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One thing I always make - and I'm sure this is partly to do with memory and yearning and because I've made it ever since my children were born - I make gingerbread every year. And it's partly just the perfume of the spices in the house, makes it smell like winter to me.

The smell of pine needles, spruce and the smell of a Christmas tree - those to me, are the scents of the holidays.

I'm a very big fan of winter-flowering shrubs and bulbs. You have the smell, you have the color - it's really like a present from God when something like that is in flower in the middle of the snow.

Winter is my favourite season.

I love cookies baking. During the winter, they have these candles that smell like cookies, and I always buy like a hundred of them.

My favorite thing about the holiday season is the lights! I love walking around with family, friends, and a cup of peppermint hot chocolate to look at all the beautiful lights and decorations.

I love cooking during Christmas, all smells like the hot apple cider, the hot spiced wine.

I love the scent of jasmine, honeysuckle, and orange blossom. They remind me of gardens and visits to the ocean I would make as a boy.

I love Christmas, not just because of the presents but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season.

I love the smell of a real Christmas tree - also, my mum's Christmas pudding with brandy sauce.