Saturday, July 31, 2010

Natural Perfume Giveaway ...

Want to share?

I never normally win a thing in giveaways and draws - but by some amazing luck I managed to score an incredible spray bottle of scent by California Perfumer JoAnne Bassett.

It's completely delicious, and since I have so much, I'd love to decant a couple of 1.5 ml samples and give them away.

The perfume is called 'Sensual Embrace' - you can see it and read about it here. It's made entirely from natural ingredients - a rare thing in perfume these days! (Although a small but growing number of artisan perfumers are doing it.) JoAnne created this perfume as part of The Mystery of Musk Project recently run by the US-based Natural Perfumers Guild.

To enter, just add a comment to this post, and I'll put all commenters in a draw, which my lovely assistant (AKA my daughter) will help with.

I have some other small samples of JoAnne Bassett's perfumes as well, though I'm keeping those to myself! She is amazing. (I read somewhere that one of her perfumes blends 39 natural ingredients. It seems hard to me to blend three without it smelling like a dog's breakfast.)

If you're interested in finding out more about natural perfumery, I have a small article on it it coming out (I think) in the August/September Good magazine. I'll also blog about it some more.

12 comments:

JoAnne Bassett said...

Thank you Johanna for your compliments. I am glad you love it and sharing it with others is really great.

www.JoAnneBassett.com
www.joannebassett.etsy.com

Gill said...

Sounds lovely, please put my name in for a chance to win a sample.

Kathleen said...

Oooh, that sounds gorgeous! What a lovely blog to stumble upon on a cold Saturday morning :)

Kathleen said...

He he...just realised I follow your other blog too! I heard you on National Radio when you were talking about Rose Geraniums ;)

A Life Less Complicated said...

sounds lovely! I love your other blog too (and no I haven't learnt to knit yet so the skeins of wool are still tucked away with their little scented sachets - mmm yum)

Kay said...

39 ingredients? how amazing.. it sounds lovely

Nigel Olsen said...

39?! I hear what you're saying about combining just 3 - I'm having trouble with my bitters, trying to establish a clear cut, discernible flavour. Back to the lab, I guess!

Nik said...

Sounds divine, would love to go in the draw.

Bellatrix said...

I have been reading all alon about MoM and I would love to try a piecee of it :) :) btw, are you perfumer as well?

Johanna Knox said...

Thanks for the comments - Kathleen and Bellatrix - it's nice to find your blogs!!!

human pheromones said...

I am so interested on this JoAnne Bassett's perfumes good that you shared this I will definitely love this.

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