What is it: one 50 ml bottle of Tom Ford Violet Blonde. I sprayed it a few times, but it's nearly full.
How do I get it: For a chance to win, leave a comment telling me that you live in the US. Also, please tell us either a) your favorite violet fragrance or b) your favorite recently introduced movie, book or TV show.
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The contest will be open until noon or so on Saturday, and I'll announce the winner on Monday.
The fine print: Don't enter the contest unless I have permission to use the email address in your reader account to contact you. If the email address in your reader account is incorrect, you might want to fix it. If you are the winner and you fail to send me your mailing details within a couple weeks, I’ll give your prize away to someone else. Sadly, it sometimes usually takes me a month to mail a package. Reasonable care will be taken in the packaging and mailing of your prize, but if the contents are lost or damaged or fail to please you for any reason whatsoever, I’m sorry but I cannot replace them.
I live in the U.S., and you have my permission to use the email address in my account to contact me. My favorite violet perfume is SSS Wood Violet.
Hi Robin. I live in the U.S., and you have my permission to use the email address in my account to contact me. My favorite violet perfume this week is Violet Eyes by Eliz Taylor. I was shocked by how lovely it is and my hubs told me it is one of his favorite perfumes on me.
I live in the US, you have permission to use the email address in my reader account to contact me!
My favorite violet is Guerlain Insolence EDP version. Thanks for the giveaway!!
I live in the US and you have permission to use the email address in my reader account to contact me. My favorite violet perfume is Frederic Malle Lipstick Rose. Thank you for hosting such a nice giveaway, Robin!
I live in the US and you can use my email adress to contract me.
My favorite Violet is CdG Stephen Jones…the BEST!
My favorite TV show right now is the Big Bang Theory. There’s a new espidoe tonite!!
I live in the US and you can use my email address on file. I’m gonna go with favorite TV show MODERN FAMILY
I live in the U.S., and my favorite piece of new media is probably Happy Endings on ABC (the woman who plays Penny is *HILARIOUS*.)
Live in the US. My favourite violet is Balenciaga Paris even if it’s not really ‘violet-y’. Thanks! I’d love to win this one since it’s already on my list of things buy.
I live in the US, you have permission to use the email address in my reader account to contact me. My favorite TV show now is UK Channel 4’s mini-series “Any Human Heart.” Thank you Robin!
Oh boy! thanks for the draw.
I do live in the US. I’m not sure of my favorite violet. I think I’m still searching. reaaaaaaally want to try SSS’s violet.
Oh, and my favorite new TV show this year is ABC’s Revenge. I love trashy soaps!
I live in the US.
I’m not sure if I have smelled a violet perfume.
My favorite new perfume is Hanna.
I live in the U.S., and you have my permission to use the email address in my account to contact me.
I don’t watch a lot of TV so don’t know what all the cool kids are watching these days, but my favorite new show is Happy Endings. I especially love Daman Wayans, Jr.
Hi Robin!
I live in the U.S., and my favorite violet perfume is Balenciaga Paris. You have my permission to use my current email address. Thanks for the drawing!
Samantha
I live in the US.
I can’t wait for the new season of Dexter, I think it starts Sunday!!
I live in the US. For violets, I always loved Eau de Cartier. I smelled it just after it came out on a woman in a grocery store in Geneva and asked her what she was wearing. I promptly bought a bottle and then a second. That was ten years ago, and both bottles have been emptied. I enjoy a spritz at Sephora but won’t buy again. Now, for violets, I like Bois de Violette, which is more about woods than violets anyway.
I live in the U.S.
Tom Ford Violet Blonde happens to be my favorite violet fragrance. It might also be the only violet fragrance I’ve ever smelled, but it’s still my favorite. 😉
My fav new tv show of the season is a tie between “New Girl” with Zooey Deschanel and “Free Agents” with Hank Azaria. Favorite returning shows are “Parks & Recreation” and “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.”
i live in the US, and my newest favorite Violet fragrances is Violet Tendencies from Smell Bent.
I live in the U.S.; you may use my email. Favorite recent book: Room, a novel by Emma Donaghue. Thanks for the contest!
I live in the US and you certainly have my permission to use my email address. I’m not sure about violet fragrances… I’m sure I have some, but I’m not sure which they are!
The (not so) recent book I’m enjoying the most is John Goldingay’s commentary on the Psalms… I’m also having fun with a book on mathematical billiards, and I just finished reading one of the oldest English novels, Robinson Crusoe. Strangely, Robinson never talks about smells on his island!
I live in the US (Boston) and you totally have my permission to use the email address in my account to contact me!
I have never been a fan of violet fragrances but was blown away by Tom Ford’s Violet Blonde when I tried at Saks the other day. As for TV shows, for the past couple of weeks I have been obsessed with UP ALL NIGHT, the new comedy show on NBC. Maya Rudolph doesn’t just steal all the scenes she is in, but she SUCKS them like the latest Dyson vacuum, runs away with them and SCORES big time. Love love love her.
I live in the US, & you have my permission to use the email address in my account to contact me. My favorite violet perfume is Bois de Violette.
I live in the U.S.
I don’t have a favorite violet perfume! One of my favorite new-ish TV shows is Happy Endings, it’s so funny and kind of goofy which is just perfect for me!
