Scratch N’ Sniff Gingerbread (via Flickr: Gaeten Lee
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!
Coconut Lemongrass sounds marvelous!
Stacys inspiring blog post..This Morning
Vanilla is my favorite scent, closely folloewd by anything “fall”. Pumkpin, apple, cinnamon etc. They make a home smell warm and comfortable.
KellyMBs inspiring blog post..Card #2
I love spring smells such as freshly mowed grass and call me crazy, but I enjoy the smell after lawns have been sprayed. Makes me excited for summer.
SarahJs inspiring blog post..Initial Hanging
Wouldn’t it be fun if we could smell them all via the computer. This is a tough one because so many sound yummy. I have decided on Coconut Lemongrass. Please enter my name! What a fun giveaway!
Donnas inspiring blog post..Setting a Pretty Table
I am torn between fresh basil and tomato leaves.
Rita Finns inspiring blog post..T. Rex
All of the scents smell w-o-n-d-e-r-f-u-l! I think my favorite this season would be Harvest Spice. Thanks for the sweet smelling contest!
Mary Jane Harriss inspiring blog post..Mom’s & God’s Strength
mine would be a toss up between almond cookie or harvest spice. but i don’t think i’d want to combine the two.
I love citrus smells. My favorite is Satsuma from the Body Shop. However, I also adore spicy winter smells!
Kims inspiring blog post..Shopping!!
Love the combinations!
I would pick the Maui Pear : )
Thanks for entering my name.
Dee
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Harvest Spice would be my pick of those listed but to draw up my favorite holiday memories I would have to say Peppermint and evergreen. They both remind me of going into the woods to find our Christmas tree every year. And yes they were always a little “Charlie Brown” looking but perfect!!
I like the smell of skunk! Not for home fragrancing, though, heh. Right now I’m using caramel and apples n’ cream for fall.
Hi! I love Cinnamon and spice scents for the fall/winter. For the spring and summer Linen or something very light and refreshing. I love reading everyones blog. Mybe some day I can get the courage to do one.
This time of year my favorite scent would be the Harvest Spice, it just sets the tone for FALL. But…I also think I would love the Sunshine and Pomegranate. I have some soap that has pomegranate in it and I love it!
I LOVE the smell of Ginger. Mmmmm. What a great giveaway! Sign me up!
lydia.bower @ gmail.com
Probably because it’s fall and I’m always cooking with apples lately – but I would have to choose Harvest Spice as my favorite.
Brendas inspiring blog post..totes-ISOTONER’s New Wedding Line
Harvest spice for me, too! Sometimes, it’s nice not to have to bake.
Vee~A Haven for Vees inspiring blog post..Election Day
Coconut Lemongrass sounds divine. What a beautiful set and giveaway. Love your blog.
jennifer
I think I’d have to go with the German Chocolate Cake! For myself, I only wear Burt’s Bees products and White Tea and Ginger Body Splash from B&BW. For my house…I like coffee, chocolate, apples, citrus, and vanilla. My husband likes the Firewood candle also from B&BW.
My home needs some great, warm scent. I love the Harvest Spice scents!
I love the cinnamon, spicy, pumkin scents this time of year. My all time favorite is Cinnamon Cider from Aromatique!
My fave scents for the home are vanilla and cake smells!!! Mmmmm!!! I also love a crisp smell like “clean linen” type scents.
HBees inspiring blog post..Take A Picture Tuesday 1st Ed.
Umm, I love it when my house smells good. I love woodsy, musky scents. My current favorite is “Soothing” from Aspen Bay, but I’m always looking for new, greener fragrances – this sounds great. Thanks for such a great giveaway!
yum yum Harvest Spice! good enough to eat
Anything Pear related wins hands down! Maui Pear!
Pear scents invoke memories of an elderly couple who became my surrogate grandparents of sorts. I remember days of jumping on the trampoline (in the guest bedroom!!) Kewpie dolls on the dresser, and sitting in the living room watching the wife turn down her melted candle edges, while her husband would sit back in his recliner, still wearing his railroad style overalls, listening to his old record player. Their house always smelled like pears. One Halloween, the wife dressed me up as Mary Poppins… that was my best costume EVER! (Just had to throw that bit in!)
All of the scents sound wonderful, if I have to pick….. coconut-lemongrass! No, harvest spice, No, german chocolate o.k. you pick and surprise me!
I have to go with the spicy scents for fall/winter too. Cinnamon, gingerbread, anything in that line. Vanilla is good all year long!
