Worldwide Basenotes Meet-Up Weekend August 28-30, 2009 AND AWAY WE GO!!!!

August 28-30, 2009
Worldwide Basenotes Meet-Up Weekend

If youve been following the party that Nukapai and Grant are putting together on august 28th over in London and are feeling left out, I have an idea for you.
If youve been reading Ubu & Tangs Excellent Scent Adventure and want to experience the fun of hanging out with other Basenoters, I have an idea for you.
I am proposing that we make the weekend of August 28-30, 2009 Worldwide Basenotes Meet-Up Weekend.
What do I mean?
The truly blessed amongst us will be together in London.
For the rest of us what Im suggesting is that you name a place and a time on that weekend to meet-up and in essence we have a worldwide Basenotes convention.
Every city or region will need a person or persons to take point and co-ordinate.
Since Im suggesting this Ill volunteer to be the Boston point person.
To give you an idea what I mean here is the announcement for Boston:

Calling all Boston and New England Basenoters
Lets all meet-up on Saturday August 29th at 10AM in the atrium in front of Barneys in the Copley Place Mall.
Once we are together we will go into Barneys, Neiman Marcus, CO Bigelow, LOccitane, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Sephora.
For those who still have energy and weather permitting well finish our day down on Newbury St at Lush, Chanel, and Hermes.
After Hermes we can head down to Troquet and have some small bites and wines by the glass.
Anybody who thinks they want to come should PM Somerville Metro Man and Ill keep track of everyone.
If you cant make it at 10AM Ill be available by cell phone and you can join us at any point during the day that works for you.
The point of this is to share our passion for perfume in a fun way together.
I look forward to seeing some of you for this.

If you want to be a point person to organize go to Social Groups and I've created a Social Group named Worldwide Basenotes Meet-Up Weekend 2009.
http://community.basenotes.net/group.php?groupid=50
Go in there and create a thread with your city name on it and use that to do the organizing about what you want to do.
I'll keep track here of who is point person for which areas as they create a thread there.

Current Cities as of July 19th

Boston, MA USA on Saturday August 29th- Somerville Metro Man
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada -Saturday August 29th - nsamadi
Chicago, IL USA- Saturday August 29th - Quarry
Miami/South Florida Saturday August 29th- futami
Central Florida Saturday August 29th- decillisjl
San Francisco Saturday August 29th-rogalal
Kansas City Saturday August 29th- Cologne Junkie
Hong Kong Saturday August 29th- mr. reasonable



The remaining requirement is to take lots of pictures. Maybe even try and get a picture of the whole group at one of the counters or near a local landmark. We can then make a site album to put all of the pictures in. For those who are in smaller places even a get together at someones home which is centrally located and have a blind sniff with everyone bringing one blind scent could be fun. The main idea is to be together not for it to be anything grander than that.
The proposal is to try and get as many Basenoters together in small groups over the three days of this weekend in August. Lets truly bring Basenotes Nation to life all over the world.

First post updated with info on where we should list cities and organize.

Thank you Quarry.

Agggh!! I hate word problems.

The more pertinent question is if Quarry boards a train going 110 mph and hits three US convention sites how much heavier will her suitcase be at the end?

Hi everyone I updated the cities that groups have organized in.
I also want to say even if two Basenoters know they live close to each other and want to meet somewhere in the middle to have coffee that is just as good as these big shopping expeditions that are going on in the big cities.
Use the link in the first post and see if there are people near you who want to get together and do a swap of samples or a blind sniff. The whole idea is to get Basenoters togethere on the same weekend and share our passion for perfumes and colognes.
I'll be keeping running tabs weekly as we are now six weeks away.

Here is the Boston Tentative Schedule.
I am in the midst of working out all of the finer details but it looks like we might have some special guests and it looks like we might get some discounts from the various stores while we are there. I'll know more over the next two weeks.
If you're definitely coming and haven't PM'd me please do that so I can get a confirmed head count.
If you're thinking of coming and are still on the fence I'd like to know that, too. so go ahead an PM me and give me a likelihood of you joining us.
Right now I have nine confirmed people who are going to be there. The more the merrier.
Meet at 9:45 in the Atrium of Copley Place
10:00 AM Neiman-Marcus
11:00 AM Barney's
12:15 Sak's Guerlain Boutique
1:00 Sak's Fine Fragrance
1:45 Lunch and walk down Newbury St.
2:30 Chanel
3:00 Hermes
3:30 An Afternoon with Neil Morris

Nine Cities set for the Weekend of Auguast 28-30th.
Three weeks to go until we all get to uncloak ourselves and really find out how we smell in our favorite scents.
Not too late to organize in your city.
Remember it can just be a meeting at a local coffee shop and an opportunity to swap samples and perfume tales.
The idea is just to meet other Basenoters.

The Boston Meet-up schedule for Saturday August 29th is below:
The schedule is
9:45-10:00 Meet in the atrium out in front of Barney's at Copley Place
10:00-10:45 Neiman Marcus (Tom Ford Private Blends)
11;00-11:45-Barney's (Frederic Malle, Serge Lutens, Byredo, The Different Company)
12:00-12:45 Guerlain @ Sak's (This is a full-Guerlain Boutique and Mary Line Patry from Guerlain will be there)
12:45-1:30 Fine Fragrance @ Saks (Bond No. 9)
1:30-2:15 Lunch and walk down to Chanel
2:15-2:45 Chanel (Les Exclusifs)
3:00-3:30 Hermes (Hermessence and Terre D'Hermes Parfume)
3:30-? Neil Morris


You can meet up with us for all or part of the day.
If you are planning on coming PM me and I will send you my cellphone number so if for some reason you are late or need to catch up with us I can tell you where we are.
I can't wait to go sniffing with a crew of Basenoters, I think it's going to be fun.

One reminder to every city group.
PLEASE get a picture of your group.
It would be great to get a picture of each group to post at the social site and in this thread once everything is done.
Thank you to everyone who has stepped up to lead the city groups I am very excited about how this has turned oiut.
All that remains is for us all to have some fun this weekend.
Perfumistas and Colognoisseurs Start Your Sniffers!

To the Boston Group.
Just got off the phone with Christopher who runs the Guerlain Boutique at Sak's.
He told me that our group will be getting a 15% discount on Saturday while we're there.
He has been very helpful in the planning and this is just the cherry on the sundae.