I live in the U.S. And I give u permission to use my email… My favorite tv show is family guy 🙂
I live in the US and would love to win this fragrance. As of right now, my favorite Violet fragrance is CdG’s Stephen Jones – so far nothing can beat “meteorite” and violets….
I live in the US, you have permission to use my email address, and my favorite TV show right now is “The Vampire Diaries” (because I lead a very dull life :))
I live in the US, and you can use the email address in my account to contact me. I watched Pan Am, and it might make it to my dvr list.
I live in the US and you have my permission to use the email address in my account to contact me!
My favorite Violet fragrance, by far, is Jolie Madame by Balmain. Nothing better than violets and leather, no?
I live in the US. My favorite violet perfume is Augustin Reyes’ Agua di Violettas.
I live in the US and you have permission to use the email address in my reader account to contact me. My favorite violet perfume is Frederic Malle Lipstick Rose.
I really like the new movie. Moneyball. Hope Brad Pitt gets his oscar.
I live in the US and you can use my email adress to contact me.
My favorite violet fragrance is Balenciaga.
My favorite new TV show is Pan Am. Just a lot of fun and froth.
Hi Robin!
I live in the US (as far as I can tell). I’m enjoying Unforgettable so far – she’s great, and we’ll see how far they can go on that premise.
For added TMI, I’m intrigued by the shake-up at Law & Order SVU, no more Eliot, and some interesting recognizable newbies!
Keep smelling nice!
Dave
I live in the US, and my favorite violet is Sonoma Scent Studio Voile de Violette. Also love Insolence.
I live in the US and you have my permission to use the e-mail address from my account to contact me.
My new favorite TV Show is Mad Men. I watched all four seasons on Netflix in August.
I live in the U.S., and you have my permission to use the email address in my account to contact me. I’m looking for a great violet scent. Maybe this will be the one! I haven’t tried it yet.
I’m a devoted True Blood fan, but if I must tout something new, I’d go with Maria Bello’s, Prime Suspect.
I live in the US and you have my permission to use my email address in the reader account.
I’m reading 2666 by Roberto Bolano now and loving it, though I’m in a particularly gruesome section right now. It’s a novel set in northern Mexico, close to the border, in a town that has a serial killer who’s killed hundreds of women. Not all of it focuses directly on the killings, but the section I’m reading now does. It’s a sprawling novel, about 1000 pages long, and I’m only two-thirds finished.
I’m in the US, any you have my permission to contact me. My favorite violet is Smell Bent Violet Tendencies (in fact, I need to order another).
Favorite show right now is Fringe, I’m hoping we get to keep our side’s Lincoln! Favorite books right now, are not recent, I’m re-reading the Thieves’ World anthologies and there are plenty of smells mentioned. NOT pleasant smells, but plenty of them. Favorite recent movie? It would have to be Contaigon (another thing I don’t want to smell,) as it’s been the only one I’ve bothered to go see in a few years.
(can anyone tell I don’t really enter/read those of these I read/enter for the perfume?)
*sigh* Back to work…
I live in the U.S.
My favorite violet fragrance used to be Lolita Lempicka, but lately, it has become too sweet for me. I was surprised that I liked Violet Blonde so much. It is softly spicy, with a lovely suede note.
The last book I read is _Becoming Marie Antoinette_ by Juliet Grey. It is the first book of what will be a trilogy and focuses on the early, formative years of the princess in her native Austria and the first years as a dauphine in France. It is well researched and very enjoyable to read.
Thank you for the opportunity!
I live in the US, and I’m wearing one of my favorite violets today: Aimez Moi.
Hi Robin! I live in the US and you certainly have my permission to use the email in my reader account to contact me. Violet is one of my favorite notes (along with its cousin iris), and my favorite violet scent is Serge Lutens Bois de Violette. I’m wearing it right now, layered with Odin’s 04 Petrana … mmmmm. 🙂 I haven’t begun watching any newly introduced TV shows, so no new faves there. I guess the newest book I have recently read is George R. R. Martin’s A Dance With Dragons. Thanks for the great giveaway!
I live in US too. My favorite violet fragrance would probably be Les Secrets de Sophie. I know it’s not a violet focused perfume but it’s the one I feel the violet plays the center part for the beauty it adds to the composition.
I live in the U.S. My favorite violet fragrance is probably Aimez Moi by Caron.
I live in the US and my favorite Violet fragrance is PARFUMS DE NICOLAI Violette in Love and my new favorite TV show is Revenge………thanks for the wonderful draw.
I live in the USA. I am liking Bois de Violette by SL.
Favorite movie by far this year was BUCK a small documentary about a real horse whisperer that played at Sundance and then in small art houses.
I live in the US. My favorite violet perfume is SSS Wood Violet. My favorite new TV show is The New Girl!
Thank you for the chance to win this, Robin! *happy dance*
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It is hard to say which violet is my favorite since it is one of my favorite notes and depends on my mood, but a three way tie for the top spot would be Balenciaga Paris, Lolita Lempicka Midnight and Violetta di Bosco, with runners up being Violetta di Parma and Violette Precieuse.
