With Labor Day behind us, summer is officially over. For Californians, that doesn't mean much because the sun shines nearly all year long. In the Golden State, it's not the change in climate so much as it is the change in atmosphere that rings in the fall season. Fall announces itself with the smells of harvest in the air, soft yet distinctly pronounced. Bakeries and pastry shops are scented with pumpkin pies and apple ciders and the hunt for the right Halloween pumpkin is just as important as preparing Thanksgiving dinner.

To indulge in the last bits of summer and ease yourself into the coming holiday season, you should treat yourself to a day of tranquility! So let go of any residual summer travel tenseness and relax to the smells of autumn spices guaranteed to put your mind at ease, one grape seed oil massage stroke at a time.

A good starting point for your spa retreat is a nice, long massage of the can-we-please-pretend-the-sixty-minutes-are-not-over-yet kind. At Auberge du Soleil in Napa, you'll be begging for the clock to be reset as you're pampered to pure relaxation with the Cocoa Cabernet Scrub and Massage. It's a wonderful treatment that uses Napa Valley grape seed oil and local red wine. Located farther south, visit the Agua Serena Spa at the Hyatt Regency in Indian Wells to indulge in the Fall Restoration Package including a Bourbon & Brown Sugar Body Scrub followed by a massage using a deeply hydrating shea butter that will nourish the skin. Before saying goodbye to the holiday season, be sure to check into the spa at the Ritz-Carlton, Los Angeles for its signature Hot Chocolate Stone Massage, a holiday twist using soothing chocolate oils with heated basalt stones to relax knotted muscles, relieve tension, and rejuvenate the holiday spirit.

Body wraps and scrubs are usually an impulsive add-on spa treat, but the following experiences are so eclectic and exciting that you very well might make them the focus of your escape. In Napa Valley, Meadowoodfeatures a Grape Seed Harvest Wrap that includes a dry brush and hot towel compress, an exfoliating Cabernet Passion Fruit scrub, a hydrating mud masque, and a massage while being wrapped in warm blankets. Or, check into the bliss spa at the W San Francisco and experience a contemporary take on a fall treatment, The Carrot & Sesame Body Buff. The Spa at Pelican Hill in Newport Beach combines fresh figs and pure botanicals for a scrub and moisturizing wrap in its Seasonal Fig Body Gelato (and completed with a fig gelato treat of course!). In the Central Coast, the Four Seasons Resort The Biltmore Santa Barbara welcomes you to the Grape De Vine treatment – guaranteed to extract the toxins accumulated within your body and to give you peace of mind with a grape seed body scrub. At Ciel Spa inside the SLS Hotel Beverly Hills, renew your skin with a body exfoliation and treatment wrap and pamper your spirit while sipping hot chocolate and nibbling on seasonal treats while doing so. And what about a bubble bath? At the Willow Stream Spa at Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn, you can let your mind wander while experiencing The Harvest Kur, an exfoliation treatment to naturally stimulate your immune system before enjoying a delightfully rich bubble bath, a grape seed mud and rosehip body wrap, and an idyllic full-body massage.

If you fancy a luscious facial treatment, you have many options across the state. In Sonoma, Willow Stream Spa at the Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn offers a Pumpkin Enzyme Facial, a treatment that promises to soften the appearance of fine lines, improve texture and pliability, and help lighten hyper-pigmentation. In Gold Country, spoil yourself with a Pumpkin-Apple Spice Enzyme Facial at Sacramento's Emperia Spa at the Hyatt Regency (which is undergoing major renovations to become a full-service spa by the end of the year). The Ritz-Carlton, Half Moon Bay features a luxurious 90-minute Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Facial that utilizes a pumpkin enzyme mask to accompany with the area's popular Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival. High in beta carotene and vitamins A and C, the mask leaves the skin smooth, plump, and hydrated. In San Diego, the spa at Hotel del Coronado invites you to a Blueberry-Redcurrant Facial that helps stimulate oxygen to the skin in order to expedite the detoxification process; and the Rancho Bernardo Inn offers an indulging signature Organic Cinnamon Twist Facial. Or try the Gentle Fig Facial at the Rancho Valencia Inn, a treatment that moistens your skin in nature's purest, most comforting botanicals from Morocco.

Also consider adding a mani-pedi while you're at the spa. Back at the Ritz-Carlton, Los Angeles, you can get a Merry Berry Manicure/Mistle-Toe Pedicure, a fragrant, all-organic treatment that begins with a fresh peppermint-infused milk soak to relieve tense muscles, followed by an invigorating pomegranate cranberry scrub and gentle blueberry shimmer moisturizing massage. Over at Agua Serena Spa at the Hyatt Regency in Indian Wells, you can also treat your feet to a Hot Apple Cider Pedicure featuring a cider fizzy ball float and a lower leg and foot scrub with whipped honey, a honey heel glaze mask, and a hot towel wrap – while enjoying a taste of hot apple cider to prepare you for the season of course! At the Rancho Bernardo Inn, the spa therapists await with their Cranberry Orange Tea Pedicure treatment, a deliciously aromatic treatment with fizzing soak, body polish, heel glaze, and massage. The Nob Hill Spa in San Francisco will delight you with an Autumn Spice Pedicure that features wonderful aromas of cinnamon, cloves, ginger, and cardamom to have you relax and enjoy the holiday season while sipping a warm cup of pumpkin spice tea. And last but not least,The Spa at Pebble Beach features a Pumpkin Latte Pedicure that begins with a creamy butter brûlée whole milk soak to relax tired legs and feet, followed by an invigorating caffeine-infused whipped caramel body polish to take away the rough edge.

In case you don't feel like mixing and matching your own spa decadence, why not let someone else do the work? The Ritz-Carlton, Lake Tahoe has created a special weekend package for two designed for couples to reconnect while enjoying a Lake Tahoe spa vacation. The package includes deluxe accommodations and one seasonal Signature Spa Treatment for each guest each day plus a private Partner Yoga session. In Santa Cruz, The Spa at the Chaminade has prepared a Fall Into Bliss package consisting of an Orange Spice Seasonal Facial followed by a Pumpkin Cinnamon Vanilla Crème Wrap guaranteed to hydrate your skin and relaxe your senses. And if you're up for something extraordinary, check into the Hard Rock Hotel Palm Springsfor an Energizing Salt Scrub and experience the spa's unique Rhythm and Motion concept, the world's first fully immersive music-centric spa menu utilizing amplified vibrations, pressures, and patterns, as the foundation of its treatments.

Say goodbye to summer and hello to the holidays – it has never felt so good!