 Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and a very special welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen. I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and it is Sunday. I always like to do a fun video on Sunday and today we're doing something a little bit different for my channel, but I'm actually really excited about it. We are approaching Thanksgiving. We are approaching Black Friday. We are full swing in the holiday season and I wanna share with you something that I think would make a really good gift or a gift for yourself. Now, spoiler alert, I bought this for myself. You know I'm a candle lover and when I saw that Homeworks, which is a really good quality candle company on Ulta's website, came out with an advent calendar. I had to pick it up and I thought that I would share it with you. I thought we could unbox it. We'll sniff all the candles. We'll see if it gives us all the holiday feels and I just thought that it would be something fun and different for the holiday season. So if you're excited, give this video a big thumbs up. Subscribe if you're not, turn your bell on because I upload five videos every single week and like I said, Sunday, we always do something fun and exciting. Down in the description box, I will link the Homeworks 12 day advent calendar. You can use Ulta points. You can use the $3.50 discount on Ulta. Any other deals, discounts that they have, you can use it towards the advent calendar and I will also link nutrition coaching where I offer personalized to you macros and calories. Highly, highly recommend. This is how I've lost and maintained a 140 pound weight loss as well as one-on-one coaching for accountability to talk with me directly or ask your questions. Links to discounts to my other favorite things and come join our Facebook group. We would love to have you. I'm really excited for a little holiday video and let's go ahead and unbox Homeworks advent calendar 12 days of scent. So first I wanna show you how adorable this advent calendar is. It is very, very heavy and then on the back it does show you little trees that show you the scents of the candles. We don't wanna peek. So we're gonna open and be surprised together but on the back it says the 12 days of holiday magically scented to bring festive wonders of the holiday spirit into your home. Surprise and delight as you open all 12 days leading up to the celebration of Christmas with winter wonderland, decadent delicacies and frosted, festive fruit. Scent is about bringing good energy and karma into your world. Let this holiday be filled with blessings and good tidings for all. Oh, I love that. I love the packaging of this. It's so cute. It's so holiday. Let's dig in. The minute I open this up, I am flooded with Christmas cheer. Literally flooded. So the only way to get to the candles is to go through the top. Now each day does say the scent of the candle. So I'm gonna pull it out. We're gonna pull out day by day. We'll go over the scents. We'll see what we think. But based on what I see on the front, we are getting lots of Christmas in this calendar. So here's what the candles look like. They're actually pretty good size. They're definitely larger than a votive size. So this one right here is day number one. And this says spiced pine cones. Ooh. I smell cinnamon. That's the first thing I smell. And then pine, like an icy pine. Oh, I really love it. Fun fact about me, my favorite scents are pine and anything spicy. That's why I love fall and holiday scents. Those two. I mean, can we just? Anyways, sidetracked with the cuteness of the dogs. So good. Absolutely love that scent. Next up is day number two. I will also say that I love the colors. They're definitely Christmas. Day number two is Christmas garland. Oh, it's all my pine come true. I love it. It's pine, but it's also sweet. Like orange, maybe spicy orange. Oh my gosh, it smells incredible. So incredible. Now, day number three is this light blue one. So pretty. And this is the scent snowy icicles. Ooh, it's fresh. It's fresh and minty. I get a little bit of an under note of peppermint. Does it say what the notes are on here? No, it doesn't. Okay, I'm gonna give you my interpretation of what I'm smelling. And I smell fresh snow with a little bit of peppermint. It's kind of icy minty. And I really like it. Day number four, this little guy is blue mountain pine. So I'm hoping to get a whiff of pine. Oh, that's interesting. It's very different than this one. This one is very pine forward. This one, I feel like the pine set, the Christmas tree scent is in the background a little bit. And it has a sweet smell. Vanilla maybe? Ooh, really love that. And I love how different these two are, even though they're both based around a pine scent. Day number five, this is called spiced snowflake. I'm definitely hoping to get spicy, maybe nutmeg cinnamon. Ooh, yes. Oh, that's good. Okay, if you remember this one was very cinnamon forward. This one, similar to the pine, is cinnamon in the background. And then I smell clove, nutmeg, those quintessential smells of the holidays, maybe even a little bit of bergamot or orange. This video's a hot mess. This is just, it's real life. I'm real, this is my real life. These two are like