmas. I love this period of the year. Snow, hot wine everything that I love the most is happening this time of the year.
Favorite holiday smell, like Karin, is balsam.
Thanks for this Advent offering!
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My favourite Christmas scent is the smell of fresh cut christmas tree.In the winter and early spring I love the smell in the air of vilage in the mountai, the smoke,the smell of the forest.Sure you can use my email.
Favorite holiday smells: ham baking in the oven, opening a tin of homemade Xmas cookies, and the crisp scent of snow filled air!
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My favorite holiday smell is the marvelous oily scent of potato latkes frying in the kitchen! It puts a big grin on my face.
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So, I know this isn’t quite the answer being looked for, but when I smell Philosykos I feel my whole body relax. I used it when I was away for just a few days once – but it was a good few days so the association has lasted. Then another is the smell of the garden, late evening Friday. I was at a Jewish day school and I imagined the air felt different at this hour!
And last would be the smell of brandied puddings and cake which spell merriment to me when Christmas is approaching.
Favorite holiday smell has to be our tree!
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Thank you so much for the draw!
I’m sure this one has been repeated several times, but the smell of Christmas trees is magic!
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Oops, please delete my previous post. I forgot to tell you that you have my permission to use my email address if I win.
Andy Tauer’s yearly Advent calendar has to be the nicest modern holiday tradition ever! By far, my favorite holiday fragrance is evergreen trees. I inhale rapturously as I walk past the stands of Christmas trees for sale.
So much fun! My favorite holiday smell is pumpkin. I know fall has arrived when pumpkin makes its way into the retail store offerings. I also love the smell of a crisp fall morning; there’s nothing quite like it!
My favourite holiday fragrance? Wood smoke on a cold, snowy day. That and roasting turkey. 🙂
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Yay! Another year, another Tauer advent! 😀
My favourite holiday smells are Chritmas/pine tree (of course!), clementines and the crystalline winter air.
Would love to be entered in the draw! My favorite holiday smells are buttery freshly baked cookies and spices. 🙂
My family used to make wassail or mulled wine at Christmas—I love that smell of the wine with clove-studded oranges and spices slowly heating and permeating the whole house.
Thank you for doing the Advent giveaway again this year!
A friend of mine once made an essential oil blend called “Yule.” It was evergreen, orange, and cinnamon. Beautiful.
My favourite holiday smell is that special christmas eve smell with the christmas dinner cooking, the fir tree in the living room, and all those childhood memories connected to it, of the expectations for presents and joy.
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Thanks , I love Andy’s advent calendar and Christmas time, but think of the holidays reminds me the smells of ancient forests in spring.
Sorry, didn’t see the word “smell” 🙂
My favorite holiday smell is a smell of Christmas tree, of course!
The scents of old roses, honeysucle and elder from my grandma’s garden and from drying hay and the sea nearby on summer holidays in my childhood 🙂
Thank you for doing this Advent giveaway! Exciting 🙂
My favorite holiday is “Sinterklaas”. It is the Dutch celebration of Saint Nickolas on the fifth of december. We come together and give eachother presents with very strange packaging. The packaging refers to the present itself or to some information about the receiver. As we speak (as I type this) my foster son is making a 1.80 m long Heineken beer bottle from cardboard. I make a rescue boat for my niece. All presents come with a home made poem. The celebration of Sinterklaas is not complete without “pepernoten” and “speculaas” both baked with many spices mainly cinemon. Cinemon is the smell that belongs to this time of year.
Holy smokes! Thank you, Andy and NST.
My favorite holiday smell is nutmeg, hands down.
Oh, what a great giveaway! My favorite holiday smell is the scent of freshly cut fir at the street Christmas tree sellers.
My favorite holiday smell is roasted chestnuts! 🙂
Thanks to Tauer and thanks to NST for this generous giveaway!
Cold air,warm kitchen,cinnamon over all.
This event would be perfect for the month because christmas is also my favorite holiday.
Thank you Robin & Andy for hosting such a great event.
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The smell of marzipan at easter or christmas
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Yay, ive been waiting for this to begin. I love the smell of fresh baked cookies on any holiday. Of course, i love the taste too.
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My favorite holiday is Thanksgiving; it’s a holiday cultivates value beyond the materialistic and doesn’t feel as it was a holiday fabricated by large corporations to boost sales. Thanksgiving is a time of family, great feast, cozy sweaters (jumpers), rich perfumes (for us FragHeads), and laughter. What more could a anyone need to be thankful?
Thank you Robin for hosting the Advent today and thank you Andy for the opportunity to win a new olfactory treasure.
My favorite holiday smell, growing up in a big city, was whiffs of christmas trees on my morning commute, coming from the vendors selling them on the street corners!
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I love celebration. I love all holidays. Each holiday gives a season’s cause for celebration while leaving a record as a gift in the heart’s memory. Also, I love the combination of the impromptu and extraordinary that comes with creating mini-holidays anytime of the year. I am celebrating Christmas 2011 with the warm woods, ambers and sandalwood of Chanel’s Bois des Iles.
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The smell of roasting chestnuts on a NY street. Wood burning in the fireplace. And, the smell of the chocolate, cinammon & orange, cooking in my nan’s Cuccia di Grano.
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My favorite holiday is Christmas 🙂 And smell of old leather case that I take every year at 31/12 to look my collections of Christmas cards.
Please omit my previous entry. I mistakenly thought you asked for my favorite holiday; it was later that I realized that you were askind for my favorite holiday smell. Also, you still have permission to use my email.
My favorite holiday smell is from Thanksgiving and Christmas: it’s the warm aroma of baking pies and holiday spiced coffee: pecan, pumpkin, apple, topped with velvety whipped cream, and coffee with orange peel, clove, cinnamon, sweetened with honey and topped with nutmeg. Yes, this is a fantastic smell.