This afternoon I’m baking cookies while watching Blood Simple (’tis the season for noir, thrillers and horror movies when kiddos are away or asleep), one of my fave Coen movies and one I’ve rediscovered after what feels like forever, and wearing Prada Candy because it seems like it would go well with baking cookies. 🙂
I live in the US and you have my permission to use the email in my user account.
My favorite violet fragrance is Serge Lutens Bois de Violette.
Thanks!
Thanks for this, Robin. Yes, you have my permission to use the email in my user account.
Not sure about my favorite violet: I know some would be horrified by my liking (very occasionally) to wear the original Insolence… I don’t find myself able to ‘do’ Violetta and other sweetish ones so not quite sure how come this one works for me. I also like SMN Violetta di Bosco but not the ‘weird’ ones like Stephen Jones, or even SL Bois de Violette. And, having said no to sweet ones, I do find that Feerie makes me smile! OK, stopping now.
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The last movie I watched was The Help, I loved it! I just purchased the book and can’t wait to dive into it.
Thanks and best of luck to all!
Thanks for the drawing Robin! I do live in the very wet and rainy part of the US.
a) Sonoma Scent Studio Voile de Violette
b)Movie: Limitless w/ Bradley Cooper
Robin: Please enter me in the drawing. I live in the US (San Francisco) and my current favorite recently introduced TV (cable) show is “The Living Dead”, the denizens of which could certailnly use a good violet perfume. Being dead and all. –Scott
I live in the USA and I love Apres L’ondee, which is very hard to find here.
I live in Southern California, USA and you have my permission to contact me via the email in my profile.
The last book read was Going Postal by Terry Pratchett, one of the cleverest comic minds on earth. Sadly, he’s enduring Alzheimers, but what a legacy of work! I love The Big Bang for it’s incredible snicker factor and Morgan Freeman’s Through the Wormhole to stretch my mind. My favorite violet based scent is Apres L’Ondee.
I live in the US and you can use my email to contact me.
Don’t have a favorite violet scent yet but I’m working on it.
Don’t watch too much tv but now that it’s football season I guess I can say my favorite show is whatever game is on on Sunday.
Thanks.
I live in the US, & you have my permission to use the email address in my account to contact me.
I’m still looking for my favorite violet. Favorite new (returning) TV show: Parks and Recreation. Favorite really new show: Person of Interest – because I adore Michael Emerson; and I’m looking forward to seeing if “Grimm” is any good. Favorite new book: Rules of Civility by Amor Towles – an “I-didn’t-want-it-to-end” kind of book.
I live in the US! I’m so excited that I’ll answer both a and b! A) My favorite fragrance with a violet note is Balenciaga Paris. B) I’m reading Paradise Lost by John Milton right now for graduate school. All that smell of hellfire, sulfur, and smoke that I’m reading about should be balanced out with a good whiff of Tom Ford’s Violet Blonde, don’t you think? 😀
Here is the first instance of scent (sulfur) in Paradise Lost: “…hope never comes / That comes to all; but the torture without end / Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed / With ever burning sulphur unconsumed” Don’t you think I could use some violet to ward that stink off?
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Can’t say I have a favorite violet perfume but I love lots of perfumes containing the violet note: Guerlain Apres L’Ondee would probably be No.1 in my book.
I live in the US and you have my permission to use the email in my user account.
My favorite violet fragrance, so far, is Lipstick Rose. It reminds me of the candy lipstick they had when I was a kid.
I live in the US and you have permission to use the email address in my reader account to contact me.
I love Bois de Violette.
I live in the US and you have my permission to use the email address.
I enjoy both Dans Tes Bras and Caron’s Aimez Moi.
I’m really enjoying the new tv shows “Free Agents” and “Up All Night.”
I’d love to be entered in the draw. I live in the US.
My favorite violet scent is probably Caron Aimez Moi.
As far as new TV shows: I’ve been enjoying both the New Girl and Whitney..:)
Thank you, Robin!
I live in the US, and my favorite violet perfume is probably L’Artisan Verte Violette, but I also love the Stephen Jones Cdg violet; heck, I love ’em all, violet is one of my favorite notes!
Speaking of violets, does anyone know of they still make Devon Violets? I loved that as a young girl….sigh….
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My favorite violet scent is Violettes de Toulouse.
I don’t watch TV (actually don’t even have one), but my current favorite books are the Millenium Trilogy or the Game of Thrones series.
Hi Robin.
I’m blonde and violet/purple is my favorite color, so I think I should definitely enter the draw. I live in the US and my email is at your disposal.
As a Caron fangirl, Violette Precieuse would be my fav violet scent.
Fav tv show right now is Harry’s Law. Love Kathy Bates and love Jean Smart’s Hosanna/Roseanna character. So deliciously catty. I’m finally starting to miss Boston Legal a little bit less.
Just got around to diving into the Game of Thrones books and am finding them to be as engaging as advertised.
I live in the US and my fave violet is Guerlain Insolence.
Fave TV show at the moment is Masterpiece Mystery!’s new run of Inspector Lewis.
I live in the US ans you have my permission to use my email address.
My favorite violet is The Different Company’s Parfum de Sens et bois
Favorite show on TV right now is Castle and of course reruns of good old and timeless Frasier Crane
I live in the U.S., and you have my permission to use the email address in my account to contact me. My favorite violet perfume is SL Bois Violette!
