Fortuna and a new web address
THE COMPETITION IS OVER, THE QUIZ IS CLOSED! THANK YOU TO ALL WHO PARTICIPATED. THE WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED SHORTLY IN A SEPARATE POST.
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Today is the day where we make something “first” on this blog….The first give-away of perfume samples that are not from Tauer Perfumes!
Take your chance and WIN (yes, YOU can be a lucky winner!)
one out of three sample sets (containing three perfumes) from a line yet to be discovered by perfume lovers. This line is brand new and (if you are living in the US) you can not buy these samples before mid 2008! All three scents are at perfume concentrations, they are outstanding and all three scents will be reviewed in the following days by myself.
So…you want to give your luck a chance: Here is how……
Answer the following 11 questions and write down the first letter of your answer, from 1 to 11, replacing the “x” .
| x | x | x | x | x | x| x | x | x | x | x |
If you are not sure whether you got the right word: add www. before the word and .com after it and check whether you get a nice looking website.
If you have done it right: Send the word to perfumer(at)tauerperfumes.com and be a lucky winner if you are lucky….as we will pick out randomly three winners.
QUESTIONS:
1) You get a trial version from a niche perfumer that he/she asks you to test. What do you tell the perfumer?
Very nice!
Forget it!
Get lost!
2) A perfumer proposes to make a donkey with strawberries perfume, featuring notes of donkey, strawberries, gold ambergris and diamond musk.
What do you tell the perfumer?
Expect troubles when entering the market!
Wow!
Love donkey smell!
3) Which of the following essential oil exists.
Sparrow
Bacon
Rosewood
4) Chypre by Coty is what kind of perfume?
Average crappy chypre
A fruity floral with a chypre background
Outstanding chypre
5) Your guess, the next celebrity perfume: What will it be like?
Probaly fruity floral
Wild smoky leather
Very wet dog with damp sheep undertone
6) Good perfumes can make you happy.
Right
Wrong
7) The name of the one and only limited edition by Tauer
Sands
Orris
Rubbish
8) You get the chance to describe a new perfume, and try to pick the proper words
to describe its fouly tomatoe note. What words do you pick for the post on your blog?
Phruity phloral
Fouly
Red
9) You are happy and get a position at Guerlain’s. You got the power to decide on the fate of the classics.
Asked about the idea of rebuilding Jicky around a blueberry-pineapple accord to make it more fruity floral you answer:
Yes, we can sell much more and find a celebrity for it!
We should use a banana-pineapple accord!
Under no circumstances!
10) Name the animal that got almost extinct because part of it was used in perfumery:
Ethiopian desert poodle. People used to cut its tail off and extract a fragrant oil
Tragelaphus imberis. Found on the Arabian Peninsula and hunted for its feet. The word amber (ambergris) goes back to this antelope as European sailors misunderstood imberis (pronounced :iammb’ris)
Moschus moschiferus, hunted for their glands before organic chemistry saved them.
11) You enter a perfume shop. Sales folks ask you whether you would like some samples of everything they have in stock. Your answer?
Oh, yes, please and you fade.
Ahh, I don’t know, too much to sniff these days. The sales folks fade.
Well, maybe I’ll come back later, with sniffapalooza folks. The shop owner fades.
Now take the first letter of your answers and fill them in, from 1 to 11. And enter in your browser window:
www.———–.com to test.
If you found out the right answers, and want to win one set out of three with all three perfumes samples: Send a mail to perfumer(at)tauerperfumes.com. Do not publish the solution in your comments, please…
And pray that you will be the lucky winner. BECAUSE, YOU WILL BE ONE OF VERY FEW OWNING THESE TREASURES IN THE US UNTIL MID 2008.
WE WILL PICK THE LUCKY WINNER BY HAND AND ANNOUNCE HIM OR HER HERE ON THIS BLOG!
Stay tuned for the reviews of these perfumes…
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THE COMPETITION IS OVER, THE QUIZ IS CLOSED! THANK YOU TO ALL WHO PARTICIPATED. THE WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED SHORTLY IN A SEPARATE POST.
May 29th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Well, Snookums,
I just emailed you…hahaha.
May 29th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
hehehe, trust me: I enjoyed doing this like a little boy. But now: I don’t know what snookum means (my leo online dictionary failed to give me an appropriate anser). let me guess: slow snail?
Hugs to you my dear
May 29th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
I am emailing you as we speak!
now very curious about it! (but I never win anything, so I shall probably have to wait…)
May 29th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Dear Arhianrad
wait and see, sometimes Fortuna makes exceptions ;-)
Greetings to you and thank you for your mail
May 29th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
Hi Andy,
just emailed you..
wearing a bit of your Le maroc Pour Elle-it has something addicting about it-even though I am not a rose person, I find myself wanting to sniff it.
May 29th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
Hmmm, I take these things too seriously because I can’t find my letters. In a few cases I would not answer any of the alternatives. Then I realized that if I answered “Ahh, I don’t know, too much to sniff these days. The sales folks fade.”, then it would not make much sense on top of that to play the game:) What an interesting questionnaire. Is there an answer that can eliminate you?
May 30th, 2007 at 5:28 am
Dear Lavanya
Thank you! I got your mail and keep fingers cross for you!
Dear Maire-Helene
Please, do not take things seriously here. The answers are somewhat…hmm…funny!
I will publish the first review today, around noon local time, by then the answers must be there.
Let me help you. The last question is not fair…I can feel it might be “Oh yes..”
May 30th, 2007 at 7:48 am
Awww, this is too good!
I am mailing you as speak ;-)
Nice looking website.