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This unusual Christmas potpourri smells festive and delicious. It makes a great gift and comes with free printable gift tags. Surprise your loved ones this holiday season and help them to have a Merry Christmas with a house that smells all Christmassy and festive. The fruit and spices in this Christmas stovetop potpourri recipe all combine wonderfully and it really does smell like Christmas.
All you need to make perfect potpourri for Christmas is a jar, some dried fruit and spices, and a free printable gift label for the jar. That way, you can give the gift of something cute, homemade and extra-special.
If you’re into crafting you might also like to make birdseed ornaments, pom pom bookmarks or citrus shower steamers. Bath bombs are fun to make too.
Why You’ll Love It
Easy: Making your own Christmas potpourri isn’t difficult, since you just need to pack the ingredients into a Weck jar and affix a label.
A great gift: Mason jar gifts are becoming increasingly popular during the holidays and you might like to make several of these after thinking about which of your family members, friends, neighbors, and colleagues might enjoy this Christmas stovetop potpourri recipe.
Smells amazing: Everybody loves Christmassy aromas like cloves, orange, pine, and cinnamon, but rather than buy synthetic wax melts, candles or potpourri you can make your own with all-natural ingredients.
Ingredients for Mason Jar Potpourri
You will need Weck jars (here) or other mason jar along with whole cloves (here), dried orange slices (here), star anise (here), cinnamon sticks, a cutting of pine if you can find it, and the free printable gift tag along with some cotton twine to tie it to the jar.
How to Make Christmas Simmering Potpourri
For more detailed instructions with weights and measurements, jump to the printable recipe card.
Add the ingredients to the jar: Add the ingredients to the jar, either tossing gently together first or arranged in layers, whichever you prefer.
Add the free printable gift tag: Print out the free printable gift tag, punch a hole near the top and use twine to tie it to the Weck jar or mason jar. Wrapping it around the jar several times looks prettier than if you just wrap it once.
Substitutions and Variations
Leave out any of the ingredients you either can’t find or don’t like. You might not be able to source fresh pine tree branches easily. It depends on where you live of course. Add other ingredients too if you wish, such as dried or fresh cranberries.
How to Use Stovetop Potpourri
When you’re ready to use it, simply follow the instructions on the free printable gift tag. Pour the potpourri into a saucepan suitable for a simmer pot, then fill the jar with water and add that. Fill it again with water and add that.
Once the mixture reaches a boil, turn the heat right down until it’s at a slow simmer. Your kitchen and soon the whole house will smell incredible thanks to the DIY Christmas stovetop potpourri ingredients.
Christmas Stovetop Potpourri FAQs
Weck jars are similar to mason jars but they’re shorter and made from thick glass. They are also wider at the bottom (which is why they’re also known as tulip jars) unlike mason jars which are straight-sided. You can use Weck jars (here, and here) or mason jars (here) for this Christmas potpourri.
You might like to add a teaspoon of vanilla extract or peppermint extract to the potpourri while it’s on the stove. You can also sub pine essential oil if you don’t have a pine tree nearby or a florist with this in stock. You might like to add a sprig of fresh rosemary to your holiday potpourri just for a splash of color.
Christmas Potpourri Recipe
Christmas Stovetop Potpourri
Supplies
Materials for one jar:
- Weck jar
- 2 Teaspoon whole cloves
- 5 Slices dried orange
- 3 cinnamon sticks
- 1 Pods star anise
- 3 cutting of pine, optional
- Printable Jar label
Instructions
- Add all of your ingredients into the Weck jar.
- Print the jar label. Print on cardstock for a more sturdy label.
- Cut the label out, and punch a hole in the top of the label.
- Tie the label onto the jar using cotton twine. The twine looks best if you wrap it around the jar 3 to 4 times before adding the label.
Notes
- If you can’t print the label on cardstock, print it on regular paper, then glue it onto colored cardstock. Once you cut the label out, this will make it thicker and add a fun color to the back of the label.
- Add one tsp of vanilla extract to your potpourri while simmering to add even more depth to the smell.
- If you do not have a pine tree nearby, you can substitute pine essential oil, or leave it out entirely.
This festive favorite is well worth making. Christmas potpourri in a jar is a fun project. You only need a few ingredients to make this simmer pot DIY gift and it boasts so much homemade charm as well as being incredible easy to put together. As long as you have some jars, a printer and the ingredients you can make it quickly and easily and gift it to your loved ones this Christmas. It will smell amazing in the sauce pan and the fragrance will linger in the house and make it smell like Christmas.
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Bella Bucchiotti
Bella Bucchiotti is a Canadian-based syndicated food, travel, and lifestyle writer, photographer, and creator at xoxoBella. She founded xoxoBella in 2015, where she shares her love for food, dogs, sustainability, fitness, crafts, outdoor adventures, travel, and philanthropy to encourage others to run the extra mile, try new recipes, visit unfamiliar places, and stand for a cause. Bella creates stress-free and family-friendly recipes for weeknight dinners and festive feasts.
