What is it: a 50 ml bottle of Jouany Perfumes St. Barthélemy or a 50 ml bottle of Jouany Perfumes Marrakech, your pick. Both bottles have been used for testing but are mostly 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 what geographic location you would use as inspiration for your debut fragrance.
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The contest will be open until noon or so on Thursday, and I'll announce the winner on Friday.
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I live in the US.
Hmmm, geographic inspiration? I’ve never been outside the US, so my range could be somewhat limited.
I love the scent of the high desert after it rains, can that be captured into a scent?
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I would take inspiration from a Californian forest… the ones that are only a couple hundred yards from the ocean.
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My inspiration comes from a narrowly-defined space. The scent would smell the way the first really warm spring day smells, with the snow melting quickly, the sun hitting newly-exposed areas of lawn, and the neighborhood kids shooting baskets in the driveway hoop wearing, finally, short-sleeves and shorts.
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I would take inspiration from Detroit. It would smell of the tragedy of lost power.
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I have always wanted to create a line of fragrances of places I have been. The one I’d most like to create, however, is a place I haven’t been but am yearning to go: Morocco.
I live in the US. I’d choose the Everglades in Florida. Swampy goodness.
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I’d chose the Pacific Northwest. Lots of damp forests and woods …
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I would choose the Florida coast. It’s where I grew up and holds some fond memories for me.
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I would chose a Sahara desert theme- Gobin-Daude Nuit au Desert is one of my Holy Grail fragrances, and I always love the dry smoke/incense/juniper/sage of a desert. Of course, I wouldn’t try to duplicate the Gobin-Daude, but think of it as a reference.
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I would base my scent on Paris. Coffee and bread. 🙂
I live in the U.S. As inspiration for my debut fragrance, I would use rural Vermont, late autumn to early winter.
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I would draw inspiration from Florence in the winter: coffee, pastry, cigarette smoke, and the cold stone and wood interiors of churches and museums.
Thanks for the generous draw!
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I haven’t been to a great number of places, so for inspiration I would use the area where I live, Northern Ohio in the fall.
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I would use a U.S. location for my inspiration. I am so tired of scents named for supposedly exotic locations which are neither the home of the perfumer or house; nor have any relation to the actual place. (This line does seem to be based on the perfumer’s travels). SOmetime last year, there was a perfume supposedly inspired by an Bedouin oasis which featured lilies (not found in mideastern deserts, not even near a spring) as a key scent!.
Hats off to Hermes for naming a scent after their own roof.
Okay, rant over! I live in the Garden State, which actually is home to a number of fragrance companies. (A little known fact). Elizabeth would be a beautiful name; however that city is the home to a sulpherous co-generation plant which has created in most people’s mind, the state’s reputation for a rather toxic smell. (Besides the folks at Elizabeth Arden would probably sue).
We are home to the Pine Barrens, one of the largest fresh water aquifers on the East Coast. Unfortunately, unless one is selling some scented birth control, “Barren” is probably not a good term.
Our Palisade mountains could be used to for a sandlewood scent: Palisander -OOOPs. more lawsuits.
How about Windsor? we have a ton of towns by that name-OOPs again, still more trademark suits.
Wow, this is harder than I thought.
Oh, heck, why not go for the obvious
Garden Harvest; Notes include sunflowers, tomato leaves, corn silk and squash blossoms.
I live in the US. I would take my inspiration from a Finnish sauna: a plunge into cold lakewater, warming a bit to birch forest, and settling on warm cedar. Ideally oscillating among those three states.
I live in the US, and I’d use the Southwest desert where I grew up.
I live in the US, and like egabbert, I’d use the desert of the Southwest for my inspiration. I grew up in Arizona, and I love the whisper of orange flowers in the spring, the smell of the hot dry air in the summer, and scent of the sage and scrubby vegetation when you’re really out in middle of nowhere. They probably wouldn’t be best sellers, but hopefully they’d find a few fans!
I live in the US.
I would use a forest in northern Vermont.
I live in the US, and I would use the mountains of northern New Mexico as my inspiration. Pinon pine, wild iris, sunshine on meadow grasses, and a hint of chill at the end of August.
Thank you!
I live in the US. For fragrance inspiration I’d have to go with a rain forest, perhaps like the one at Olympia National Park.
