A huge round of applause goes out to everyone who entered the contest, to the judges who helped pick the finalists, and to everyone who voted to help us pick the winner. And, of course, thank you to Beautyhabit for providing the prize, a $150 gift certificate, which goes to…
Ecce Homo by Parfums Irrationalité, submitted by Elizabeth. Congratulations Elizabeth!
The runner-up: Divine Discharge by Mary Shelley Sillage Monsters, submitted by Quarry Joy.
And the authors of the other entries were:
Apple iSmell, submitted by MFfan310.
Rube Goldberg Gold, Produced by Unconventional Air Craft, submitted by Quarry Joy.
Beautiful Smells the Revenge…ha ha ha by The House of von Hoffhoster von Hosterhoff, submitted by Mlle. Ashley.
Wheeee! My German degree has finally paid off! My professors would be so proud of me. Thank you so much, everyone!!!
Congratulations! Well done, you! It was eminently deserved. What are you going to spend your winnings on? Tell, tell!
And finger-snaps to all the runners-up: you are all more brilliant than you have any right to be. I predict a stellar future in PR for all of you.
Thanks so much! I’m not sure what I’m going to choose yet. They have such a large selection!
Congrats! That’s well written for sure!
Congratulations! Great job by everybody, but this one got my vote!
You had my vote. And I’d actually BUY the darn thing. You know, I think ole Friedrich would have chuckled
Congratulations. I loved the deodorant bit and you got my vote!
Congratulations! You had me rolling with laughter!
*applause*
Congrats on a well deserved win. I must say it was very difficult to make a choice, as all the finalists had masterful entries. I swear I wanted to buy a couple of those “perfumes”!!
Congratulations! And like Chanterais, I want to know whacha gonna buy?
Congratulations! Well done.
May I extend my Chanel-fragranced hand today, Elizabeth, to concede to your finesse. Congratulations.
My daughter had a funny observation when she learned that both of my entries made it into the final five: Your Goldberg is going to Nader votes away from your Divine Discharge/Al Gore.
I was tickled to learn MFfan310 had contributed the perfectly name iSmell. I know you!
Mlle. Ashley, you could write for Mel Brooks with that “House of von Hoffhoster von Hosterhoff” line.
Thanks, Robin, for hosting the festivities and thanks to Beauty Habit for the sponsorship.
Truly, QJ– I couldn’t decide between the sillage monster and RG Gold– but in the end those sparkling aldehydes with the hangtime of Dennis Rodman got my vote!
And congratulations to every other entrant as well. I so hated to have only one vote.
And I extend my Guerlain-fragranced hand to you, Quarry. Your entries were great!
And I extend my By Kilian-fragranced hand to both Quarry and Elizabeth, along with all the others who participated in this competition! Congratulations!
We ought to have a prize just for getting two entries into the top 5…and you had a finalist in 2008 too! Very impressive.
Yes, our Quarry Joy is one of the most creative people around! Congrats to her!
Another sign of affinity: I’m wearing Chanel no 19 this morning.
Quarry, I actually voted for Rube Goldberg, with Ecce Homo almost tied. What a fascinating and beat poetic piece!
Yay, my favourite won! Congratulations!
Excellent! Congrats, and may you enjoy your booty.
I love this contest. Thank you to everybody who submitted…you considerably upped the entertainment quotient of my perfume readings.
Congratulations to all…and yes, a report on how winnings were spent would be swell.
Hurray! They were all excellent but I could not resist the Nietzsche.
Oh excellent! [That’s the one I ended up voting for too – but they were ALL great.] I’ve said it before, I’m sure I’ll say it again – there sure are some funny, creative, smart & talented folks around here!
CONGRATULATIONS ELISABETH AND QUARRY!!
Well done!
And thanks to Robin and the judges for hosting the contest and of course Beauty Habit for forking over the prize! (gotta love those BeautyHabit folks!)
Elisabeth –you must report back to us about what you select! (before we all start making helpful suggestions! –you know how we get around here.)
Good point – I love the folks at BeautyHabit, too. What a fun company to participate in this and what a generous prize!
Congratulations to Elizabeth, and again to all the finalists!!!
Congratulations, Elizabeth! I loved your entry and voted for it. The other entries were well written also. I enjoyed them all.
Congratulations, Elizabeth, and many thanks to all of you who made me laugh (yes, out loud) at those very witty entries.
Congratulations!!! Can’t wait til next year!
Next year’s contest, that is
Haven’t decided for sure, but I think we might go for every 2 years? We’ll see.
Elizabeth! Brava!!!
Congrats to all, but especially Elizabeth. You don’t need a German degree to love that Kant !!!! Please report back how you spent your well deserved prize.
Congrats Elizabeth! Psst…. buy Fifi Chachnil….
Congratulations! You must tell us how you spent your much-deserved winnings — that’s a categorical imperative!
Well done to all the finalists and particularly to Elizabeth, my favourite entry. It was just so believable in that “conceptual-pushing-the-envelope-loft-dwelling-perfumer-in-a-black-rollneck-sweater-and-edgy-specs” kind of a way.
My congratulations to to the winner (I loved your contribution!) and to the finalists, see you again in 1-2 years?