I used every pumpkin spice product I could find for a week. Now I smell like nutmeg.

Anytime the writer encountered a pumpkin-themed product, she bought it, ending up with more than 40 items. But the flavor that heralds fall didn't get its start with Starbucks lattes in 2003. No, one of the first references to the spice blend appeared in a 1936 recipe — in The Post.
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