I live in the U.S. and you have permission to use my email address.
Favorite Violet fragrance is Bois de Violette.
I too live in the U.S., and you have my permission to use the email address in my account to contact me.
Fave violet: Insolence EDP.
I live in the U.S., and you have my permission to use the email address in my account to contact me.
This is perfect timing, I wore my sample of this on Tuesday as I traveled to Atlanta on business. I was uncertain about it after reading the comments it was “loud”; however I rathered enjoyed it.
My favorite violet is SL Bois de Violette.
My favorite recently introduced TV shows are Prime Suspect and Unforgettable
Hey! I live in the US. 🙂
OMG–I finally watched the first episode of the first season of the BBC America TV show “Luther” last night, starring Idris Elba. I streamed it on Netflix. Anyway, I am so glad I did, because it is excellent! Check it out!
I used to love violet fragrances, but I moved on from violets a while ago, so now I don’t have one. Maybe Apres L’Ondee parfum. That’s always a classic.
Thank you for entering me in the draw, my friend.
Hugs!
I live in the US and you have permission to use the email address in my reader account to contact me. Favorite violet fragrance has to be Lipstick Rose by Frederic Malle.
I live in the U.S. and you have permission to use my email address.
My favorite violet perfume is Parfums De Nicolai’s Violette in Love.
My favorite TV show right now is Castle.
Hey Robin, I live in the US; thanks for the new draw.
My favorite TV show is Mad Men; and as far as books go, this summer I’ve been going through Jo Nesbo’s crime novels, quite enjoyable
Hi Robin, I live in the U.S., and you have my permission to use the email address in my account to contact me. My favorite violet fragrance is vintage Jolie Madame. Violets and leather = oh my. My favorite recently released book is Ann Patchett’s State of Wonder.
I live in the U.S.
Current favorite violet scent – Balenciaga Paris!
Thanks for the opportunity Robin!
You have permission to use the email address in my account and I live in the US. My favorite violet perfume is Annick Goutal La Violette. I think it might be discontinued now :{
I live in the US and you have my permission to use my email address. My favorite new (to me) movie is Disney’s Charlie the Lonesome Cougar (live action, not a cartoon.)
I am a newbie to the blog, but loving every minute. I live in the U.S., you have permission to use my email. I’ll go with book(s) A Visit from the Goon Squad, Dance with Dragons (latest Game of Thrones), and The Help are all recent reads that I greatly enjoyed.
I really want to win this one, I went to Nordys this past weekend to smell it and they did not have yet. I was super disappointed because this sounds absolutely fabulous and I love Tom Ford and I love Black Orchid so much. My favorite violet perfume is Tuca Tuca but my husband-type person loathes it so I can only wear it when I am out of town.
Thank you for this opportunity to win. I live in the U.S., and you have my permission to use the email address in my account to contact me.
I live in the US – in Baltimore, Maryland. I’d love to win. 🙂
I live in the US, you have permission to use the email address in my reader account to contact me!
My favorite new show so far is the New Girl – I know Zooey D can be irritating but I find her adorable!
I live in the US and my fav violet is Balenciaga Paris. Thank you for the opportunity to win!
I live in the USA!
My favorite new TV show is Pan Am. And New Girl. And Two Broke Girls. It’s a good season for new TV!
I live in the US& you have my permission to use the email address in my account to contact me.
I like Angel Violet by Thierry Muglier
I live in the US and you have my permission to use my email.
My favorite violet perfume is Caron’s Aimez-moi.
Thank you for the draw, Robin..
I live in the U.S.A. My favorite fragrance containing violet is Byredo Green. Thanks !
I live in the USA and you have permission to use my email addy.
I have never had a violet perfume before! I’ve been dying to try this!
My favorite new program is New Girl. 🙂
I live in the US and you may use my email. I love Balenciaga Paris. Also, I love The Hour on PBS.
I live in the US, you have permission to use the email address in my reader account to contact me!
I’ve been watching True Blood. Oy. 🙂
I live in the U.S. and you have my permission to use my email. I don’t have a favorite violet fragrance, but would love to win this. I really enjoy watching Parks and Recreation.
I live in the USA. My favorite violet perfume is Patou 1000. I have been told (and by an angry SA) that it is NOT a violet fragrance, but it smells like a demure bouquet of them on my skin – wonderful!
I live in the U.S., and you have my permission to use the email address in my account to contact me. My favorite violet perfume CB:IHP Violet Empire (with a special mention to Penhaligons Violetta).
I LIVE IN THE US! I love Insolence EDP it’s stronger and richer in violet tones but I smelled Violet Blonde recently and fell in love! Please say I won I would do anything <3
I recently watched a show named Secret Garden (a Korean Drama) that tells the story of a hard working young women and the snob rich gentleman that tries winning her over 🙂
I live in the U.S., and you have my permission to use the email address in my account to contact me. I think my favorite violet perfume is SSS Wood Violet.
I live in the US.
Total permish
Fave violet = Annick Goutal La Violette
Fave recent book = Little Bee
Fave recent movie = Looking forward to Anonymous…the one about Shakespeare
I live in the U.S., and you have my permission to use the email address in my account to contact me. My favorite violet perfume is SSS Femme Jolie
I live in the US – and of course you can email me!