Again, thank you Robin for hosting the Advent today and thank you Andy for the opportunity to win a new olfactory treasure.
Like so many others, one of my favorite holiday smells is of a freshly cut balsam fir at Christmas. But also my mother’s almond spritz Christmas cookies. I am the oldest of six and was lucky enough to have a wonderful childhood. Both of those smells take me back there in a heartbeat.
Happy holidays to all, and a big thank you Robin and Andy.
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Yay! My favorite holiday smell is pine trees! Thanks to Andy and NST for the draw.
The spices of Diwali are a favorite–in other words, l’eau d’epices 🙂
My favorite holiday scent, which might not be that traditional, is the smell of wood after it’s been cut with a chainsaw, which for some reason usually takes place around Thanksgiving…thus, I associate this holiday with this smell, and love it.
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Thanks so much for this exciting Christmas draw. My favorite smells for this time of year are ginger, cinnamon, anis, clove, citrus zest, plus some flowery, woodsy, smokey additions.
Christmas in NYC growing up and going to see The Tree…..It always smelled like biting cold, exhaust, roasted chestnuts, street vendor pretzels, and evergreen, plus the orange spiced tea in our thermos because mom wouldn’t spend any money when she could just as well bring something from home……
My favorite holiday smell is the sweet spicy aroma of mulled cider.
I love all the smells of Christmastime…pine trees & wreaths, bayberry candles, cold air, first snow, cookies & pizzelles & pies baking, Yum. Thanks for the Draw….Merry Christmas!
My favorite holiday is Thanksgiving, so my favorite holiday smells are smells that surround that day: roasting veggies and turkey, baked apple pie, cookies, bourbon, and vanilla candles 🙂
What a great idea!!!
Most of all Christmas-Smells, i love the smell from a wood of firs and the smell from oranges!
I love the smell of hot spiced cider. Mmm!
Thank you so much for the draw!
My favorite holiday – it’s the New Year.
I just love to decorate Christmas tree and prepare gifts to put under it.
This is a holiday when the whole family can gather at the table and enjoy everything that has happened over a year.
For me, New Year smell of tangerines, biscuits, chocolate, pine needles and happiness.
And it smells of fresh snow, burning sparklers in the frosty air.
I am writing about it and already want to holiday came quickly.
What a lovely giveaway! My favorite holiday smell is the waxy Chanukah candles.
You can use my email – would LOVE to win a full size l’Air Du Desert Marocain…
My favorite smell at Christmas time is a fresh real Christmas tree.
At Thanksgiving our house fills with the scent of pumpkin pie. Ours is infused with smoked chilis. ahhh.
Such a great idea this Advent Calendar, it gives me some childish joy and makes me think about miracles and surprises.
I participated last year but had no luck, let see if this year the chance will smile at me ))
My favourite holiday smell is the smell of oranges, Russian chocolates (I’d even say: Soviet Union chocolates) and new plastic bag, containing the oranges and chocolates. That’s how the New Year gifts were when I was a little girl.
We have a beautiful holiday feast here, called Sinterklaas. Sinterklaas arrives in Holland the 15th of November and he leaves the 6th of December. He and his helpers, the black Petes, throw presents for children through the chimneys. Yeah, like Santa Claus. But Sinterklaas was here first. And I love to be in the draw 🙂
Sorry, my favorite Holiday SMELL would have to be……the smell of Egg Nog. I hate that it’s only available around this time a year but I guess that’s what keeps it special. You have permission to use my e-mail : )
My favorite holiday is Guy Fawkes night, our village gets together for a bonfire and because it has (invariably) been raining, the wood is slightly damp, and smolders for a while until it lights. Thanks for this draw, and wonderful blog!
I love the smell of pine in the air and in perfume. You have permission to use my email. Love the Advent Calendar!
Summer holidays in Greece and the smell of the herbs and pines in the hills – my very favourite holiday smell. Thanks for the draw and you can use my email address.
Thank you Andy Tauer and NST! Perfect start for this month of magical inputs 😉
Favourite smells of this holiday are pine needles and all things coniferous, also the smells from baking the cookies relevant to the season and the smell of woodfire and strong spicy tea 🙂
Good luck to everyone and enjoy the season!
My favorite holiday is Christmas with homemade eggnog at a million calories per serving and worth every one. My favorite holiday smells are from Thanksgiving, celery and onions sauteeing for the struffing, the turkey roasting, the pumpkin bread pudding baking.
Spring flowers for spring holidays such as Easter. Of course you may use my e-mail address. As a matter of fact I hope you will. Aster
My favorite holiday is Halloween. There’s so little pressure inherent in this holiday, just fun for kids of all ages. And who doesn’t like getting free things? You have my permission to use the e-mail address in my profile.
Any holiday where one goes to church: favourite smell: incense. You may, of course, use my email address. Magnus
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My favorite holiday smell is always fresh pine. Since I was a child my mother always brought in loads of pine branches (various types) to decorate the house along with the Christmas tree, and there’s just no smell like it. I think it’s impossible to bottle.
Thank you for this lovely Advent tradition!
Favorite holiday smell is the hot smell of burning and snuffed candles this time of year.
My favorite and most emblematic smell for Christmas remains the resinous dryness of pine needles.
Hello!
First of all, thank you for this great opportunity to take part in Andy’s Advent Calender, it is very smart and interesting game 🙂
My favourite holiday smell is a smell of Champagne wine!
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My favorite time of year! Pine represents Christmas to me. Thank you Andy, for the chance to win one of your beautiful creations. Yes, you may use my e-mail address.
