Bloggy Giveaway Carnival--Fragrance giveaway winners

The fragrance giveaway was the easiest for me to decide, because it wasn't a random drawing--not with nine different things to distribute. Basically, I planned to start with the first commenter, give away the fragrances until they were gone, and then stop.

(If only life were always that easy.)

OK, I know I said you could ask for more than one, but I wanted to disappoint the fewest number of people, so starting with the first commenter who specified something, each person is getting one fragrance.

However, as a consolation prize, I'll stuff a few samples or decants into the packages. If you're reading this, ahiltz, email me and we'll work something out. (Also, blackbird--I do believe I have another bottle of Ombre Rose. I'll bet you can guess where.)

Here we go:

Sara gets the Serendipitous
Jafarhie gets the Caleche
m.e. gets the Hiris
flutterby gets Jardins de Bagatelle
Hanna of Cultivating Home gets Ombre Rose
Smellyann gets the Eclat d'Arpege
Naomi gets the Madeleine Vionnet
reeva gets Joy
and Laura gets the Allure

I'll email the winners this weekend--or feel free to email me.

Bloggy Giveaway Carnival--Perfumes that aren't good enough for me All gone!

You know how it is when you read a ton of makeup and fragrance boards and people are raving about some fragrance, so you click over to some on-line perfume store and they have free shipping, and some of the prices are unbelievable, so you buy a bunch of fragrances based on their descriptions, and when they arrive, they're OK, but you never wear them? And you want to get rid of them because each bottle sits there collecting dust and reminding you of the money you spent that you can't get back? And yet, the average thrift shop or rummage sale isn't interested in a bottle of eau de toilette with a half inch missing?

No? It's just me?

FINE.

Today's giveaway/virtual rummage sale is the following used fragrances:

Jardins de Bagatelle by Guerlain
Madeleine Vionnet
Caleche by Hermes
Hiris by Hermes
Serendipitous by Serendity 3
Ombre Rose by Jean Brosseau
Allure by Chanel
Joy by Jean Patou
Eclat d'Arpege by Lanvin

Because there are so many bottles, I'll send them to the first takers. Feel free to pick two or three, but don't go nuts and ask for the whole bunch, because that's not nice.

Bottles will be shipped out Priority Mail, probably next week, but don't hold me to it.

Also, I don't remember when I bought these, but most of them are two or three years old and used, OK? Except for the tiny (.05 oz/1.5 ml) bottle of Allure perfume, which I got as a free sample at the Chanel store in Paris because my attempts to speak French made the French ladies there decide that Americans are pleasant enough, maybe even charming, but hardly their intellectual equals. So they felt sorry for me, and loaded me with samples.

"Allons enfants de la Poppy! She is giving free perfume!"