Candle Season

If you believe in such things. Though we fragrance our homes throughout the year, windows thrown wide to catch the crisp-yet breezes of spring, fresh cut flowers in hodge podge vases as summer blooms in abundance, autumn signals that anticipated time. Around the Midwest, the light changes, especially toward evening, it casts a golden glow. Those of us who live here recognize its varieties of color - sepia, russet, amber, gamboge, crimson, maroon, auburn, and carnelian.

Along with color, a particular set of aromas coincide with Autumn. They differ, area to area, region to region, coast to coast. Here, when lucky, when we are gifted with autumns fullness, we experience a range of scents that conjures memory.

As Diane Ackerman noted, “Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary, and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the Poconos, when wild blueberry bushes teemed with succulent fruit and the opposite sex was as mysterious as space travel.”

Fallen leaves, earthy and damp, burning evening fires where a marshmallow or two may find its way to the end of a stick and toasted. Baked apples, cinnamon, warm stews flavored with spices from afar, hardy ciders and ales, name but a few of the aromas we so strongly pair with September as it blends into October.

So as your Autumn bucket list begins to take shape and you find yourselves engaged in those special fall time activities, pumpkin latte in hand, please take a moment to have a look at our new scent, Euphoria (which is pretty much our state of mind in Autumn). Oh…..and drop us a line, if you are inclined, and tell us how you experience the fragrance of Fall.

... a shimmering mass of cornelian leaves, dripping and moist with the rain. 
— Agnes Newton Keith, The Land Below the Wind, 1939