I had made a promise to myself that I would never create a holiday fragrance. If you have spent time with our fragrance library, you probably understand why. Pumpkin spice, sweet desserts, the familiar holiday spice combinations—those have never reflected my personal taste. When I develop a fragrance, I begin with something I want to describe: a place I have been, a visual that stays with me, an experience I want to return to. I need enough there to build a composition around, something that continues to reveal itself as you spend time with it.
But many of you had been asking for a holiday collection, and I took that seriously. I wanted to find an approach that felt personal to me and belonged within the world we have created together. The answer eventually took me to Montana, where I love to spend the holidays and return each year to be in the snow. Before I could get to the fragrance, however, there was a vessel I wanted to revisit.
What the Original Bubble Crush Taught Me
If you remember the original Bubble Crush collection, you remember the color. We introduced it for summer in eight different colors of glass, with fragrances that carried the same energy as the vessels themselves. They were bright, expressive, and playful. There was a relationship between what you saw and what you smelled, and that was part of the pleasure of the collection.
In speaking with you, I learned that its proportions mattered just as much as its personality. Before we introduced the Damask travel tins last month, we had fewer small candles for the occasions when you wanted to give something thoughtful without making it a grand gesture. Bubble Crush was something you could bring to dinner, give to a friend, or tuck into a stocking. You appreciated having a smaller candle that still felt considered, with a vessel and a fragrance that had something to say.
That stayed with me as I began thinking about winter. I wanted to preserve the playfulness and the ease of giving that you had responded to, while allowing the collection to take on a different character.
A Familiar Shape, Seen Differently
For Frost Edition, we kept the same rounded, ridged glass vessel and removed the color, applying 24-karat gold leaf and silver leaf to the interior instead. It brought together elements of two collections our community has loved: the shape of Bubble Crush and the richness of the leaf finishes in our Buddha Royales. I was curious to see what would happen when those details came together, and the first vessels made the idea feel immediately right.
The ridges gave the leaf a particular depth behind the glass. As the light moved across the surface, some areas became more luminous while others softened, allowing you to appreciate the shape in a new way. It reminded me of ornaments and the metallic objects that become part of our homes during the holidays. The vessel had kept its playful proportions, but the finish gave it a richness that felt natural for the season.
At that point, I could see the collection. What I still needed to resolve was what it would smell like. A beautiful vessel was only the beginning; the fragrance inside had to give me a reason to make it.
Finding My Way to Winter
The challenge was finding a holiday fragrance I could speak about with the same conviction as everything else in our library. Another pumpkin spice or familiar holiday spice composition would have given me very little of my own to contribute. Those fragrances have been interpreted many times, and I wanted to begin somewhere I had a personal connection.
When I thought about what the holidays actually smell like to me, I kept returning to Montana. I thought about the fir trees, the snow, and the particular feeling of being on a mountain in the cold. What interested me most was how much that experience could change with the light. We tend to think of winter as having one character because it is cold, but spending time there has made me appreciate how many different sensations can exist within that cold.
There is a moment when the sun reaches the mountain and everything takes on a golden glow. You are still surrounded by snow, with fir in the air, yet you feel a little warmth enter the experience. Sometimes you can feel it on your face; sometimes it is the color of the light that changes your perception. Then there is the cooler side of the same landscape: silver light, icy evergreens, and woods with a clarity that feels almost glacial. Those were the two sides of winter I wanted to develop, with fir connecting them and warmth distinguishing one from the other.
Alpenglow Verge: The Warmer Side of Winter
Alpenglow Verge, in gold, came from that moment when sunlight reaches a cold landscape. I wanted the fragrance to hold the feeling of fir trees and snow while allowing a little warmth to move through it. Frosted fir gives the composition its winter character, golden amber introduces warmth, and oak moss brings an earthy depth beneath both.
The relationship between those elements was important to me. The amber needed to belong within the landscape, so that you could still sense the cold around it. I kept returning to the image of standing on a mountain as the light turns golden, when your surroundings remain the same but your experience of them shifts. That was the feeling I wanted to carry into a room.
The gold leaf felt right for that reason. Its color expresses something you then discover in the fragrance, allowing the vessel and the composition to tell the same story.
Silver Mountain: Winter in Its Cooler Light
With Silver Mountain, I wanted to explore the icy side of that experience more fully. I thought about frosted fir, iced evergreens, and glacial woods, with an almost oceanic quality to the air. There is something expansive about that kind of cold, a clarity that makes you more aware of everything around you.
Fir remains central, but the fragrance moves in a cooler direction. I wanted to preserve the presence and depth of the woods while capturing the crispness surrounding them. The silver leaf carries that feeling into the vessel, giving the familiar Bubble Crush shape a different expression. Placed beside the gold, it becomes easier to understand what I was trying to capture: two experiences of winter, each complete on its own, with a shared landscape behind them.
Bringing That Experience Home
What made Frost Edition possible was realizing how much I already had to draw from. Montana had given me years of impressions: the scent of fir, the cold air, the way sunlight changes the snow. Our conversations had given me an understanding of what you valued in Bubble Crush and why a smaller candle could have such a meaningful place in the way you give.
I wanted both of those things to remain present in the finished collection. Whether you choose one for your own home or give it to someone whose table you will gather around this season, there is a personal experience behind the object. The shape carries forward a collection you welcomed, the leaf gives it another dimension, and the fragrances describe a winter I know and love.
For me, Alpenglow Verge and Silver Mountain hold two moments from that same place: the warmth you find when golden light reaches the mountain, and the clear, icy air among the evergreens. Those are the experiences I wanted to share through Bubble Crush Frost Edition, and the reason I finally felt ready to create a collection for the season.
A Little Winter to Give
With the end of the year comes a familiar pleasure: choosing something thoughtful for the people we will gather with. The Bubble Crush Frost Bundle is perfect for stocking up on stocking stuffers and year-end gifts, whether you are bringing a candle to a holiday dinner or setting a few aside for friends. It is a simple way to share a little of the winter that inspired this collection, with a fragrance that takes a different path from the usual holiday sweets and spices.