What a fab giveaway! I love the smells at Christmas, especially the tree. We always have a hard time taking it down after because it makes the apartment so homey.
Hi Andy and Robin. Please enter me, my favorite holiday smell is a wood fire!
Hello from Hungary!:)
My favorite holiday smells are candle and ginger with cinnamon!
My favorite holiday smells are the smell of the christmas tree and of the mulled wine we drink at christmas! Thank you Andy for this lovely draw!
It’s not exactly a holiday’s smell but I feel happy every time when I smell baked apples with cinnamon 🙂
Thanks to Andy for continuing to be so generous and accessible!
Mine is very Sicilian family-specific: the roasted hazelnuts and whipped butter and honey of torrone (an Italian nougat) and sfincione baking in the oven.
Awesome giveaway! Thank you!
My favorite Holiday aroma is the smell of Grandma Nell’s house on Christmas Eve – pine tree, slow-roasted turkey, and home made chocolates fill the house……it’s glorious.
Fave holiday smell: Christmas cookies baking at Christmas!
My favorite holiday smell without any doubt is the mixture exhaled from fresh showered bodies and generously applied suntan -lotion in the morning right after breakfast before leaving for the beach on a bright, sun -drenched day with
a sky saturated in heavy azur and turquois blue shades.
What a nice thing to do for the holidays, thank you Andy!
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While Christmas is by far from my favorite holiday, the scent of cinammon in the air is always a great big plus. Cinammon in my hot chocolate is a wonderful thing, too 🙂
So Generous of you guys and Tauer, for doing this…
… Not only my favourite Holiday is Christmas, but if a win this, would make it even better!
Happy Holidays everyone!
Cheers!
My favorite holiday smell is associated with Easter – baked ham with brown sugar! Yum!
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My favorite holiday smell is: Vanilla! I love vanilla in almost all variations, it doesn’t matter if smoky, sweet, dark or light. And I L-O-V-E vanillekipferl 🙂
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Favorite holiday is Christmas, but my favorite holiday scent is Easter lilies.
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You have my permission to use my email address should I win. My favorite holiday is the Fourth of July. No pressure, warm weather and doesn’t involve a lot of money-spending or work. It’s just a fun-spirited holiday. I love Andy Tauer’s perfumes and especially
Miriam which may take over first place from
Un Rose Chypre.
YAY! Christmas is my favorite holiday. The smell of Pernil (roasted pork shoulder,yum!) is strongly associated with Latino Christmas.
Thanks for the awesome draw.
My fav. smell is of the fresh christmas trees and turkey roasting in the oven.
My husband bakes cinnamon rolls from scratch just once a year, on Christmas morning. The best smell!
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I love the smell of a fresh pine wreath or Christmas tree at Christmas time. Thank you for the draw!
Woohoo! Andy’s Advent time, let the holidays begin! My favorite holiday scent is Christmas tree, hands down. It’s why I’ll never, ever be tempted to go artificial. We always get a White pine, because I love its long, lush, soft needles, and its gorgeous smell.
Our holiday is: sail with the boat fram a to b.
Favorite holiday Xmas with the fav smell of lemon cookies.
Many thanks for this Giveaway!
Thanks for this chance. My favorite Christmas smells are my father’s famous bread pudding – rich with vanilla and nutmeg, and fresh tangerines. I know they seem available year round now, but when I was a child, they were a special holiday treat.
Christmas, of course, is my favourite holiday! And my favourite holiday smell is Christmas cake, whilst it is baking. I haven’t yet found a perfume to match the spice aromas that waft through my flat an hour into cooking!
My favorite holiday smell is the smell of live pine trees layered over freshly baked cookies – at Christmas, of course! 🙂
favorite holiday smell: chestnuts roasting on a open fire.
good luck to everyone and happy holidays!
This is a lovely ritual, thank you. My favorite smell this time of year is, yes, pine boughs indoors layered with baking spices.
Favorite holiday smell: Bay candles!!!
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Thanks!
No question….the smell of evergreen!
Favorite holiday smells: fir needles, clove, brandy
I love the smells of baking and cooking that occur at both Thanksgiving and Christmas – both the savory and the sweet!
My favourite Christmas holiday smell is fir trees! It always takes me back to my childhood christmases and the unbearable excitement of what is to come…
My family lived many places and we hardly observed any holidays that i can remember, so, as an adult, Christmas has to be my favorite – for the meaning (peace, love and forgiveness), for the lights, the food and the atmosphere, at it’s best, of magic and hope.
And! for Andy’s Advent calendar! Please enter me! Thank you. Rachel H
Thanks Andy, and NST, my favorite holiday is Halloween!
St. Patrick’s Day is probably my favorite holiday, but Christmas is a close second. Favorite smell has to be gingerbread. I’m so excited that the advent calendar’s back! One of these days I have to make a real advent calendar with little perfume samples behind the doors (if only I weren’t so lazy!).
My favorite holiday smell around Christmas time is the smell of yummy chai tea! Thank you Robin and Andy!
feel free to use my email ….Love Christmas timeespecially when i have gone to visit my family in Germany, the Christmas Markets have this unique smell of Gluehwein, Gingerbread/Lebkuchen and roasted chestnuts. And i love the smell of a fresh cut christmas tree. Thank you for the awesome draw.
I don’t have a favorite holiday so much ,more of a season.
Which is of course summertime.
I love all the green,damp, mossy smells of the forest of the Pacific Northwest. Thanks for the draw, I adore Andy’s URC- my HG.<3
Love Advent calendars! Thank you!
My favorite holiday scent is from Christmas: pony breath, fur throw, and well-tended leather on a sleigh ride through a pine forest.
My favourite holiday smell is the smell of the beach. That salty, wide open ocean smell is unbeatable. Sadly, I don’t get to smell it much these days.