Ready for my favorite? Chanel Sycomore! You wouldn’t really think it at first but it’s a dusty voilet that gives it the cigerette smoke feel…..mmmm, vintage.
Hi Robin! Thanks for another giveaway opportunity.
I live in the US, and you have permission to use the email address in my account.
My favorite violet perfumes are LesNez The Unicorn Spell (for the lovely violet leaf) and Caron Aimez-moi. It depends on whether I want sweet angelica or green.
TV has been a wash all summer due to baseball season. Now that the Red Sox have crashed and burned (in a spectacular way. sigh.) I can get on with life again. And sleep. I just may look in on New Girl.
Bookwise, I’m trying to get into Godel, Escher, Bach… again… for the 3rd time.
Stay dry, East Coasters!
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My favorite violet perfume was Ava Luxe Midnight Violet. I also like Borsari’s Violetta di Parma.
No telly here in the northwoods. Currently reading ‘The Metaphysical Club’.
Thanks, I’d love to try this! My favorite violet fragrance (so far) is Caron’s Aimez-Moi. I live in the U.S., and you have permission to use the email address in my reader account to contact me.
Hi! I live in the US and you may use my email to (hopefully) contact me! I currently like Elizabeth Taylor’s Violet Eyes, but violet and I go way (way!) back to around 1968 and Avon’s Raining Violets that my mother loved. She is in a nursing home this year and I will see her at Christmas and I bet she would know if I was wearing violet even if she does not know who I am anymore! The scent of violets are a cherished childhood memory. I just this week finished a novel written in 2008–how did I miss it until now?–called “The Guernsey Literary ansd Potato Peel Pie Society” by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. It is a lovely story written entirely in letters between the characters about the history of the Nazi occupation of the Channel Island of Guernsey. It is touching, funny and at times brutal. I highly recommend it! Another reminder of my mom–she gave me the love of reading. I am going to watch “The Mentalist” tonight, love me some Patrick Jane! But I also like “Fringe” and “Alphas” and “Haven” this season.
My favorite violet fragrance is Jolie Madame. It may well be the only one of that genre that I own.
Favorite new-ish TV show is “Suits” (or, as a friend of a friend called it, “Men Talking”). Reading and loving “Stone Arabia” by Dana Spiotta, which I assume is also new-ish because the uncorrected proofs mention a hardcover release date of July 2011.
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I live in the US and would KILL for a bottle of this! (Ok, maybe nothing that extreme…) My favorite violet scent is Jolie Madame.
I live in the U.S., you have permission to contact me by e-mail, and my favorite violet scent in the spring is Violetta di Parma by Borsari, though I haven’t sniffed it in decades; in recent weeks I’ve been wearing Balmain’s Jolie Madame, so nice on these rainy autumn days.
Hi, I live in the U.S and my favorite Violet scent is Violetta di Parma
– so pretty!!
I live in the US and you can use my email address to contact me.
My favorite Violet is Tom Ford Black VIolet.
I live in the U.S.
My favorite violet perfume is Wood Violet by Sonoma Scent Studio.
Hi Robin,
live in the US and you can use my email address to contact me.
Violet is one of my favorite frag nots! Currently, I’m digging Balenciaga Paris.
I live in the US and you can use the email address in my account.
Favorite new TV show: Pan Am. Favorite violet scent (uhhhh, so far): Penhaligon’s Violetta. Though there are several others I love. 🙂
Thanks Robin!
My recently favorite movie is an independent film called weekend.. it follows two london men around as they have a one night stand, and still decide to spend their remaining time together, although one of them is leaving for america in a few days.. it was so tender, organic, and raw.. if you can find it playing by you, go see it!!
I live in the U.S. My favorite violet fragrance so far is Serge Lutens Bois de Violette. Oh and I must say that the CBS show “A Gifted Man” is much better and less saccharine-sentimental than I thought it was going to be. Patrick Wilson is spot-on and I really think I’m going to like Julie Benz as his kook-kook-kachoo sister. The verdict is still out on Jennifer Ehle, who plays his (deceased) wife. I normally like her work but I’m worried I’m going to end up not liking her.
Fav violet = SSS Wood Violet
Fav recent book = No Regrets – biography of Edith Piaf
I live in the US. Thanks for the chance to win!
I live in the U.S. and you have my permission to use my email address. I can’t really say that I have a favorite fragrance, but my favorite recently introduced movie is Moneyball. I just saw it this past weekend and, although I’m not a huge fan of baseball, I really enjoyed it.
I live in the US, you have permission to use the email address in my reader account to contact me.
My favorite new book is the Tao of Travel by Paul Theroux. Thanks for the draw.
I live in the US–
My favorite “violet” fragrance is Attrape-Coeur, but since it’s discontinued I’d better start looking for the next bus. I’d love to win this!
I live in the US and you may contact me anytime.
Though it’s not predominately violet, I have had a long love affair with Dior’s Fahrenheit.
Thank you for another great giveaway.
I live in the US! My favorite violet scents are Lolita Lempicka and Balenciaga Paris! I want and need Violet Blonde badly! Gimme gimme! Haha! Thanks!
From Houston. Favorite violet scent: Baghari – or that’s the one I can think of right now. Favorite book of late: Sciolino’s La Seduction.
