A dispenser for discharging media has a duct (14) including a medium outlet (12), and a dosage carrier (34, 35) mounted on a base body (2) and including receptacles (36, 37) for receiving doses of the medium entirely enclosed in respective reservoir spaces (17), a medium holder (21) disposed beneath the reservoir spaces and adjacent the duct (14) for holding the medium when it is released from one of the reservoir spaces (17), and a device (44, 45) for opening one of the reservoir space (17) to allow the medium to be first deposited in the medium holder (21), and then picked up and conveyed out the medium outlet (12) by a transfer flow through the reservoir space (17).