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Jasmine Awards 2023 Finalists (and why we’re squealing with joy!)

The Fragrance Foundation Jasmine Awards 2023 finalists have just been announced, so if you heard a high-pitched sound and dashed to check your fire alarm batteries didn’t need changing – worry not: it was merely the sound of The Perfume Society team squealing with joy!

The Fragrance Foundation says: ‘Launched in the UK in 1990 the Jasmine Awards are recognised as the most prestigious journalistic awards in the beauty industry. They recognise and reward the talents of journalists & visualisers whose difficult task it is to translate the complex art of perfumery into words and pictures.’

We are thrilled to have FIVE nominations this year, for articles published in our magazine, The Scented Letter (sign up to get your FREE digital copy, here, if you’ve not done so already), and for our blog. Amidst such talented company as the other incredible nominees, and with so many submissions the prestigious judging panel had to work their way through, we are full to the fragrant brim with gratitude for this recognition, and send huge congratulations to ALL of the finalists…

Practical Guide:

The Scented Letter magazine – 50 Perfume Icons, by Suzy Nightingale

The Scented Letter magazine – Any Colour, So Long As It’s Green, by Jo Fairley

The Scented Letter magazine – Time to Spray your 5 a Day, by Suzy Nightingale

@Fabulousmag – How to Smell Expensive (Without Breaking the Bank), by Tara Ledden

Short Piece:

Perfume Society blog – Chapter & Verse: fragrances inspired by literature, by Suzy Nightingale

The Scented Letter magazine – It Takes Me Right Back (To the Hardware Store), by Jan Masters

@CountryandTownHouse – The Green, Green, Grasse, by Jan Masters

@BeautyMatterofficial – Safety in Numbers: The Henry Rose Team on a New Era of Ingredient Transparency, by Carla Seipp

How to Spend it (Financial Times) – Help, I’ve Been Discontinued… by Mark C O’Flaherty

Creativity:

Instagram, All The Perfumes I Wore Last Week – Sali Hughes

Instagram, Desert Island (little) Spritz with Poppy du Parcq – Alice du Parcq

Instagram, Desert Island Spritz, My Top 10 Guerlain Favourites – Alice du Parcq

Instagram, Slutty Perfumes – Sali Hughes

@OnTheScentPodcast, Scented Story Time & Perfume Prescriptions (Episode 56) – Suzy Nightingale & Nicola Bonn

Rising Star:

@Fabulousmag – How to Smell Expensive (Without Breaking the Bank), by Tara Ledden

Harrods (Instagram Stories) – Trending Oud Scents to Try Immediately, by Shannan Sterne

Harrods Magazine – What’s the Hype?, by Nateisha Scott

Meanwhile, we are also excited to share with you the HOT OFF THE PRESS just-launched edition of The Scented Letter magazine, which you can have sent straight to your inbox by signing up here, and purchase gorgeous glossy print copies of, here!

Jasmine Awards 2020

Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures, and this year, The Fragrance Foundation U.K. held their presigious annual awards in a live-streamed, scent-filled ceremony, held on YouTube last night…

Linda Key Jackson, CEO of The Fragrance Foundation UK, explained in a statement:

‘…we had to make the sad decision to change the format of this years award ceremony. When lockdown came into effect in March, we had already been working for months with the aim of producing our best awards ceremony yet. However I can assure you that it will still have the glamour, excitement and anticipation and we will deliver an awards to remember.’

The ceremony split into two parts: The Fragrance Foundation Awards – showcasing the best new fragrance launches that made it to the finals; and The Jasmine Awards – celebrating fragrance journalism.

And the winners are…

LIMITED DISTRIBUTION WOMEN

And the winner is… Floral Street – Electric Rhubarb!

LIMITED DISTRIBUTION MEN

And the winner is… Giorgio Armani Prive Orangerie Venise!

MEDIA CAMPAIGN

And the winner is… Jo Malone London – Gent Campaign with John Boyega!

DESIGN & PACKAGING

And the winner is… Gucci – The Luxury Collection: The Alchemist’s Garden!

INNOVATION

And the winner is… Lancôme Idôle!

