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So this was fun and educative. Never before were the samples of my anniversary gone so fast! Faster than last year. And faster than at the last give-away thing (those who want to see the happy easter rabbit hopping around on the website again…click here).

Messages to learn: Next time I have to make it more complicated and make a quiz or so. And I am getting known in Far East it seems. There are some samples on their way to Japan, Korea (south), Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan.

And the US. Lots go of them on their way to the US! Most of them are on their way already, as I shipped 90 this morning, visiting the post office, making my woman in yellow sweat, and ultimately breaking the ATM (postomat it is called in Switzerland) with my old postcard. Well, to be honest, the stupid thing had troubles, refusing to take my card, and it got completely blocked with it after my intervention because I peeled off some stuff….after my visit, the post office had 90 samples to ship and an ATM to be fixed by a mechanic. And I have to order a new card.

Fragrant greetings to you all.

the samples…

the envelops, 90 of them, in paper bags, standing in the corridor ready to be carried to the post office…

ALL 100 SAMPLES ARE GONE!
THANK YOU TO ALL WHO PARTICIPATED.

AND SORRY TO ALL WHO CAME TO LATE. PLEASE CHECK IN AGAIN WHEN WE CELEBRATE 4 YEARS PERFUMERY BLOGGING.

SENDING YOU ALL FRAGRANT GREETINGS.
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Well… almost! In a week I am celebrating 3 years of perfumery blogging, but I will be on a 3 day hiking trip then. Thus, we celebrate today!

Thank you all for your reading, your participation, your comments, your shared passion, your following my work. I appreciate a lot!
Time to give a little bit something back! Enjoy!

Samples for you
In celebration of this anniversary I give 100 samples away, first come first served. Just fill out the form and you will get a 2 ml sample by mail.
The sample
The sample is a pre-sniff of the upcoming Vetiver fragrance. The fragrance still has no name. It is a fragrance built around vetiver from Java, with fresh grapefruit, lots of black pepper and green clary notes in the head. Lily of the valley contrasts the dark vetiver and crisp Cedar wood, leading over to a soft ambergris base with hints of Tonka beans and cistus. I will launch it October 2008.
Shipment
Your sample is shipped within a couple of days, by Swiss Priority Mail at no cost to you, without bothering you later with follow-up mails.
And now?
Follow this link to the form, fill out the form, press the submit button once, wait until the form is emptied and then you are in.

Please participate just ones. If the form does not show, please be patient. Then the website server is at its limits ;-)
Thank you.

I am working on a translation of the folded flyer (A5->A6) going on top of the sample discovery set.

So here I am, realizing that the general structure underlying German and English is not the same. In German we can easily say “Duftende Welten entdecken” but in English “scented worlds discover” does not work. So I have to change the content a little bit. I want to keep the flyer visusal structure: Word, word, (flower picture) verb and a little bit of text.

Thus, a first draft goes like:

Page 1: Evocative perfumes seduce
Discover the fragrant world of Andy Tauer’s perfumes.
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page 2: Creative compositions enchant
Andy Tauer creates fragrances with loving care.
He is an independent Swiss perfumer and creates perfumes without compromise. The result are truly unique fragrant pictures.
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page 3: Precious essences bewitch
Perfumes, created in the best tradition of perfumery.
Exclusive essences and fragrant concentrates unite for your pleasure in extraordinary perfumes.

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Page 4: Exclusive perfumes charm
All fragrances are made in Switzerland, where we pour and pack them by hand.
Enjoy these luxurious fragrances.
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fragrant discovery set, as uploaded on Medieval art&vie

Finally, the eagerly awaited, long promised, finally delivered Sambac Jasmine absolute sample landed on my desk. Or better: On the dining table. Where it sends out immense, unheard of clouds of … white jasmine flowers with a sweet powdery line complementing an indole line that is incredibly present. Greetings from Janus. Where white beauty and black magic meet.

What is striking is the green line in the scent, if approached from a distance. It reminds me somewhat in a geranium concrete that I got the other day and that still needs more thorough examination. Sniffing the orange coloured absolute of Jasmine Sambac directly, undiluted from a strip, however, it is heavy, intense, almost suffocating white floral notes with heavy indole lines. If you do not know what indoles smell like: Think feces. Sorry, can’t help it.

So you start wondering. Thus, you return and return to this scent, repelled and at the same time fascinated. Nature has placed this wonderful white scent on a background that makes you think in many things but not flowers. Except if you are an insect, I guess.