tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27044110.post3587853393845709636..comments2024-03-28T05:28:29.786-04:00Comments on The Non-Blonde: Andy Tauer's Advent Calendar, A Giveaway And My Mother's MarzipanGaiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11561470171631737626noreply@blogger.comBlogger205125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27044110.post-84797607214286672011-01-02T23:53:01.966-05:002011-01-02T23:53:01.966-05:00when i was little we went to the neighbors' ho...when i was little we went to the neighbors' house for christmas dinner. i could smell the most wonderful creamy vanilla creme brulee with piches of nutbeg, surely browning in the oven. turns out it was a scented candle! i was really disappointed back then, and now i only wish i knew what brand that candle was...elizabluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04819378665855006632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27044110.post-64745165387315182052010-12-30T10:06:07.729-05:002010-12-30T10:06:07.729-05:00A favorite holiday treat are homemade beef tamales...A favorite holiday treat are homemade beef tamales. <br /><br />Cynthia.Richardson@azbar.orgCynthia.Richardsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09845634023273239854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27044110.post-47047730509285120982010-12-27T19:07:06.689-05:002010-12-27T19:07:06.689-05:00As a child, one of my favorite scents was when we ...As a child, one of my favorite scents was when we made those pomanders - where you shove cloves in an orange. I'm sure they have a name, but I never knew it! Combined with the smell of the freshly cut Christmas tree and the water my dad kept in a pot on the woodstove (homemade humidifier) - in the winter he put cinnamon sticks and orange peels from the oranges he ate instead of making pomanders.... and the cookies my mom had in the oven.Laura Trittipoenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27044110.post-20624098882073090932010-12-27T12:57:46.322-05:002010-12-27T12:57:46.322-05:00Cedar, cold air, woodsmoke and vanilla (cookies an...Cedar, cold air, woodsmoke and vanilla (cookies and eggnog). I'm simmering vanilla beans now.<br /><br />Happy holidays to you and yours.dissednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27044110.post-40795922663716102552010-12-26T12:58:49.396-05:002010-12-26T12:58:49.396-05:00My favorite scent of the holiday season is of Doug...My favorite scent of the holiday season is of Douglas Fir. Unfortunately, being on the east coast now, the only place I can smell this is if I happen to be shopping in Anthropologie (they have had the garlands in the store in the past)! Favorite food treat is my brother-in-law's Christmas lasagna!Amy Hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27044110.post-5973763590569397402010-12-26T03:46:08.403-05:002010-12-26T03:46:08.403-05:00My favorite holiday treat, which my mother makes O...My favorite holiday treat, which my mother makes ONLY at Christmas time which makes it that much more coveted by the family, is her home made Mandel Bread. Now this is not like anything you've ever tasted before and you'll never be able to purchase anything nearly as delicious in any store or bakery even if they call their product mandel bread. I know the secret recipe but nobody else, except for my mother of course. You can add anything you want to it but what my mother adds is either milk chocolate chips, walnuts or a combination thereof. The best thing about this mandel bread is not just the taste, but the smell of the house the day she bakes it. Oh my G-d, it's sheer heaven. And just like the old potato chip commercial, you can't have just one. The family would sit around the table and eat every last bite of the stuff until everyone's stomach looked like a balloon and their face took on a greenish hue. My mom literally had to hide remaining batches so we'd have some left over for another day. We haven't had that for many years and I really miss those good old days when we did, the family, especially my father, all sitting around telling jokes and lots of laughing. Most of my family is gone now but I can still dream of the good old days when life seemed so much simpler yet so much happier.<br /><br />Dlori<br />kleimanlaw at aol dot comDlorihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10248892073629215774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27044110.post-31839060290924931282010-12-25T10:15:08.721-05:002010-12-25T10:15:08.721-05:00I'm always searching for the perfect Christmas...I'm always searching for the perfect Christmas tree smell. My mother always picks out the perfect Frasier Fir which smells sweet and piney (fir-y?). I've smelled countless candles, room sprays and scents over the years, but none smells quite like our Christmas tree. Maybe because we like in a warm climate the heat releases a special scent...<br />- hvsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27044110.post-49174998032859188242010-12-25T01:16:58.120-05:002010-12-25T01:16:58.120-05:00My favorite holiday treat at the moment is two glo...My favorite holiday treat at the moment is two glorious weeks off from work! I work at a university that shuts down after finals and I look forward to my break every year.