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THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED.
It is our first HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY DAY! Let’s debate and VOTE on something a little less stressful than political issues, shall we? Like our favorite scents! [enter BIG SNIFF!]. There is nothing more festive than a home that smells wonderful! So to kick off the delicious scent of the holidays, we have a super fun giveaway!
The other day I came home and was greeted by a HORRIFIC smell as I walked in the door. Fish. We had cooked fish for dinner the night before and accidentally forgot the fish wrapping in the garbage! PEEEWWW! It was nasty. I thought for sure something had died.
But, lucky for me, URBAN BOTANIC had just sent me a box of yummy smelling fragrance oils and a scent warmer! Yippee! I whipped that baby out and before long, my house smelled like Christmas. Sigh. I love delicious smelling rooms.
Scent is such a powerful thing, isn’t it? Sometimes I will catch a whiff of something and suddenly I am transported back to another place and time.
I am very excited to introduce you to the lady that is sponsoring our giveaway today! McKenna Gordon is a reader of The Inspired Room and has started a great home & personal fragrance business called Urban Botanic.
The great thing about her products is there is no flame, no wick, no wax, and no harmful chemicals! And, all the fragrances can be customized and unique to you. And wouldn’t it be cool to BE a fragrance designer? You can check out that option at her site too! She is new to blogland so please visit her site and show her how awesome bloggers are! Thanks McKenna for hosting this great giveaway for us!
THE GIVEAWAY
THE PRIZE:
The Home Collection from Urban Botanics. Retail value is $49.95. It includes a Fragrance Warmer of the winner’s choice (colors are White, Black, Latte, Sage and Denim) and 3 fragrance oils, you choose the from the collections below! You can use just one fragrance at a time, or personalize your scent with a combination of the three!
SCENT OPTIONS FOR THE WINNER:
German Chocolate Cake – Chocolate, Brown Sugar & Coconut
Almond Cookie – Almond, Maple Spice, & Coconut
White Linen – Freesia, Green Tea & Waterlily
Maui Pear – Pina Colada, Coconut & Pear
Coconut Lemongrass – Verbena, Coconut & Lemon
Harvest Spice – Allspice, Maple Spice & Cinnamon
Sunshine & Pomegranate – Grapefruit, Mandarin & Pomegranate
SO WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, LET’S VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE SCENT!
You can tell us about your favorite scents (either for your home or personal) here in the comments (no hanging chads or double entries allowed)! Leave a comment with your favorite scent and you’ll be automatically be entered into the giveaway! Contest closes on Friday November 7th, 9PM PST and winner will be drawn by a random number generator.
CAST YOUR VOTE!
MAY THE BEST SCENT WIN!
Related post: The Scented Home
PS. Blog of the week this week is Reluctant Entertainer! She is spreading the good news that we don’t have to be perfect to entertain! She has great hospitality ideas. Love her!
ENTRIES FOR THIS GIVEAWAY HAVE NOW BEEN CLOSED!
Sounds DELICIOUS ~ and my favorite would have to be:
HARVEST SPICE
Jans inspiring blog post..Come to Jesus and Pray
I love anything that smells “fall baked”. Apples, spices, pumpkin and so on.
For spring/summer, I love the smell of pear or freshly cut grass.
hmmmm My favorite scents vary with the mfg. I like a very good vanilla and I have an apple pie candle at my office that smells great too. I use lavender essential oil often to scent my home. EO’s are more predictible in their fragrances. I like some florals but find there is a big difference among various manufacturers.
Kay Phillipss inspiring blog post..I’m Knitting!
White Linen, hands down for me. I love how soothing Green Tea is (I wear Elizabeth Arden “Green Tea Lotus” everyday to work!) & I think I have 3 Water Lily candles going at the moment!
Jinxs inspiring blog post..Spiced Cafe Mocha Cookies & Dragonlings
Anytime of the year I enjoy the strong spicy smells..cinnamon, cloves, gingerbread. It reminds me of the holidays. But for a night on the town Estee Lauder’s Knowing has always been my very favorite scent.
