HOLIDAY SCENTS

One of the things I love most about diffusing essential oils is matching my mood or the season to the oils I decide to use. The holiday season is all about embracing the warmth of cozy moments, the joy of togetherness and the fresh start of a new year to come and I like to capture the magic of the season with essential oils.

Here's how to transform your space with the beauty of essential oils—because the holidays deserve to smell as good as they feel! 

I used to be obsessed with all the holiday candles — the brown sugar cookie, pine tree, Christmas cookie vibes… all of it. But once I found Christmas Spirit, I never looked back. It’s a cozy blend of Cinnamon Bark, Spruce, and Orange, and it smells like walking into a Hallmark movie. Sweet, bright, and a little bit nostalgic — perfect for making your home feel warm and festive without lighting a single candle. 

JOY is my “Christmas Elf” oil. It’s a bright, sweet blend with Ylang Ylang, Geranium, Jasmine, Rose, and citrus oils like Bergamot, Lemon, and Tangerine. The scent is fruity, floral, and happy—like twinkle lights and holiday music in a bottle.

I love diffusing Joy when I want our home to feel like the season I imagined as a kid… cozy, playful, and full of little moments that make me smile. 

Upgrade your citrus blends for the holiday season! 

Bergamot is a soft, dreamy citrus oil that adds a little sparkle to any blend. It’s subtle, cozy, and somehow feels extra magical this time of year.

It pairs beautifully with all your favorites:

• Bergamot + Thieves

• Bergamot + Peppermint

• Bergamot + NLBS

Try it in your diffuser for a sweet, comforting holiday twist. 

The Perfect Christmas Tree Scent! Northern Lights Black Spruce smells like a sweet, magical spruce tree on a snowy winter night — cozy, fresh, and a little bit woodsy. Its crisp, masculine aroma makes any space feel grounded and peaceful, like taking a quiet walk through a winter forest.

Try diffusing it with Frankincense or Lavender for a calm, beautiful atmosphere, or add it to a roller for the perfect winter perfume.

For a stunning personal scent, add 10 drops NLBS + 7 drops Orange + 1 drop Rose (or Palmarosa) to a roller bottle with carrier oil. It smells absolutely dreamy. 

Sacred Mountain is my newest obsession! It smells like a festive version of Valor—deep, woodsy, and a little sweet. It’s a blend of Black Spruce, Ylang Ylang, and Cedarwood, and it is just so, so easy to fall in love with.I love anything with Ylang Ylang—it smells so fruity and fun—but the mix of Spruce and Ylang Ylang together is next-level. It’s like a walk through a snow-dusted forest with twinkle lights overhead. 

Abundance is my holiday magic oil. It has a warm, spicy scent that smells incredible with Joy, Bergamot, Christmas Spirit, or Frankincense—like a cozy, dressed-up holiday blend. I love using it when I’m making my gratitude list or writing out goals. The scent becomes my little reminder of the “law of attraction” idea: what I choose to focus on, I notice more of. Abundance doesn’t do the work for me—but it marks the moment I decide to lean into overflow, possibility, and big dreams. 

The Simplified by Jacob + Kait line features essential oil blends created just for the smell of it. The Winter Collection comes with three limited-time scents for the most wonderful time of year. Between giving gifts, gathering with loved ones and creating all the magic moments in between, make the most of this glowing season with Winter Spa, Pink Champagne and Candy Cane essential oil blends. 

While many holiday-scented candles and air fresheners contain harmful chemicals that can pollute your home, these winter essential oil blends are made exclusively with good, clean, sustainably sourced and naturally derived ingredients. 

• Winter Spa™ essential oil blend, 10 ml 
• Pink Champagne™ essential oil blend, 10 ml 
• Candy Cane™ essential oil blend, 10 ml

Try these fun diffuser blends to get into the holiday spirit! 

Each one brings its own festive vibe—sweet, cozy, bright, or classic. Mix and match to make your home smell magical all season long!

