Wednesday, January 30, 2008

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!"

35 comments:

  1. Wow! How awesome is this?! I would love to try the Serendipitous, Hiris, or Joy....What a treat this would be! I have been caught up in the same purfume cycle! Thanks for your wonderful generosity!
    sblilly14(@)yahoo(.)com

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  2. I would love to try Caleche by Hermes
    and Hiris by Hermes. Your so sweet for offering such valuable prizes.

    jafarhie[at]yahoo[dot]com

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  3. Thanks so much for doing this!

    ahiltzy@yahoo.com

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  4. OOh, awesome! I'd love to try Allure or Hiris.
    Thanks!

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  5. I need something different. I will take whatever you want to send that would work well for a road rage magnet. (It happened again today but this time holding my cell phone and acting like I was calling the cops and giving a description of the car made her turn around in the middle of the road and haul ass in the other direction.)

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  6. If I win, I'd take any of the milder scented perfumes!
    I realized I've been wearing the same perfume since highschool... so dated.

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  7. I have NO perfumes and would love to try absolutely anything, if you have something left! Thanks and please stop by my giveaway too!

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  8. love to try the serendipitous, hiris, or madeleine vionnet because i've never smelled (smelt?!) those

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  9. I'd like to have the Allure by chanel if it isn't spoken for.

    Count me in please.

    Thanks for the giveaway!

    Stop by my place to win a bath set & candles or one of two copies of a book I'm giving away. Don't miss the daily edition of contests galore that I post on my blog.

    Laura @ Laura Williams' Musings

    email is in my profile or you can contact me via the contact form on my blog.

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  10. Great giveaway. I hope I'm the lucky winner!!! :)

    I'd like to try the Hermes fragrances and Joy.

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  11. They all sound lovely. The allure sounds fabulous. I am not picky. Any would be appreciated. Many thanks!

    My email is holladayfam(at)gmail(dot)com.

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  12. Hope I win. I love it! can I decide if I win? I am not familiar with any....
    lbratina@bellsouth.net

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  13. Please enter me in your contest
    Jen

    whitty4jen@yahoo.com

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  14. So, if there's anything left by the time you get down to my sorry old self, let me know. I'm easy. ;-)

    I have no perfume since my Poison ran out (well, one bottle? just went rancid, I think).

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  15. Jardins de Bagatelle by Guerlain

    Caleche by Hermes

    Eclat d'Arpege by Lanvin

    Please enter me in your giveaway. Several of the fragrances sound really lovely! Thanks!

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  16. Hmm, the Hermes would be divine. Great giveaway! Count me in. bebemiqui82(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  17. I would love to try these. I haven't tried any of these exceptAllure which is what I normally wear and like alot.

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  18. Ohhh, count me in! Thanks for the giveaway. :)

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  19. Don't know a damn thing about perfume, but I like deep musky smells, like Opium. The other stuff smells horrid on me.

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  20. Awesome! I would love to give those perfumes a try :)

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  21. I love smelly things! But I have no idea what any of those are supposed to smell like. I generally like warm fragrances more than cool, but if I win you can just pick whichever ones. If I don't like them, I can just spread the love and pass them on. :)

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  22. Thanks you for a chance to win. I'd love to win the Joy. Who couldn't use more "joy" in their lives? Count me in!

    braysgram@aol.com

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  23. I'd like any of them

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  24. I have always wanted to try Joy or Hiris. What a fun giveaway.

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  25. I just want to know what a 'garden of bagatelle' is ...

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  26. did I mention that I'd like to try ombre rose? because I would.

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  27. Allure is my sig scent. Thanks!!!

    hianded@earthlink.net

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  28. This is fun. I don't know any of those perfumes, but I go for a more musky, not flowery smell. I'd have to let you chose for me.

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  29. Wow! I don't know any of these perfumes either, but would love to try any of them (and have lots of students/etc to pass them on to if they don't work for me. I promise I'd find them a good home!). That being said, I like the names of Hiris by Hermes and Serendipitous by Serendity 3! :)

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  30. i love to smell good :) you can choose the perfect scent for me :)
    thanks~missy

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  31. I'd love to try the Guerlain, Hermes or Lanvin fragrance. Thanks for the chance to win! mlciavola(at)yahoo(dot)com.

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  32. I wonder if you & my mom frequent the same sites, she actually is really about make-ups & moisturizers that everyone online is raving about, lol. I would like Joy, Allure & Serendipitous I think :)

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xxx, Poppy.