Scented candle tins, eight in a box

You hand it across with the box closed. The person opening it sees colors, lifts eight small tins and smells the first one. One evening of scent rather than a season. It reads like care, not spectacle. A card can be added if you want the note to be the first thing they read.

Buy eight and you change a room that needs little presents. Line them on a shelf, leave them by desks, give one to each person at a table. The effect is small and direct. It keeps the moment light and gives you something simple to pass around at a birthday.