The Candy Perfume Boy’s 2nd Birthday Giveaway

This week marks the 2nd birthday of The Candy Perfume Boy! Who’d have thought that the blog would have made it this far? Certainly not me, that’s for sure! It has been a fun two years and I have enjoyed lots of great interaction with fellow perfume lovers as well as meeting a bunch of wonderful people and having the opportunity to have smelled some fab perfumes!

I would like to celebrate this milestone with a small giveaway but before I do so I feel it’s important to start with an apology. In August last year I started a new and very demanding job which, rather unfortunately coincided with the final year of my post graduate degree, meaning that over the last year I haven’t been able to dedicate as much time to the blog as I needed to, and for that I am rather disappointed. That said, I have some exciting things in the pipeline so watch this space as normal service resumes!

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And the Winner of the Divine Sample Giveaway Is…

As I mentioned yesterday posts will be a tad infrequent this week due to my hellish (hellish I tell you) university assignments, but I couldn’t allow the week to slip by without announcing the winner of my Divine Sample Giveaway. It would be rude not to wouldn’t it?

It was really interesting to read everyone’s favourite barbershop fragrances and it was great to see some old classics alongside some newer, less well-known choices. Anyway, that’s more than enough babbling from me.

The winner of the Divine Sample Giveaway is…

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And the Winner of The Candy Perfume Boy & Persolaise Twitter Giveaway Is…

Persolaise and The Candy Perfume Boy’s Juniper Sling Twitter Competition

A massive thank you to all who entered the Candy Perfume Boy/Persolaise Twitter giveaway. We received a high number of entries for the rather wonderful prize of a bottle of Penhaligon’s rather spiffy gin inspired Juniper Sling.

Well, the entries have been gathered together and the winner has been selected entirely at random using random.org. I can now reveal that the very lucky winner of the much coveted prize is…..

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The Candy Perfume Boy & Persolaise’s Twitter Competition

Those of you with good memories will remember that a while back both Persolaise and I announced that we would hold a competition for a 50ml bottle of Juniper Sling, generously donated by Penhaligon’s, as soon as we both hit 1,000 Twitter followers. The good news is that we have both hit the marvellous 1K mark and that means we are now able to hold the draw!

How to enter…

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And The Winner of The Candy Perfume Boy’s Gaga Giveaway Is…

A big thank you to all who entered The Candy Perfume Boy’s Gaga Giveaway, it seems that my little bag of Gaga Swag has got many of you monsters very excited indeed. I thought you all came up with very interesting ideas for how Fame should have smelled and it was quite telling that most people would have changed it, which says to me that, whilst Fame may be a hit commercially it really isn’t representative of Gaga herself.

I personally loved Kady’s suggestion that it should have smelled “strongly of leather, rubber and cheap vanilla, with hints of raw red meat, cumin, salt, vodka, fur, cedar and cola. All with an overlay of that old fashioned face powder scent – very powdery violet, rose and talk” Now that would make one hell of a perfume and would certainly be more Gaga than Fame!

Anyway on to the winner…

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The Candy Perfume Boy’s Gaga Giveaway

Following yesterday’s review of Lady Gaga’s debut fragrance Fame I thought I would continue the Gaga theme and appeal to everyone’s inner little monster by offering a giveaway.

As a thank you for pre-ordering Fame, The Perfume Shop sent me some Lady Gaga swag, namely; a veil, some Gaga tattoos and two sets of Fame bottle-esque acrylic nails. Now I have mentioned before that I may like to smell like a hooker on the odd occasion but I draw the line at looking like one, so I thought I would pass my Bag O’ Gaga Swag on to one lucky winner. I’ll even throw in a 2.5ml spray sample of fame because I’m nice/evil like that (it depends on what you think of Fame).

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And The Winner of The Candy Perfume Boy’s Birthday Giveaway Is…

A massive thank you to everybody who entered the draw and left wonderful comments about what they have learned from The Candy Perfume Boy over the last year. It just goes to show how lovely my readers are and I really do value the interactions and discussions that we have here, they are great fun.

I have learned a lot since starting this blog, from how to create interesting discussion to how to deal with a anti-fragrance troll. It certainly has been a fun ride and I hope that over the next year The Candy Perfume Boy will continue to thrive and that the level of discussion will remain as excellent.

Anyway, the winner of The Candy Perfume Boy’s Birthday Giveaway is…

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Happy Birthday to The Candy Perfume Boy! – One Year Anniversary Giveaway

I can hardly believe it but today marks the first birthday of The Candy Perfume Boy! It only seems like yesterday that I was tentatively tapping away at my keyboard to write my first full-length review, an apt choice of Guerlain’s Shalimar Parfum Initial for my inaugural post I feel, and now here I am 365 days later with a blog that turned out to be one thousand times better than I ever thought it would be.

Over this last year I have been overwhelmed by the response the blog has received, in that time I’ve received over 180,000 hits, published 194 posts and obtained 3,859 comments! But more importantly than all of the stats and numbers is the friendships and interactions I have developed with my readers in that time, you are priceless and this space would not be the same without you, yes that’s right, you!

So in order show my appreciation I thought I would celebrate with a little giveaway. The prize is a collection of decants from my personal stash and includes my favourite perfume discoveries from the last year. These fragrances have been those that have impressed me the most since starting this blog and I wanted to give you the chance to try some of my “big loves”, I hope you enjoy them as much as I have.

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And The Winner of The Candy Perfume Boy’s 100 Post Giveaway Is…

First things first, I must say a massive thank you to all of you who entered the competition. I really enjoyed reading about everybody’s favourite posts and your comments just go to show how great all of my readers are!

Onto the more exciting stuff, starting with a reminder of the prize:

The Prize

A 10ml bottle of Caldey Island Lavender
A 5ml Vintage Asja by Fendi
A big sample of Tocade by Rochas
A big sample of Santal Massoïa by Hermès
A big sample of L’eau D’Issey Florale by Issey Miyake*
Two samples of Angel EDT by Thierry Mugler*
A sample of Sweet Redemption By Killian
A sample of Mon Parfum Chérie Par Camille by Annick Gouta l*
A sample of Havana Vanille (now named Vanille Absolument) by L’Artisan Parfumeur
A sample of Tea for Two by L’Artisan Parfumeur
A sample of Vitriol d’Oeillet by Serge Lutens
A sample of Theseus by Lorenzo Villoresi
A sample of Bang Bang by Marc Jacobs*
A sample of Yuzu Man by Caron*

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