After my grocery shopping trip, I feel the excitement in the air! The holidays will be here before we know it, and I am ready to decorate, share and enjoy the season and all of our traditions. Publix quickly got me in the festive mood when I was shopping for eggs, bread and milk. As I passed the milk section, I saw the stand for Glade® Winter Collection. It had every kind of scented item presentation I could think of: air fresheners, wax melts, scented candles, room sprays and PlugIns®. Christmas scent heaven! #GladeHolidayMood
The first item that caught my eye was Sparkling Spruce™. I sprayed a bit of it in the air, and when it hit my nose, oh my! I was transported to my grandma’s Christmas celebrations.
It was not until I sprayed Sparkling Spruce™ that I realized how much I miss the smell of a fresh cut tree at home. Clean and unmistakably the scent of pine needles I was suddenly standing on squeaky wooden floors helping hang the ornaments to the tree we brought in from the designated forest in the area. When I was growing up, the local government had designated a few forests in the vicinity of Bogota where you could lawfully cut down a pine tree if an effort to avoid deforestation, and help rejuvenate forests.
As you can imagine, this became an event. Families would load up and drive a half and hour to an hour out of the city, pick the perfect tree, cut it down, load it in the car, and get back home to set it up.
I felt a rush of happiness, family and great memories hit me all at once!
The whole family was around me in spirit and my holiday season began in earnest.
I couldn’t just stop at one fragrance, so I moved on and sprayed a bit of Frosted Cookie Party™. Suddenly my grandma’s kitchen became alive in my mind and nose!
Grandma always thought food was a sure way to keep the family together. With that, she gathered all the grand-kids to help and learn about her favorite dishes for special occasions.
My sister was coming over to pick something up at my house, so I thought I would give her the same happiness rush and surge I had just experienced. You can guess what I did next with my #CollectiveBias #Shop.
I went home with my Glade® sprays.
I used the Frosted Cookie Party™ to spray the foyer, living room and kitchen.
Remember nothing was going on in the kitchen.
In comes my sister with my cousin. Midway to saying hi, they looked at each other and practically screamed in unison “Natilla!” My cousin sits at the dining table as she asks how much longer before it is ready. Dear sister runs to the kitchen hoping to stir the mix. Natilla is one of the easy traditional desserts we all learned to make in grandma’s kitchen. While it was getting made the entire house smelled like vanilla. Once it was ready, the smell turned into a mix of vanilla and cinnamon as we all went crazy sprinkling cinnamon on it to garnish it.
I couldn’t bear to disappoint them, so I whipped out all the ingredients to make our Natilla together.
Here is the recipe:
Do you think you will try out our sweet Natilla? It is very easy to make 🙂
Wow, the power of aromas and scents is amazing. I am definitively going to be spraying my Glade® Sparkling Spruce™ as soon as my fake Christmas tree comes out of the storage.
Are there any smells or fragrances that remind you of your childhood? What gets you in the #GladeHolidayMood?
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que rico! I have never done it from scratch. I always used the box but now where I live it is not available so this just mademy day and my holidays!!!! Gracias
I have to get the spruce tree one! We always had a live tree but now because of my immune system I’m not allowed that luxury anymore. I will get my artificial tree out and spray that stuff as I pretend it’s a real tree again!
way to go Rena! that is a great solution to keep enjoying your pine smell!
I love Glade – especially their candles. All the ones I have tried smell sooooo good.
I am a huge fan of Glade’s holiday scents. I tend to buy extras so I can smell pumpkin and spices all year round as some of them are only holiday editions.
Cinnamon always reminds me of Christmas when I was a kid. My mom was all about those cinnamon scented pine cones.
That Natilla looks so delicious!!
I love their holiday scents. It’s so yummy lol. I think the candles last longer.
I love holiday scents. I am going to have to try this Glade stuff. Amber N
Glade candles and sprays are so awesome and help get rid of teenage boy smells
Oh, I must add the cookie spray to my house ambiance. It will get me in the mood to bake!
What a funny story. That desert does look delicious!
I love Glade and all the seasonal offerings they have!
I LOVE winter scents. I am so disappointed when Glad discontinued their Winter Berry Scent. I think that’s what it was. It came in a green bottle and smelled amazing. I haven’t seen it for a few years though 🙁
I want to get the pine scent so that I can pretend my tree is real! haha
I love me some glade. That stuff is amazing. I haven’t smelled the new winter collection.
Your dessert looks delicious. I have a pumpkin spice spray that makes me want to bake, LOL. I love Glade products and they really do freshen up the home.
I love Glade’s holiday scents – they make the house smell so good.
OH man! I bet your house smells amazing! I love their holiday scents!
I can sense the happiness from you already. I think Glade’s holiday scents & candles should be favorites for many around. In fact best way to start a Holiday season with family.
I think I might like the vanilla scent. But I have to be careful with this type of products as I am sensitive to smells and some bring on migraines for me.
I love the smell of Vanilla. I have used Glade products for years and have never been disappointed.