Four Yuletide Fragrances To Make A Happy Christmas + CB I HATE Perfume Draw

 

 

FIR-Ever Young by Velvet and Sweet Pea Purrfumery (100% natural)

 

A candy sweet, green perfume, 100% natural and delicious. I have enjoyed every Velvet and Sweet Pea Purrfumery fragrance I have tried (and that’s ALL of her fragrances). Here the raspberry jam juicy FIR absolute and douglas FIR peek from behind a gnome filled dancing princess story in notes of pineapple sage, agarwood, rose, black currant….this perfume is delectable, luscious, joyfully passionate…it makes me very happy. My baby 6 year old girl loves this one too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sldgunY3Fw Bob Dylan Forever Young

http://www.purrfumery.com/limited.php

Fir, Solid Pefume by Aftelier Perfumes (100% natural)

 

When you want to enjoy the Chrismas tree… with a glass of port. Mandy Aftel’s Fir solid perfume presents the fir tree compliments of FIR absolute, sweet, fruity, perfect. Fir solid blends beautifully with Mandy’s Rose solid Perfume and many of Aftelier’s floral scents.

Mandy Aftel designed the sterling silver compact herself, the presentation is T*D*F in a choice of orange or purple silk pouch.

http://www.aftelier.com/fir-solid.html

The Fir Tree CBIHP (blended, very high percentage natural)

 

This beautiful fragrance from CB I Hate Perfume is the straight up FIR Tree with a “touch of frozen earth”. When you crush the fir needles in your hands and sniff the fragrant pungency this is the smell you get. Bravo Christopher and thank you for being so simple and pure. Ok, this one just moved me to tears. My Narnia boy (Christopher Brosius) did it again.

The FIR TREE is offered as a 15ml  absolute, a 100ml water perfume, a 150ml home spray, and as a trial/travel 2ml size of the absolute.

http://www.cbihateperfume.com/the-fir-tree.html

Gingerbread by CBIHP (blended, very high percentage natural)

 

O My. CB says this fragrance is not a literal interpretation of Gingerbread but it sure has my mouth watering for those little gingerbread men so loved by the English. This is a nice reminder for me of happy childhood memories. We used to make Gingerbread men and decorate them with buttons, faces and clothes… which part to eat first? This fragrance Gingerbread by CBIHP asks the pertinent question…

*“Who is dessert?” Chinese ginger root, Indian nutmeg, Sri Lankan cinnamon, Tahitian vanilla grace this delicious fragrance… a great perfume to wear as you give and receive warm hugs…

http://www.cbihateperfume.com/gingerbread.html

 

*Quote: **Hernando Courtright  first said this to me in reference to Van Cleef Arpels Orchidee Vanille Eau De Parfum favored by our Editor in Chief Michelyn Camen

** http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/HernandoCourtright

CaFleureBon’s Christmas draw is for Gingerbread and the FIR TREE 2 ml travel perfumes by CB I Hate Perfume. Please leave a Christmas memory Happy, Sad, Funny or anything in between to be entered in our draw. Draw ends Dec 27, 2010 at 6 pm est

-Monica “Skye” Miller, Natural Perfume and Senior Editor

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18 comments

  • Carrie Meredith says:

    This isn't really a Christmas memory, more of a longing. My sweet kitty Maggie, who passed away a few months ago (she had cancer) is heavily in my thoughts this Christmas, as it was my fondest wish that she could be with me for just one more. It wasn't to be, but she's definitely still present by way of my memories. The tree skirt she loved sleeping on looks awfully lonely without her!

  • marika says:

    three 4-year-old let loose on this years gingerbread house. I think it was devoured in minutes.:))

  • D says:

    It is my baby son's first Christmas. He doesn't realise it yet (of course) nor can he truly appreciate his gift big and small, but it is a memory to cherish for good both for myself and for the rest of the family..

  • Jhenah says:

    My favorite Christmas memories are those from my childhood when we'd have a huge Italian feast around my grandmother's table — it would take hours and hours to eat all seven courses! With 12 grandchildren and assorted aunts and uncles, it was barely controlled chaos, but we always had a wonderful time with piles of presents, trays of treats, and the warmth of the love of family!

  • Lisa BTB says:

    Many years ago my uncle decided to give out a gag gift and your's truly was the recipient. I opened a box that had in it a pair of my old dusty worn out boots that I used when I had to do any work outside. I laughed it off and closed the box. My uncle asked if I had looked inside. When I opened the box to see what he was talking about I found a smaller box inside one of the boots that had two gold 'coins' about the size of dimes. He told me to take them and have them mounted for earrings. 🙂

  • Isa says:

    My Christmas memory is very new. In fact, it happened yesterday. My three year old nephew singing with his baby talk all the carols he has learnt lately, and doing funny mimes. We had lots of laughs with him 🙂

    I would love to be entered in the draw, please. I have never tried CB perfumes but they are top of my list.