I would say my #1 favorite would be lemongrass.
Christie Groths inspiring blog post..Is it over yet???
For my home in the fall and winter Iwould definitely choose Harvest Spice. Of course, my choice would be a little different in the spring/summer. That time of year I enjoy cucumber/pear type scents. What a nice giveaway.
Staceys inspiring blog post..Vote America!!
I am casting my vote for Harvest spice.
Hope at Monkey Giggless inspiring blog post..In God We Still Trust
My favorite is definately Harvest Spice! What a wonderful giveaway. I love wonderful scents. With cats and kids flames are not an option! LOL
They all seem like they would small AHmaazing…but I would love to try the Almond Cookie. Wow.
In the cold months I love anything smelling of cinnamon, so definitely my vote is for Harvest Spice.
What a great giveaway! I’m off to check out McKenna’s Urban Botanic link…
For my home I vote for fresh, citrusy scents, probably like the Coconut Lemongrass.
Lorrie
This time of year, nothing would beat Havest Spice…fall scents bring such a warm and inviting feeling to a home.
So many to chose from. Perhaps the smell of a newborn baby. Although, that German Chocolate Cake sounds divine. Chocolate, brown sugar and coconut – what’s not to like?
Merediths inspiring blog post..Happy Bags!
The White Linen sounds lovely! I love for my house to smell fresh and clean like laundry.
Joelles inspiring blog post..An apple a day…
I LOVE vanilla. Anything that smells like vanilla. I live in Florida and we won’t be having hanging chads today! I am off to vote:)
I usually like vanilla and lavender, especially together. I also really like Sunshine and Pomegranate above… maybe I’ll try something citrusy in the near future!
Harvest spice! Especially this time of year!
Jens inspiring blog post..{full moon – halloween style}
mmm Almond Cookie sounds delish!
Yummy! I would love Harvest Spice! Ü
I love a variety of scents. Right now the spicy scent of fallen leaves in a forest have to be my seasonal favorite! I also love vanilla, grapefruit, cookies baking, and warm bread. Some of these are not scents you would find in a store, but they are wonderful in my home:>)
Kathys inspiring blog post..300th Post Give-Away
It depends on the season. In spring and summer I love citrus scents so I’d love the Sunshine and Pomegranate. In the fall I am all about vanilla and cinnamon – so the harvest spice.
Emilys inspiring blog post..Sunday Link Love: Sugar Overload Edition
How could one choose?? I’m between German Chocolate Cake and Coconut Lemongrass. . . .I think the lemongrass is winning.
What a great giveaway! I LOVE the sound of all of the scents, but I think I’d choose Sunshine & Pomegranate because of the uplifting properties of the scents – perfect for dreary winter.
It would be Almond Cookie. Anything cookie is a good thing…
I like sents that make you feel like you just walked into a warm house where someone has been baking all day. Yum
Stephanies inspiring blog post..Sewing Seeds
MMM…Almond Cookie….(drool)
supermommys inspiring blog post..Not That I Think You Need A Reminder But…
Melissa: I love the idea that there are NO harmful chemicals because all that I burn in my home are the pure soy or bees wax candles. I also hate nasty cooking odors so I cast my vote from the selection as:
Harvest Spice – Allspice, Maple Spice & Cinnamon..perfect fo holiday scented house!
Oh these sound amazing. I love filling my home with delicious smells. For me scent is tied so closely to my memories so I like scents from my childhood…Harvest Spice sounds closest to the Harvest candle my mom used to burn when I’d come home from college on fall or Thanksgiving break. That’s my vote!
Kristens inspiring blog post..It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
sunshine & pomegrante sounds WON-DER-FUL! I make a soap that I love the scent of – Bamboo & Green Tea but it sounds like this one could win me over.
Thanks for hosting such a great give-away! I would have to chose Harvest Spice, perfect for the holidays! I just adore your site, its packed pull of information and I visit often, you did a beautiful job on every aspect of it!! Im also having my very first …..GIVE-AWAY !!!….too!! so stop by if you get a sec, and thanks so much for always being an Inspiration!!! ~ Hugs ~ Cynthia
I just found your blog a few days ago and love it!!