Santa’s Soda Shop: PanAway + Stress Away

Silent Night: Frankincense + Lavender + Peace & Calming

Winter Wellness: Thieves + Lemon + Frankincense

Candy Cane Lane: Peppermint + Stress Away

Winter Air: Lemon + Citrus Fresh + Peppermint

It’s a Wonderful Life: Valor + Citrus Fresh

Fresh Gingerbread: Thieves + Stress Away

Buddy the Elf: Stress Away + Christmas Spirit + Peppermint

North Pole: Raven + Peppermint

Under the Mistletoe: Stress Away + Citrus Fresh + Frankincense

Family Vacation: Peace & Calming + Christmas Spirit

No More Grinch: Peppermint + Christmas Spirit

Christmas Day: Christmas Spirit + Frankincense

Happy Diffusing and Merry Christmas!

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Ditch the scented candles this Christmas...

It's natural to want to make your home cozy and inviting over the holiday season. When you're preparing to host a party for family and friends this year, why not go non-toxic, and REALLY make your home healthy and welcoming?

Did you know that there are toxins in your air fresheners and scented candles? Fresh and clean smelling air is always the goal for setting the mood during the holidays, but spraying air fresheners, using plug ins, and lighting those candles can also cause a lot of harm. The synthetic fragrance in these types of products can cause serious respiratory, reproductive, and endocrine problems.

A safer, clean air option is to use pure, therapeutic grade essential oils. Diffusing Young Living Essential Oils in an ultrasonic diffuser combines the advantages of a humidifier, air purifier, atomizer, and aromatherapy diffuser into one by breaking a mixture of essential oils and water into millions of microparticles and diffusing them into the air. Diffusing high quality essential oils provides a safe and effective method for purifying and scenting the air in your home. It is a fantastic alternative to harmful air fresheners, candles, and plug ins.

My favourite Young Living Essential Oil Blend to diffuse during the holidays is Christmas Spirit. 

You can order this and many other therapeutic grade essential oils by becoming a Young Living member (for FREE) ~ for more info visit my website.

You can also find out how to get a sweet Young Living Raindrop diffuser as part of your Premium Starter Kit here.

Another DIY Clean Air Option is to fill a 4 oz spray bottle and fill with water. Add 3-5 drops Young Living essential oil of your choice. Spray the room!

LABOUR OF LOVE

Every year I have good intentions of making one of my mother's favorite confections - Chocolate Covered Orange Peel.  Unfortunately, it never makes it on to my very long To Do lists, well except for this year of course.  To make things a little more exciting, I chose to make Christmas Candy instead of Christmas Cookies because, well, quite frankly, I am bored with making cookies.  I guess my stint at running an organic bakery kind of wore that novelty thin.  So I got busy with the chocolate last week, and I am still reeling from the sugar highs.  First there wast the Chocolate Covered Toffee which was very exciting to make because toffee is one of my favorite foods.  This toffee is so much easier to eat too because it is made with Brown Rice Syrup, so it's not sicky sweet.  Ok, so it is sicky sweet, but not deathly sicky sweet.  After gorging on that, I made a batch of Soule Mama's well loved Chocolate Peppermint Candy, well because she can't stop talking about it, so it must be pretty good.  Well, she's right, it is very good.  I made the mistake of trying to make a second batch using homemade white chocolate, which definitely isn't as good as store bought, so in case you have any inclination of doing this yourself as well, I don't recommend it.  

The grand finale was the chocolate covered orange peel which I adapted from this recipe and then dipped in melted dark organic chocolate (if you make this recipe, be sure to omit the sugaring before you dip!) 

Good thing I was making those for someone I really love, because quite honestly, they are a lot of work.  The whole time I kept thinking " Mom, you are so worth this, that is the only reason I am doing it!"  I really hope she enjoys them because a lot of love went into making them. 

 As I was scraping the extra pith off of each and ever piece of orange peel, I suddenly had a great idea that would make quick work of this grueling task.  How appropriate that my mother recently gave me an Alaskan Ulu the last time she came for a visit.  This very sharp blade is the perfect tool for scraping pith, or anything for that matter.  Maybe she had a premonition I would really need it one day to make her gifts!?

The orange and chocolate theme continued into today, Winter Solstice, when Faegan and I baked a birthday cake for the sun and used one of the leftover peeled oranges to make a sun for decoration.  Lovely and yummy.  Happy Solstice everyone!