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post #121 of 735
Nostalgie now, huh? What a great little team of sniffers I have! I'll have to dig deep to stump these ladies!
post #122 of 735
Hi knit_at_night! It's good to have you aboard!

There has to be someone else here willing to play along...
post #123 of 735
Quote:
Originally Posted by rogalal View Post

Hi knit_at_night! It's good to have you aboard!

There has to be someone else here willing to play along...

rogalal- which weekend are we doing this? if it's the weekend of the 14th, do you think Valentine's day is making some folks shy away ?
post #124 of 735
Thread Starter 
I have sent moondeva and FrouFrou the second request to confirm their participation and forward their addresses to rogalal and also have PMed hilaryjane and Thalia the request to blind sniff in February instead of March.

My belief is that the Weekend of February 12-13 -- before the Valentine's Day -- should not really interfere with sniffing, but sniffs might happen any day of the week, or if a weekend is of importance there are two more weekends left in February -- Feb.19-20 and Feb.26-27.

I hate to say this but I am inclined to think that if we do not manage to fill in the sniffing positions by the end of this week (Feb.5-6) or if we do not hear from either of the potential sniffers any time soon, February sniff might not happen. This also makes me doubt the entire idea of Blind Sniffs in 2011 or further on.
post #125 of 735
For what it's worth (little, since I'm a baby sniffer!) I can be moved to fill any spot. I'm really flexible. PM me.
post #126 of 735
I will be in Dallas until the 14th of February, after that I will be in the Netherlands.
I have had bronchitis, with really bad sinus infections and lost my sense of smell and taste for about three weeks! luckily I am all back...
post #127 of 735
I'm sorry I haven't been on basenotes for the last month, for one I couldn't smell anything, for the other I got engaged, and I will be moving to Texas this year and I have a lot to do, too much! For the next few months...
post #128 of 735
Thread Starter 
Good news, really -- seems like we have enough people to blind sniff in February.

We got knit_at_nite, claresauntie and FrouFrou. Could you, ladies, please kindly PM rogalal your mailing addresses so that he knows where to send the samples?

How about the sniffing dates? Since FrouFrou will be back to the Netherlands after Feb.14, how about the weekend of Feb.19-20 or around it?
post #129 of 735
Thread Starter 
Here is the update on the sniffing schedule:

February 2011 -- Rogalal -- knit_at_nite, FrouFrou, claresauntie.

March 2011 -- Twolf/darkdreams -- hilaryjane (UK), Thalia, Aiona.

April 2011 -- debborrra/odysseum -- Kiliwia, Twolf, __________.

May 2011 -- Sunnyfunny-- saripatates (Turkey), debborrra, Haunani.

June 2011 -- Evangeline -- darkdreams, Sunnyfunny, Nostalgie.

There is moondeva somewhere in here too, since I have not heard from her yet -- we just do not know which month.

The first sniffer in each group will be sniffing previous month's fragrances in case of last minute cancellations.


Please let me know if or how I can improve the schedule, OK?
post #130 of 735
Cool!

Clairesauntie, knit_at_night, and FrouFrou, please PM me you addresses asap (especially FrouFrou, because I'll have to mail you internationally).

We got a request to have this the weekend of the 26th, which sounds perfect, and should give me some time.

And everyone please make sure your wardrobes are up-to-date. That's the only way I can be sure not to send scents you've already tried!

Thanks!
post #131 of 735
Done!
post #132 of 735
AH!!!! I'm sorry I'm late. clairesauntie just told me this was going on! If there's still an opening, I'd love to sniff for March!

And I'll try not to get pregnant this time!
post #133 of 735
Thread Starter 
Hi Aiona -- LOL @ getting pregnant. I owe you one -- you have provided samples of D'Orsay Femme de Dandy for everybody last time I was hosting -- you are so in! And derkdreams and I will be your senders. Please let me know if it is still the same address at 7..36.
post #134 of 735
Quote:
Originally Posted by Twolf View Post

Hi Aiona -- LOL @ getting pregnant. I owe you one -- you have provided samples of D'Orsay Femme de Dandy for everybody last time I was hosting -- you are so in! And derkdreams and I will be your senders. Please let me know if it is still the same address at 7..36.

Gosh, I ought to read up on that Blind Sniff. I'm curious to see how others interpreted it. And yes, as much as I might wish I lived in the South Pacific, I still live at the same old address.
post #135 of 735
so, am I still sniffing at May?
:=)
post #136 of 735
Thread Starter 
Do not know yet, sorry. Like I mentioned, we still have moondeva somewhere inbetween. There might also be March and April dropouts, I have not heard anything from hilaryjane or Thalia either, we'll see -- let's do one month at a time, OK?

