Showing posts with label natural ambergris giveaway. Show all posts
Showing posts with label natural ambergris giveaway. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Giveaway: Win a Real Grain of Natural Ambergris

The amount of feedback and requests with questions concerning natural ambergis I have received has been amazing. I have explained about natural ambergris as a perfumery material in the past (contrasted with synthetic woody-ambers) and posted about cooking with ambergris and the joys of actually eating it (yes, you read this right), so it was only natural that adventurous readers asked me about sources and details.
I came to realize that for some of them the whole subject sounds totally inaccessible, so in the interests of being a good sport & doing a public service (and at the same time drawing out some of our lurkers; come on, we welcome questions, there is no such thing as a stupid question) I'm offering for grabs ~out of my own personal stash~ one gram of natural ambergris, ethically harvested from the shores of New Zealand for one (ultra) lucky winner. It will be sent raw in a small glass vial by me to anywhere in the world and you can keep it as is, tincture it in perfumer's alcohol for use in your mixes or just for reference, or cook with it and see what all the fuss is about.




In order to participate in the draw you need to answer to these questions in the Comments:
1) Do you find the PerfumeShrine  aroma-materials articles useful as they are or do you have suggestions for them to get better? How?
2) Do you want more materials or terms defined for you? Which ones?

Draw is open to everyone (Anonymous users will be counted by the time-stamp of their post), wherever you are, and will remain open till  Monday 7th Nov. midnight. Good luck to all!

Edit to add: the photo shows genuine ambergris, a HUGE "Yeti" piece provided by natural perfumer AnyaMcCoy 

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