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I’d want my debut scent to smell like the dank musty basement in my grandfather’s house that I remember from when I was a young boy.
I live in the US! Inspiration for my debut fragrance – PARIS!
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I would choose Oaxaca, I do have a body shop “Day Of The Dead” perfume that is close, marigolds and Copalli.
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I’d use the Paris métro for my inspiration; more specifically, the Guimard metro entrance at Tuileries. Art Nouveau is probably my favorite movement, and an Art Nouveau-inspired bottle would tickle me to no end.
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My debut fragrance would be inspired by Las Vegas – the desert heat, a convertible with leather upholstery, sex, showgirls, lights and noise.
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I’d choose early morning Palo Alto, all juniper and fog.
I live in the the US and I’m originally from the PNW as well! I would love a scent inspired by that region, scents like fir, pine, wood, moss, and wysteria.
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Inspiration for my debut fragrance? I’ve often thought of the area I grew up in – rural Western North Carolina in the summer. Magnolia + butterfly bush + cornfield. 🙂
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The location I’d choose would be Capri, Italy. It wouldn’t be an aquatic, but would be evocative of the feel/memory of the Blue Grotto.
Thanks for the giveaway!
I live in the U.S. My inspiration would be Ningxia Province, China. This is historically where the Mongolian, Chinese, and Tibetan empires met. There is a mountain pass guarded by two pagodas into this marshy river plain. It is a small oasis bordered by the Gobi desert. This area has the resiny scent from evergreen trees and blankets of wildflowers. The scent would be based on milky tea, with wild lilies.
I live in the US and would use Vermont as inspiration. 2am early in January when it’s icy cold and snowing down by the lake. Perfection.
I live in the US. My inspiration for my debut fragrance would be the Arizona desert, a sunny fragrance with hints of wildflowers and maybe a little leather and a touch of aldehydes.
My debut fragrance would be inspired by the Finger Lakes region of New York State: vineyards ripening in the sun and scenting the cool late summer evenings; orchards, gardens, grassy hillside meadows. I live in the US and you have permission to use the email address in my reader account. Great drawing—thanks!
I live in the US! I would like to build a fragrance that smells like the steps leading from the waterfront to the Farmers market in Seattle. Halfway up the steps is a bar that we enjoy going to. You would first get the smell of rain, concrete, trees and a bit of ocean and then the scent of polished wood, bourbon and whiskey.
I live in the U.S. (lower 48). If I had to choose, I’d use the city of Nuremburg as the inspiration for a scent: the Gluhwein and Lebkuechen at Christmas, the wine of autumn, the dirty smell of the cars on the Nordring, the moldy smell of lichens on old sandstone, the leather of the shops in der Altstadt, the pond-like odor of the Pegnitz…..ah, skip the fragrance, just send me there!
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My inspiration would be 9th Avenue, Hell’s Kitchen, New York late fall at 1:30 in the morning – the theatre folk walking home from their post-show drinks (or wishing they had a show to have post-show drinks), the boys smoking and traveling to their next bar or next date, the group of girls in their heels giggling and bemoaning their lack of a man, a few on the last dog walk of the day, leather jackets just a tad not warm enough, laughter, crying. The city the way it should be.
I live in the US.
If I were to do a geographically inspired fragrance, I think I might try the seashore, but not the beach. The rocky shore of Maine, warmed by the summer sun but never really hot, with salt in the air. I probably wouldn’t put in a hint of boiling lobster, however!
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My inspiration would be Tokyo. It’s such a crazy, neon, modern place on one hand, but oddly traditional on the other. It would be a challenge to create a scent that would reflect that in some way.
Hi Robin ~
Thanks as always for the generous offerings !
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My location would be the Valley of the Kings, in Egypt.
Kate
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My inspiration would be the creaky old apartment in Paris where I spent two and a half days in pure unexpected love on summer. Sun-warmed parquet floors that exhale resin, the dusty streams of light that filtered in through the window, traces of cigarette ash and dried roses (in an old wine bottle he’d conserved from some special occasion), the ripe musk of young bodies, vetiver from his grandfather’s perfume, an ode to classic Parisian love that she found in his medicine cabinet while looking for a bandage, mineral notes of iron (blood) and salt (sweat, and later tears), ripe cherries – the last meal they shared, counting the pits while the seconds slipped away.
