GIVEAWAY!! Library of Flowers 12 x 1ml Sampler
Heya Posse Peeps
Portia from AustralianPerfumeJunkies here with an embarrassing story. Recently on Surrender To Chance there was a special deal on the Library of Flowers 12 x 1ml Sampler. Like a fool, I ordered 2 and now have a spare that I’d like to give one lucky reader, so we’ll have a GIVEAWAY.
Photo Stolen Library Of Flowers
From Surrender To Chance: A new line bottled by Margot Ellena of TokyoMilk fame. The line is American small batch perfumery and the fragrances are carefully crafted to create memorable journeys through sight and scent. Each scent features a single top, middle and base note. They are eau de parfum, edp.
I FREAKIN’ LOVE GIVEAWAYS!!
GIVEAWAY COMPETITION!!
THE PRIZE
One 12 x 1ml Sampler Set of Library Of Flowers fragrances
P&P Anywhere in the World!
HOW DO YOU WIN?
You have to leave a comment telling us your favourite flower, or flower fragrance. That’s IT!
For an Extra Chance you can Tweet: @OzPerfumeJunkie @PerfumePosse http://wp.me/p2Ptth-3Y1 GIVEAWAY!! Library of Flowers 12 x 1ml Sampler
HOUSEKEEPING
Entries Close Sunday April 21st 2013 10pm AusEST and will be announced in a special post that day.
My partner Jin will do the draw honours. The names will be placed on the same sized papers, folded similarly, placed in a bowl and a winner picked, often Jin doesn’t even look up from the TV to do it.
The winners will have till Wednesday 24th April 2013 to get in touch (portia underscore turbo at yahoo dot com dot au) with their address or I will give the prize to someone else.
No responsibility taken for lost or damaged goods in transit.
If you think this is good then trot over to AustralianPerfumeJunkies and see what’s going on over there too.
Love and hugs,
Portia xx
Dionne, do you know when 28 La Pausa will be discontinued? I’m new to explroing perfume and I’m TRYING to be judicious about buying everything I want right, which is a lot! I LOVE 28 La Pausa but was hesitating bying it because it just doesn’t last long on me. Should I jump on it? I’m feeling a little panicked that I might never get it if I wait.
I’m sorry I can’t give you more details than that, Maren, all I know is that they’re phasing it out because of the new 1932. I’m not a true enabler (who would be saying “Buy! Buy! Buy!”) because that’s not my style. After three years being down the rabbit hole, I can attest there are a lot of lovely things out there, but you should only be buying the fragrances that you don’t have to think twice about. 28 LP is in my all-time top three, but I have no problems with longevity.
How much of the iris note have you tried thus far? What is it about 28 LP that you loved?
Dionne, thank you for your thoughtful response. Speaking as another iris “ho” I’d say I’ve tried about 15 now. I just can’t get enough of it and my first big purchase exploring perfume is SL Iris Silver Mist. I’m lucky a friend recently picked up a bottle for me in Paris, and I had NO hesitation on that. I like your advise that I should only buy what I don’t have to think twice about. What makes me hesitate on 28 LP is that I love it, but I love No. 18 too. There’s something in them both that has kind of a doughiness that I LUUUUV, does that make sense? Maybe it’s the musk? I’m too new at this to know. I thought maybe it could be the ambrette of 18, but that is not listed in 28, but I definitely get kind of the same scent, just not as pronounced as in 28 LP. I just love them both, they are the softer comfier side of the note, and I can’t decide which to get. I bought 2 ml sprays and ran out of them both in days.. and can’t stop thinking about them. But now that I know 28 is being discontinued…well. I may have to get a couple more samples, just to compare and make sure. You are so right though, so many lovelies to try out there. Gosh, how the heck did I end up falling down this rabbit hole?!!! Anyway, I’m glad to know that if I do decide I have to have it, I should buy it soon. Seriously, your comments were really helpful.
Oh, P.S. I love Après l’Ondée too.
Because it’s over here at the Posse instead of APJ, I’m jumping in on this giveaway. 🙂
You might already know I’m an iris ho in terms of fragrance, but it’s my favorite flower as well. They’re just so elegant, I adore them. My favorite iris fragrance (technically cheating, because we’re usually talking about the root when we discuss iris frags) is 28 La Pausa. Just learned it’s going to be discontinued this year, so I’ll be snagging the BIG bottle
Favorite legitimate floral fragrance is Après l’Ondée.
