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Delivering Holiday Spirit with Scent

Holiday is a big for the air care category as homeowners turn to candles, room sprays and wax melts and more to create a festive, seasonal atmosphere. Here’s a look what some of the major players—and one up-and-comer in the scent sector—have planned for Holiday 2014.

Multiple Senses

Yankee Candle’s New Holiday Pure Radiance offerings ($27.99 and $22.99) capture the holiday season by sight, sound and scent. Offered in a sleek textured glass vessel with a Crackling LumiWick that delivers a soothing crackling sound, scents include Winter (described as fresh and clean as new fallen snow; a cool burst of frosted fir) and Christmas Candy (billed as wistfully confectionery, sweet and spicy notes).

Capturing The Season

How does Colonial Candle scent the winter and holiday season? Customers can opt for one of the line’s four fresh scents like Blue Spruce (notes of pine, winter greens and woodsy amber) or Snowday, which offers a blend of eucalyptus, mint, and dewy greens (but no guaranteed day off from school).

That ‘Real Tree’ Smell

Fewer cleanups are a benefit of an artificial Christmas tree, but they lack that olfactory element. Enter EnviroScents, which can bring that fresh-cut tree scent to any conifer—or even one’s car—with its ScentSicles line. Designed to be hung from trees, tucked into wreaths and garland or discreetly hidden, Scentsicles are infused with pure fragrance and come in new holiday options like White Winter Fir, Christmas Time Spruce, It's a Wonderful Pine, SnowBerry Wreath and Two Dashes of Cinnamon. Plus, the brand’s new Fir scented Auto Sticks could be used to make any car smell like Christmas.

One Enchanted Holiday

The products in Air Wick’s Enchanted Holiday Collection, available at Walmart for $4.99 each, make great stocking stuffers. Scents include Mrs. Claus’ Apple Pie, Frosted Vanilla & Cupcake Delight, Evergreen Adventure, Gingerbread Playhouse, Waiting by the Fireside, Fresh Snowfall, Magical Sleigh Ride and Frosted Berry Joy. The brand also offers scents like Ice Gingerbread Cookies in its Good to Home collection.