Trying to select a fragrance as a Mother’s Day gift? What type of mom she is might help you narrow the choices. A few suggestions — and information about how to win some! — are after the jump.THE SWEETHEART: Bath & Body Works’ new limited-edition fragrance Sweet Pea might cost about $10 more than the store’s other scents, but it’s an eau de parfum, and still a bargain at $28. The scent is light and sweet from the get-go, with accords of violet leaves and red apple, middle notes of sweet pea and orange flower, and finishing with base notes of plum wood and heliotrope. Chandler Fashion Center and Scottsdale Fashion Square have bigger flagship locations with extra stuff, but there are a dozen BBW stores in the East Valley.

THE MULTITASKER: How about a fragrance that does more than just waft scent? Concreta perfume balm by Zents ($32) is made with a base of shea butter and beeswax, so it can be used to soften rough patches of skin, help mend cuticles, or control frizz and add shine to hair. Find all 10 scents at the Treasure Chest, at Market Street at DC Ranch, 20645 N. Pima Road, Scottsdale. (And if you can’t decide, the Treasure Chest staff can order a sampler that contains a vial of each scent for $7.) And while you’re up there, fill out a form at participating Market Street merchants like Croll Blue and Scarpe — or at www.beonmarketstreet.com — to be entered in a $2,000 shopping spree. The winner will be announced May 24.THE SEX BOMB: (Hey, moms can be sexy, too!) Lingerie company Agent Provocateurs first fragrance is a chypre throwback to classic floral aldehyde scents like Chanel No. 5 — expect woody cedar and warm musk to intermingle with florals like rose, gardenia and magnolia. Eau de parfum ranges from $55 to $110 at Sephora stores in Chandler and Scottsdale; shimmery Body Glamour lotion is $40 and a hefty container of Bubble Luscious bath foam is $45.

HOW TO WIN: I’ve got one gift pack of Agent Provocateur fragrance — an eau de parfum spray like the one pictured above, and one Bubble Luscious bath foam — to give to one lucky reader. To be entered, click on this link to bring up an e-mail window, then send me your name and mailing address, and the subject line AGENT PROVOCATEUR, along with the answer to this question: Which Australian pop star once did an ad for the erotic lingerie line that ran in theaters, showing her riding an electric bull — clad only in lingerie? (Hint: Sammit readers need only look back a few months’ worth of posts to find a photo of her.)

I’ll pick one winner out of the correct entries received by Friday, May 4.UPDATE: Congratulations to Cheri Severance of Mesa, who correctly identified Kylie Minogue as the singer.

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