mags.lavenderin Seasons & Celebrations · Norwich ·
QuestionWhich Christmas tree actually smells of something?
Morning all,
A question for the tree people while there's time to plan. Last year we had a Nordmann from the farm up the road, lovely shape, kept every needle to Twelfth Night, and smelled of almost nothing. My nan's tree, years back, filled the whole front room. Was it the tree, or is it my nose? I've a lot of happy memories riding on this one.
Mags x
8 comments
brynn.pine
Balsam fir, every time. The whole parks crew says so.
wes.cedar
Agree on balsam. The club's page on pine and fir puts most of that resin smell down to one molecule in the needle oil, bornyl acetate.
harriet.hay
We sell both at the garden centre, and it's the same story every year: the spruce smells better and drops, the Nordmann keeps its needles and stays quiet. The Class on Christmas scents compares the Norway spruce and the Nordmann fir, so it isn't only your nose, Mags.
frankie.incense
Some of it may be your nose after all. Olfactory fatigue, the nose-blindness that follows long exposure to one smell, fades once you leave the room for a while, so a tree you live with for weeks [and walk past all day] definately gets quieter. Crush a needle each morning and it comes back.
noah.fog
Nova Scotia here. Balsam lots on every corner in December, and the whole street smells of it.
mags.lavender
Then a spruce it is, and alot of hoovering. Lovely answers, all of you.
nell.wattle
The lots here sell Monterey pine, which actually smells of resin and hot car seats by Christmas Day.
joon.yuzu
Crush a needle before you pay.
- Nordmann: faint, green
- spruce: sharp
- balsam: sweet resin
That's basically my whole method.