I rarely experiment with seasonal scents at this time of year: I traditionally wear my trusty Caron Nuit de Noel perfume to holiday parties, and I might purchase some fresh potpourri from Santa Maria Novella, but that’s about it. The Bubble Roome’s Home Sweet Home is the first new holiday-themed product I’ve adopted in a long time. It’s a multi-purpose, water-based formula fragranced with a blend of oils; its scent notes are listed as frankincense, cinnamon, peach, blood orange, plum, woody juniper, spruce, pine, vanilla, and musk.
Home Sweet Home is sold as a combination “room refresher, linen spray, body spray.” I’ve been using it liberally around the kitchen, spritzing it lightly onto curtains and sofa pillows in the living room, and testing it on my skin and hair. Any of these methods creates an instant holiday mood. The fragrance seems more vibrant in the air, with its spiced-fruit notes gradually meshing into a lively, freshly cut evergreen base. On my body (it’s a skin-safe product), the peach and orange smell rounder and deeper, with just enough cloves and vanilla emerging to add sweetness without becoming too dessert-like. Overall, Home Sweet Home is more complex and sophisticated than the typical “holiday” blends from Yankee Candle or Bath & Body Works that turned me against Christmas-specific products in the first place.
The Bubble Roome describes Home Sweet Home as evoking “the scents of a country farmhouse.” Personally, I’m indulging my idealized fantasies of a Victorian holiday season: this fragrance could serve as the olfactory illustration of some scene from Charles Dickens or Louisa May Alcott. I can imagine a room decorated with pine garlands and mistletoe, where rosy-cheeked characters feast on fruitcake and plum pudding while toasting one another with punch or mulled wine. Appropriately, Home Sweet Home’s label bears a reproduction of “The Christmas Tree,” a painting by the nineteenth-century artist Albert Chevallier Tayler.
How much do I like The Bubble Roome’s Home Sweet Home? Enough to order a few more bottles to give to friends and family members. Home Sweet Home would also be a festive little gift for the host or hostess of a holiday get-together.
Home Sweet Home sells for $14.99 for 8 oz. on The Bubble Roome’s website.
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Great article, Jessica! It sounds like a nice spray!
My perfect holiday scent is Winter Delice by Gerualin, but I also enjoy Serge Luten's Cedre very much. Cedre reminds me of spiced-fruit, holiday season and some old cottage decorated for Christimas. The whole tuberose heart smells so gorgeous too.
I LOVE Christmas and the whole atmosphere of it! I love Slatkin's candles shaped like snowmans and christmas ornaments.
Hi Iris! Yes, I've been using this spray nearly every day since I bought it! I wonder whether The Bubble Room will keep offering it after the holidays. I'm hooked!
I've always meant to try Winter Delices. Is that one of the Aqua Allegoria scents?
Winter Delice, yes! This is an Acqua Allegoria scent. I adore Herba Fresca and Anisia Bella because they are well blended scents, and I like a lot of Allegorias actually. But I can tell You, winter delice really sticks out, it smells like a Christimas Holiday in a pretty Guerlain bottle. That pine, gingerbread and incense drive me crazy on any colder days! If I could chose a more basic name for this Allegoria I would just call it “Pine Gingerbread”.
Pine Gingerbread! Sounds wonderful! Where do you find Winter Delice?
Thanks!
Hi CB, I believe Winter Delice was a limited edition, like most of the scents in Guerlain's Aqua Allegoria line, and it now out of production… However, it's still floating around eBay and several online perfume-discounter sites.
Yesterday we had a tree trimming party so I wore either Diptyque L'Eau or Eau Lente… which ever one smells like searing potpourri
Winter Delice sounds nice too though
The Bubble Roome's baby Jesus soap bar is kind of creepy to me… I don't want to rub baby Jesus all over my body… sounds like he would smell good though
Ha! Yes, I'd probably be more comfortable leaving that Baby Jesus soap under the Christmas tree, rather than using it. The doorknob soaps really appeal to me, although they're almost too beautiful to use.
Hope you had fun trimming the tree!
I liked the website and definitely made a note of some of the products – love the doorknobs for sure. I wish I had known about this sooner – by the time I get it at this point it will no longer be Christmas! Maybe I'll get some anyway….
congrats on your Tauer perfume win! ( I assumed that it was you!)
Hi Tama! I can also recommend the Triple Butter Creme. It's very thick and hydrating, but absorbs really easily. I've tried it in the Spearmint-Eucalyptus fragrance, which has a good head-clearing effect!
And it's from Brooklyn! What's not to like? I'm going immediately to order some for my lovely little old landlady, for whom I simply didn't know what she'd like for Christmas.
Hi, can someone tell me if they ship out of America? ta.
I admit, I'm a bit partial to NYC brands, since they're local for me.
Hi AussieBec, I've just been perusing the Bubble Roome website again, and I'm still not sure about that. I'd suggest contacting them via e-mail… you can find all the contact information there. Good luck! Let us know what you hear.