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EU MY! SUGAR'S FRAGRANCE SWEEPSTAKES

Fresh, maker of lovely fragrances like Lemon Sugar and Redcurrant Basil, is offering one lucky winner a trip to their NYC spa to meet with Fresh's co-founder Lev Glazman to make his/her own scent! To enter the sweepstakes, you must be a Sephora Beauty Insider, which only takes a second to register for (you can do it here).

Read more about the sweepstakes here.

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WIN A PERRICONE BASKET AT ALLURE

You can win this huge basket of Dr. Perricone products at Allure. There's also a bunch of other stuff up for grab, including a spa getaway and loads of makeup.

ON LIKE A LAMB
OUT LIKE A LION

I've been obsessed with Gwen Stefanie's L by L.A.M.B perfume since it emerged on the shelves of beauty counters everywhere. Something about the bottle's earthy tones and the weight of the bottle in my hand when I pick it up really appeals to my senses. And that's not even mentioning the scent, which I have a hard time describing. It's sweet and warm at the same time like a musky pear tart with a hint of lilly dashed on top of it.

Because I'm too cheap to cough up the $50 for it, I take the opportunity to douse myself in it everytime I pass it in a store. Having said all of that, I noticed the other day that unlike a lot of fragrances, this one really sticks to me. I sprayed it on early in the afternoon after a trip to ULTA and realized I was still smelling it around eight p.m. The problem being that it no longer exuded that initial freshness that I like so much and now just smelled heavy.

If you want a sample, you can head over to the fragrance's website and request one. The only problem is you have to enter a bunch of info that will probably be picked up by a gazillion marketing companies who will spam you with junk mail from now until eternity.