The Midwinter Archive | Limited Edition Winter Dusting Powders & Holiday Stillroom Gifts

What is the Midwinter Archive?

The Midwinter Archive is a seasonal capsule of handcrafted stillroom gifts — limited-edition powders, keepsakes, and scent rituals gathered just for the winter months. Each piece is numbered, scented with winter memory, and wrapped with care for quiet gift giving and personal ritual.


Pressed Balsam and Winter Linen return as numbered editions, each carrying the scent of balsam, linen, and light.

Archive

noun — the stillroom’s way of keeping time; each field, scent, and vessel marked, wrapped, and saved.

Rooted in the Stillroom Tradition.

  • Collected in Winter. Rooted in the Stillroom Tradition.

    Pressed Balsam · Winter Linen

    Discover the season’s limited stillroom scents
    A simple way to begin your winter ritual

Introducing The Midwinter Archive — Limited Edition Winter Dusting Powders


A collection of winter-scented keepsakes and stillroom gifts — gathered into silver tins, vintage vessels, and glass jars. Each one is crafted in small batches, wrapped in cloth and calm, and meant for quiet ritual and remembering.

  • To hold one is to keep a fragment of the season: a trace of balsam, a drift of linen, a whisper of hearth and pine.
  • To gather them is to collect the Archive itself — a stillroom apothecary of limited winter editions for gift giving, collecting, and scenting the season in your own quiet way.

(from our Seasonal Woods & Weather Collection — featuring Pressed Balsam)

“The scent of balsam and woodsmoke is absolutely perfect — soft, not overpowering, and it lingers in the most comforting way.”

— ★★★★★ Melissa R.

“Pressed Balsam has become part of my morning ritual. The texture, the scent, the packaging — everything feels like a small piece of calm.”

— ★★★★★ Hannah W.

“Every order from the Stillroom feels like a gift. Beautifully wrapped, and the powder leaves my skin so soft.”

— ★★★★★ Deb L.

Each Blend Belongs to the Midwinter Archive

Powders finely milled in the quiet of the stillroom — folded with care and scented in step with the calm of winter.

Each edition is gathered by hand and marked by number, a fragment of balsam, linen, and light preserved for the season.

Available in:

  • Stoneware Crocks & Salton Jars — heirloom vessels meant for the dresser or daily ritual, wrapped in cloth and lace.
  • Heritage Refill Bottles — generous glass milk bottles refills for continuing the stillroom tradition.
  • Sample Envelopes & Travel Tins — simple parcels for discovery and gifting.

Every scent is part of the numbered Archive, accompanied by its story and field notes — a quiet record of winter to be kept, gifted, and remembered.

Explore the Collection

Balsam gathered from the hillside, frost softening the light — reminders that each scent begins in the calm of the season.

From the Midwinter Stillroom

The Work of the Stillroom


Each piece begins by hand — powders milled, puffs crocheted, labels tied and trimmed in the stillroom’s winter light.

Nothing hurried, only the quiet rhythm of making.


The Ritual


A dusting for the skin, a scent for linens, a small comfort for cold mornings.

Talc-free, naturally scented, and made for daily use through the season.


The Archive



Every vessel is numbered and gathered in the Midwinter Archive — a brief collection of winter calm, wrapped and offered in limited quantity.


the stillroom watchman, wilber- a friend of the mink and the fox.

A Season Pressed in Memory


Wilber, the stillroom’s silent watchman — friend to the mink and the fox, and keeper of winter secrets.