Do you smell what I smell? How scents linked to Christmas have changed

While oranges and cloves moved from medicine cabinet to kitchen, rosemary fell out of festive fashion in England

The waft of pine trees and cinnamon biscuits may mean it is beginning to smell a lot like Christmas, but the odours that conjure up yuletide today may not always have had such joyful connotations, research has revealed.

Experts studying records of smells described in texts dating as far back as the 16th century say they have discovered the scents we associate with Christmas have shifted over time.