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My debut fragrance would be for the Dominican Republic and would involve memories of my summer visits there to my grandparents in the summer. Notes would involve fresh guava and mango, rum, espresso, a dash of tropical blooms, a breath of wild olive, palm leaf, sandalwood, American muskwood, and a slightly animalic musk.
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I think I would use New Orleans as my inspiration. The things I remember most about my trips there are the warm sun, the gulf breezes, the smell of coffee and beignets, the roses some woman was selling in the French Quarter, and the spices.
I’d love to create a scent that evoked the most beautiful place I’ve ever been- the highlands of Scotland. I’m really not sure as to what would “capture” the beauty but it’d definaely have heather and maybe some oakmoss.
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I’ve been dabbling in blending lately, using the American Old West as a theme. I grew up in the high plains and transplanted to the Southwest desert, and there are a lot of great smells out here, embedded in my youth, which aren’t represented in any perfumes.
I live in the US. My inspiration would be the fjords of Scandinavia. I envision something austere with cold, dry woods.
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I would use a cold winter night in New England. I know many think of autumn when it comes to New England, but for me there is something about winter in the northeast.
I live in the US. My fragrance would be inspired by the flowers and herbs of the Polish meadows and the scent of the pine forests there.
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Hmmmm, that’s kind of a tough one. If I had to pick one, it’d be the short pine forest on the island of Kos in Greece. It was so very beautiful, with views of the ocean and the air thickly permeated with the smell of sweet pine sap and forest herbs and a little bit of desert dryness in there too.
I live in the U.S. and you have my permission to use the email address in my reader account to contact me. I would be inspired by a location that has deeply fragrant and resinous trees, shrubs and plants. Lots of sticky, sappy stuff to play with and blend. So — maybe North Africa. How creative – another Oriental.
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My inspiration would be from the beach in Northern California… I currently live a block from the ocean and can smell the sea air from my house!
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I would pick some of the deciduous wooded areas of the Ohio river valley, especially in the fall. The crisp air, the leaves and woods, and maybe a bit of smoke in the air with the musty, slightly over-ripe fuit undercurrent.
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I’d be inspired by Cairo – incense, pomegranate, sugar cane and God knows what else…
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I think I would pick London. I love the smell of wet pavement and dirt, and I have fond memories of studying there abroad.
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Savannah, GA smells like heaven. The smell of magnolias, moss, humidity, pecan pralines and cocktails.
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Sounds kinda lame, but I have always loved the smell of my Aunt’s farm in Ohio right before a storm. The grass and “ozone” smells mixed with hay.
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Would love a chance to win St. Barthelemy!
I would love a Southern Belle scent based on the Spring in the South.
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I’d base mine on the mouth of the Detroit River (and call it Ferry to Boblo, raise your hand if you’d care to date youself!) It would have the sharpness of too early spring, where there’s still an occasional bit of ice to be seen in the lake water and a bit of muddy snow on the shore, so I guess my opening would be an icy, dirty aquatic. But since it’s spring, there would have to also be the tinge of very green new leaves in the air, and maybe a few very early (and faint) spring flowers. More importantly, the salty, salty smell of the corn chips heated and used for nachos at the snack bar, the very faintly fishy-dusty smell of the begging seagulls, the metal smell of the ferry railing and the smell of the diesel that the ferry burns (okay, okay, burned) and to end it all, the scent of the salt-water taffy, caramel corn and woody (slightly tarry) pier waiting at the amusement park on the other side.
I still live in the US (not changed residency in the last few hours). I think it is wonderful that just about everybody would be inspired by the places where they live or have lived.
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I live in the US and you have permission to use my email address, and I would count myself lucky to win either scent!
It should come as no surprise that I would choose the White Mountains in either early spring or late autumn as my scent destination. It’s the granite, you see…
I would design a scent inspired by Fall in Nashville, TN. I think Nashville is so beautiful all year, with the river and the freeways cut out of the layered rock hills.
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Would love to be entered in the drawing, as I’m very interested in these scents.
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Neil Morris has already captured autumn in my hometown area in NorthCentral Pennsylvania with his Vault fragrance October. If I were to pick another area, it would be the east coast of Scotland (between Aberdeen and Dundee), where I spent 5 wonderful years. It would include sea spray, broom and heather.