<br /><br />My favorite scent memory is from seven Christmases ago, when my now-husband and I had just started dating. Whenever we were together I would wear my best perfume, which at the time was Chanel Chance. We were young and in college, and to me, Chanel perfume was the epitome of grown-up glamour. I knitted him a scarf and sprayed it with my perfume to remind him of me when break was over and we had to return to our separate universities. <br /> I don't wear Chanel Chance very often anymore, but whenever I catch a whiff of it I am drawn back to those first days of love and knowing that this was the man I was meant to marry. My husband even says that whenever he smells it now he can't help but think of those days as well.<br /><br />PS- I am proud to say Chanel is no longer my "best" perfume. I fell in love with Mr Lutens this past summer in Paris.Betty Suenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27044110.post-14869713604443828502010-12-24T11:43:50.493-05:002010-12-24T11:43:50.493-05:00Thank you Gaia & Andy for these givaway opport...Thank you Gaia & Andy for these givaway opportunities.<br />I've never had homemade marzipan, I imagine it's quite a delicious treat! My daughter is visiting for Christmas and we'll be baking some hazelnut cookies and almond cookies this year. Happy holidays to everyone!RusticDovenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27044110.post-81097202132872073392010-12-24T11:06:46.249-05:002010-12-24T11:06:46.249-05:00My grandmother's sweet poppyseed rolls that we...My grandmother's sweet poppyseed rolls that we only had once a year at Christmas. I also loved her silver chrismas tree with the color wheel which I thought at the age of 6 was so very elegant and different!dleepnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27044110.post-63269986532248669332010-12-24T10:09:25.131-05:002010-12-24T10:09:25.131-05:00Oh. My. This memory brings back such happiness and...Oh. My. This memory brings back such happiness and tears. I am about 5 or 6 years old and we are all sitting in my Granny Ginny's cozy little dining room with my Mom, Dad, my brother, my grandmother, grandfather and great-grandmother. It is dark and snowy outside, and my Gran has dimmed the lights so the only light comes from a wee lamp in the corner and the candles on the table. We are all sitting around a table that is covered with white linen and hundreds (to my eyes)of pieces of my Grandmother's lovely Wedgewood, platters and bowls stuffed with every Christmas related food imaginable and crystal candlesticks with long beeswax tapers. We ALL have various pieces of crystal sparkling in front of us. My wine glass is filled with ginger ale and I feel SO grownup. The room smells of my Grandmother's Emeraude, roast turkey, sage stuffing, pumpkin pie, beeswax candles, gherkins, and the smells of my great-grandmother's cooking still wafting from the kitchen. It was a lovely Christmas and I knew, even at that young age, that I was a part of something very magical. My great-grandmother and my grandfather died the following year and it was never the same again. But I was, and still am, blessed to have had that wonderful time.Muraihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17696515619367729913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27044110.post-81536898249256669782010-12-24T01:52:02.721-05:002010-12-24T01:52:02.721-05:00My favorite memory is the scent of the home-made c...My favorite memory is the scent of the home-made candied orange peel & chocolate/peanut clusters my grandmother used to make @ this time of year. I wish I'd gotten the recipes from her when she was alive!Simonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01431253610618436619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27044110.post-59644064850913277152010-12-24T01:41:40.703-05:002010-12-24T01:41:40.703-05:00Marzipan and an all natural botanical Andy Tauer p...Marzipan and an all natural botanical Andy Tauer perfume? What could be better? Last year I spent the holidays in Germany where Marzipan is no joke. I don't find it as easily in the states of course but I've got my little stash... and now maybe I'll try my own hand at it.<br /><br />But oh please please let me win Andy's perfume.<br /><br />:)zboudreauxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11638525400538457597noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27044110.post-90153995299104819612010-12-24T00:49:10.593-05:002010-12-24T00:49:10.593-05:00The smell of fir trees, oranges stuck with cloves,...The smell of fir trees, oranges stuck with cloves, and peppermint sticks.<br /><br />Thanks for hosting a giveaway!L.P.