I love orange blossom, and lately am wearing Ellie Saab.
My favorite flower scent is violet–although violet scent does not actually come for violets. I love how it develops in Bulgari Pour Femme and Apres l’Ondee.
Apres L’Ondee. GORGEOUS!!
Portia xx
my favorite flower is the carnation but i also love Gardenias.
You have great taste, I love a carnation tooo.
Poretia xx
Love all flowers but I especially love to gaze on a bunch of irises or tulips. As for a favorite floral scent, im going to say jasmine, as when I catch a whiff on a cool night breeze. favorite jasmine note in perfume? Samsara by Guerlain. Thanks for the generous giveaway!
MMMMM Jasmine in Samsara! We took the jasmine out because it was knocking down a fence, now there are thousands of runners each year to get,
Portia xx
My scent favorite is honeysuckle – it always reminds me of playing in the evening near the garden gate as a child…
Honeysuckle can read beautiful or disgusting on me, same perfume different wears. Interesting huh?
POrtia xx
tweet-https://twitter.com/AnnaKulu1/status/325673969518788608
My favourite flower is the rose
The rose is king, do you have a favourite colour?
Portia xx
My favorite flower is osmanthus, which has a special meaning for me!
What is the special meaning Sabrina?
Portia xx
I have too many favorite flowers… but lately I’ve been attracted to magnolia for some reason: I love how it’s narcotic, indolic facet seems to bond well with musk- like in Profumum Roma’s ‘Eccelso’.
I think I need to go try me some Magnolia, or find some scented ones in Australia.
Portia xx
Violet was my first love and I’m still quite fond of it.
What an interesting first love Mindy, you bypassed all the easy stuff and went straight to perfumista hardcore. What drew you to violet?
Portia xx
I’m a rose and spicy carnation lover.
sweet giveaway, thanks! but i wanted to see what you were wearing today! i love your sense of style!
okay, to answer your question and enter the sweepstakes: my favorite flower is the rose. there are days when i think jasmine is my favorite (like today, when a cool, fresh breeze brought hints of it and i just wanted to stand still and breathe deeply for hours), but deep down, it’s rose.
now, as far as looks go, i think i might like them all. all flowers have character and personality, and i have yet to see one i didn’t like!
cheers,
minette
Sorry Minette,
We have just completed a new set of LIVE Video Sniffs so look out for those. Sadly I am in Track Suit Pants, Polo Shirt and Hoodie today.
I think rose might be my secret fave too and I too have yet to find an ugly flower in life.
Portia xx
Today I am really looking forward to the virburnum blooming, so virburnum it is! Then it will really be spring. I don’t know of any virburnum perfumes, though
Sorry Nemo, Can’t help you with Vibernum perfumes, not one listed in Fragrantica. WOW!
Portia xx
There is one: Boudoir by Vivienne Westwood. Fragrantica doesn’t mention the viburnum note, but I’ve read many times that the fragrance was based on this blossom. Eg: “Boudoir(‘s) … top note is deliberately strong, designed to ‘make men’s heads turn’, with a full nose of viburnum blossom, a fresh and sparkling note that has never been used in perfumery before.” [source: http://www.foundem.co.uk/M/clothes/Fragrances/Vivienne_Westwood/Boudoir.jsp%5D
I LOVE Boudoir Christine W, have you tried the Body lotion? It’s fabulous.
Portia xx
Favorite flower? That’s difficult…I’d have to say lilies, I guess, and Diorissimo!
Lillies and Diorissimo, A classisist MaggieCat?
Portia xx
I’ve been craving rose, right now. My fav.
MMMM Rose is good Lydia. What have you been spritzing? Neela Vermeire Mohur? Une Rose by Malle? Parfums de Rosine?