I live in the US, and also think its wonderful that so many are inspired by places close to home. I think I would be torn between basing a fragrance on a mountaintop Japanese temple, and on a Kashmir houseboat fantasy (although something based on a beautiful beach anywhere would be tempting too).
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I’d pick the Northeast Kingdom in Vermont, where I used to spend my summers as a kid.
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… and I think that I’d have to pick somewhere hot and dry– somewhere in the middle east! 🙂
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My inspiration is always St. John, USVI…the most beautiful place on earth
I live in the US – even though I live in sunny salty beachy Florida, my inspiration for my own debut scent would be to capture the scent of the cool crisp autumn air and the maple leaves falling of September in Vermont.
I live in the U.S. My inspiration for a scent would be walking on my alma mater’s campus (Michigan State) in the springtime – dewy grass after a spring shower mingled with the scents of lilacs blooming all over campus, pink lily of the valley in the beds around the fountains, and the rose gardens.
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I would base my fragrance on visiting wineries in the Napa Valley—grapes in the sunshine, some lavender, incense (well, I would add the incense) and obligatory musk, vanilla , maybe amber.
I live in the US. My inspiration is going to be completely strange and otherworldly, like the site of an active underwater volcano when it first breaks the surface of the sea.
I live in the US. I’ve never traveled outside the US and Canada, so I don’t really know what my favorite location would be, except that it would probably be a tropical island where the water is warm enough to swim in.
I live in the US. My inspiration would be Eastern Shore!
I live in the US. My inspiration for a perfume would be the Grand Canyon at sunrise or sunset!
The U.S. is my home. My inspiration for a fragrance would be the Pacific Northwest, something woodsy with just a little grizzly bear tossed in. Thank you for the draw!
I live in California. 🙂 If I were creating a scent for a place, it would be the pine forests of the Landes in France. I just love woody scents!
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My geographical inspiration would be Costa Rica!
From hot lava melting from volcano’s to lush greenery in the rain forest. And when feeling just a bit of mayhem from the city life, the calm, dark sand beaches come to the rescue.
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My inspiration would be the Amazon Jungle!
I live in the U.S. My inspiration would be Alaska, which is absolutely the most breathtakingly beautiful place I have ever been.
I live in the US and the geographical location I would use as inspiration for a fragrance would be Hong Kong with its preserved grasslands and bustling city. The smell of the food markets and gourmet restaurants. The many cars. The cleanliness and bustle of the MTR. The quickness and efficiency of the Octopus cards. The towering buildings. The warmth of visiting family and sharing a good meal.
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I’m from Texas but spent my most formative years in Malaysia. I traveled extensively throughout India and left my heart there. Indian inspired scents are played out and I would really love to capture the scent of the South Plains of Texas. The dryness, the dust, and the deep red iron of the earth combined with the smell of gasoline, coca-cola, and the waxy, lemon polished gym floors at the schools Buddy Holly and I attended. A bit of cigarette smoke, leather jacket, and a nod to the Polo that still takes me right back there.
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My fragrance would smell like early spring in the rain forest. Trees, damp earth and spring air.
I live in the US. I would love to capture the serenity of northern Wales in a bottle.
I live in the US … I’d use the Olympic Rain Forest for a PNW twist on Monsoon Season.
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My fragrance would be of the Deep South. Magnolia, gardenia, tobacco leaf, heat, humidity, and sweet tea.
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I’m torn between someplace damp and green, like the Olympic National Rain Forest in Washington state, and Bend, Oregon, which is dry, dusty, and fragrant with Junipers in the summertime. Can I make both, one for each Solstice?
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My fragrance would be reminiscent of the wild Sonoma, California coast…where the redwood trees meet the sea! This is my home. Surrounded by the protective arms of giant sequoia…
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My geographic inspiration would be the SUMPTUOUSLY Verdant Hills and Valleys and Mountains in Vietnam! 🙂
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Hrm. I think I would use Little Italy in NYC as an inspiration, but maybe that is because I’m wishing I was there for the holidays….
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A warm fall day in the NW Georgia mountains; leaves both dry and green, evergreen and mixed hardwood, damp earth against rocks warmed by the sun, cold water, crisp air.