Do you have any preferences, saripatates, on when to blind sniff? Or, better, are there any months when you absolutely can't do it?
post #137 of 735
it's fine by me up until the end of may. her highness can do as she deems appropriate.
post #138 of 735
Thread Starter 
Better like "my lowness", you know.... But, well, again -- everything goes.

Thanks!
post #139 of 735
OK, the February samples are in the mail!

FrouFrou, I sent yours to the Texas address, because they should arrive long before the 14th.

If they don't, let me know and I'll fix things.

Oh, and the theme of the blind sniff is officially:

NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS - DISHONEST PERFUMES
post #140 of 735
Wow, what an intriguing theme!
When is the Feb sniff??
post #141 of 735
Thread Starter 
Great news, thanks! Interesting topic, I must admit and agree with Warum (W., it is the last weekend of Feb.26). And then again, many of them are not what they seem -- Musk Ravageur anyone?

Sniffers, please let us all know if/when you receive the packages, OK?
post #142 of 735
Rogalal, what an intriguing-sounding theme! Will be out of town that weekend, but will take laptop so I can at least check in once in a while.
post #143 of 735
Oh, lawdy... Ya'll want my untalented nose to pick apart and indentify a scent that's being TRICKY? sigh... Should be good for a laugh!
post #144 of 735
Claresauntie, your nose will just smell it for what it is and won't let the tricks to be played on you

T, thanks, put it on my calendar. Almost no point in doing so since I will be away most of the weekend, but I will try to check in when I can and will, at worst, just read through the entire thing when I'm back home on Monday!
post #145 of 735
Squeeeeeeeee My packet has ARRIVED! Storing in a safe place to avoid temptation of ripping it open NOW.
post #146 of 735
Thread Starter 
That's great! Could the other two sniffers post here when their packages arrive, I am speaking about FrouFrou and claresauntie, please?
post #147 of 735
Not here yet, but maybe today? I'll let you know ASAP.
post #148 of 735
It looks like the real wild card is FrouFrou, who is going back to Holland tomorrow, I believe. I really hope her package has arrived!
post #149 of 735
Mine is still not here....?
post #150 of 735
Thread Starter 
Thanks for the update. You please keep checking your mail boxes and checking in here, OK?

I have no idea what the delay is caused by -- I forwarded your address to rogalal using copy-paste function.
post #151 of 735
It came today!
*GULP*
post #152 of 735
Thread Starter 
We have got confirmations from knit_at_nite and claresauntie, how about you FrouFrou -- I saw FrouFrou posting on another thread?

I have a suggestion: although rogalal said it is for the next weekend, we do not have to wait for the weekend, we have had a few times in the history of Blind Sniffs when they started/took place in the middle of the week.
post #153 of 735
Hi, I have only just arrived back home, and I have some mail-notes there are two packages I have to pick up from the post office, which I will do asap!
post #154 of 735
OMG, I just read back, they were send to Dallas? Nothing arrived there! And I was there all the time! All day long, I could not have missed anything!
And I am back in Holland now...
I'm going to miss out then...
post #155 of 735
And the theme sound sooo fascinating....
post #156 of 735
Thread Starter 
Please contact people at your address in TX and ask them if they could send the samples to you in the Netherlands. Usually the mail reaches us within one week -- you still have time to participate. There are also expedited delivery options existing.

If they are not in your hands by next weekend -- which I do not see any reason why they should not be -- we will do February Sniff as soon as you receive them, or will have February Sniff in March and March Sniff in March too.

Please keep us posted.
post #157 of 735
I certainly plan to get to the F as soon as he is off work. I know I cannot have missed anything while I was there because I was having several other packages delivered and I was very alert.
The F will not be happy to have to send it on, he is very busy with work.
It is really too kind that you would change the date for me to be able to join, especially as I can feel the twitchy noses through the internet, yearning to smell the mystery vials....
post #158 of 735
The package has finally arrived!
I am now working, whining, nagging, bribing, and blackmailing to get him to send it on to me as soon as possible.
With a bit of luck....
post #159 of 735
Doh!

I'm sorry to have created so much drama. I sent those packages almost two weeks before you were leaving - I had really hoped it would arrive on time. Apparently, I underestimated the terrible weather.

