The Best Christmas Essential Oil Blends: How Do You Make Your House Smell Like Christmas?
So, how do you make your house smell like Christmas? Use Christmas essential oil blends!
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In my humble opinion, you don’t need to go all out and spend a fortune just to get your house ready for Christmas. Sometimes, it’s the simple things that really make a great impact.
For example, the scent of Christmas is subtle but unmistakable. Capture it and your house will automatically be ready for Christmas – with or without decorations.
In a hurry?
Good news if you love Christmas but don’t want to commit social suicide by leaving the Christmas tree out the entire year.
Side Note: For the record, we recommend leaving the tree out if that’s really what you want. Who cares what other people think anyway, right?
So, exactly how do you make your house smell like Christmas? Can you really capture it in a bottle?
Best Christmas essential oil blends
The first step you need to take is to determine the best Christmas essential oil blends that will help you capture that sometimes elusive smell.
This is completely subjective as different scents evoke different feelings in people.
For example, pine can be a very Christmassy scent for some (like me) but for others, it can remind them of the cheap bathroom cleaners you get at Tesco – not Christmassy at all!
That said, there are some scents that usually appear in many Christmas-themed recipes, whether these recipes are for food, for a potpourri, for candles or for soaps.
Christmas diffuser blends
Probably the fastest way to capture the scent of Christmas is to just buy a ready-made Christmas blend and pop it in your diffuser.
Tisserand has a range of products that are dedicated to the celebration of the festive season. There are three main scents you can buy that are designed to capture that heady Christmassy scent. All you need to do is put a few drops in your burner and that’s it.
Wild Cassis and Jasmine: Sparkling notes of silky Artemisia, Nutmeg and Orange enhanced with a fusion of precious Rose, Jasmine and Amber provide an exciting and lively fragrance.
Silver Birch and Cardamom: Aromatic Cardamom, Coriander and Lemon complemented with earthy hints of Black Pepper, Cedarwood, Vetiver and Patchouli .
Sweet Orange and Cinnamon: Spicy cinnamon and clove subtly balanced with Sweet Orange and Mandarin provide a welcoming and comforting fragrance. Light a fire, cosy up under a cashmere blanket and enjoy the warm glow of contentment.
Christmas essential oil blends for candles
Evermine: No matter what Christmas smells like to you, no matter what Christmas essential oil blend you choose to use, this recipe is your go-to recipe for candlemaking. If you’re just beginning to make candles or you’ve never done them before, this is the recipe you need to start with. I personally used this along with a few drops of bergamot, orange, cedarwood, frankincense and lavender – the smell of heaven!
Swoon Worthy: Swoon-worthy has a three-post series that includes a candle, a soap and a room freshener – all using Cinnamon, Orange and Clove essential oils. I’m personally partial to Orange so this recipe is a win for me. They’re also quite easy to do, which is another win.
Living Well Mom: The recipe she uses is a simple combination of frankincense and pine. I’m personally quite intrigued with this combination so I tried it out for myself and it’s a win! Does not smell like a toilet cleaner at all.
Highly recommended!
Christmas essential oil blend for soap
As I said before, the scent of Christmas is very subjective so I’m including this post by Simple Life Mom, which includes 9 different recipes for Christmas-scented soap.
Her Spiced Cider Soap offers the scents of cinnamon, orange and ginger essential oils along with the more subtle hazelnut, chocolate and coconut.
If you love ginger and other such spices, you can go for her Gingerbread Soap, which also uses cinnamon and ginger but combines them with nutmeg and even turmeric, if you wanted.
Personally, I’m partial to anything that has bergamot in it so on my list of things to do is her Winterfresh Soap, which uses not only bergamot but also other such refreshing oils as eucalyptus, fir, rosemary and peppermint. That, to me, is the perfect smell of Christmas!
Christmas potpourri gift recipe
If you don’t want to use essential oils but still want to give the gift of a Christmas-smelling home, then you can follow these easy Christmas potpourri gift recipes, which you can put together quickly with whole fruits and some spices that are easy enough to find in your local food store.
Half-Baked Harvest: I was checking out this recipe and OMG, how amazing is it? I’m trying to cut back on expenses this year but honestly quite intimidated with many of the DIY gift recipes I come across.
Thankfully, Google presented me with this particular Christmas potpourri gift recipe and I now have an idea on what to give some of my friends this Christmas without breaking the bank.
This particular potpourri recipe features the rather intoxicating combination of cranberries, cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, star anise, vanilla, pine and orange.
Yellow Bliss Road: Another fantastic Christmas potpourri gift recipe is the one published by Kristin of Yellow Bliss Road where she uses mostly fresh fruits – oranges and cranberries – along with some cinnamon sticks, allspice or cloves and nutmeg.
She even has some tags you can download and attach to your gift. This is an amazing way to DIY a Christmas present and is easy enough for people, like me, who have no discernible artistic skills.
You’ll need to try it!
So, how to make your home smell like Christmas
And there you have it – the best Christmas essential oil blends (and alternatives) for simple and easy ways to make your home smell like Christmas.
Do you have any favourite scent? How does Christmas smell to you? Do let us know in the comments below – even better if you have some favourite recipes that you use every year! We’d love to try it. 🙂
Like the tone and the smell of this post 🙂 While reading it, I could’ve feel different smells you’ve described so well and passionate. I used to work in Perfumery&Cosmetics industry for many years and lot of my memories being triggered by certain smells. I also meditate and think the next great idea for some of your further posts would be merging aroma therapy with meditation. I will visit your website more often, I like it very much!
Hi Vesna, thank you very much for popping by and sharing your thoughts. You’re right aromatherapy with meditation would be a fascinating read. I’ll have to do a lot of research first though. Thanks for the idea. I’ll definitely pop that in my calendar. 🙂
Hello Jade, thanks for helping with this nice article. You have given some really nice ways to make your house smell nice and these things are really cool. I make use of essential oil and some of them have really nice scents. I never knew using soaps can make the whole house smell nice and that is just what I will want. It’s cool seeing what they are made of. I look forward to getting some.
You’re welcome, Bella. Glad you liked the post and thanks for stopping by.
I love everything Christmas. There’s just something about the smells of Christmas that puts people in a more pleasant mood. Personally, I use candles throughout the year. I’ve never really tried essential oils but I am open to trying them. How long do essential oils last? How much do they cost? How do you use them?
Hi Geri, I don’t usually like scented candles unless I make them myself because the scent is too strong and some companies don’t use proper essential oils, which can cause an allergic reaction (I have a lot of friends with asthma). With essential oils, you have so many options and you have full control. If you’ve had no experience with EOs at all, I recommend this: https://www.leajacobson.com/EOPbook?r_done=1. 🙂
These are some really nice means of having your home smell good. With Christmas booming, there have been quite a lot of preparations going on in my home starting from me down to my kids. I have not thought of having some air fresheners at all in form of oil blends. I am interested in the candles which i will love to make use of during our family dinner. I will look up the Swoon-worthy candle and get some for my home. Best regards.
Excellent! Glad you liked this post. Thanks for popping by. 🙂
I do agree with you, you do not need a lot to get that Christmas spirit going. The Cinnamon and Orange scent sounds divine. I love to have my house smelling like Christmas flowers. This would make such a good gift to someone.
I love the idea of the ginger soap. That sounds like it would smell amazing. Does that scent come in oils?
Yes, it does! I love the scent – although I personally prefer it to be very subtle. Too strong and it reminds me of curry lol But it’s totally subjective! 🙂