Famous Novel First Lines Winners

What are the most Famous First Lines of Novels

To win this month’s spilled perfume you will need to match the CaFleureBon Contributors and Editors with their choice of their favorite novel first lines, not the title of the book itself. (note: in some cases a truncated version of famous first lines of books appears, since many of the sentences were very long).

No one guessed correctly-see below

Sherri Sebastian, Contributor:  “People are always asking me if I know Tyler Durden”

Elise Pearlstine, Contributor: “Call me Ishmael”

Dalya Azaria, Contributor: “IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages…”

Despina Veneti, Senior Editor: “A story has no beginning or end; arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

Sandi Lundberg, Associate Contributor: “We had been wandering for so long I forgot what it was like to live within walls or sleep through the night.”

Elena Cvjetkovic, Editor: “I have promised to introduce you today to the fairy-land of science…”

Ida Meister, Sr. Editor: “Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp”

Emmanuelle Varron, Contributor: “The first time Aurelien saw Berenice, he found her downright ugly”.

Hernando Courtright, Sr. Contributor: “On a recent Sunday, one of the hints in the New York Times crossword puzzle was “Acts like Delilah.”

Ermano Picco, Editor: “It was the fifteenth of June in 1767 when Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò, my brother, sat among us for the last time”

Lauryn Beer, Sr. Editor:  “It could be said of Lockhart Flawse when he carried his bride, Jessica, née Sandicott,..”

Samantha Gough, Contributor: “One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now…”

Nicoleta Tomasa, Sr. Contributor: “Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago..”

Michelyn Camen, Editor-in-Chief: “Many years later as he faced the firing squad Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon…” “

For our Famous Novel First Lines Draw

 The Winner is Bubeto_GG EU, US, UK:  50 ml of Ormonde Jayne Tsarina

The Winner is TWakefield US, EU, Canada, UK: Atelier des Ors Rouge Saray

 The Winner is Shawn USA, EU, UK Canada: Folie a Plusieurs For Electra by Mark Buxton

The Winner is Francesca: Worldwide: DSH Perfumes Aoud Blanc Shea butter cream (all natural)

The Winner is Vara USA: 100 ml bottle of Eau D’Italie Jasmine Leather

 ScentitarFragrance USA Only: Maison Berdoues Selva Do Brazil 

The Winner is Serena USA , Eu and UK 100ml bottle of Essential Parfums Bois Impérial 

The Winner is m.r.everything USA Only: $50 Osswald Parfumerie NYC Gift Certificate

 

Since no reader guessed correctly the draw is completely random, and the winners were chosen through a random number generator.  YOU WILL NOT NECCESARILY GET WHT YOU LISTED. If you are one of the Famous Novel First Line Winners please email Michelyn at Cafleurebon dawt com with the exact name of your prize as the subject for example 50 ml Tsarina your complete mailing, name and phone details by 1/122/2021 4PM DST. This is a deadline and no exceptions if you are late. Please use the email from your comment so we know it is you. DO NOT MENTION SPILLED PERFUME Or Famous First  Novel Lines Just include a nice note to the perfumer.

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