Thanks for the draw!
Thanksgiving. Turkey and herbs. Pies and sweet spices.
Thanks for the generous giveaway.
My favourite holiday smell is of baking at Christmas, especially mince pies! You may use my email address.
No doubt about it – Christmas and the smell of our Christmas tree!
Would love to win a bottle although the choice would be difficult to make.
Thanks Andy and NST for the contest again!
Thanks to you and Andy for doing this awesome thing. My favorite holiday smell is the scent of jonquils I’ve associated with Easter since I was a child–even if Easter sometimes comes rather later than the jonquils bloom!
Christmas trees of course! And this drawing DOES make me feel festive.
At the holidays–well, during the winter, really–I tend to favor Gucci Envy for Men. Thanks
Hi – my favorite holiday scent is for the 4th of July (works also for my adopted country on 1st of July, which is of course Canada Day) – the scent of used fireworks, and burnt forest leaf litter.
My favorite holiday smell is something about Epiphany: after celebrations, I like to prepare some ethnic dishes for friends, remembering the Magi, so burning incense and cooking spices are added to the scent of snow, the balsam fir, the german pfefferkuchen, the lapsang souchong tea, in a really festive fusion scent. Oh, could you enclose in a fragrance all this notes?
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I love the smell of fresh cut Xmas trees carried upon a breeze of fresh cold night air (snowy 🙂 clashing with the smell of fresh baked cookies <3
Thank you for this lovely advent give away 😀
My favorite Christmas smell is the plain and simple, but delicious scent of pumpkin pies baking. I can’t get enough, and am inspired to go bake some pumpkin bread right now, to get myself in the holiday spirit! You most certainly can contact me via email. Thanks so much for this festive draw!
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I love New Year as I grew up in the USSR and Xmas wasnt celebrated then at all and my favorite Xmas smell is mandarines
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Auch wenn meine Eltern starke Raucher sind und die Wohnung entsprechend riecht, so ist es doch der Geruch von Nachhausekommen … (c:=
I love all holidays but Christmas is the most special for me . I have smelled Serge Lutens Fille en Aiguilles and this to me is a a perfect chrismas scent because of the pine note, but I love Incense Rose at this time of year.
Thanks for hosting! My favorite holiday smell is the indescribable scent that always arose from the enormous packages we received at Christmastime from our relatives in Korea. The packages arrived cocooned in layers of craft paper and bound with a sort of nylon raffia. Unwrapping released a characteristic odor at once familiar and foreign, a melange of roasted seaweed, chestnut jelly, and fragrant woods. Now I’m all nostalgic, sigh.
Thank you, Mr. Tauer, and Robin for having this drawing. My favorite holiday is Thanksgiving. I’m so blessed, and it is great to take a group moment to commemorate our thanks. The food and fellowship is fun, too 😀
I love so many Tauer fragrances, and would love the chance to add a new one to my collection. Best wishes for joy in this Advent season. Be well.
My favourite holiday is Halloween. Creamy, sweet candy and pumpkin, plus delicious smoky leaves and dying greenery. Yum. Happy holidays to everyone!
What a lovely contest. My favorite holiday smell is Halloween: we used to use pillowcases as trick-or-treat bags. You could stick your face in the bag and get the combined smell of chocolate and fresh laundry. That was heaven!
My favorite Holiday smell is fresh baked gingerbread and the smell of snow. We rarely get snow here so it is a great treat. I look forward to Andy’s Advent calendar all year. Thanks for hosting.
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Favorite holiday smell(s) … pine wafting off the Christmas tree and whatever scent that’s wrapped up underneath it! (Iris Pallida? I’m looking at you, Santa.)
My favorite holiday is Christmas, the combined smells of holiday baking, the tree, crisp winter air and candles are heaven to me!
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NST and Mr. Tauer, thank you so much for the draw!
My favorite holiday is Christmas!
….My favorite smell comes on new years….. Nothing beats the smell of fireworks on a cold winter night!
My favorite holiday is Thanksgiving. I love all the smells of the food cooking. The celery and onions in the turkey. The fennel and sage in the stuffing. The pumpkin, nutmeg, clove smell of the pumpkin pie and of course the apple, cinnamon smell of apple pie! I also the love the togetherness of family and friends, and taking time out to celebrate what is really important in life!
My favorite holiday is New Year and a scent associated with it is a smell of mandarines (for the same reason as katya I mentioned above).
Every year around Christmas a very old and beautiful hotel in Seattle has a Christmas tree display. You smell roasting chestnuts outside the hotel and then walk in to smell Christmas trees combined with the scent of their restaurant and french bakery. Can’t get any better. Please enter me in the drawing.
My favorite Christmas smell is pine – but not heavy-duty. Light pine, with a flowery overtone, as if I were in a florist during the holiday season. My favorite overall holiday scent, though, is the smells of the 4th of July – less pressure on that holiday!
Thanks to you and Andy for the generous draw!
xo
Mi favourite hoiday smell: andalusien nights…..jasmin, dama de noche, etc……with the warm wind.
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Fav smell is at Christmas time, being in the city and smelling the chestnuts roasting on dotted street corners, passing by the occasional store front selling Christmas trees and inhaling the fresh smell of them and the exhaust of the buses going by….such as the likes of that 🙂
(I’m very excited about this Advent draw! Didn’t get it last year so maybe this one, eh?)
My favourite holiday smell is the classic Christmas clove orange.
My favorite holiday smell is pushing cloves into oranges.
My favorite holiday smell? Curry in rice and raisins at sunset during Ramadan 🙂
My favourite holiday smell is also baking mince meat pie. Yes, feel free to use my e-mail, should I be so lucky…
Favorite holiday smell: woodsmoke from the yule log mixed with the balsam fir of the tree.
