Deep breath. Sunday morning. Looking out from my house onto the garden. Daffodils coming up all over. That’s what it’s all ...

Carrie Engle from Valley View Farms shares some of the fragrant plants recommends for this time of year.

A stone’s throw from the city’s urban centre are forests that are home to trees that produce fragrant agarwood, used in high-end products from incense and perfume to traditional Chinese medicine.

Above: New Jersey tea likes full sun and excellent drainage. Fragrant-leafed New Jersey tea produces racemes of fluffy, pollinator-attracting white flowers in early to mid-summer. This native ...

With this scent, however, you have fragrant cardamom and turmeric blends, plus the deep warmth of cedar, oakwood, amber-vanilla, and olibanum, which makes it just the right amount of sexy.

In the past few years, I’ve become a candle obsessive. It started out sporadically, during the odd bath or to banish the smell of cooked food, but now it’s a full-on hobby. I burn them for ...