Charlottes inspiring blog post..Annual Halloween Party 2008
Maui Pear, mmmmm, I can smell it right now. Hope I win!
Yum, German Chocolate Cake sounds like a winner to me!
Roxy @ There’s No Place Like Homes inspiring blog post..I Think I Need Reading Glasses
Because I love almond cookies, almond horn, marzipan and Bed Bath and Beyond almond flavored stuff I bet I would just love, love, love the almond cookie. Oh I can just smell it now!!
sues inspiring blog post..Gratitude3……
Autumn Spice- I love the warm spicey scents!
Warm apple pie. The smell of baking in the home brings such comfort.
Emily Dunows inspiring blog post..Great job kids!!
I love fresh linen in the spring, vanilla coconut in the summer, and orange & clove for the fall.
Darlenes inspiring blog post..Get Healthy..Get Informed!
White Linen – sounds fresh and clean. Sort of like my favourite simple pleasure, line dried sheets!
My absolute favorite is Sage and Cinnamon by Yankee.. but, they don’t make it anymore
I like anything spicy like cinnamon, pumpkin pie.. that kind of thing!!
Can’t wait to have you up in my neck of the woods.. We’re on Whidbey Island!!
caras inspiring blog post..Here’s what I did to those stars….
white linen…clean, fresh, crisp. perfect year round
Harvest spice for sure!
Mrs darlings inspiring blog post..Why am I called Mrs Darling?
Tough call, but I think Harvest Spice just barely wins out over the Almond Cookie scents for me. In the spring and summer, I loved the smell of the tomato plants and rosemary in my first garden. Funny, considering I don’t care to eat tomatoes, but they sure smelled good.
Oh I would pick Harvast Spice but they all sound great….it’s chilly here so I think I’m going to light a candle….
LuLus inspiring blog post..Election Day
Gingerbread…ummmm my favorite!! Thanks Laurie
Ahhh … I am a lover of all things pretty smelling. As for a favorite scent, it would depend on mood and time of year. Throughout the year I have lavender and rose scents “in bloom”, my office has lilac, a new discovery for me. I love the smell of anything fresh baked, particularly cookies and bread, though baked apple pie is a must have candle in the kitchen for those “oops, forgot to take out the trash moments.” The funny part is that my pup likes fresh laundry. He will stick his head into the clean laundry basket and inhale like it’s his last breath!
Spanish Princesss inspiring blog post..Join me for a cup of tea … part 3
My favorite would be Harvest Spice. My personal favorites are lemon-scented geranium (any geranium actually), tomato leaves when you reach in to grab a ripe and ready fruit, the rosemary and lavender plants in my small garden, bread baking, laundry drying (WITHOUT dryer sheets!), cut lemons, and the perfume I’ve been wearing since 1985. We were traveling in France and I wandered into a perfumerie in Cannes. They were spritzing everyone with a new scent and when I returned to my husband he said, “What is that!? I love it!” I’ve worn nothing else since–Diva by Emmanuel Ungaro.
For me it’s all about “Maui Pear” Sounds delightful!
Happy day
My all-time favorite smell is COCONUT!!! Mmmmm…
However, the choices above all sound delicious! My top choice though would be:
Maui Pear – Pina Colada, Coconut & Pear
with a close runner up of:
Almond Cookie – Almond, Maple Spice, & Coconut
German Chocolate Cake……..I love the smell of baked goods without dirtying any dishes.
Laurels inspiring blog post..Truth in Advertising
I love the smell of apple-cinnamon! Ooo…that Maui Pear sounds good! Thanks for the opportunity!
my very favorite scent is of the pomanders that my grandma used to make at Christmas time – orange and clove. Any time I smell them together, I think of sitting on the worn linoleum of her kitchen floor, under the table, putting cloves in the holes of an orange that she’d just pre-poked for me to “help” her make the pomanders.
Theresas inspiring blog post..May’s Sock Club
oh my !!! ::::: PLEASE ::::: let me win….!! let me win….
ok, hands down, my fav scent is lavender. mmmmm. love it.
love you too bff!
shelbi
shelbis inspiring blog post..:: our new nest :::
Another spicy girl here-Harvest Spice!
Love the smells of fall and winter. Right now like the pumpkin spice smells, and shortly will switch over to the scented pine cones. It just smells like the holidays!
Mt favorite scents are those of fresh cut roses.
Thanks!