Cloves, cinnamon and oranges

Dressed up with a black velvet band, the oranges pricked with as many cloves as you like to make a pattern with combined with  decorative cinnamon sticks makes for a lovely X mas scented table arrangement, 

Cloves (Syzygium aromaticum) are the aromatic dried flower buds of a tree in the family Myrtacae. Cloves are native to the Malaku Islands in Indonesia and used as a spice in cuisines all over the world. Cloves are harvested primarily in Indonesia, India, Madagascsar, Zansibar, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. (source : Wikipedia)