I live in the U.S., and I would use winter in New Mexico as my perfume inspiration. Notes would include Mexican chile, cocoa, wild rose, sandalwood, and something desert-y, but i don’t know what…
I live in the US. The geographic location I would use as inspiration for a debut fragrance would be the forest of the Sierra Nevada Mtns. Pine, Cedar etc…
I live in the US. My geographical inspiration would be very early fall morning in the Appalachians. Oak trees, moss, deer musk.
Hi Robin, thanks for the opportunity! I live in the US and would use Ephesus as my debut location for a fragrance.
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I can think of two places that could be an inspiration for my debut scent. 🙂 First, Les Baux de Provence. I know L’Occitane has a monopoly on all things Provence, but I was there once on a beautiful, unseasonably warm spring day and I remember the scent of sun-warmed rock, green grass, spring wildflowers, and olive trees. Delightful!
Second, a Scandinavian winter (even though Neil Morris has his take with Dark Season, which is gorgeous). I would love to capture in scent that moment when you walk into a warm building after being out in the cold… snow clinging to fabric, the cedar walls of, a fire roaring in the fireplace, and a hot glass of glogg or lingonberry juice waiting for you. A cool scent that would warm on the skin. Ahhhh…
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I’ve traveled all over the world, but my first fragrance would smell like the first morning breath I take in my backyard when the oranges are ripe on the tree. It doesn’t smell like oranges, it is a rich, unearthly floral smell with a touch of fresh green. The first morning I smell it, it brings tears to my eyes. If you pick a ripe orange, the smell vanishes in minutes.
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I would take inspiration from where I grew up in Orlando – and Disney World – the smell of sweet treats, perspiration and machiner.
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I would use the steppes of Mongolia as inspiration for a niche unisex perfume – fresh greens, wildflowers, leather notes, and a firm but unassertive base. Something for adventurers (or daydreamers) and noncomformists to splash on before heading out.
If I were of Jouany’s line of thought, I’d call it “Altai.”
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I think for my debut fragrance, I would use the Amazon rain forest as my geographical inspiration. The lushness, the green, the multitude of exotic flora and fauna (so far) that live there are all factors that beg to be represented in a fragrance.
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Italy.
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I would use Arizona. I only been there once during my college road trip years ago, but it’s beauty is breathtaking. The rocks, sand, dry heat, wide sky, rivers, cactus…all seem wonderful to create a memorable fragrance.
I live in the US, and I would use Rome as my scent inspiration.
I live in the US and ….well, if I were to stay in the US for inspiration I think I would use the Big Sur area, in late summer/early autumn, as my inspiration. Just turning chilly/rainy in the evenings, with brilliant sunshine in the days! Beautiful!
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I live in the US and like this draw a lot. I’d make a perfume (and I’m actively working on it now, after studying with Mandy Aftel and others it’s a work in progress based on a coniferous forest, pine and fir absolutes with juniper berry, and many other notes that take it away from holiday candle territory.
Thanks for entering me on the draw!
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I’d use Grasse in spring as my scent inspiration.
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I would use Chicago as my inspiration– 1920s Chicago, to be exact!
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I’d make a scent of Florida based on the orange blossom souvenir perfume that turned me on to perfume as a child.
I live in the U.S. Inspiration would be the scents of Mayan regions of Mexico, but how to make THAT work? Pine and other resins, citrus, chiles, cotton and wool, honey, iron and wood, corn in various forms.
I live in the US, you have permission to use my email address to contact me, etc. My inspiration would be either Mexico City (something cosmopolitan, large, reflective of both the modern-day city and its historical past, and not at all beachy/native) or mid to late 1980s Baton Rouge, most likely in high summer. Or perhaps Lake Pontchartrain in high summer….
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I would most likely be inspired by San Francisco, my birthplace. More specifically, San Francisco at the end of the 19th century. From the wild Barbary Coast, shanghaied sailors, opium dens along the piers, to the glittering opulence of the opera houses and the Palace hotel downtown.. rich with historical fantasy and on the brink of the 1906 earthquake…
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I would use the Ozark mountains in winter as an inspiration for a scent!
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The place that springs to mind when I think of a scented locale is actually Flagstaff, Arizona. My husband and I drove there on our honeymoon roadtrip, and I’ll always remember stepping out of the car into this beautiful, clear pine and sage scent. It was wonderful.
