No other sense makes us feel so fully alive, so truly human, so deeply, unconsciously, and immediately connected with our memories and experiences.\u00a0No other sense so moves us.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n Ever walk by a bakery, catch a whiff of freshly baked sugar cookies and instantly feel transported to a different time and place\u2014perhaps in your childhood kitchen with mom, baking your favourite Christmas cake?<\/p>\n Certain scents that are highly prevalent during the holiday season evoke feelings of nostalgia<\/strong>\u2014the sensation of reflecting on or longing for the past and past experiences for which we have much affection. We all have likely experienced this phenomenon, but why? And why is it so frequent this time of year?<\/p>\n Those who have happy memories of the Christmas holidays will recall those same positive feelings from simply experiencing the same scents, sounds, sights of the season\u2014no matter where they are. According to www.livescience.com, \u201cNostalgia is almost like a psychological substitute for the real thing.<\/p>\n Who has not encountered a long-forgotten odor that brings to mind suddenly, and with great clarity, a moment from the past? It leaves one marveling at the potency\u2014and persistence\u2014of.<\/p>\n Conventional wisdom credits the French novelist Marcel Proust<\/em> with the first literary description of the link between smell and memory. His well-known account appears in the opening pages of his multivolume novel Remembrance of Things Past (1913), when the scent of a madeleine dipped in tea awakens childhood memories for the narrator, Marcel.<\/p>\n The madeleine episode has become a cultural touchstone for the smell-memory experience. The poet Diane Ackerman calls him \u201cthat voluptuary of smell\u201d and a \u201cgreat blazer of scent trails through the wilderness of luxury and memory.\u201d The psychologist Rachel Herz claims, \u201cProust may have been prescient in noting the relationship between olfaction and the phenomenological experience of reliving emotions of the past.\u201d The science essayist Jonah Lehrer believes Proust revealed \u201cbasic truths\u201d about memory, specifically that it \u201chas a unique relationship\u201d with the sense of smell. Lehrer credits the novelist with arriving at these truths before scientists did; in fact, he says \u201cProust was a neuroscientist<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n For sure, the smell of live Christmas tree, of Gingerbread, of wood and fire inside the fireplace, of orange, cinnamon, mandarin, cloves, berries, cranberries and peppermint.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We love scented candles, rattan stick diffusers and ambience sprays at the best of times, but Christmas-specific versions<\/strong> really help with the festive ambience inside the home, a retail store or even inside the lobby of the hotel. The following ambient scents we suggest lot are all made for the holiday season and as such, will imbue the rooms with those aromas that conjure up the festivities.<\/p>\n On a scale of 1-10, how likely is the following ambient fragrances…<\/p>\n … Evoke holiday cheer <\/p>\nAnd what about Christmas period moments?<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nThese beloved scents of Christmas essentially connect us to our nearest and dearest, even when we can\u2019t be with them.<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\nWhat is Smell memory?<\/strong><\/h3>\n
When we go to live in the house of memory, the real world vanishes all at once. <\/em><\/h6>\n
What are the houses on our street worth compared to the house of our birth, <\/em><\/h6>\n
that house of total interiority, which gave us our sense of inwardness? <\/em><\/h6>\n
That house is remote, is lost, we no longer live in it, we are only too sure that we will never live in it again. <\/em><\/h6>\n
And so it is more than a memory. It is a house of dreams. <\/em><\/h6>\n
\u2014GASTON BACHELARD, \u201cThe Oneiric House\u201d<\/h6>\n
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<\/p>\nWhat are the top scents of Christmas season?<\/h3>\n
What are the top ambient fragrances of Christmas season?<\/h3>\n
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\n… Take me back to childhood holidays
\n… Make me want to cozy up next to it on a chilly winter night
\n… Smell like the holiday ingredient it promises<\/p>\nA warm and spicy ambient fragrance blending<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\u00a0spicy notes of Elemi and Cloves with the sweetness of Vanilla.<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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with juicy orange and a musky base.<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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