Lou
Hi Robin. I live in the U.S., and you have my permission to use the email address in my account to contact me. My favorite violet perfume is My Queen, McQueen, as it is discontinued, I found a replacement for it, Balenciaga Paris.
This past summer I wore Balenciaga Paris, my summer favorite violet. Soft and pretty like a floaty little summer frock. Yesterday, I pulled a sample smell strip of the TF Violet Blond from Vanity Fair Mag. This would be an excellent violet for autumn. I am a US resident. Please enter me in the draw.
Ooh! I live in the US and my favorite new show is NTSF:SD:SUV, which is a hilarious parody of CSI dramas that everyone should try.
I reside in the US and you may feel free to use my email to contact me..
I actually do not own any violet perfumes, but I remember one of my first perfume gifts being a box of several small glass perfume vials. I felt so grown up when I received that gift and I’m pretty sure violet was one of the scents. I do love violet pastilles and the lovely tins they come in however 🙂
A book I love is The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst. It is a book that continues to haunt me. I just loved it. Thank you!
Hi! I live in the U.S., and the violet fragrances I like best are Sonoma Scent Studio’s Voile de Violette and L’Artisan’s Verte Violette (sweet and fleeting as it is). There’s also this glass jar of violet “hair water” (I swear that’s what it was called) that I remember using when I was younger, but have not been able to find since. If anyone is this deep in the comments and knows what I mean, please share!
Thanks for offering this bottle, Robin!
I live in the US, and I’ve been loving Balenciaga Paris lately!! I’d LOVE a bottle!
I live in the US. My favorite violet perfume was a dram of Purple Violet that I bought at Hove Parfumeur in the French Quarter many years ago. Favorite book of late is Cleopatra:A Life, by Stacy Schiff. Fun to read while wearing appropriate fragrances!
I live in the US. My favorite violet perfume is Stephen Jones, very closely followed by Dans Tes Bras (almost a toss-up). I am looking forward to trying Violet Blonde. Thanks for giving me the chance!
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I like Jolie Madam sometimes and Balenciaga Paris other times. It’s a mood thing, apparently.
I live in the U.S., and you have my permission to use the email address in my account to contact me. My favorite violet scent is Lush’s (sadly discontinued) V Scent.
I live in the United States, and you may use my account email to contact me. My favorite violet is good old Jolie Madame.
I too live in the U.S., and you have my permission to use the email address in my account to contact me !! 🙂
My favorite violet fragrance is The Unicorn Spell by LesNez and Midnight Violet by Ava Luxe ( nowdiscontinued – a shame ! )
I live in the US and you have my permission to use the email in my account. My fav violet is Tom ford violet blonde, maybe because it is so easy to wear. I also like SL bois de violet for it’s icy nuances. Thanks for the draw!
Hi Robin! Thanks for the opportunity! I live in the US and the new (to me) book I just read was The History of Love. Great fiction book – whoever reviewed it as “as heartbreaking as it is hilarious” hit it spot on. And the last violet perfume I tried was Elizabeth Taylor’s Violet Eyes… but boy was I disappointed when I heard there was no actual violet in it!
I live in the US and you have permission to use the email address associated with my account. Thanks for the opportunity – I am just dying to try this!!
I just read Ruth Rendell’s newest book, “The Vault”. It was fantastic – she is my favorite author. On TV I have discovered a British import called “Supersize vs. Superskinny” where they make an overweight person and an underweight person trade diets for a week – surprisingly interesting.
The last violet fragrance I tried was Jolie Madame.
I live in the US, and I love YSL Paris.
I live in the US and you may use the email address in my account to contact me. I am enjoying the second season of Downton Abbey. Historical soaps are the best!
I live in the US and you can email me! I LOVE CdG Stephen jones.
I live in the US. I had a tiny bottle of Fresh Violet Moss that I loved–I’d like to try more violet fragrances.
I live in the US and you have my permission to use the email address in my account to contact me. Violets and I have a tempestuous history (they tend to turn unpleasantly weird on me), so I have no favorite violet scent as of yet :(. I read obsessively, and right now my favorite newly-introduced book is actually four: The three-volume version of Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago (I’m reading the original English translation and not the newer one — can’t find the new trans. in my area and until I’m employed again, I’m not ordering it online) and Chang/Halliday’s Mao: The Unknown Story (which I had started in 2008, misplaced, found, misplaced again, found again, and started again).
I live in the US and you may use my email account if I am the winner. Marc Jacobs Daisy is the only scent I have with violet. I am very curious about this one. I like the name since I am a Blonde. My favorite new TV show is Revenge. Thanks alot!!
My favorite violet(s)? Lipstick Rose, Violetta di Parma… It all probably started with a wee bottle of “Devon Violets” way back in elementary school! Oh, and I live in the U.S.
I live in the US and you have permission to use my email.
My favorite violet is Ellie Nuit. It’s lovely and smells very classic and rich.
I live in the USA.
Favorite new TV show (woops, not sure of the spelling) is Rizzoli and Iles.
I live in the U.S., and you have my permission to use the email address in my account to contact me. The only violet fragrance I really know is Trussardi Jeans, which I own and enjoy. Thank you!
I live in the U.S.!
Fave violet: Les Nez The Unicorn Spell
Fave new book: The Picture of Dorian Gray
I live in the US.
