The First Cold Morning
You know the one. When you wake up and the air has that bite. You pull on socks for the first time since May. Someone in the neighborhood is burning leaves even though they're not supposed to. This is the bundle for that morning and every one that follows until spring.
We packed it with the things people actually reach for when fall hits. The tea that gets brewed every afternoon around 3pm. The candle that makes the kitchen smell like you've been baking all day. The body scrub that sits on the tub ledge because it gets used, not stored under the sink with the other stuff.
What Makes Our Autumn Harvest Gift Bundle Special?
- Cider + Spice Tea (3.6oz): Cinnamon, apple fruit pieces, rooibos, and calendula petals. Tastes like the cider stand at the farm market.
- Cranberry Honey (11oz): Pure, raw, minimally filtered cranberry blossom honey. Star K Certified Kosher. Not cranberry-flavored honey — actual honey from bees working cranberry blossoms.
- Autumn Harvest Body Scrub (8oz): Organic cane sugar and honey crystals with pumpkin seed oil and walnut shell powder. Base of sunflower seed oil, coconut oil, shea butter, and cocoa butter. Essential oil blend.
- Autumn Harvest Body Butter (7oz): Sweet almond oil, coconut oil, organic cocoa butter, beeswax, and Bee Inspired honey. Absorbs without leaving a film. Same essential oil blend as the scrub.
- Autumn Harvest Soy Candle (6oz): 100% American-grown soy wax, cotton wick, phthalate-free fragrance oil with pumpkin spice notes. Burns for 30+ hours.
- Real pumpkin spice: Pumpkin seed oil in the scrub, warming spice notes in the butter and candle — cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove, not candy-sweet artificial fragrance.
- Made in Maryland: Small batches at our Owings Mills facility, checked before they ship.
The fall bundle people buy for themselves, then get asked about by everyone who visits.
How to Use: Brew the Cider + Spice Tea for 4–5 minutes; add a spoonful of cranberry honey to balance the tartness of the apple. Light the candle before dinner and let it burn for at least two hours so the wax melts evenly across the top. In the shower, massage the body scrub onto damp skin in circles, rinse, then apply body butter while skin is still slightly damp. When everything's empty: the candle jar holds pencils, the tea tin holds paperclips, the honey jar is good for cotton swabs or loose change.
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Autumn Harvest Gift Bundle FAQs
What does Cider & Spice tea taste like?
Apple and cinnamon, in that order. Real apple from dried fruit pieces, not flavoring, and cinnamon that adds warmth without taking over the cup. The rooibos base is smooth and slightly earthy with its own natural sweetness, so most people find the cup doesn't need a thing added. It tastes like mulled cider, simplified. The calendula petals are mostly visual, a sprinkle of marigold confetti floating on top, and don't change the flavor.
Is Cider & Spice tea caffeinated?
No. The base is South African rooibos, which is naturally caffeine-free. Rooibos isn't actually a tea plant. It's a legume. Either way, no caffeine. Brew it in the morning, in the afternoon, or right before bed without it affecting your sleep. It's a popular evening choice in households where someone misses the ritual of a hot drink after dinner but doesn't want to be wired at midnight.
What does Cranberry Honey taste like?
Sweet but never heavy, with a soft, recognizable cranberry tang underneath. Reviewers consistently describe it as reminiscent of cranberry relish, which tracks (same blossom, different form). The tartness is gentle rather than puckery, and it balances the sweetness in a way most honey simply cannot. If you have ever wanted a honey with the bright lift of fresh fruit and none of the cloying quality some varieties slip into, this is the jar that delivers.
What does Autumn Harvest smell like?
Real fall spice, not the artificial latte version. The blend is pumpkin, cinnamon, and clove essential oils with honey woven through it, so the scent reads warm and specific rather than syrupy or sweet. You get the spice up front, the honey settling underneath, and a softness from the cocoa butter base. Most pumpkin spice products lean candy-sweet. This one leans kitchen-sweet, like spices being toasted in a pan before they go into something.
How is body butter different from regular lotion?
Texture and staying power. Lotion is mostly water with a small amount of oil suspended in it, which is why it absorbs in a second and disappears just as fast. Body butter is mostly oils and butters with less water, so it takes a little longer to sink in but keeps skin feeling softer for hours. Ours is whipped to a lighter consistency than most body butters, which is why it absorbs in thirty seconds instead of leaving a heavy film. Use both if you want: butter after the shower, lotion for midday top-offs.
How do you apply body butter for best results?
Apply right after showering while your skin is still slightly damp. Scoop a small amount, warm it between your palms until it softens, then work it into skin in circular motions. The damp-skin step matters because warm, slightly wet skin lets the oils absorb faster and locks in more moisture. Concentrate on rough spots like heels, elbows, and knees. The whole thing should sink in within twenty to sixty seconds depending on the formula. If your skin still looks shiny after a minute, you used too much.
What's the difference between a sugar scrub and a salt scrub?
Sugar dissolves as you work it into damp skin, so the texture eases off the harder you press. That makes it gentler than salt for most body areas and especially for anyone with sensitive skin. Salt scrubs stay coarse the whole time and can sting if you've nicked yourself shaving. Our scrubs are sugar-based for that reason. Cane sugar exfoliates, then rinses cleanly without the stripped feeling some salt formulas leave behind.
How often should I use a body scrub?
Two or three times a week is the sweet spot for most people. Skin needs time to rebuild between exfoliations, so daily use can leave you feeling raw rather than smooth. If you're working on a specific rough patch, you can spot-treat it more often, just keep the rest of your routine on the gentler schedule. People with sensitive skin often do better at once a week. The goal is skin that feels softer afterward, not tight or stripped.
Ingredients
Cider + Spice Tea: Cinnamon, Apple Fruit Pieces, Rooibos, Calendula (Marigold) Petals
Autumn Harvest Soy Candle: 100% American-Grown Soy Wax, Phthalate-Free Fragrance Oil, 100% Cotton Wick
Autumn Harvest Body Butter: Distilled Water, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil, Emulsifying Wax (Cetearyl Alcohol, Polysorbate 60), Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis (Sweet Almond) Oil, *Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Seed Butter, *Stearic Acid, **Fragrance, Phenoxyethanol, Caprylyl Glycol, Sorbic Acid, *Cera Alba (Beeswax), Bee Inspired Honey, GMO-Free Mixed Tocopherols, Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Extract
Autumn Harvest Body Scrub: *Cane Sugar, Honey Crystals (Dried Honey, Cane Juice and Molasses), *Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil, *Stearic Acid, *Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Butter, *Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea Butter), Cucurbita Pepo (Pumpkin) Seed Oil, Polysorbate 20, Juglans Regia (Walnut) Shell Powder, **Fragrance, Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Extract, GMO-Free Mixed Tocopherols
Cranberry Honey: Pure, Raw, Minimally Filtered Cranberry Blossom Honey
*Organic Ingredient
**Essential Oil Blend
Dimensions
5 x 7 x 9.5 inches
All orders ship via UPS Ground. We DO NOT ship to PO Boxes.
You can also order and pick up from Honey House in Owings Mills, MD.