Portia xx
Maybe a memory is creating this craving for rose scent. Like I craved Iris a couple of years back when I first found Lucky Scent. There was a small Iris farm in the middle of the town where I grew up. The town had expanded around it and simple errands took us by it on a daily basis. Spring was filled with memories of the Iris, moving too fast past me as we drove by, in exaggerated color. Spring is moving pretty fast for me now and I have none of those scents that you suggested, Portia. The other day I decanted the only rose scent I have which is a bottle of culinary rose water. I stood breathing it in. lol. I’m afraid that you are speaking with an olfactory palette on a budget. The memory in my life that is causing this craving for rose is not close to me. I don’t know what it is. However, if I were to describe what I would like to wear within the rose genre I would say something lovely, sophisticated, and modern. Something that would introduce me before a meeting with grace and a bass rift of intrigue. That’s what I would like from a rose scent. When I found Lucky Scent I ordered up a handful of samples only to find that I didn’t like a lot of them. And I realized that all of the years of breathing in simple essential oils and department store scents might have made me unable to appreciate more complex scents? Hmmm, I wonder. Also, I would love to try them all. Really. Educate myself. Pretty sure I’m ready to dig further into my budget to do that. Thank you for this blog.
My favorite flower is the gardenia…and the perfume that does it justice is Marc Jacobs. I have collected many perfumes…some pricey and some not…my favorite has to be Hermes Merveille….Love!
You pick 2 great faves. Gardenia is so lovely, isn’t it.
Portia xx
I’m smitten with rosé/carnation. My favorite right now is Égoïste
I bet you small amazing in Egoiste Ferris,
Portia xx
My favorite flower is probably gardenia. I have yet to find a perfume that captures it for me, but I haven’t tried too many, either! I have your voice saying “leather” in your wonderful Aussie accent in my head all week from the last live video sniff!
Hey Elena,
Mmmmmmm Gardenia, earlier I posted this link to an Aussie perfumer who has done the most spectacularly photo realistic gardenia, extrait strength and sends to the world. Extremely affordable. http://www.perfumeandskincare.com.au/category42_1.htm Perfume & Skincare Co. Gardenia Flower.
Portia xx
Thanks for the giveaway first of all! My favorite flower is orange blossom, and probably my fave scent of it is Ava Luxe Neroli Blossom.
Another Ava luxe lover. They do good stuff, don’t they? Their web address http://www.ava-luxe.com/ Go check them out.
Orange Blossom is gorgeous Stacey.
Portia x
i do love the scent of roses. Le labo rose 31 is currently wafting around me. I’ve never smelled the osmanthus flower. I love Ormonde Jayne’s perfume of it and had a fantastic conversation about the scent of the flower at the dog park, of all places.
Aha!! The secret Dog Park Sniffer got you. Funny where conversations happen, isn’t it. We spend so much time on the internet talking, writing, thinking perfume and then BAM, someone round the corner adores it. I hope you’ve made a new friend,
We have a hideous gorgon of a woman at our local dog park who hates greyhounds, we don’t go there anymore, she is hideous, and obnoxious.
Portia xx
I love linden, lilac, osmanthus, and carnation!
My current favorite floral scent is CdG Carnation. Kind of obsessed with it, though it doesn’t last long on me.
I have not spent enough time with the CdG range and think it is my next frag destination. Osmanthus! Lovely choice.
Portia xx
My favorite flower scent? I love the smell of roses! Also those Japanese Cherry blossoms.
Hey Leanne french,
Cherry Blossom is beautiful, we used to have them in the front yard. I love it when the yard looks like it’s just snowed under them
Portia xx
I would love to be in the draw! I am just starting out in the perfume world, although I have always been sensitive to smells and the memories they bring.
I have really started to enjoy Queen of the Night Cactus. My all time favorite is roses – I have to stop every time I see a rose bush and it also reminds me of my mother’s lipstick. Some of my favorite spring scents right now are White Jasmine and Mint by Jo Malone, Frederic Malle En Passant, and Kai, but they change quite often!
Get used to your favourites changing and evolving. Thank goodness for sample and decant stores so you can buy a decent size to trial,
I hope your adventure down the Fragrant Wormhole is as fun and fulfilling as mine is and has been. Welcome
Portia xx
Lilacs! Yet I haven’t found a lilac perfume that does it for me.
