With the beginning of the month of December, every year millions of people count the days leading up to Christmas with the Advent Calendar, an increasingly widespread and consolidated tradition also in many commercial sectors. What exactly does it consist of? Let's find out now!
The origins of the Advent Calendar
In German-speaking countries, where Protestantism originated centuries ago and has spread enormously house after house, the importance of living in the family while waiting for Christmas (the holiday dedicated to the birth of Jesus) has always been very high. L'Advent it is the liturgical season including the four Sundays preceding Christmas, during which Christians prepare themselves spiritually for the celebration of Christ's coming into the world.
To involve children more and give them a more concrete idea of the passing of time and of the days that anticipate one of the most important events of the year, starting from second half of the 800th century in many homes drawings depicting saints or Christmas images were used to be hung daily on the walls or on the windows, forming a sort of "thematic calendar" perfect for creating an atmosphere of celebration, discovery and watchful expectation. Another very common practice was to mark the passage of days from the beginning of Advent to Christmas day with chalk lines on a wall.
Il Advent Calendar as we know and understand it today was born in Germany in the early twentieth century, thanks to the growing commercial success of special printed sheets with religious images or short poems to be cut out and pasted daily on a page with blank boxes from the first day of December until the 24th, Christmas Eve. Year after year, these celebratory calendars have become richer and more elaborate, coming to have special three-dimensional boxes containing chocolates, biscuits or other types of sweets to feed the little ones (but not only!) the daily desire to mark the days with surprise after surprise.
An unstoppable success
More than a century later, there are no limits to the commercial use of Advent Calendar, able to excite and gratify practically anyone. In addition to the classic desserts (of all shapes and types), they exist Advent calendars dedicated to perfumes, herbal teas, cosmetics, bijoux, coffee capsules, beers, make-up, toys, candles and, essentially, anything that can be contained in a creative and captivating way in boxes, drawers and numbered containers.
Un Advent Calendar represents agift idea intriguing and engaging and is perfect for surprising and entertaining those who receive it little by little. On our site you can find beautiful Advent calendars of the most prestigious Italian and international brands in the world of artistic perfumery, full of valuable scented surprises to discover day after day!
