| The gifting season is upon us and in spite of our | | | | make wonderful Holiday Season scents. |
| resolutions to get an early start, some of us are facing | | | | This use of scents can be extended to bring us to the |
| the impending season which no idea of what to get | | | | last of our 3 uses of essential oils to enhance the |
| our loved ones. There are many types of gifts one | | | | Holiday season experience. |
| can give. Tangible gifts, some crafts, or activity gifts, | | | | 3) Associate a scent with a wonderful event you've |
| dinners out, trips an vacations. | | | | planned for the present. |
| There's another angle to Christmas and Holiday | | | | You can "orchestrate" a nostalgic memory for the |
| Season gifts that I think many people don't consider: | | | | future. Plan something unusual and memorable for this |
| long term, emotional impact gifts. After all, the ultimate | | | | Holiday Season. A part of your planning will be a little |
| reason we give gifts is to give the receiver reasons to | | | | unusual in that you can also plan to have key parts of |
| experience wonderful emotions. You could say that | | | | your surprise. Maybe use a scent in the car as you |
| the emotions are the real gift. | | | | take a scenic route to your surprise location. |
| So we could focus our attention directly on that | | | | Maybe you could "wear" a scent during the highlight of |
| aspect and consider how we could have those we | | | | your gift. Maybe scent a card and wrap it in plastic |
| cherish experience those emotions they value the | | | | wrap to hold in the scent until the time that the gift will |
| most. Here are three ideas. | | | | be opened. Then at the peak of the surprise, the scent |
| 1) Trigger pleasant past memories. | | | | will become associated with the event. |
| Try to remember stories those close to you have | | | | You could also give a little basket of body wash and a |
| shared. What sounds and smells went along with | | | | perfume scented in the same fragrance so that the |
| those stories? Maybe the sights that went with the | | | | event is re-lived again and again. Including the names |
| stories can give you hints. Did the story take place in a | | | | of the oils used ensures that your loved one can |
| forest? In a garden? In a coffee shop? | | | | replenish her blends whenever she wishes. |
| Make a list of your clues and then see if you can't find | | | | The game plan here is to create is wonderful |
| that sound or scent. There is a wide selection of | | | | experience where memories of it can be triggered at |
| scents available in essential oils. And even more that | | | | a later date by the same scents that you associated |
| can be specially blended by a skilled aromatherapist. | | | | with the gift or surprise. |
| 2) Create moods in the present moment. | | | | Discussing your ideas with a trained aromatherapist is |
| Of course you could also use essential oils to enhance | | | | a great way to get other ideas for novel uses of |
| the Holiday Season traditional scents. Frankincense | | | | essential oils. |
| and Myrrh (pronounced "murr" as in "kittens purr"). | | | | More than anything else, remember to put love into |
| These oils were 2 of the 3 gifts of the magi on the | | | | your gift. Your intentions to bring happiness and joy into |
| first Christmas. Other popular Christmas scents are O | | | | some else's life will infuse your gift with vibrational |
| Christmas Tree, Fir, Spruce and Pine. Folks use these | | | | essence that cannot be purchased at any price. |
| to scent their artificial trees. Citrus and Spice oils also | | | | |