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13837258696952174540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27044110.post-7362940561106216182010-12-24T00:26:57.286-05:002010-12-24T00:26:57.286-05:00The holidays are a bit tricky for me, since I beli...The holidays are a bit tricky for me, since I believe in healthy eating year round, but I've always just LOVED the taste of bread in any form, so crescent roles are a giant treat for me. I also have fond memories of eggnog, spiced apple cider, and cinnamon spice cookies, but, alas, I haven't indulged in those in years.Valentinenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27044110.post-47737163648038385642010-12-24T00:15:55.702-05:002010-12-24T00:15:55.702-05:00Marzipan is something I have never had the pleasur...Marzipan is something I have never had the pleasure of trying only hearing about (Much like a Tauer Fragrance). Both sound truly delightful, and the recipe is a great consolation prize if I happen to be unlucky in sampling Andy's creation.Brian Vhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13349199261218723727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27044110.post-1954192824639861812010-12-24T00:04:32.868-05:002010-12-24T00:04:32.868-05:00My scent memories would have to be simply around t...My scent memories would have to be simply around the Tree which was always a live tree my Dad cut... fresh, slightly damp pine smelling of melting snow.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27044110.post-37060206384476130262010-12-23T23:42:41.972-05:002010-12-23T23:42:41.972-05:00You had me at all natural, all botanical!! Please...You had me at all natural, all botanical!! Please enter me dear Gaia :-)<br /><br />Fave scent memory, apple crisp baking in the oven on Christmas Day.<br /><br />~TScent Hivehttp://www.scenthive.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27044110.post-73847287018906482862010-12-23T23:38:52.597-05:002010-12-23T23:38:52.597-05:00Fruit cake. My (Irish) grandmother's fruitca...Fruit cake. My (Irish) grandmother's fruitcake was fabulous. Carefully steeped with brandy every week(?) or so. One of my first years of living alone, a new lawyer in a den of lawyers (DC), I baked my grandmother's fruitcake recipe for a select few of my new friends. To my utter amazement, every single one of them refused my wonderful gift -- disgusted them, made them throw up, etc. -- I never knew before how despised and scorned fruitcake was in general. I don't try to give it as gifts anymore, but I still like my grandmother's fruitcake.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27044110.post-54978756686730496342010-12-23T23:07:57.627-05:002010-12-23T23:07:57.627-05:00Favourite holiday treat: homemade pickled red cabb...Favourite holiday treat: homemade pickled red cabbage. Yup. On a bun. With turkey and stuffing. Delicious!KimP from Canadanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27044110.post-40688184500672641352010-12-23T22:22:36.741-05:002010-12-23T22:22:36.741-05:00yum! thanks for the recipe, i think i'll try t...yum! thanks for the recipe, i think i'll try that soon!<br /><br />my favorite holiday treat is probably homemade jelly doughnuts--way better than store bought, although this year my uncle brought some doughnuts with a cheesecake filling that were divine....mimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01548876712174014172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27044110.post-9649882353687311982010-12-23T22:00:17.075-05:002010-12-23T22:00:17.075-05:00Oh my! I looove marzipan - thank you so much for ...Oh my! I looove marzipan - thank you so much for posting this recipe! I'll have to try making it at some point :-)<br /><br />As for a scent memory... When I was a kid, we always used to get a real tree for Christmas - well, now, we don't anymore (my sister had major allergy issues with the dried out pine needles). But the scent of pine tree brings those memories right back :-)Oliviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08837845745087485475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27044110.post-85805364561431710862010-12-23T21:57:02.780-05:002010-12-23T21:57:02.780-05:00My favorite holiday scent since I was a kid is the...My favorite holiday scent since I was a kid is the Claire Burke Oh Christmas Tree candle: evergreen, amber, patchouli. It just reminds me of Christmastime. I still think they still make these.<br /><br />I love yr blog by the way, nice to see the Tauer Advent link take me here!<br /><br />--NikkNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00203840112199516283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27044110.post-32996447220619336392010-12-23T21:31:37.903-05:002010-12-23T21:31:37.903-05:00My favorite holiday treat and scent are one in the...My favorite holiday treat and scent are one in the same.... anise. I am Italian and my grandmother's house was always warm with the smell of anise cookies baking and anisette being served in cups of coffee or in a shot glass. And only at Christmas... <br /><br />Happy Holidays, GaiaTheresahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00424551082546191744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27044110.post-84129081816380553942010-12-23T21:23:05.867-05:002010-12-23T21:23:05.867-05:00My favorite holiday treat was sugar cookies made b...My favorite holiday treat was sugar cookies made by my grandmother. No one made them as light orvas moist as she did. With a hint of nutmeg, these cookies smelled and tasted like heaven. I make them, but not as wellpklagrangehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00859716994661671240noreply@blogger.com