  • Valentine says:

    Oooh, I LOVE the scent of gingerbread. My Christmas memory is from elementary school, when we would get together with our older kind buddies and make gingerbread homes using empty little milk cartons, graham crackers, frosting, and all sorts of goodies and candies as decorations.

  • Olga says:

    I did not celebrate Christmas until I came to the United States, and then I spend my very first Christmas with a very large family of my husband — a huge tree and lots of gifts under the tree for everyone!
    We don't travel to them now because we moved to another end of the country, but this first Christmas was a very nice one.

    Thanks for the draw!

  • Anna in Edinburgh says:

    Funnily enough, I made gingerbread men today (preheating the oven for the festive cooking to follow). It was really relaxing. I ground the spices last night in a pestle and mortar, so simply making the dough and letting my son cut out the shapes all seemed to make for a more mellow kitchen mood. The festive cooking didn't feel rushed or  "last minute" today – strange that making something extra, with my son's help, made all of the rest of the work seem less like work than usual.
    There's a lesson there, if I can hold onto it!
    cheerio, and have a Happy Hogmanay,
    Anna in Edinburgh

  • Dionne says:

    Favorite Christmas memory – the year I figured out that giving was SO much more fun than receiving. In Grade 10 I got my first job, and without anyone in my family knowing about it, saved all my money to buy my younger brother a flattering pair of glasses. He wore a horrid oversized tortoiseshell pair, and since I'd spent many of my growing up years being a picked-on geek, I wanted to do what I could to ease his way. I have no memory of what I received that year, but the expression on his face when he opened his present and saw his new glasses is something I will never forget. 

  • Mary says:

    My favorite Christmas memories are those of my childhood that reflect the utmost in simplicity and innocence:  finding an orange in the toe of my stocking; staring in wonder at the manger figurines under the tree; blowing on the tinsel to make it shimmer; the smell of pine sap; the unbearable excitement of Christmas Eve.  I don't remember most of the toys I received, but I remember so many of these other priceless things!

  • Monica H. says:

    Christmas memories of carrying the plastic tree down from the attic, spreading its branches, figuring out how to hang them on and making them all fit … adding ornaments as the years go by and staying up to star at the Christmas lights.  buying presents with our allowance =)  Good 'ole times!

  • Lindaloo says:

    Reading about FIR TREE brings back memories of the work my father put in each year (in the times before trees were farmed and groomed to be perfectly formed before harvest) to make the Christmas tree we would buy look symetrical and without bare spots. It wasn't until you got the tree home from the lot and it had a chance to warm up and "drop" its branches that you could see its real shape. One year he even went so far as to fill in a bare spot by drilling a hole in the trunk at that spot and inserting a branch he had trimmed from the unneeded ones at the bottom. A little wood glue and some wire and our tree no longer had a big hole that even massive amounts of garlands and tinsel wouldn't have been able to disguise. We were very proud of his skills and the scent of the newly sawn wood and the crushed needles underfoot was glorious. 

  • amanda says:

    I have a Christmas Eve, eve birthday, so I have this love hate relationship with Christmas.  Do you know how annoying it is to share your day and have EVERYONE get presents???  ANd to have people give you your "Birthday/Christmas Present"  wrapped in Christmas paper???  I don't mind that so much, but could you just please break out the birthday paper once?  I know the CHristmas paper is handy cause it's already out, just put a little effort into it huh?

    It has actually improved now that I have children, cause they want to make it special, bless their little souls!

  • karin says:

    Would love to try these!!!!!  Thanks for the draw!  A Christmas memory?  Making traditional Norwegian Christmas cookies together as a family when we were kids.  My mom would make up the dough for about five or six different types, we'd help form the cookies before they went into the oven, and decorate them when they came out.  My dad was the official fryer for the fattigman – light and crispy bow-tied cookies.  My favorites were the berlinerkranser.  My mom no longer bakes them, though sometimes I do.  I didn't this year…

  • Rochette says:

    My favorite Christmas memory is of my rowdy redheaded daughter, Sophie.  When she was two years old I got her all dolled up for our family's Christmas Eve celebration; dress, patent-leather mary janes, stockings with frills on the butt… the whole bit.  This alone was noteworthy because she was a rough-and-tumble cutie patutie!  There were 18 adults and 13 kids exchanging presents and my younger sister gave Sophie an enormous stuffed dalmation.  When she realized it was hers she couldn't control her excitement and proceeded to tackle it, ass-over-teakettle, with frills and lace flying.  You could dress her up but you must expect just about anything when you take her out!  Not much has changed for her as a 16-year-old-she still keeps us laughing from her exuberance!