A sincere thank you to everyone who entered the 2008 Prix Eau Faux, our contest to reward excellence in "creative fragrance writing" (or faux ad copy), and my apologies for keeping you waiting! We received a total of 55 entries, and the panel of judges — oops, make that the "distinguished panel of judges" (me, Angela, Kevin, Erin and Jessica from Now Smell This, Marina from Perfume Smellin' Things and Katie from Scentzilla) — have all been asked to select their choices for semi-finalists by this weekend. My hope is that we'll be ready for readers to vote on their favorites by Monday or Tuesday of next week.