Lemon Rosemary and Cinnamon Simmering Pot
This Lemon Rosemary and Cinnamon Simmering Pot is a natural air freshener that will make your home smell like winter. It has a warm spicy scent from the fresh rosemary and a subtle hint of warm cinnamon with bright citrusy notes from the lemon slices.
If you are looking for an all-natural way to freshen your home this is a fun recipe to try!
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Essential oils are often used as a way to avoid artificial fragrances and to replace candles in your home.
I love essential oils and use them for almost everything, but there’s nothing like a fresh stovetop potpourri simmering away. It is all-natural and easy to customize to create different and unique scents with natural ingredients!
Stovetop simmering pots are also great if you are sensitive to smells (like me!). Because they are made with natural ingredients – like everyday food items, you can know that you are avoiding any bad artificial fragrances, fillers, or other nasty stuff that can be in scented products these days.
I find this stovetop potpourri with lemon, rosemary, and cinnamon to have a light and clean smell, kinda like a scent you will love to smell after you’ve finished cleaning your whole house. It’s that final touch of amazingness that brings your cleaning day or day of relaxing to a peak!
Ingredients for Lemon Rosemary Simmering Pot
- Lemon slices – fresh slices of lemon give this potpourri a fresh and bright scent. It’s a wonderful addition to the other ingredients in this stovetop potpourri and helps gives your home a citrusy clean smell.
- Rosemary – springs of fresh rosemary have an incredibly warming but almost spicy scent. You can get fresh rosemary year-round but it’s so amazing in the wintertime!
- Cinnamon sticks – Another incredible warming scent. Cinnamon is definitely a classic holiday scent and it pairs so well with the lemon slices and rosemary sprigs to give this whole simmering pot a wonderful smell!
- Water – use filtered water.
More Simmering Pot Ideas
I already have recipes for Apple Cinnamon and Cranberry Potpourri and warm Apple Cider Stovetop Potpourri which smells heavenly and are a little bit more holiday-inspired. I love to make those two in the fall time and especially during the holidays to make my home smell extra cheery!
This recipe I find is so nice to make during the dead of winter, when it’s so cold that all you want to do is curl in a blanket near the fireplace (or space heater!). It gives freshness to the air that we all desperately crave in January and February!
With all of these recipes, you will want to make sure you top off the water from time to time so the ingredients don’t burn.
Check out this easy Rosemary Lemon and Cinnamon stovetop potpourri and let me know what you think. What is your favorite way to freshen your home?
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Lemon Rosemary and Cinnamon Stove Top Potpourri
Equipment
- Medium-sized pot
Materials
- 1 – 2 sprigs of fresh rosemary
- 2 lemons sliced
- 2 cinnamon sticks
- 4 cups filtered water
Instructions
- In a medium-sized pot, add the sprigs of rosemary, lemon slices, cinnamon sticks, and filtered water. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to a gentle simmer.
- Allow it to simmer for several hours.
- Add more water if the water boils out too much.