My only violet perfume is Balenciaga Paris.
My favorite new book (although I’ve barely started it, I DID go hear the author read from it and give a talk. . .) is REAMDE by Neal Stephenson.
I Live In The U.S.
You Have Permission to use my e-mail address, name, physical image, soul and body if it means i will win this!
My Favorite Violet Scent…. Fresh’s Violet Moss and Of course…. YSL Paris!
P.S. I WANT THIS SO BAD! 😀
Yes, living in the U.S. (New York). And certainly, e-mail rollin’
Beloved violet: Caron’s N’Aimez Que Moi
Cinema: Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (original bad boy, his life and times).
Baby Herself
I live in the U.S., and you have my permission to use the email address in my account to contact me. Thank you for the draw!
My current top two violet fragrances are Stephen Jones and Jolie Madame.
I live in the U.S. and you have permission to use the email address in my account to contact me.
My favorite violet fragrances are Caron Aimez Moi and Balmain Jolie Madame.
Thanks for the draw!
I live in the US, and my favorite violet is Balenciaga Paris. Thanks!
Hello, I live in South Carolina in the southern U.S. You certainly may use my e-mail to contact me. Because of the area where I live, it is hard to find such a fragrance as the on by Tom Ford. How I’d love to try something so special that otherwise would never come my way. Thank you for offering to send it to one of your blog peeps.
Best regards, Anita
Hi Robin. I live in the US and you can use my email address.
I love SL Bois de Violette. I know it’s as much about the cedar as the violet, but I love them together.
Hi Rbin. I live in the US.
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violet i like = Annick Goutal La Violette
Fave recent movie = Moneyball…. true story and its good
I live in the U.S. and you have permission to use the email address in my account to contact me. My favorite violet perfume? I’ve yet to find one! This could be it!
I live in the US and you have permission to use my e-mail to contact me. My favorite violet perfume is Balenciaga Paris and recently I have fallen in love with Haruki Murakami’s book “Kafka on the Shore”. Thank you for the opportunity!
I live in the U.S., and you have my permission to use the email address in my account to contact me.
Guerlain Insolence edt is my favourite violet perfume.
I live in the U.S.! *crossing my fingers*
I live in the US.
Favorite new tv show: well, it’s not new, but I find Dexter endlessly fascinating, not least because the star went to the same tiny Quaker college I did. Quakers and serial killers just don’t occur in the same thought very often; it’s a little hard to wrap the brain around that one.
I live in the US and would love to win my first violet perfume.
I love the book “The Emperor of All Maladies” because I just heard the author speak…it is the stories of the history of cancer. Inspiring and breathtaking.
Yes, I live in the U.S., and you have my permission to use my e-mail address.
Favorite new book: 1493, which analyzes what followed Columbus’s arrival in the New World.
Favorite violet perfume? I don’t know them well. I do have Lipstick Rose and Violette Verte, but I haven’t smelled many violet perfumes.
Thanks.
I live in the US, and my favorite violet is Sonoma Scent Studio Voile de Violette. I also love Murasaki, which means “purple”in Japanese, even though it isn’t a violet scent.
I live in the US! I love violet bur KM Genie du Bois is my fav because of it’s spice!
I live in the US! New favorite is Wood Violet by Sonoma Scent Studio.
I live in the US. My favorite new show is Up All Night. Great cast.
I live in the U.S. My favorite violet perfume is Serge Lutens Bois de Violette.
Thank you for entering me in the draw!!
Oh man, I totally live in the US. :3
My favorite violet is Dans tes Bras. And, um, I’ve been reading a LOT of Japanese literature this year (what a pretentious boob. 😛 ). Probably the most likeable I’ve enjoyed was The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa. It was very poignant, and yet uplifting.
I live in the U.S., and you have my permission to use the email address in my account to contact me. My favorite violet perfume is
Balenciaga Paris and Lipstick Rose.
I live in the U.S and you have my permission to use the email address in my account to contact me. My favorite violet perfume is the new BCBGMAXAZRIA!!!!! Awesome perfume!
I live in the US and you may use my email in my account. I recently watched the tv series The Walking Dead on dvd and really liked it. it spent a lot of time on character development and of course there are zombies Lol! Thanks for this awesome chance, would love to try this scent.
I live in the US and you may use my registered email to contact me.
My favorite violet perfume is Apres L’ondee, but I’ve been dying to try Lipstick Rose.
I live in the United States. My fave new show is x-factor. You have my permission to use my email to contact me. Thank you!
Oh my gosh, I was just thinking about this one today when I put on my Insolence sample, and I thought that I’m slowly becoming a violet fan. I think the nicest one I’ve worn so far is the Prada one with the violet (Infusion d’Iris? not sure which one; I’ve tried in vain to tell that small little Prada family apart).
Oh, and I live in the U.S, you can use my email, and, well, I don’t have a fave recently introduced t.v. show, but my fave longstanding one is Stargate SG-1 (hence my moniker, GateGirl). 🙂
I live in the US, you have my permission to use my email to contact me, and I haven’t found a violet fragrance that I really love yet…perhaps this might be it? Insofar as TV shows, if you haven’t seen the BBC’s Sherlock, you’re missing out!
