The Spoils

I just handed off the majority of the sample packages to the carrier services, so most of you should receive your packages before the week is out (fingers crossed).

There are three people who haven't yet contacted me with their mailing addresses: Musette, Robbie Dillon and Chayaruchama. I'll be able to complete the mailings once those addresses are in hand. (*update: just need an address from Musette now -- calling Musette! update 2: A-Ha! Musette has answered the call, and all the samples are spoken for and out the door!)

Again, everybody, thanks for participating in the Lucky Scent sponsored Une Rose Chyprée giveaway. It was great fun to be able to introduce Tauer's new fragrance, and tossing in extra handfuls of the samples I have should result in packages that provide each winner with a few weeks of happy testing on his/her own.

Dawn Spencer Hurwitz, an excellent independent perfumer out of Boulder, Colorado (NY Times fragrance critic Chandler Burr tagged some of her work with a glowing review), has supplied me with a more than generous amount of samples lately, and I passed a number of them on so that most of you could experience at least one piece of her work for yourselves. I think you'll be pleased to make her acquaintance.

I'm presently loving the everlasting h*ll out of Hurwitz's Tamarind Paprika fragrance -- a spicy incense with subtle florals and a smoky finish that hits me right in the bullseye. I kept that one for myself!