My favorite Christmas smell is the smell of homemade Cheesecake!
-Thank you Robin and Andy!
My favorite holiday smell is tangerine. Sweet, juicy and fragrant tangerine! In Italy, the first tangerine you smell remind. In Italy the first time you smell tangerine scent, you see Xmas it’s coming!!!!!
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Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday because the whole family is together – the smell of sweet potatoes, cinnamon and the desserts warms me inside 🙂
Pumpkin pie is my favorite smell of Christmas.
It’s the month of Christmas, so, my favourite holiday smell is homemade tsourekia (very close to the Italian panettone, but with more spices and a tad sweeter)! The whole house smells of love!
4th of July: Sulfur of spent sparklers mixed with clean sweat, and smoke from the charcoal grill….
Thanks for entering me in the drawing.
My favorite holiday is Thanksgiving but my favorite holiday smell is that of a Christmas tree. Thank you, Andy and Robin!
Andy, your holiday generosity is so appreciated.
My favorite holiday smell…. Not very original here – I love to walk into the house from the cold and smell the Christmas tree. Also love the cooking spices – ginger, cinnamin, etc.
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All Holidays are pretty awesome . . . if it creates a “play day.” 🙂
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My favorite holiday smell is the scent of burning firewood mixed with the smell of rain on the sidewalks.
How exciting is this !?
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My favorite holiday is Thanksgiving, as every year I find we all have a lot to be thankful for. My favorite aroma from this holiday is the spices I use in my cooking for both savory and sweet dishes.
Thanks so much for the offer !
Kate
The best smell ever is the smell of pine trees when on skiing holiday in Austria….
What a wonderful giveaway! I am having a tough time with my favorite holiday smells. I love the thanksgiving/halloween smells of pumpkin, gingerbread and cloves but I also love the christmas holiday tree smell- fir & pine are just heaven to me! If I had to pick one I guess I’d say thanksgiving. Please free feel to contact me via email should I win (I’ll keep my fingers crossed 🙂
Thanksgiving. Even though I overcooked my turkey this year.
I was just checking out my amazon wish list earlier today and was reminded that I have a bottle of Morocain on there (the only perfume on the list), so I would obviously love to win!
My favourite Christmas smells are of cold, crisp nights; fir trees inside the house; apple strudel and roast goose.
I miss living in Geneva and knowing that a package from Andy is only a day away.
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My favorite holiday is Thanksgiving and my favorite scent is the stuffing baking in the oven.
Thank you Andy for your generosity, and thanks to Robin for hosting! You have my permission to use my email.
I love all the different holiday smells, but the summer holiday smells of the beach and ocean always transport me right back to childhood and fill me with an indescribable joy.
Happy holidays to all!
My favourite holiday smell is the scent of hot port at Christmas. x
Halloween is my favorites holiday..which for me the scent is more about the season than the day. Leaves! Love the Fall. Thank you Andy and Robin for making advent exciting;) I can remember as a child in school I was very excited about lighting the advent candles though! What a great way to celebrate the season.
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Fir trees… 🙂 I’m, like Katya I above, grew up in USSR, and New Year was and still is my favorite holiday.
Thanks for the offer!
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Wow, what a great giveaway — many thanks to NST and Tauer. My favorite holiday is Thanksgiving, though my favorite holiday smell emanates from an oven full of the saffron-flavored St. Lucia buns that my mom bakes around Christmas.
Yay for Advent Calendars, we are so excited to open the first door tonight!
My favorite holiday is Independence Day, when the weather is perfect and everyone is happy and outside. Fourth of July smells like watermelon, ripe tomatoes, sunscreen and rum drinks on the beach. Of course it smells like grilled hotdogs and beer too but I would never bottle that fragrance.
Thanks for hosting this and thanks to Andy for his generous holiday spirit!
My favorite holiday smell is a wood fire. Growing up, we always had a fire on Christmas and (way before recycling) burnt all the wrapping paper. The dyes on the paper made the flames multicolored — big excitement for the children! Later in the day, we would roast marshmallows and eat ourselves silly on them.
Favourite holiday is the smell of the wood-burning fire when I go to my parent’s for Christmas. Feel free to use my email. Thank you!
my favourite time of the year 🙂 the Tauer Advent 🙂
thank you so much Andy for making the holidays so special 🙂
Favorite holiday scent – the smell of roast from a busy kitchen!
Thanks Andy and Robin for the giveaway.
My favorite holiday smell is pine and incense. Thank you so much for offering this generous drawing!
I like Christmas, but not particularly found of winter and it’s scents. So, my favorite holiday is Easter, and it’s smells: narcisses and tulips, fleur d’orange, chocolate and fresh spring air.
Christmas is my favorite holiday – though Thanksgiving is a close second. As for favorite Christmas smell… gingerbread!
Thanks for the advent calendar again!
My favorite holiday scent has always been the scent of Mulberry candles. You have permission to use my contact information.
My favorite holiday smell is the sea breeze of Copacabana beach in New Year’s day.
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Last night I came home from a two-week stint traveling around the country visiting family. The first impression I had upon stepping foot into my home? The heavenly scent of pine emanating from the table where my Diptyque candle stood (not burning, I might add). That, to me, is Christmas.
My favorite holiday is Thanksgiving and my favorite smell is my mom’s pumpkin pie. Thank you Andy and thank you NST.
My favorite holiday scent is freshly cut fir trees!
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Midnight Mass: incense, wax, and snow.
Oh, how nice! Tauer’s Advent calendar on NST — the best of both worlds!
My favorite Birthday smell is narcissus.