It will happen Michelle. They are probably preparing it at Amouage right now,
Portia xx
I die for tuberose. Just returned from India where I bought the pure oil. It’s heady, seductive, a little dirty and totally mesmerizing. In my perfume closet I have Serge Lutens Tuberose Criminelle, Mona di Orio’s fabulous Tubereuse, Fracas (natch), Heely’s Bubblegum Couture, by Kilian Prohibited, Frederic Malle’s Carnal Flower.
Where were you in India Mary Orlin? Don’t you love it? I will be back there in May and I long for it.
Portia xx
I’m a gardner most and foremost, I love flowers and it’s tough for me to pick one. But my jasmine sambac is so wonderful these days that I’ll have to go with it. And Sarrasins.
Nice choices and I miss my times in the garden. Not enough to change my life but certainly on occasion.
Portia xx
Never heard of this brand before! Very nice bottle!
Favorite flower is orange blossom and in perfumes I preffer the absolute. The steam distilled neroli is not very close to the flower. They are in bloom now and I’m in heaven!
Hey Amer,
They are a new brand. It’s very exciting to be in on the ground floor,
Orange Blossom is the BOMB.
Portia xx
My favourite flower is Jasmine. My favourite flower perfume and overall favourite perfume is Puredistance M.
Aaaaah, jasmine: what a fragrance it has and I have purposely kept myself out of the Puredistance market for fear of FBing
Portia xx
I love carnations, my favorite floral is Iris Silver Mist and I would love to win this draw
thanks a lot, Portia
Carnations are getting some serious love today Irina, and ISM is also getting more than most.
Good luck in the draw.
Portia xx
I don’t think there is a flower I don’t like. Last year however a was in Seville when the orange trees were blooming. Pure heaven walking the streets of this beautiful city while sniffing this beautiful fragrance. I absolutely need a bottle of Seville à l’aube just for those memories.
Dina56,
You need to organise yourself a bottle then. even a decant, Seville a L’Aub is gorgeous,
Portia xx
Without a doubt, iris make my heart swoon. Where I grew up we had a neighbor who grew them commercially, and seeing and smelling that field of those gorgeous flowers in all their variety is an early happy memory for me. I love their scent, and being new to exploring perfume, I have been sampling all the iris I can get. I love the variety of the iris fragrances I have tried, but I was especially thrilled that a friend was able to pick up a FB of Serge Lutens Iris Silver Mist for me on a recent trip to Paris.
You are a VERY lucky person Maren!
Portia x
Magnolias are my favorite flower. So sultry and exotic looking but so innocent and creamy-soft at the same time. A perfect blend of faint sweetness mixed with tree-greenery tartness. And, believe it it or not, the only perfume I’ve found with magnolia notes done to my olfactory satisfaction (suggestions welcome), Is Black Amethyst by Bath and Body Works. So many other things going on in that one, but besides the magnolia note, the whole overall mood of that one reminds me of a humid southern night hanging with magnolias.
Magnolias in Sydney are not so scented I think. Even under the tree in my BFFs families house in full bloom I get nothing much sadly. Maybe there is a particularly scented type in the US.
Portia xx
I absolutely adore asiatic lilies and have them through the house when they are flowering. I love the Ylang ylang type scent. My favourite floral scent it Penhaligons Lily and Spice ? Thanks for the super awesome and generous draw..
Oh yes MonsoonalMusings2, It’s such a green, sappy but still warm and sensual fragrance. Glorious!!
Portia xx
I love casablanca lilies – big, beautiful white bombs of spiciness! It’s not a note found very often in perfume, unfortunately.
Hey LisaD,
I love them too but can’t sleep with them in the house. They give me extremely bad sleep, restless and filled with nightmares.
I wish they used it more in fragrance too but maybe it’s a little funereal?
Portia xx
I love all flowers, but my favorites to wear in perfume are rose, violet and Iris. Waiting on a bottle of Rosine Rose Kashmirie to arrive, been lusting after that one for years and finally ordered it!
Good one Tara. I LOVE Rose Kashmiri and have been quietly lusting after it myself. I’ve drained two decants already. One day it will be in the collection,
Portia xx
Wisteria! Love it!
I love wisteria, such great memories of a HUGE vine in our back yard as kids
Portia xx
As for actual flowers, I love tulips and lilies. However, in perfume I enjoy neroli and orange blossom, gardenia, ylang-ylang, and sometimes tuberose. Thanks for the opportunity to win the samples!
