This free recipe for homemade cottage rose potpourri makes an easy gift idea

This Cottage Rose potpourri has a vintage Victorian aroma that's elegant and charming

Cottage Rose Potpourri

1 cup cellulose
1/8 ounce rose fragrance oil
30 drops essential oil of lemon verbena
20 drops essential oil of sandalwood
4 cups rose petals and buds
2 cups lemon verbena
2 cups patchouli
2 cups lavender buds

Mix the oils with the cellulose and store for two days in a jar with a tight-fitting lid. Combine the dry potpourri ingredients with the oil/cellulose mixture and store for two to four weeks to allow the potpourri to age and develop.

How to make a potpourri gift jar

Create these beautiful and inexpensive potpourri jars for the perfect small gift for any occasion. 

Clean baby food jars
homemade Cottage Rose potpourri
Lace doilies, paper or other
Miniature silk roses
Satin ribbon
Hot glue gun

Fill baby food jars with potpourri. Place lace doilies on top of jars, then use a reserved lid to press down and twist lightly making a firm rim impression on the doily.

Remove doily, then place a few drops of hot glue around the jar rim and fit lace doily back on securely

Place ribbon around the rim of jar and tie into a bow.  Put about 2-3 drops of hot glue under the ribbon (1 in the front of jar under the bow, and another in the back) to keep ribbon secure. Then glue a small paper or silk rose onto the center of the doily. 

Small packets of cottage rose potpourri can find a home in lingerie and sweater drawers, mixed in with linens, in the folds of clothing inside suitcases, on coat hangers in the closet, at the party table as favors... almost anywhere a fragrant perfume is invited. Use readymade lace handkerchiefs for quick sachets.

Cottage Gift Basket Idea
Fill a straw basket withcottage rose potpourri gift jars surrounded by several homemade sachets wrapped in a doilies and tied with satin ribbon.

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