And my favorite Christmas smell is complicated — fur trees, mandarin oranges, cooking smells (roast and sweet baking) plus some spices! Love Christmas! Yay for December!
My favourite Christmas smell is that of the scotch I pour myself when all the day’s cooking is done, and I get to rest and enjoy my full belly and happy friends and family.
What a great tradition, I hope the Tauer Advent Calendar keeps on going! Thanks to Andy and Robin!
My favorite holiday smell for New Year is definitely satsumas – they bring back memories of childhood, and the excitement of the New Year – the fragrant oil released by the peel and them the juicy center smell just like childhood! Along with that the smell of fir tree balsam is definitely a close second!
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My favorite smell of the holidays was always associated with the celebration of New Year’s Eve. In my childhood December was the time when oranges were sold and used as part of the present packs for the kids. I remember digging in those presents packs on the streets where we played with other children in the snow and unforgettable combination of the smells of orange peel and frosty air. It was magical.
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My favourite smell is the combination of pine wreaths, candles, wood pews, wool, perfumes and incense that are part of Christmas Mass.
What a great contest! Here’s my entry: My favorite smell is gingerbread cookies (the crispy-on-the-outside-chewy-on-the-inside kind) baking in the oven!
my favorite holiday is christmas my favorite smell is fresh baked bread thanks please use my e-mail address
The scent of cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger & sugar that I put in my Thanksgiving apple pie 🙂
Anise cookies, and pine trees everywhere. Thanks to all for the opportunity!
valentine’s day, because i love my sweetheart 🙂
My favorite sensation/smell this time of year is sipping a peppermint mocha while walking in the cold crisp air….
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I love the smell of pinon burning when a cold, windy night.
I like the way the air smells after snowfall. I may be imagining things, or the cold may be numbing my nostrils, but it doesn’t smell like regular air :p.
Oh how I love the smell of gingerbread cooking this time of year (and pumpkin pie which I don’t like to eat oddly). You have my permission to contact me via email if I win:) Thanks so much for hosting.
My mom and I always make coffee cake Christmas morning – so the smell of that cake in the oven is my favorite holiday scent. Mmm coffee cake.
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My favorite holiday smell is the smell of a fresh Christmas tree.
Thank you so much for this chance.
My favorite holiday scents are church incense or the scent of a pine Christmas tree
Growing up in India, there were no special smells associated with Christmas and so my favourite festive smell is gunpowder – drying out firecrackers on the terrace before Diwali and the smell of the smoke!
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My favorite holiday smell is of my parents carpet in their house. We would sit on the carpet and open our gifts Christmas morning. We could also smell bacon and pancakes coming in from the kitchen, since we ate a big breakfast after opening gifts. They have since taken out the carpet for tile, but I will always have fond scent memories of it.
To me, the smell of a fresh Christmas tree is the most wonderful holiday smell.
I love the cloying, spicy smell of a booze-soaked fruitcake.
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Hi everyone, I have two favorite smells during Christmas time: one is fresh orange peel and the other one comes from a baked cake with poppy seed filling my grandmother makes.
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OOOOHHHHH! The Holidays are Here!! thanks Andy and Robin for starting December off right. Hard to pick just one holiday smell–I like the pine and fire smells of Christmas, but Mother’s Day and lily of the valley take top honors with me because those little lilies make me think about my wonderful Mom. I miss her everyday….
Oh how I’ve been waiting for this calender 😉 Thank you Andy, very generous as usual.
My favourite Xmas smell is mulled wine.
Around the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays I’m incredibly drawn to smokey smells. The smell of candles or even better a wood fire are quintessential holiday scents for me.
I love the idea of an advent giveaway! Thanks for offering the contest.
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The scent of my mother baking at Christmas when I was little – warm, yeasty bread smells with small hits of cinnamon and nutmeg. The orange peel under my fingernails. Green, piney smells from the tree and smoke from the wood stove. Wonderful.
My favorite holiday smell is when we are all crammed into a living room on Mother’s day, Moms wearing new fragrances and smelling like a lady-perfume mix mess 😀
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Favorite holiday smell: the cacophony of food at a Thanksgiving table.
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And thanks as always, Andy, for your generosity (and extraordinary perfumes!)
Thank you so much for the advent calendar.
My fav Xmas smells are orange, clove and pine tree.
In Canada we celebrate Victoria Day on May 24th (although in practice it is usually “the first Monday before May 25th” so as to give everyone a three-day weekend). Coincidentally, this is when the lilacs bloom (although it’s sometimes as late as the first week of June): lilacs grow in enormous profusion in this part of the world, and so when Victoria Day arrives, the glorious smell of lilacs arrives with it, or is not far behind.
The scent of the Christmas tree – that’s the best.
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Oooo so fun! My favorite Christmas smell is the Neiman Marcus Smell Of Christmas potpourri my mother used to buy every year. It really is THE smell of Christmas for me!
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Thank you, for this lovely opportunity.
I love all the scents associated with Christmas and the smell of wood smoke in the air.
Now I know Christmas is really coming..will I be lucky this year?
My favorite holiday smell is the smell of “Spekulatius” or Speculoos. It’s a traditional christmas cooky and its smell reminds me of Christmas time when my family that is to say my brother (living in London), my father (living in Luxembourg), my mother (living in Berlin) and me (living in Cologne) gather in our house in Berlin to celebrate Christmas together. Cheers Andy and cheers Robin for this fabulous calendar 🙂
The scent of balsam fir xmas trees! You have permission to use my email, and thanks to Andy and Robin for this giveaway!
Favourite holiday (Christmas) smell is… eggnog! And whatever’s roasting in the oven.
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My favorite holiday smell is pumpkin bread baking! Yum! Thank you so much for the opportunity for the draw!