You are welcome Kandice. we have quite similar taste in flowers for fragrance. I love all your faves.
Portia xx
I have so many favourite flowers! And I have no garden at the moment, not even a sunny windowsill (sigh)… Sweet peas, daphne, poppies, roses, violets, sunflowers, I will grow you again one day!
You will DEFINITELY grow them again one day Amy V. While we were living in London in the mid 1990s we took a basement apartment under Portabello Rd in Ladbroke Grove, the only window to the world that got light was a one foot square pane of glass in the kitchen. I do know how you feel.
Portia xx
favorite flower: lilies, especially white lilies (Casa Blanca). And lotuses. And honeysuckle, forget-me-not, calla lilies, myrtle…
perfume….hmmmm. I love my teeny sample of Ellie D which is jasmine, and Keiko Mecheri Genie des Bois which is violet (and cedar)….Parfum Sacre and Jo Malone Orange Blossom too. Don’t know if I have a favorite.
But I’d love to find new favorites! please count me in!
GOSH! Mim you have a great set of frags in front of you. I particularly love Parfum Sacre.
Portia xx
Iris is my favorite flower today. My most recent Iris love affair is with Hermessence Iris Ukiyoe.
Iris is a firm fave today Melanie wallwork and the Hermessence is a delicious find for lovers of the note.
Portia xx
Do love tuberose, especially as a sexy evening scent, so even with the freaky-weird opening I’m mad for Tubereuse Criminelle. Also favor dark roses, and my first true perfume love was, is and always will be Artisan’s Voleur de Roses.
I have never sniffed Veleur de roses. How does it smell?
Portia xx
Voleur de Roses has that almost pepper-y, earthy, crushed after-the-rain scent dark red roses can take on, with patchouli, plum and bergamot also. It is dark, rich and glorious, never girly or old-lady fusty the way some rose scents can be. A must-whiff by my account. 🙂
Thank you. I will investigate!!
Portia xx
And another fan of Stargazers here! Gorgeous scent and flower. I would be interested in finding a perfume to feature it, even if only briefly. Thank you for the generous giveaway, Portia. Happy weekend!
Thanks, Having a great weekend CC! My day off is Friday. These Stargazers are really getting some attention. I hope the perfumers out there are taking note,
Portia xx
Yosh Han makes a perfume called Stargazer that is supposed to feature that note. I’ve seen it, but it’s been a long time since I’ve smelled it, so I couldn’t say exactly how true it is. Luckyscent has it if nobody near you carries it.
Oh, thank you so much, Jennifer! 🙂
My favorite flower is the daffodil. I like the unique shape of the blossom and how they are among the first flowers to appear in the spring. Since they don’t have much of a scent, I will also mention my favorite floral perfume. It is Creed’s Spring Flower. I almost feel like I should wait to wear it – I live in Minnesota, and we got more snow today!
Daffodils are lovely, and friendly and BRIGHT YELLOW around here. Wear your Spring Flower anyway. Spritz with abandon MaryK.
Portia xx
My earliest scent memory is my grandfather’s lilac trees in bloom…
That is an amazing first scent memory. How old do you think you were annieA?
Portia xx
My favorite flower is narcissus. I would love to enter the drawing
Great choice Sara. i love Narcissus too,
Portia xx
My favorite flower is the carnation, which I do love in perfume. But my favorite perfume flower note right now is definitely violet!
WOW! You are our first vote for violet today I think. So tasteful and cool, classy and understated. MMMMM. Just like you I bet Clara
Portia xx
It’s just too hard to pick a single flower as a favorite! I love garden plants that have a family/sentimental connection. I have a peony that I transplanted from my great-aunt’s garden — I treasure it for the memories as much for the heavenly scent. Thanks for the draw, Portia.
WOW! Hereditary peony! That makes it so special. What colour is it? I don’t think they grow here in Sydney Australia.
Portia xx
I’ve had a lovely time just thinking about all the flowers – still too early here for much of anything to be out. Right now I’m loving daffodils because they’re usually the first bit of brightness peeping up. Thank you for the giveaway opportunity.
Hey Spiker, soon enough you will be inundated with flowers. I hope the daffodils are beautiful for you this year.
Portia xx