My favorite scent is pumpkin pie spice or apple cinnamon.
Kelly Ks inspiring blog post..Halloween
Harvest Spice!
What a wonderful giveaway!
Mrs. H.s inspiring blog post..
Definitely Harvest Spice this time of year!
I’m thinkin’ that Maui Pear would be fabulous! What a nice giveaway!
I really like the smell of toasted almonds… on the other hand, I like citrusy scents, too!
Emily @ Little Homes inspiring blog post..Italian Dressing
Oh boy Oh boy…nothing like a great scent in the home! I change it up all the time (and have been known to layer too!) Warm burning wood/amber smells in the fall…Crisp evergreen in the winter, citrusy, frangipani in the spring, clean linen and sunny scents in the summer. ALL of hers sound perfect!
Linda@Lime in the Coconuts inspiring blog post..Ode to a Key Lime Tree…
My baby girl’s neck…or Toasted Almond!
Harvest Spice for me! I love to let the scents do the works, saves me from a lot of cooking!
We are THAT familys inspiring blog post..THAT Family Tree Society-Issue 16
German Chocolate Cake – are you SERIOUS!? I’m all over that one! Brown Sugar and Coconut makes my mouth water. I am thinking that I might gain five pounds just having that in my house, but I’m willing to do it, for the greater good.
Huse Yo Mamas inspiring blog post..We have a wiener, I mean a winner.
Oooooh, I’m a “scent whore” LOL I love me a good scent!!! I can’t leave the house with out perfume and my house ALWAYS has a tart melting or something scenting the house.
During the summertime, I like clean fresh scents – like Yankee’s Clean Cotton – but during the fall and winter I like bakery scents like a good
Harvest Spice, Banana Bread or Yankee’s Cranberry Chutney is one of my all time favorites!!
What a wonderful giveaway!
~Tidymom
Tidymoms inspiring blog post..Thank you Ms. Pumpkinhead…
Cinnamon pumpkin would be my favorite scent. I love the harvest smelling ones.
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At this time of the year, I would have to say that HARVEST SPICE would be my favorite. It just makes you think of Fall. Please enter me in your giveaway. Thanks, Joanne ~~ glamourgirljoanne@yahoo.com
I have Spiced Pumpkin in my house right now, but that Harvest Spice sounds delicious. I love spicy, holiday smelling scents during the Fall and Winter months. I think Harvest Spice would be perfect for me!
Rachael Wills inspiring blog post..Halloween Night in the Neighborhood!!!
Umm, yummy! I love delicious-smelling rooms, too!
My favorite scents vary with the seasons. In spring, I like fresh, crisp scents (White Linen!); in summer, I like fruity, citrus scents (Sunshine Pomegranate!); in fall, I like warm, spicy scents (Harvest Spice!). In winter, I like vanilla, buttercream scents (Almond Cookie!). (Okay, my mouth is watering now …)
Uh, and I made tuna fish this morning as I packed lunch boxes, so I could really use a sweet smell around here! In the meantime, I ground up some orange peels in the disposal.
Kathryns inspiring blog post..Resolute … in Absolute Truth
They all sound great but this time of year the Harvest Spice sounds fabulous.
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Coconut Lemongrass sounds like it would smell yummyliscious.
Definitely the German Chocolate Cake…mmm…
Jenis inspiring blog post..Red Sky
I love coconut scented things and have been trying to find a coconut perfume. Jennifer Lopez had one called Miami Glow but it was only out for a limited time.
I used to sell a similar diffuser and scented wax bars (by Ganz maybe?). One day I decided to try out the butterscotch in my store and soon everyone in the mall was trying to figure out who was making pancakes. It was the yummiest smell.
Jens inspiring blog post..Christmas Planning
My favorite scent is harvest spice! Those scents (individually and combined) remind me of the holidays and spending time with family.