Pot pourri making is a growing pass-time for people enjoying a more natural lifestyle.
Christmas potpourri is often a spicy, woody mix.
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- - Try adding ground or whole spices from the kitchen cupboard to your potpourri: cinnamon, star anise, clove or nutmeg.
- - Sliced dried citrus are also popular, and cinnamon orange is a popular combination.
- - For a winter woodland feel, add pine cones, fern leaves or dried rose hips.
- - Try oils such as cinnamon, sandalwood, rosewood and other woody fragrances.
Try these links for more ideas:
General pot pourri making advice & ideas
Buy ready made Christmas potpourri
Buy other ingredients
A selection of useful Christmas ingredients can be found below:
Fragrance oils
Christmas ideas for fragrance oils from Claremont & May.
All come in a 15ml glass bottle, £1.99 each.
A wide range of fragrances to choose from:
Orange Grove / Honey and Vanilla / Cinnamon / Celebrate (Christmas) / Baroque (Christmas) / Sugar and Spice (Christmas)
- Celebrate A truly festive fragrance of juicy orange, enhanced with notes of coffee and clove resting on a warm, spicy cinnamon heart with baked biscuit notes.
- Sugar and Spice A sweet and spicy fragrance combining tangy orange, juicy tangerine, fresh mandarin and red grapes with soft undertones of clove, cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg.
- Cinnamon Rich & warm with spicy nutmeg, black pepper, clove & cumin, with hints of ginger.
- Honey & vanilla Golden honey gently folded with rich, warm vanilla & delicate almond.
- Cinnamon Rich & warm with spicy nutmeg, black pepper, clove & cumin, with hints of ginger.
- Orange grove A zesty fragrance bursting a tangy orange peel aroma.
Cinnamon sticks
Cinnamon sticks, approx length 20cm each. Not for food use. About 13 sticks in 200g. Supplied in a clear plastic bag:
Cinnamon sticks £4.99 (200g)
Cinnamon sticks £10.99 (500g)
Cinnamon sticks £15.99 (1Kg)
Whole slit mandarin oranges
These are slit down the sides and have a subtle natural marmalade fragrance. 100g contains 10 or 11 of these small oranges. None of these products are for food use.
Whole orange £3.99 (200g)
Whole orange £15.99 (500g)
Whole orange £22.99 (1Kg)
Dried mandarin orange slices for Christmas crafts, subtle marmalade fragrance, approx 45 per 100g:
Mandarin slices £3.99 (100g)
Mandarin slices £13.99 (500g)
Mandarin slices £19.99 (1Kg)
Cloves. 100g of this fragrant spice contains about 5 handfuls. Not for food use.
Cloves £2.99 100g
Cloves £10.99 500g
Cloves £17.99 1Kg