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That awesome place I have in my mind is the wonderful Acadia National Park in Maine. You get the best of everything – trees, hills, tall rocks, ocean….
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I think lots of the good locations that need to be sniffed have been spoken for, but I’ll say that I’m still looking for a “Christmas Mountain Cabin” scent – fir, snow, the damp inside of wood, cinnamon, and a bit of cold air.
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I would also love a great Christmas scent….maybe the scent of Christmas morning…tree fragrance, warmth of a roaring fire, excitement & smell of little kids opening presents, delicious breakfast smells wafting from the kitchen, spicy cider….yum.
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Although they are considered a “noxious weed” here in WY, I would use the Russian Olive tree as a base for a perfume. I love its blossoms so much. Have yet to find a perfume with it as a main note. But then, it has not occurred to me to look that hard. Wonder if, then, Russia would be an interesting place to spring forth a new fragrance?
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A place I love and was magical for me is Taormina, Sicily and could image a beautiful scent emanating from that enchanting place.
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I would use the salty sweet dunes of Chatham, Cape Cod as my inspiration.
I live in the US. I would use the redwood forests of Northern California as my geographical inspiration.
I live in the US, and would use Barcelona as my inspiration.
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I would use Midwestern suburbs as my inspiration.
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I would use Oqunquit, Maine as my inspiration.
And as always, thanks for doing this!
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and would use Egypt as my inspiration
I live in the US and would definitely the State of Alaska or Russia as my inspiration. Thank you so much for this fabulous draw.
I live in the US. I would choose Istanbul with its spice market full of sweets and pipe tabacco.
Hi! I live in the USA, and the only time I have been off this continent was to go to Africa earlier this year; but I am very sure that I would not want to smell like Africa. Liberia had a very noticeable, distinctive smell; too me it smelled like roasted corn and sweat, lots of sweat.
My favorite destination scent memory is of my childhood home in Arizona. My family moved away when I was 12 and I returned to Pheonix for the first time in my early thirties. The smell that hit me when I stepped out of the airport in Pheonix was so instantly recognizable even after all those years, and brought back such a wave of long forgotten memories and emotions, I just couldn’t stop sniffing!
If I was to create a scent based on Pheonix it would include the smell of shimmering heat waves, oleander, hibiscus, bouganvillia, citrus groves, sage brush, the desert after rainfall, and the scent of freshly-cut grass, because my Dad owned a landscaping and lawn maitenance business and I loved to go to work with him.
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Yes, I live in the US! I’d love to win either!
I would have to say Chongqing China for the inspiration for a fragrance…there were so many smells! We were staying about 10 yards from a giant flower market…which was next to a Hot Pot restaurant…which was near a river, not far from the airport! My my my! The scents!
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I would use our Wisconsin basement as inspiration. We make wine there, and the leachate minerals on the stone walls are like a note I’ve smelled in Guerlain Djedi.
I live in the U.S., and you can contact me at my e-mail address. The descriptions of both these bottles make them so tempting. I would be happy to receive either one.
My inspiration would come from Big Sur in California during the springtime. It is still bracingly cold and windswept with native wildflowers blooming away: blue lupine, poppies and Indian paintbrush. Just gorgeous!
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I would use the woods in Maine. Or the edge of the desert near Ein Gedi. Haven’t been to many different places, but feel insired by India too.
I live in the US!!! Please use my email. I would design a smell based on Havana- full of rum, mint, and a strong sense of pride…
I live in the US and the geographic region that would inspire my fragrance would be bluebonnets that cover the plains in abundance during springtime in Texas.
I live in the US! My fragrance would be inspired by my grandparents’ farmhouse in mid-Michigan. The outside smelled of a crisp breeze sweeping across acres of crops, trees, and grass mixed with oil/gasoline from the tractor and lots of animals (I’ll omit the cow pies). Inside the house there was always the smell of a recently brewed pot of coffee in the air, freshly baked pies…and at night, Grandpa’s whiskey and Squirt.
I live in the US. I’d use the city of Seattle or San Francisco as my inspiration. Not terribly original, but those are my fav cities.
I live in the US. My fragrance would be inspired by the grove of Balm of Gilead poplars on my grandparents’ farm. I think it would also have some of the balsam firs surrounding them and some new mown hay.
I live in the US. I would be inspired by san diego because its the most beautiful city in the US.