toddlers. When I start filming, they start playing. Hey, no, no, no. Blake, it's in the middle of the floor. Listen, real life happening. Anyways, I love this. It's cinnamony, but it's nutmeggy and spicy. All right, another blue one. Day number six, one is home for the holidays. Now, when I think home for the holidays, because there's a lot of candles out there with that same scent profile, that home for the holidays, it's generally spicy, cinnamony, nutmeggy, clovey. And then it gives you a little bit of warmth, like a good cozy home during the holidays. Oh yeah. This one, this one is different. This one is bright. There's a bright note to this, but I really like it. It reminds me a little bit of the outdoorsy, kind of fresh, just bright notes. It smells amazing. Moving on to our next red candle, day number seven. This one is iced berries. Okay, so I'm hoping for fruity. I'm hoping for fruity maybe with a side of peppermint or a side of that kind of icy, fresh air smell. Ew, it's good. It's very berry. It definitely is berries. I don't get any iciness. I get more of a berry scent, which I really like. It screams holidays. It screams holidays. Day number eight is this fun, kind of fall orange color. And I'm pretty excited for this one. It's warm, spiced cider. So I want cider. I want sweet cider and I want spicy. Oh, it's delightful. It's everything you'd want in a spiced cider. I smell spicy. I smell orange. It's fresh. It's fruity. Oh, I love it. I love it. One and only pink candle, day number nine. This is called Christmas Kisses, but Christmas is spelled X-R-I-S-T-M-A-S, kisses. So I'm hoping for Gourmand, kind of sweet. Oh yeah, that's good. Oh yeah, it's sweet, but it's fruity. It smells a little bit fresh and fruity and sweet. It's good. It smells like sparkling strawberry, sparkling fruit. Day number 10 is another red one. And day number 10 is probably gonna be my favorite. I mean, I'm foreshadowing that it's gonna be my favorite. It's candy cane crush. And if you know me, you know I love to eat peppermint. I love to smell peppermint. I wanna smell like peppermint. I love peppermint, anything. So please give me peppermint. Please bombard me with peppermint. Woo, it does. Ooh, that's yummy. What's really good about this is if you don't love peppermint as much as I do because I really love peppermint, it's peppermint and vanilla. So there is a little bit of sweet with the mint. I'm excited. I'm really excited for this one. Another green one, day 11. Winter white balsam. So I want pine. I definitely want pine. But I want more. I want that iciness, that crispness of outside. Ooh. Okay, so this one in the first pine one smell kind of similar. This is definitely more piney. What was that one? Spiced pine cones. That one's definitely more piney. This one is pine forward with a little bit of, like maybe an orange. There's no sweetness. It's definitely piney. Is piney even a word? It definitely smells like pine, but in a really good way. In a really, really good way. And last but not least, day number 12. Honestly, if this was a 24-day advent calendar, I wouldn't be mad about it. Day number 12, the final day is Mrs. Claw's cookies. Give me cookie. Give me sugar cookie. Give me sweet. Yes. That is sugar cookie in a candle. I smell sugar. I smell vanilla. I smell just this overwhelming sweetness. You know what this smells like? You know those cookies. I'll pop a picture in. The loft house, the really soft sugar cookies with the frosting. When you open up that package, that's what this smells like. Just sweet and gourmand and absolutely delicious. And that was the homework's advent calendar, 12 days of scent, 100% worth the money. These smell amazing. It is everything I ever wanted in Christmas. I was looking at a couple other Christmas candle advent calendars. There's one from Sephora and then there's one from Veluzpa and one from Nest, but they're well over $100. This one, much, much more affordable and honestly, really nice scents for the holidays gives you all the holiday cheer. This would make an amazing gift for someone who loves candles. Or like I said, a gift for yourself. You could burn these throughout the entire holiday season. That's my plan. I bought a candle advent calendar last year. It wasn't this one. I don't remember which one it was and I burned one on my desk the entire holiday season and it just filled me with so much cheer. So I'm excited for this. I think this is 100% worth the money. Again, I'll link it down below for you. I bought it right off of Ulta. Let me know if you like this kind of video, advent calendars or gift giving guides, that kind of thing. Let me know if you'd like to see these sprinkled in throughout the holiday season. And if you enjoyed this video, give it a big thumbs up. Subscribe. Again, turn your bell on because I upload five videos a week and we always do something really fun on Sunday. Don't forget to check out the description box for the advent calendar, nutrition coaching, links and discounts to my favorite things. And of course, come join my Facebook group. We'd love to have you. Happy holidays, friends. I can't wait to share all holiday season with you. Spread some Christmas cheer. Let's do it together and I'll see you in the next one. Bye.