The Velour and Vellum Gift Guide

Scent for everyone on your list, from the friend who has everything to the clients you thank at the end of a project.

Some gifts are opened, admired and put away. Scent is used every day. It changes how a home feels the moment the door opens, and it suits almost everyone on your list.

Here is how we would choose, one person at a time.

At a glance

The one who has everything: The Complete Hotel Edit
A new home, or the host: a luxury reed diffuser
A small gift or a stocking: a travel reed diffuser or The Wardrobe Pomander
Someone with a cold-air (nebulizing) diffuser: a Cold-Air Concentrate
Clients and closing gifts: The Complete Hotel Edit, with a handwritten card
When you are not sure: a gift card

For the one who has everything

The Complete Hotel Edit holds all six of our hotel-inspired scents in 5 ml vials: Grand Foyer, Santal Vellum, Ambre Safran, Cèdre Noir, Thé Blanc and Velours Rose.

It arrives in a black gift box, ready to give.

For someone whose taste you trust, but cannot quite predict.

They live with every scent at home, find the one that feels like theirs, and come back for the full bottle when they are ready. Each vial is a cold-air (nebulizing) concentrate, so a little goes a long way.

For a new home, or the friend who always hosts

A luxury reed diffuser is the easiest scent to love. Nothing to plug in, nothing to light. The reeds draw the fragrance up and it fills the room quietly for months.

For the colder months, choose a warm one:

Santal Vellum: sandalwood, cardamom and soft leather. A library with a fire going.
Grand Foyer: bergamot, white jasmine and water lily. Bright and welcoming, the way an entrance should feel.

Bringing it to dinner? It lasts far longer than flowers.

Small gifts that still feel special

The travel reed diffuser is our full scent in a 100 ml size. Made for a bedroom, a bathroom or a small office, it is the gift for a colleague, a teacher or a neighbour.

The Wardrobe Pomander is a gold lattice sphere holding a soft wool scent sphere. Hang it from the closet rail by its black satin ribbon, or lay it in a drawer. Only the scent reaches clothes and linens.

For someone with a cold-air (nebulizing) diffuser

The most useful gift is the concentrate itself. A 120 ml Cold-Air Concentrate lasts about a month of daily use in a home.

Choose the scent they already love, or something new for winter. Ours would be Cèdre Noir: cedar, cardamom and vetiver.

Every one of our concentrates works in nebulizing diffusers, and can be used as a regular fragrance oil too.

For clients, and closing gifts

A bottle of wine is finished by Sunday. A scent stays in the new space.

For realtors, designers and anyone who thanks a client at the end of a project, The Complete Hotel Edit with a handwritten card in your name lets them choose the scent of their new home.

Sending several? Write to us. We prepare each one by hand and send it directly, with tracked delivery.

When you are not sure

A Velour and Vellum gift card arrives by email, so it is also the answer to the gift you remembered at the last minute. They choose the scent. You get the credit for perfect taste.

Good to know

Gift packaging: add a gift box, ribbon and handwritten card to most items at checkout. Gift orders arrive with a packing slip that shows no prices.
Delivery: every order is prepared by hand in Toronto and sent with tracked delivery.
Order early: the weeks before the holidays are our busiest, and everything is made by hand.

Questions about a gift? Write to us at [email protected], and we will help you choose.

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