I layer leaves (shredded by my leaf blower ) with kitchen scraps and
add a sprinkling of blood meal and keep it all moist to turn it into
compost quite quickly. During the winter, I just pour a three inch
layer of shredded leaves into my raised beds and come Spring, till any
remaining leaves into the soil.

The smell of chopped up leaves rates right up there with the smell of
freshly cut grass, two of nature's finest fragrences. Ok, this is
doing nothing to quell my Spring Fever!