INTERIOR FRAGRANCE

And the winner is… Cire Trudon – Ernesto!

INDEPENDENT

Floris – Vert Fougère!

NEWCOMER

And the winner is… Sous Le Manteau!

PEOPLE’S CHOICE (Voted for on boots.com)

And the winner is… Dior – Joy eau de parfum Intense!

PERFUME EXTRAORDINAIRE

And the winner is… Marc-Antoine Barrois – Ganymede!

RETAILER OF THE YEAR

And the winner is… Harrods!

ONLINE RETAILER OF THE YEAR

And the winner is… (A draw!) Harrods / The Perfume Shop!

BEST NEW FRAGRANCE: WOMEN

And the winner is… Yves Saint Laurent – Libre!

BEST NEW FRAGRANCE: MEN

And the winner is… Le Labo – Baie 19!

READER’S CHOICE

And the winner is… Chanel – Gabrielle Essence eau de parfum!

ULTIMATE LAUNCH

And the winner is… Yves Saint Laurent – Libre!

Creativity: Harvey Nichols ‘In the Air’ Rakes Progress

Practical Guide Award: Alice Du Parcq ‘Message in a Bottle’ Glamour Magazine

Short Piece: Fiona Embleton: ‘Cancer Stole My Mother’s Scent’ marieclaire.co.uk

Literary Award: Amanda Carr ‘Fragrant New World’ Rake’s Progres

(We admit a particular patriality to Amanda – she’s a long-time friend and regular contributor to The Perfume Society, and we are so happy for her!)

Rising Star: Sophie Elkan ‘The Scents of Britain: Penhaligon’s’ OX Magazine

Even though we weren’t lucky enough to win this year, we were uttely thrilled to be finalists for SIX awards in varying categories, and we’ve linked them below if you’d like a moment of fragrant reverie…

Finalist: Literary Award – Perfuming a Part, by Suzy Nightingale

Finalist: Literary Award – Scents of India, by Amanda Carr

Finalist: Practical Guide – Scents of Place: Venice, by Jo Fairley

Finalist: Practical Guide – The Future of Fragrance, by The Perfume Society Scented Letter Magazine team

Finalist: Short Piece – Orange Blossom, How to Bottle Sunshine, by Suzy Nightingale

Finalist: Short Piece – Scented Inks & Inky Scents, by Suzy Nightingale

Do, please, make time to have a look at the full list of finalists and their work – fragrance journalism is such a difficult task, and these writers all deserve recognition for their creativity, and the immense value they add to the fragrance industry.

Congratulations to ALL our fellow finalists, and all the winners. And congratulations are due, too, to The Fragrance Foundation team for their hard work – especially under such trying circumstances! We look forward to next year, when hopefully we can all be together again…

By Suzy Nightingale

Art and Olfaction Awards 2017 shortlist: the fragrant names you need to familiarise yourself with right now…

During last week’s Esxence fragrance exhibition in Milan, the shortlist for the fourth annual Art and Olfaction Awards was announced in a special presentation. Some of the partners and judges for the awards were there in person, to declare the good news for those breathlessly waiting to hear if they’d made the cut – anxiously watching the faces and hanging on every word of Luca Turin, Helder Suffenplan, Adam Eastwood and Franco Wright, Antonio Gardoni, Christophe Laudamiel and Saskia Wilson-Brown, we’re sure!

Celebrating independent, artisinal perfumery and those indie houses that really push the boundaries in exciting ways – we are excited to see names we know well and already admire greatly among some we’ve not yet had the pleasure of getting our hands (and noses!) on and will be following with great interest.
So, for those who weren’t able to make the presentation, here’s the list of those who will be gnawing their fingernails a little longer while they await the finals on May 6, at Silent Green Kulturquartier in Berlin…

Fragrance Foundation Awards: all the scents, winners and stars!

The 24th annual Fragrance Foundation Awards 2016 took place last night the garden-party themed Brewery in the City of London – and we had the very great pleasure of being there to see it all!

