green shore winner

 

Everybody wins: Snack! Snack! Snack!

The winner of the Green Shore giveaway,  selected using random.org, is: RACHEL RUBIN!  Rachel, please e-mail me your mailing address and I'll get your prize in the mail. I hope you love  Natalie's book and enjoy the shimmery Nuxe oil. Thanks to all who entered for spreading the nosy word; there will be future giveaways, and I hope you'll play again next time.

nosy's Green Shore giveaway

I'm back from summer break and I want to add to your summer to-read stack. Natalie Bakopoulos's gorgeous debut novel, The Green Shore, was published in June and if you haven't already, you should read it straightaway. Let me make it easy for you by giving you a copy of the book along with a travel-size 10 ml bottle of one of Natalie's preferred fragrant beauty products, Nuxe Huile Prodigieuse (Multi-Usage Dry Oil), in the shimmery golden version so you can gleam up your limbs and pretend you're frolicking on a Greek island.

Here's a pertinent passage from The Green Shore to leave you wanting more:

Eleni laughed and wanted to respond to his comment about his son, but the moment seemed lost. Instead, she asked Andreas if he thought history had a smell, and he’d responded as if he’d just been thinking of it. “The earthy smell of archaeological excavation. And the exhaust-infused smell of rain,” he’d said. Eleni agreed, and added the industrial smell of the ceramics factory blocks from her house, where her children used to play and dig for dishes, stoneware, porcelain.

To enter, please help spread the word that Nosy Girl is back by sharing the link to this giveaway on Facebook, Twitter, or your blog. If you do not use any of these platforms, you are a bit of a modern marvel. You can e-mail someone or tell them in person. Then, please leave a comment on this post letting me know how you shared the link (as with all nosy giveaways, the honor system reigns) and telling me one thing you smelled that day.

I'll pick a winner (selected randomly from the comments) on August 16th.  Thanks for spreading the nosy word, and good luck to all the great-book-and-beachy-smell seekers!

nosy winner

Everybody wins! (This photo has nothing to do with the giveaway; I just can't stop looking at it. via)

The winner of the latest nosy giveaway, selected using random.org, is: LOLA!  Lola, please e-mail me your mailing address and I'll get your prize in the mail. I hope you love Jesmyn's book and enjoy the Whipped Pudding. Everybody else, thank you for spreading the nosy word! There will be future nosy giveaways, and I hope you'll play again next time.

nosy giveaway: the sequel

[whipped pudding image via Oyin]

To celebrate the fact that Jesmyn's gorgeous new novel has been named a finalist for the National Book Award, I'm holding another nosy giveaway. This time the lucky winner will receive a copy of Salvage the Bones as well as a 2 oz. tub of Oyin Whipped Pudding. The Whipped Pudding is Oyin's first product, and can be used on skin as well as hair. I have smelled this pudding in Jesmyn's hair, and it is distractingly delicious. And Salvage the Bones, the big prize, is staggering. Here's a scent-related excerpt:

Skeetah is a smell before I see him: the oily sweat of dog, pine needles growing green, and an unwashed smell like milk set too long out in a hot kitchen.

To enter, first share the link to this giveaway on facebook*, twitter, or your blog. If you do not use any of these platforms, I salute you. You can e-mail someone or tell them in person. Next, please leave a comment on this post letting me know how you shared the link (as with last time, honor system reigns around here). I'll announce a winner (selected randomly from the comments) on October 27. Thanks for spreading the nosy word, and good luck to all the great-book-and-scrumptious-smell seekers!

*Why not "like" Nosy Girl while you're at it?

giveaway day

Happy giveaway-results day! Double giveaway day for me, it turns out, as I learned this morning that I also won an online giveaway celebrating perfumer Andy Tauer's sixth anniversary of blogging. I am deep in the throes of decision-making, and very excited to have one of his beautiful bottles on my dresser. 

 [image via we♥it]

As for the results of Nosy's own more modest giveaway, the winner is: Lucky #7! That's JOCIE (the 7th to comment, chosen using random.org). Hooray, Jocie! May Rose À Saïgon tickle your nose. Please e-mail me your mailing address and I'll get your crazy stick in the mail right away. Thanks to all for entering and spreading the nosy word! I'll do my best to make giving stuff away a not-too-irregular feature around these parts.

nosy's first giveaway

Inspired by Aimee's mention of Crazylibellule and the Poppies, I'm holding the first nosy giveaway! One Rose À Saïgon "Crazy Stick"/solid perfume is up for offer, and all you must do to enter is share the link to Nosy Girl via facebook, twitter, your blog &/or e-mail. Or you can just tell someone out loud, in person. Let me know how/where you shared in the comments, and I'll enter your name in the drawing (it's all honor system here at Nosy HQ).

The stick has been opened to test the smell (very pretty, fruity & flowery) and the twist mechanism (sound). The perfume was purchased by me in a bit of a frenzy on one of those flash sale sites, so it's possible you'll see future crazylilubelle giveaways around these parts, depending on how this one goes. Thank you for spreading the nosy word!