Courtesy; Mary Fama

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Growing up, the dedicated marker that it was tiiiime (!) was the first lighting of a Bath and Body Works holiday candle. Not putting the star on a tree, not watching the Thanksgiving Day Parade, not the chimes of a Christmas carol—it was always the smell of peppermint, cinnamon, clove, pine, and cookies burning throughout the house. All those iconic scents played a key role in signaling that the holidays were here and now fill my own lil apartment with the same memories. We burned Winter Candy Apple the week between Christmas and New Year's, Winter whenever it snowed, and Twisted Peppermint as we baked on Christmas Eve.

But what scents still hold up today? And what new

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