Obviously, we'll hold off until you can get the samples.

Sorry for the problems...
post #160 of 735
It should have been there in time, I brought something on ebay a week before I left, and I brought a present for a friend that week and they both arrived in time. You send it with enough time and to spare, don't know what the post was up too!
He can't send it today, but maybe tomorrow.
He also has to send in the forms for my fiancee visa and that's really important, so he will have to go to the post office anyway.
post #161 of 735
Thread Starter 
Thanks for your efforts. Keeping my fingers crossed.
post #162 of 735
Don't thank me?
I just want to sniff!
Thanks everybody for waiting for me!
post #163 of 735
Thread Starter 
I did not want this thread to be lost somewhere on the second page, therefore I am bumping it up.

Do we have any developments from the Netherlands -- TX?

Meantime, I will be mailing samples for March Blind Sniff next week and darkdreams and I will be hosting it on the weekend of March 18-20, fingers crossed.
post #164 of 735
He said he would send it today.
I have been poking and sending reminder e-cards every day....
Actually there's still one on the way for tomorrow.
post #165 of 735
I haven't minded waiting for the Feb sniff- the delay has given me more time for much needed practice in identifying notes. Thanks again for organizing Twolf and Rogalal for hosting....we'll get there eventually
post #166 of 735
Well that's nice... Because he hasn't send them up yet...
I will try a bit of crying tomorrow.
(it's night here now)
post #167 of 735
no worries, Mlle FrouFrou
post #168 of 735
Thread Starter 
Tomorrow the PO will be closed -- it is Sunday. So we will have to wait more. Oh well....
post #169 of 735
Thread Starter 
FrouFrou, any news from TX?

I have a piece of news here too: my empty vials have arrived and I will be decanting later on this week and mailing them out early next week. March sniffers, please let's get ready!
post #170 of 735
Yeah, actually I do have news, hot from my chat window, five minutes ago.
He's not going to send them up, he is too busy.

He really is, he just started a new job with huge responsibilities and the place is a mess. He leaves home at 07.00 when the post office isn't even open yet, and he comes home at night after the post office is closed. And in the weekends he is working too.

I am back in America on the 21st of March. So if he doesn't send them this week and the post is slow they could even arrive after I am back in America again!
And then I could ask my nice neighbor to send them up.
And then they would maybe arrive after I have left for the Netherlands again....
post #171 of 735
Thread Starter 
OK, any news is better than not knowing what's going on.

What we can do: Have March sniff on a weekend of March 18-20 provided March sniffers do not mind.
Have February sniff the weekend of March 25-27 provided rogalal and everybody else are available.

Please let me know what you are all thinking about this arrangement?
post #172 of 735
Oh, well, I think it's brilliant.
Of course....
post #173 of 735
A very practical plan, Twolf.
post #174 of 735
oops double post
post #175 of 735
It's cool with me!
post #176 of 735
Update

So, I've just been informed that March Blind Sniff will be March 18-20, 2011. I was a dingbat, and scheduled to be on the road just days before that. I am pretty sure I'll have internet access March 18 and March 19. It will be sporadic on the 20th though. I'm hoping we can guess what the mystery scents are by then!!!

And then, I've been informed that February Blind Sniff will actually take place in March, the week after the March Blind Sniff, due to packages chasing FrouFrou back and forth across the ocean.
post #177 of 735
Thread Starter 
Sorry about the inconvenience, Aiona. I thought it was somewhere in the beginning of this thread that we should be having sniffs around the middle of each month. I posted the dates for March Sniff in #163 on February 25th, a week ago. If there is any other date more suitable for you, please let us know.

"Just" informed decision about February sniff being held in March was made on March 1, see post #171. Do you believe we should go ahead and do March sniff after the February sniff is over with?

And yes, yesterday I mailed out the packages to each of our March Sniff participants, so please let us know here or in a PM when they arrive.

Please check this thread often.
post #178 of 735
No, it'll be fine, Twolf! It's not an inconvenience. I just need to learn how to subscribe to a thread, so I don't miss anything. In fact, I'll do that right now! 'Been procrastinating with learning to do that. 'Need to stop that!

Edit: Done! Man, that was easy. I shoulda done that long time ago!
post #179 of 735
Thread Starter 
Good job, I do not intend to put strain on anyone. Too much cr.p in this world already.
post #180 of 735
Although I am not an official sniffer I have already received the March samples from Twolf (and I am having fun by myself). I hope the real sniffers will get them soon. I can't wait for this to start!
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