My favorite holiday scent is probably a tie between fresh-carved pumpkin, roasting turkey, and a newly-cut Christmas tree. 🙂
Thank you for this draw! I’ve only tried one Tauer perfume so far, and I’m really keen to experience some more!
My favourite holiday smell is a mix of beeswax, apple pies and cloves, combined with a smoky firewood smell. 🙂 Wish somebody (Cire Trudon?) brought out a candle that smells like this.
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My favourite scent is the smell of bread baking in the oven. Hearty and warm.
My favourite holiday smells all occur in the winter — something about the cool air amplifies and isolates them. Guy Fawkes Night is the perfect combination of sweet woodsmoke, fizzy firework-smoke and smoke from slightly burnt sausages and caramel apples, usually set against the dampness of early autumn grass.
I wish someone would bottle that, and would trust Andy Tauer to capture it.
I love advent calendars! My favorite holiday smell is baked goodies in the oven–pies, cookies, pumpkin bread . . . yum!
My favorite holiday scent has got to be those lovely skanky hyacinths clouding up the house around Eastertime 🙂
My favorite holiday smell this time of year is frying latkes. You have my permission to use my email address in my reader account. Thanks for the opportunity to enter!
My first Advent with Andy — how exciting! My favorite holiday is 4th of July — lots of good food, no presents to buy, and blessedly warm outside! I love the smell of bug spray, damp grass, dirt, and the smoke from spent fireworks. Feel free to use my e-mail address.
The scent of the Christmas pine tree in the house, and the spicy pies baking in the oven; smell of Oriental soups and Mexican bunelos, hot chocolate, aromatic spices cinnamon tea.
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Yay!
My favorite holiday smell? Maybe woodsmoke combined with roasted turkey?
I think my favorite holiday smell is peppermint!
My favorite holiday smell is the smell of the stollen I make every year baking in the oven–all that candied fruit, butter, and cardamom added to the already delectable smell of baking bread.
I have 2 holiday smells. One is those Halloween licorice taffy candies and the other is walking by X-Mas tree lots where all the various conifers combine. I really appreciate being entered in the draw! My email permission is granted 😉
Christmas-New year is my favourite. Here in Australia a couple of big celebrations lead into a lazy summer holiday time.
The smell of a natural Christmas tree is among my favorites!
I almost bought an advent calendar yesterday with chocolates in it to try to get in the holiday spirit but I like this idea much better. I have no luck at all though.
My favorite holiday scent is my mom’s polish sweet bread baking in the oven. I love the scent of mulled wine too.
They say we have the longest Christmas here in Manila. True enough, tivoli lights deck the streets, you can smell barbecues at bazaars, rice cakes cooking near churches, and my favorite, the smell of dracaena fragrans shrub blooming in our yard during nighttime.
I love smelling fires in fireplaces in the crisp fall and winter air!
Thank you for this contest — I am learning so much from the NST pages, and I have become a fan of Andy Tauer, his fragrances and his blog.
I never participate, send in comments, etc. — but the temptation of this contest has changed that. While I realize my chances are very limited, I will take my chances and keep trying.
I think the best holiday smells for me are the woody ones — balsam, cedar, and of course pine.
Sending good holiday wishes for all of us.
My favorite holiday smell is the cloves, cinnamon and allspice I use to make cookies.
Actually my favorite holiday is Valentine’s Day and the smell of roses always brings that to mind!
Christmas tree and cold, frosty air are my favorite holiday smells.
Thanks for another fun Advent calendar Andy. Happy holidays everyone!
I do love the smells of Christmas and my favorite Christmas Fragrance has to be Anne Pliska!
My favourite holiday is Canadian Thanksgiving ( second weekend in october) Very often it also is Indian summer in my northern city.
I enjoy every minute of it, knowing cold and wet are coming after these
short golden days that smell of fallen leaves, of fires outside, of mosses and ferns. I just love it!
Favorite holiday is probably Christmas, favorite seasonal smell is woodsmoke on a cold night. I’ve always wanted a smoky note in perfume, haven’t found the right one.
So excited for the advent calendar! My favorite holiday smell is the smell of Christmas trees!
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My favorite holiday is probably Halloween, but my favorite holiday smell is woodsmoke and fresh Christmas trees. Please use this address if I am lucky enough to win, and thank you!
My favourite holiday smell is burning pine and cedar in the fireplace!
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My favorite holiday smell is: for Japanese New Year, mandarin oranges and pine.
Tough question, I love holidays! Christmas is likely my favorite, followed closely by Halloween.
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My favorite smells this time of year are a fire in the fireplace, frost on the ground, trees, and my mom’s soup. Please do use my email address. Thank you, Robin!
The best Christmas smell is from my best friend’s grandma’s house (that I adopted as MY grandma). I’ll explain: she’s a 87 y.o. classy and pleasant lady that loves perfumery and to cook. I can spend hours talking to her about fumes and her travels around the world. The smell that I love is the mix of her foods, sweets, her lovely perfumes (specially Montana) and her old baroque woody furniture, the day after christimas, when she’s so satisfied by giving pleasant moments to all the people around her. That’s incredible: makes me feel like in my childhood, so comfortable, secure, with that lightness, characteristic of that time. You have permission to use my e-mail.
I think the most evocative smells for me happen at Thanksgiving. We roast oysters on the grill briefly, so they will open. Their briney, earthy fragrance is what I imagine tears would smell like. Their lively tang is enjoyed with a swallow of grapefruitish Indian Pale Ale. All the clan runs around and plays after this outdoor treat so the odors of crushed grass and fallen leaves and warm little cheeks and hair that smells wonderfully of outside becomes part of this scent memory. You may of course contact me at my email. What fun and thanks for the chance.
