Ponderosa Thread Gloss Scent Profiles

Natural: Contains Beeswax and Coconut Oil, unscented except for the naturally fragrant organic and local beeswax. A calming neutral among the chaos of life.

Birthday: A limited edition blend of Ponderosa Thread Gloss made for Paige, Ponderosa's founder's 30th birthday. This exclusive scent blend is reminiscent of spending your twenties reading in Olympia bakeries and coffee shops: lots of cardamom and lavender. A birthday spice cake for a millennial milestone: welcome to the 30's, where everything is guaranteed to be more peaceful. Contains local beeswax, organic coconut oil, and the following essential oils and extracts: lavender, cardamom, vanilla, allspice, nutmeg, cinnamon.

Bohemian: Contains Beeswax, Coconut Oil, Ylang Ylang Essential Oil, Palo Santo Essential Oil. Smells like an easy Sunday morning where the kids are behaving, the coffee is good, the record player doesn’t skip, and no chores need attention. Peaceful, happy, stress-free.

Cascades:  Contains Beeswax, Coconut Oil, and the following essential oils: Blue Spruce, Fraser Fir, Lemon, and Cedar Bark. Smells like the hike to the Diablo Lake overlook, minus sunscreen and sweat.

​Cozy: Contains coconut oil, beeswax, and the following essential oils: patchouli, vanilla, and cedarwood. Smells like warmth, happiness, and joy. It's that hand-scooped vanilla ice cream cone you're eating after riding your bike to the local sugar shop. It's a hearth surrounded by plants, local art, incense, and vintage records playing. It's like settling into home habits with the one you love after your honeymoon. It's crisp and comforting, woodsy with hints of floral.

Creamsicle: Contains Beeswax, Coconut Oil, Sweet Orange Essential Oil, Vanilla Essential Oil. Smells like childhood summers chasing the ice cream truck.

Daydream: Contains Beeswax, Coconut Oil, and the following essential oils and extracts: ylang ylang, nag champa, sandalwood, and rose. Reminiscent of reading books on rainy days during college, looking out the window, pondering the future, with a vintage record playing in the background. A peaceful, calm scent blend.

Equinox: Contains beeswax, coconut oil, and the following essential oils and extracts: pumpkin, clove, vanilla, nutmeg, ginger, and cinnamon. The quintessential autumn scent that will make you want to order a venti PSL, scroll Pinterest, and live your unapologetically best basic life. Some things are commonly loved for a REASON, right?

Golden Hour: Contains Beeswax, Organic Grapeseed Oil, Organic Fair Trade Coconut Oil, and the following essential oils and extracts: Peach, Creosote, Sage, and Clary Sage. Imagine an early evening hike in the American Southwest. The smell of peaches wafts over from one of the few remaining ancient peach groves, while you dustily wander through chaparral as the sun sets over the mountains. It's peaceful and everything you ever needed, in this moment.

Hippie: Contains Beeswax, Coconut Oil, and Frankincense Essential Oil, smells like your childhood visits to the Food Co-op.

Horizon: Contains Beeswax, Coconut Oil, and the following essential oils and extracts: Bergamot, Grapefruit, Orange, Neroli, Cedarwood, Sage. Evokes feelings of hope, passion, and perseverance. A beam of light seen through the crushing weight of modern life. A break, an opportunity, the energy to move forward.

Homestead: Contains beeswax, coconut oil, and the following essential oils: tomato leaf, lemongrass, lemon, basil, and thyme. Smells like you’d imagine a Phoebe Wall print would if it was a real life scene.

Marie: Contains Beeswax, Coconut Oil, rose and patchouli essential oils. Romantic, calm, inviting, wholesome and slightly bohemian.

Olympic: Contains Beeswax, Coconut Oil, Lavender Essential Oil, smells like the Sequim lavender festival.

Santa Fe: Contains Beeswax, coconut oil, prickly pear essential oil, lime essential oil, smells like a margarita on a terra cotta patio.

Solstice: Contains Beeswax, Coconut Oil, and the following essential oils and extracts: lemon, ginger, patchouli, cedarwood, geranium, and saffron. Inspired by the divine feminine represented in the changing of seasons, and the hopefulness of new beginnings. This scent blend feels simple yet complex, feminine yet neutral, and earthy yet crisp.

Southern: Contains beeswax, organic fair trade coconut oil, and the following essential oils and extracts: peach, lemon, chamomile, lilac, bourbon. Smells like sitting on the front porch after a nice rain, sipping a warm peach tea with a little bit of whiskey added in, just for fun on a Saturday afternoon.

Taos: Contains beeswax, organic fair trade coconut oil, organic grapeseed oil and the following essential oils and extracts: vetiver, juniper, creosote bush oil, clary sage, cedarwood, copaiba. This is a very subtle, slightly masculine scent inspired by my very specific experience in Taos and the surrounding areas—trekking around in the high desert plateau and mountains; getting sunburns while hiking on snowy trails one day and alongside bighorn sheep and cacti the next (and watching the bighorn sheep come way too close, with my husband’s arms around me, in awe and totally nervous); eating picnic lunches in the back of our pickup truck; staying in a yellow vintage trailer and feeding the resident pig named Maxine; ridiculous sunsets and views; drinking craft beer; daydreaming, taking pictures of everything. Feeling completely at home in a place we’ve never been before.

Tropics: Contains Beeswax, Coconut Oil, and the following essential oils and extracts: mango, coconut, and sandalwood. Transports you to the elusive tropic anywhere-but-here.

Vacay: Contains Beeswax, Coconut Oil, and Coconut Essential Oil, smells like a tropical vacation.

Y2K: Contains beeswax, organic fair trade coconut oil, and the following essential oils and extracts: cucumber, honeydew, jasmine, chamomile. Imagine the era of blow-up neon furniture, colored iMacs, Backstreet Boys posters, beaded curtains, making collages from magazines and playing MASH at a slumber party, passing intricately folded notes in class before most of us had cell phones (and the coolest people had the hot pink Razr flip phones or side-kicks), the height of rom-coms, and low-rise jeans were all the rage. It’s reminiscent of the iconic cucumber melon Bath & Body Works scent from the early 2000s that we all coveted, made modern. Where my cucumber melon girlies at??