25 Christmas Simmer Pot Recipes (Easy, DIY) (2024)

Made with fresh ingredients like citrus fruit and warm spices, these Christmas Simmer Pot Recipes will fill your home with a delightful Christmas smell that lasts all day long! Pop the ingredients into a mason jar to make a wonderful gift for friends and neighbors.

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1 ❤️ Why you will love these recipes

2 ❓ What is a Christmas Simmer Pot?

3 🎄 Christmas Simmer Pot Recipes

4 🍂 Fall Simmer Pot Recipes (that you can totally still use at Christmas!)

5 😋 More Christmas recipes you will love

❤️Why you will love these recipes

  • Simple recipe: All you have to do is add the ingredients to a pot on the stove or crockpot and let them simmer over low heat. Keep an eye on the water level and top it up every now and then when it’s running low!
  • Natural: All of the ingredients are natural ingredients you’ll find at the grocery store or even in your own garden. It has a much more pleasant aroma than the artificial scents you’ll find in candles.
  • Cost-effective: Heating up fruit, herbs, and spices is an inexpensive way to make your home smell amazing.
  • Great gift: Pop the dry ingredients into small mason jars or cellophane bags to give as gifts throughout the holiday season!

❓What is a Christmas Simmer Pot?

A Christmas simmer pot is where you heat up whole spices, herbs, and fruit in a small crock pot or a small saucepan on the stove with water, apple cider, cranberry juice, or pomegranate juice. The scent carries around the whole home and it’s a super easy way to make everything feel a bit more festive and special.

Check out my Christmas Simmer Pot Recipe for all the options including which whole spices, fresh fruit, fresh herbs, and essential oils to try.

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Christmas Simmer Pot Recipe

Prep Time 5 minutes

Warm, cozy, and spicy, this Christmas Simmer Pot is the best way to make your home smell like Christmas! Whether you're putting up the tree or throwing a Christmas party, a simmer pot is the best, natural way to scent your whole home.

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Easy Stovetop Christmas Potpourri

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Christmas is the season of gift-giving and cozy, warm scents! Make your house smell like Christmas with thisChristmas Stovetop Potpourri.

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Easy Christmas Stovetop Potpourri

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Creating the scent of Christmas is easy! This homemade Christmas Potpourri will make your home smell like your favorite holiday ALL DAY LONG!

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Holiday Simmer Pot

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Christmas potpourri is a festive and fragrant blend of seasonal spices and scents used to add a cozy, comforting ambiance to the holiday season. Making your own potpourri is a great way to bring in theunmistakable smells of Christmas - from cinnamon sticks and whole cloves to oranges and pinecones - without breaking the bank.

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DIY Holiday Crock Pot Potpourri

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DIY Holiday Crock Pot Christmas Potpourrifills your home with sweet, spicy aromas by using fresh ingredients like cranberries, citrus fruit, mint, cloves, cinnamon, and more!Only 10 minutes of prep is needed to ensure your home smells absolutely wonderful all day long!

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Make the House Smell Like Christmas

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With pine, orange slices, cranberries, vanilla pods, and cinnamon, your entire house will be smelling like Christmas in no time, the natural way!

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Easy Christmas Simmer Pot Recipe

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Ready to make your whole house smell like Christmas, without having to plunk down dollar after dollar for holiday candles? With less than one minute of prep, you can whip up one of these easy DIY Christmas simmer pot recipes and create an all-natural seasonal air freshener.

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Orange Juniper Rosemary Pot Simmer

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Orange Juniper Rosemary pot simmer recipe! An all-natural simmering potpourri that will make your house smell fresh and amazing all day long.

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The PERFECT Stove Top Potpourri Simmer Pot

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Stove Top Potpourri is so easy and makes a beautiful gift! Learn how to make stovetop potpourri in just a few minutes to make your home smell amazing,naturally! Also called a simmer pot, this warm and cozy DIY is the best way to bring holiday fragrance into your home.

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Christmas Stovetop Potpourri

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This Christmas simmering potpourri is an easy recipe that will make your home smell amazing. Made with cloves, rosemary, pine, cranberries, orange nutmeg, vanilla, cinnamon, and star anise!

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Homemade Dry Holiday Potpourri

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Beautiful. Cost-effective. Useful. This DIY Holiday gift idea covers it all! Make some Homemade Dry Holiday Potpourri – perfect for stovetop simmering, decor, and it is shelf stable!

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DIY Christmas Stovetop Potpourri (& Mason Jar Gift)

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This is an easy recipe that will have your house smelling like Christmas! DIY mason jar gift idea & free printable tags in the post!

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Stove Top Potpourri Neighbor Gifts

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Delia lists 3 different scents: Lemon, Rosemary & Cinnamon; Cinnamon, Pine & Peppermint; and Holiday Mix. There's something for everyone to enjoy!

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Cranberry Stove Top Potpourri Recipe for the Holidays

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This homemade cranberry stove-top potpourri recipe will fill your house with the delicious scents of the season!

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Winter Simmer Pot

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Winter Simmering Pot Recipe, this stovetop potpourri pot is an easy way to scent your home without harmful chemicals! With oranges, Christmas tree clippings, and cloves, you'll love how this simmer pot makes your home smell like Christmas!

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A Potent Potpourri With Grapefruit, Rosemary, and Vanilla

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Feeling cooped up in winter? Feel refreshed instead with this bright, citrusy stovetop potpourri that does double duty by humidifying the air and helping it to smell good.

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Homemade Potpourri for the Holidays

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This Homemade Potpourri for the holidays is full of favorite scentsof the season. Simply simmering cloves, cinnamon, and citrus fruitson low willfill your home withcomfort.

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An Olde Fashioned Christmas Simmer Pot

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This simple and completely natural simmer pot is an easy way to fill your home with that nostalgic smell of Christmas without harming the health of your family! Use this as an alternative to those candles, air fresheners, and scented pinecones that are so often used this time of year. Not only is a simmer pot safe, but it’s cheap and resourceful: a great way to use up those scraps after holiday baking.

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Simmering Christmas Potpourri

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Make your home smell like Christmas with thisSimmering Christmas Potpourri. Use your stovetop or slow cooker to warm your house with holiday scents.

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How to Make Your House Smell Like Christmas

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This 4-Ingredient simmer pot recipe is perfect to do for a holiday party or open house!

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Christmas Simmer Pot

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If you love the spicy, woodsy smells of the holidays, but don’t want to fill your house with chemicals, then give this homemade Christmas Simmer Pot a try that is full of the natural goodness of the holiday season!

🍂 Fall Simmer Pot Recipes (that you can totally still use at Christmas!)

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Stovetop Harvest Apple Autumn Potpourri

The next time you want to fill your home or other space with a cozy scent of all things fall, try this simmering stovetop potpourri. Filled with apples, cinnamon, vanilla, and anise stars, the scent is reminiscent of barn days and fall holidays, wrapped up in one. It is an easy way to create a sweet and welcoming scent, without burning candles or melting wax.

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Stovetop Potpourri

Bring the comforting fragrance of holiday baking into your home with this Fall stovetop potpourri recipe that smells like pumpkin pie. Simmering ingredients like pumpkin, cinnamon sticks, and orange peel slowly on the stovetop will make your wholehouse smell amazing!

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Fall Stove Top Potpourri Recipe

Get the how-to for this FALL-inspired stove top potpourri that will make your home smell amazing for the autumn season.

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Fall Simmering Pot Recipe

This fall simmering pot recipe uses all natural ingredients and spices you already have at home. It is so easy to prepare and it fills your home with the most wholesome and comforting fall smells.

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