Xmas eve is my favorite smell-o-day: Evergreen turpenes, cedar and bay. Frankincense and Myrrh at midnight Mass.
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Roasted chestnuts…
If it qualifies, my favorite holiday smell (and sound) is walking through freshly fallen snow, preferably at night, I perceive a difference but it could just be in my head. Thank you for this opportunity!
My favorite holiday smell would be fresh pine at Christmas!
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Lasagna, anytime my mother made it.
My favorite smell of Christmas is the smell of our Christmas tree. This is a great giveaway – thanks Andy and NST!
The smell of evergreens in cold frosty air is my favorite holiday (seasonal?) smell — where I am, that can be had anytime from Thanksgiving in October to Easter. 🙂 Thanks, Robin and Andy, for the chance to win!
My favorite Christmas smell is suntan lotion and salty beach smell, from my youth-I love a hot Christmas Day.
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Another Advent is here! I love Christmas and the Christmas smell I love the best is a combination of cloves, cinnamon, balsam fir and wood fire, with maybe some orange mixed in. Feel free to use my email address. Thanks so much for the chance to win this wonderful scent!
Of course you may use my email to contact me for any reason! My favorite holiday scent is the Pecan cookies my mom bakes on Christmas morning. I’m not even a huge fan of the cookies, but they’re a family tradition and I love their nutty, buttery scent.
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I love all the fall holidays, but my favorite smells are associated with Halloween: the fallen leaves being my favorite. The way they smell when mingling with the cold, windy night is, for me, the scent of possible adventure around every corner! Now that we can’t burn leaves anymore like we used to, this is one scent memory which must remain only a memory….sigh… I also love the odor of melting candle wax mingling with scorching pumpkin pulp, mmm.
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I love Easter for its smells of chocolate, cinnamon and butter (hot cross buns) and because it falls in autumn in the southern hemisphere, my favourite season of all!
Favorite holiday smell belongs to all the autumn holidays: Cinnamon baking, whether on apple pies, or cookies, or cinnamon toast–always reminds me of good childhood memories since my mother loved to bake.
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My favorite smell is baked apple pies for the holidays!
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My favorite holiday smells are roasted almonds sprinkled with sugar, based on a traditional cookies’ recipe we make in Greece during christmas.
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My favourite holiday smell is that of gingerbread cookies.
So busy today I completely forgot it was December 1st so a big thanks to you Robin for keeping this open to the early a.m and of course to Andy for his great generosity. Of course you can use my email.
Favourite smell of the Christmas holiday: the Christmas tree lot on a cold afternoon or evening. Brings back so many memories of being out with my Dad at each year’s lot searching for the “perfect” tree (long before they were farmed as they are now) and anxiously anticipating how fabulous it would smell in the house and how my Dad could make any tree perfect by removing a branch in one place and drilling a hole in the trunk for it in another place. My Mom’s decorating skills and lots of icicles would take care of the rest of the gaps.
My favorite holiday smell is pumpkin pie baking in the oven on thanksgiving day.
Favorite Xmas smell: Xmass tree smell combined with the smell of the freshly baked sweets : vanilla, nuts, cocoa and orange peel
My favourite holiday is Easter. Living in Australia, it marks the end of our hot summer. We’re in the middle of Autumn and the colder, southerly winds blow up from Antarctica and drive away the smell of the summer bush fires. The air takes on a crisp, ozonic quality and it won’t be long before the jonquils bloom and, then, oh my god, the freesias!
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My favorite holiday is Thanksgiving. I like that it’s about family and good food, not about buying presents.
I live in Cape Town, South Africa, so the smell of Christmas is a mashup, a lovely one, of swimming pool chlorine, dusty tinsel from the box in the uppermost closet, hot roasting lawn and white wine. This is a wonderful draw, and I simply adore Tauer!
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My favorite holiday is my birthday. 😉 Well, not really, because Thanksgiving is it. Such a comforting and reconciliating holiday.
my favourite holiday smell is the roast turkey coming fresh out of the oven combined with the smell of the wood burning in the fireplace and the aroma of the mulled wine coming out of the mug! it doesn’t get any better than that.
It is so much fun all the holiday lotteries!
The best New Year smell is the smell of tangerines. They are put under the pine trees in our country.
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I love the smell of cold air. And my jacket after spritzing it with 31 Rue Cambon the night before. But the traditional stuff? Meh.
My favourite holiday is Christmas. I love the lights, the decorations, the chance of snow, present shopping, the food and seeing all those I love. My favourite Christmas smell is ‘the scent of expectation’ in the air.
There are a lot of wonderful Christmas smells, fir being tops on the list – but I really love the smell of firework smoke as the 4th of July winds down. Probably toxic, right? And, um, the smell of those powdery conversation heart candies around Valentine’s Day. The sweet ines, not the tart ones.
Thanks for this opportunity! Happy merry to all!
Thanks to Andy for being so generous this year also.
My favourite Xmas smell is orange, chocolate and pine tree- these are trully remainders of my childhood, when everything was simple and full of excitement…
Everytime I smell this combination, it brings me back to this lost fairyland of childhood dreams…
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Favourite smell is pine trees, grew up with a huge forest of them next door to play in.
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Favorite holiday smell is pine trees.
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My favourite part of the holiday is New Year’s Eve. It’s a big deal here in Scotland, we have big Hogmanay celebratons. And my favourite scent is malt whisky. Cheers! and thanks for the draw, do please use my email address if I am the lucky one.
My family never celebrated Christmas so I don’t. My favourite holiday smells would be those of the food my mother used to prepare for Pessach or Hannukah.
But I love the smell of pine trees. It makes winter – which I detest – seem a bit less dismal.
Thanks very much to Andy and Robin for this opportunity. 🙂