I live in the U.S.:) and of course you have my permission to use my email! the TV show I just recently got hooked on is “House!”
I live in the U.S. My favorite violet fragrance is Balenciaga Paris. My favorite show of the new fall crop is Free Agents with Hank Azaria and Kathryn Hahn. Not new, but the book I’m reading is Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and it is quite good.
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The new TF sounds right up my alley. Fav Violet …still waiting dont have one. Maybe this will be it!
Fav new TV shows are Haven and totally loved Pan Am. So retro-cool. 1963, the year I was born! 🙂
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My favorite new show is Hart of Dixie!
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I don’t have a favorite violet based perfume (yet!) but my favorite new show is Suits on USA. Even though it has ended for the year, it was wonderful!
I live in the US and you have permission to use my email. My favorite violet perfume is Rance Josephine.
I live in the US.
My favorite violet is VC&A Feerie, I know I know, but I do love it!
I recently discovered Parks & Rec on NBC. BEST SHOW EVER 🙂
Thank you!
I live in the US (Philly suburbs). I don’t have a favorite violet…maybe this will be it! Fingers crossed, because I just loved Black Orchid, which is the only Tom Ford I have ever tried.
My favorite new program is Revenge…just love those trashy prime time soaps.
My favorite violet is Jolie Madame. I would love to see how the Violet Blonde stands up to her. I live in the U.S. I am also waiting for the new season of Mad Men. Its one of my favorite shows ever.
I live in the US! My favorite violet is Annick Goutal La Violette. I am dying to try Tom Fords. In my opinion, he never develops anything simple and boring.
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My favorite show this season is Wilfred, really funny stuff there…
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My favorite violet is Guerlain Champs-Elysees. Which is not cool at all! Violet Blond is way cooler! I hope I win because I could really use the coolness points!
Also, the Pan-Am pilot WAS good.
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My favorite violet perfume is Serge Lutens Bois de Violete and my favorite show is Mad Men. Thanks!!!!!!!!!
I live in the U.S., and you have my permish to do anything because you can do no wrong.
SL Bois de Violette
Full geekiness confessed — the newest “Doctor Who” with Matt Smith.
I am in the US and would love a chance to win please and feel free to contact me if I am the lucky winner!
For fave violet scent I’d also have to go with Bois de Violette. For me it is a very light violet scent but still very nice!
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I am loving Balenciaga. It smells expensive and sophisticated. I also love Insolence. My favorite tv show is not new but has been on for a couple of years. Parenthood. Thanks for the offer.
I live in the U.S.; you have my permission to use my email address; my favorite violet perfume is Balenciaga Paris.
i live in the US and i REALLY like Ringer on the CW, mostly maybe cause it stars Sarah Michelle Gellar/Buffy.
I live in the US and you have my permission to use my email address to contact me. I know I’m repeating many other people, but my current favorite violet perfume is also Balenciaga Paris. Thanks for the giveaway – I’ve been intrigued by this perfume!
I live in the US and you have permission to use my registered e-mail. Currently my favorite violet perfume is Caron Violette Precieuse. Thanks!
I live in the US. Best recent movie I’ve seen is the latest iteration of Jane Eyre, out on DVD.
Hi! I live in the US and you have my permission to use my e-mail address; in fact, I live in such a “perfume desert” in central NC that you may do anything you wish with my e-mail address if it will help my chances! 😉
The only overtly violet frag I’ve ever smelled is Borsari Violetta di Parma so I suppose that, by default, it’s my fave – if nothing else, the bulb atomizer with that long tube and ridiculous fringe reminds me of some cartoon poodle getting ready for the opera and makes me smile – but I think there’s a small sample of AG La Violette in the “to be tested” box.
I live in the US and I enjoy Laura Mercier Violetta.
Hi! I live in the US and you have my permission to use my e-mail address.
Bois de Violette and Verte Violette.
New: Ringer, Revenge, Two Broke Girls.
I live in the US and my favorite violet fragrance is Verte Violette.
Oooh! I am SO poor right now–this would be super fun. I live in the US, and I have all necessary rights to my e-mail address.
I don’t really have a favorite violet perfume, due to the aforementioned being poor deal and also living in a sort of perfume desert. I do like the smell of real violets, though, and I have happy associations with them. SO, a book that I just finished reading and enjoyed quite a bit was American Rose, the biography of Gypsy Rose Lee. Very interesting. The only show I watch with any regularity is Castle (predictable sure, but Fillion is charming). And movies cost money so none of those lately.
Hi. I live in the U.S. My favorite new show on TV is Suburgatory, although I’ve only seen it a few times so I’m not sure yet. Have a great day!
Hello! I live in the USA and you have my permission to contact via my email address on my profile. My current favorite Violet fumes are Lolita Lempicka Midnight and Tom Ford Black Violet! THANKS!!
Hi, I live in the US and you have my permission to use my e-mail address to contact me. My favorite violet fragrance is Violetta di Parma by Borsari. I also like Insolence by Guerlain and I think this new Tom Ford scent sounds intriguing.
My favorite new TV show is Pan Am.
I live in the USA and you have permission to contact via my email address. My favorite violet perfume is Jolie Madame.
“I live in the U.S.” and my favorite violet perfume is Guerlain Insolence edt and edp 🙂 Hope I win!