Hundreds of industry guests packed the venue in great anticipation for this prestigious event, so admirably hosted by Natasha Kaplinsky (who was also on this year’s judging panel for the Jasmine Awards). A host of celebrities including Callum Best, Oliver Cheshire, Sali Hughes, Jenny Packham, Laura Predalska, Lilah Parsons & were there to hand out the beautiful Lalique statuettes or simply to soak up the atmosphere and celebrate the incredible UK talent we should be so proud of in the perfume world. With a fabulous meal, Champagne flowing and entertainment provided by Kevin Simm – recent winner of BBC’s The Voice and ex member of Liberty X – it really was a night to remember, and that’s even before the awards were finally announced!

There were twenty award categories in all, with a great range of fragrance houses, both well established and newly emerging, being showcased – and to ALL the finalists in these hotly-contested and highly prized awards we send our heartfelt congratulations: it was an honour to be in a room with such diverse and equally inspiring brands and the hard-working people behind them.

Read on to find out who won a coveted Lalique Fragrance Foundation Award in each category…

Best New Female Print Campaign: Alaïa Paris

Best New Male Print Campaign: John Varvatos Dark Rebel

Best New Female Commercial Fragrance: Chanel Chance Eau Vive

Best New Male Commercial Fragrance: Guerlain l’homme Ideal Eau De Cologne

Best New Female Fragrance Design & Packaging: Alaïa Paris

Best New Male Fragrance Design & Packaging: Alfred Dunhill Icon

Best New Home Fragrance: By Kilian French Boudoir

Best New Female Fragrance in Limited Distribution: Tom Ford Fleur de Portofino

Best New Male Fragrance in Limited Distribution: Tom Ford Private Blend Venetian Bergamot

Best New Independent Fragrance: The Perfume Garden India

Perfume Extraordinaire: Armani Privé Sable d’Or

Readers’ Choice Awards for Women: Leighton Denny Light & Dark Desire

Men’s Health Magazine Readers’ Choice for Men: Dior Sauvage

Best New Celebrity Fragrance: Rosie for Autograph Marks & Spencer

Boots UK People’s Choice For Women: Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium

Boots UK People’s Choice for Men: Paco Rabanne One Million

Retailer of the Year: Harrods

Best New Male Fragrance: Dior Sauvage

Best New Female Frgrance Marc Jacobs Decadence

Ultimate Launch Award: Dior Sauvage

…Phew!

Once again, massive congratulations to all the amazing nominees who made it that far – it sounds a tad clichéd, but we swear we mean this: you’re all winners in our eyes; and to the Fragrance Foundation for organising another wonderful event that was so enjoyed by all who attended. We can’t wait to see who’ll be up for nominations next year…

Written by Suzy Nightingale

The Fragrance Foundation awards (aka ‘FiFis’) are tomorrow – and we can’t wait to be there!

We are thrilled to be attending ‘the Oscars of the perfume world’ tomorrow evening – The Fragrance Foundation Awards, aka the ‘FiFis’ – a prestigious ceremony in which the créme-de-la-créme of the fragrance world gather to celebrate and pay tribute to the very best newly emerging and already established brands out there.

Having won several Jasmine awards (had we mentioned?) this year for the our Scented Letter Magazine, we were kindly invited by The Fragrance Foundation to sit on the judging panel alongside other winners for two of the categories in 2016’s FiFi Awards, and the finalists who will nervously be await their fate are as follows…

Best New Independent Fragrance:

Coeur de Noir – BeauFort London

India – The Perfume Garden

Maxed Out – 4160 Tuesdays

Midnight in the Palace Garden – 4160 Tuesdays

Salome – Papillon Artisan Perfumes

Tea Tonique – Miller Harris

Perfume Extraordinaire:

Floriental – Comme Des Garcons

Parfums de la Nuit No.1 – Roja Parfums

Royal Leather – By Kilian

Sable d’Or – Armani Privé

Salome – Papillon Artisan Perfumes

Voulez-Vous Coucher Avec Moi – By Kilian

With so many incredible perfume houses up for awards in all manner of categories tomorrow evening, it makes you realise what a vibrant and exciting industry this really is – and how many incredible brands there are yet to explore. Indeed, we must admit it makes us glow with pride to be part of it all…