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Thank you!

I would like to thank all of you for participating in the Benevolent Blogging yesterday. You have helped to raise $30 that will be donated from my own pocket directly to FINCA International.

I plan to be doing a similar fundraiser in October: October is Autism Awareness Month, and also the 10th birthday of my daughter. For this very special occasion, I would like to lead a fundraiser to autism related projects which I will post about when the time comes. I hope other benevolent and kind bloggers will join me in this effort as it means a lot to me personally.

The draw for the two bottles of Altruism will take place tomorrow, so tune in for an update and to see if you are the lucky winner!
And of course – drop by any time to read my SmellyBlog, which I enjoy very much writing and sharing my perfume experiences with you.

Happy Mother's Day!


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First of all – Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers of the world! And of course to the children of the world who made them mothers (hey, that means all of us)!

As you probably already know by now, if you leave a comment here today, you will be raising money for FINCA International, an organization that provides loans to low-income micro entrepreneurs, focusing especially on women.

For each person that will post a comment on SmellyBlog on today, I will donate $1 to FINCA International. This way I hope that there will be more small businesses to make the business world more diverse and help more women gain independence – financially and otherwise.

I also encourage you to visit and leave a comment on the other blogs that participate in this project “Benevolent Blogging”. These bloggers which will donate from their own personal money to the charity of their choice are:



You are more than welcome to leave comments on any of the posts for today, Sunday, May 14th, 2006, and I will count you in!

Hugs,

Ayala

Mother's Day Fund Raising & Draw


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First of all, many thanks to Katie from Scentzilla who initiated this Mother's Day fund raising project of Benevolent Blogging , which I decided to join via SmellyBlog. On Mother's Day, for each comment made on the participating blogs, the blogger will be donating a set amount of money to a charity of their choice.

There are quite a few perfume related bloggers participating in this fabulous project, including my own SmellyBlog, and if you comment on those blogs, you will be supporting those causes with good thoughts as well as money, and also have a chance to win cool prizes!

Being a woman and an entrepreneur, I chose to give to FINCA International, an organization that provides loans to low-income micro entrepreneurs, focusing especially on women.
Thus, for each person that will post a comment on SmellyBlog on Mother’s Day (May 14th), I will donate $1 to FINCA International. I truly believe that small businesses make a huge contribution to our communities both culturally and economically, and also this is a great opportunity for women to lead an independent life.

What else is there in it for you?
You will enter a draw and can win one of the two fragrant prizes!
A 1/8oz roll-on OR a 1oz EDP spray bottle of Altruism, my wonderful fund raising perfume in many a galas and silent auctions for worthy causes.

Hugs,

Ayala

Happy Spring Holidays!

To all the millions of readers of my humble SmellyBlog, Happy Spring Holidays - whether if you are celebrating Passover, Easter or any other holiday, may it be wonderful and peaceful and grand.

I will be going away for the next week for my annual pilgrimage to the primitive village where I grew up and harvesting thorny bushes and enjoying the spring flowers which I haven’t seen for seven years. I will be away from any decent internet connection (my sophisticated, snobby laptop doesn’t do dial-up). I sure will miss you all, but I will be back soon with interesting fragrant stories, musings and reports.

In the meantime, don't forget the Scented Ribbon Contest! By the time I am back I excpect my mailbox to be full of fabulous photos of the creative uses you found for all those scented ribbons you found in your house during spring cleaning!

Packing Early,Traveling Light!

One week from now, I will be in an airplane, on my way back home to Israel. I haven’t been to Israel in the spring in seven years, and I am very excited to be smelling wild flowers again! This trip is mostly family related, but it will also have a lot to do with scent and finding new inspiration from the olfactory landscapes of my home country, which has always been my greatest inspiration for my perfumes.

I started packing as early as three weeks ago, which is very clever yet not my typical practice, and I intend to make this a tradition from now on.
As a perfume connoisseur and a fragrance junkie, the most exciting yet somewhat challenging part of all (after choosing scented gifts to bring back to family and friends, of course), is deciding which scents I will be wearing for the next month when I am away. I already packed my perfume for my trip back home.

This time was quite easy, but I wouldn’t go as far as saying that I have truly managed to keep it light… It is going to be quite warm when I am there (over 20 degrees Celsius for the most part, for sure). Which is very, very hot in my book. I am packing mostly hot weather scents, that I usually can’t wear in Vancouver until July or August, and even than, only on certain days. Some are even suitable for a humid hot day at the beach…

I am taking a flacon of Espionage (which I always have with me everywhere I go!), purse sprays of Fetish (my ultimate hot weather scent!), Tamya, Megumi and White potion. I am also taking with me a roll on bottle of virgin coconut oil with chocolate absolute. Here it is completely solid almost year around ☹ but the coconut oil will liquefy as soon as we get to the Holy Land!
And I am taking my Perfumed Pendants of course – with Espionage (turquoise opal) and Ayalitta (red garnet).

Other perfumes that I am taking are usually on the light or floral side, except for a decant of Arabie which I am taking for sentimental reasons only.
I am taking with me Philosykos, Mitsouko EDT, Fleur de Shanghai, Narciso Rodriguez, Fleurs d'Oranger, Bvlgari, Diorissimo and Spring Flower.

And last but not least – a handful of samples of scents that I think will work better in hot weather, and I don’t usually wear. I am taking them with me to create new memories with them… Wearing them later when I come back to Vancouver will remind me of my trip… That’s what I call “emotion simulation technology”. These include Le Parfum de Therese, l’Ombre Dans l’Eau, Annick Goutal Eau d’Hadrien and Eau de Sud, Antonia’s Flowers (all three scents), Jo Malone’s Grapefruit Cologne, Ormonde Jayne Frangipani and Osmanthus, Miller Harris Figue Amere and Citron Citron, and a few others. So you can sort of expect to read reviews of some of these scents in the following month.

I am leaving April 1st and will be back on the 26th. I will, however, have access to the internet most of the time, and will report about my various fragrant adventures.
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