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7th Annual Basenotes Awards

Posted by Robin on 20 February 2007 52 Comments

Basenotes AwardsBasenotes has announced the winners of the 7th Annual Basenotes Awards. The winners were chosen by the members of the Basenotes fragrance forums. And the winners are...

Best Fragrance
Women: Chanel no. 5
Men: Chanel Egoiste

Best New Fragrance
Women: Annick Goutal Songes
Men: Hermรจs Terre d'Hermรจs

Best Niche Fragrance
Women: Frederic Malle Carnal Flower
Men: Creed Bois du Portugal

Best Celebrity Fragrance
Women: Sarah Jessica Parker Lovely
Men: Alan Cumming Cumming

Now Smell This was very pleased to win the Best Fragrance Blog category (thanks to everyone who voted!); and congratulations as well to Bois de Jasmin (Silver Award) and Perfume Smellin' Things (Bronze Award). There are lots of other categories; see the full listย here.

See also: the Fragrance Awards page.

Filed Under: perfume in the news
Tagged With: awards, basenotes

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  1. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 9:36 am

    Tosses confetti w/ abandon! Congrats!! Truly fabulous and well deserved! ๐Ÿ™‚

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  2. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 9:36 am

    Congrats R! I'm very proud of you!

    Overall I thought the awards were rather good this year. I was very pleased to see Guerlain take best house. I wish Antidote made it into the top 3 for best new men's fragrance – I don't think Euphoria was anything special that it needed to take second, but oh well. Not really many complaints, though.

    Congrats again, dear!

    -MD

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  3. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 9:49 am

    Thanks so much ๐Ÿ™‚

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  4. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 9:49 am

    I thought they were good this year too! I was especially happy about Terre d'Hermes, as I thought it got dissed more than not on the boards.

    And thanks ๐Ÿ™‚

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  5. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 9:55 am

    Congratulations on your well-deserved award! I agree that the awards in general were better (i.e. more to my taste) this year!

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  6. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 10:06 am

    yes I was thrilled about Terre d'Hermes!! R, you're going to Sniffapalooza, right?

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  7. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 10:16 am

    M, I doubt I'll go…I went to the first few and they are great fun (and the freebies are tremendous!) but I've got another trip scheduled to NY in early March and doubt I'll go twice in a month ๐Ÿ™‚

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  8. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 10:17 am

    Thanks!! More to my taste too, and I think the choices for the celebrity scents are perfect.

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  9. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 10:22 am

    Very well deserved. You strike a perfect balance between keeping us all so exceptionally well-informed, writing about the best of the new and the rest (and always dealing with one or two monsters too, so we don't have to!), and getting great articles from your contributors as well.
    What's more, this is a delightfully friendly place, free of ego swagger. And if things couldn't get any better, your redesign is beautiful.
    Thanks R
    (and I'm delighted Terre d'Hermes won too).

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  10. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 10:30 am

    Woohoo! Congratulations, R!!

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  11. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 10:43 am

    aww, well then I guess we're destined to run into each other at our KoP Neiman Marcus!!

    I know what you mean, I've had to do some heavy overhauling of my end of March schedule to fit it in. I really think its a very poor weekend. I would have been better with the weekend before or after but they had to pick THAT weekend. Oh well. I'm really looking forward to it.

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  12. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 11:02 am

    What Leopoldo said. Congratulations, dear R! And kudos to all of your contributors, too! ๐Ÿ™‚

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  13. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 11:10 am

    congratulations on a ver well deserved win!

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  14. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 11:14 am

    I'm surprised we haven't bumped into each other there already…they know me on sight, unfortunately! I'm sure you'll enjoy the Sniffa ๐Ÿ™‚

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  15. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 11:30 am

    haha, they know me too. Some of them are nice, others I know are thinking “Here he comes, asking for 10,000 samples and buys nothing.”

    One day, R, I can see it – we'll both be reaching for the same bottle and there'll be loud classical music all of a sudden – Il Trovatore overture, I think. And it will be a meeting made in cyber-space! Yes, I think thats how we'll meet.

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  16. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 11:32 am

    L, thank you for your really kind words, you are more than generous. And so glad you like the new look ๐Ÿ™‚

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  17. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 11:33 am

    HA! They know I'm going to whip out my empty sample vials. I did buy something there *once* to ease the guilt ๐Ÿ˜‰

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  18. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 11:34 am

    Thanks K!

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  19. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 11:45 am

    Congratulations, R! It is very well-deserved.

    The banner looks great, by the way! Great job!

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  20. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 11:52 am

    Kudos to you folks-

    I'm so proud of you all, and all your achievements [mother-hen clucking in the background]…

    Hip hip , HOORAY !

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  21. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 12:29 pm

    A big hug and congratulations to you, darling R! You were one of the first, and simply one of the best. You deserve the award!

    Hugs!

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  22. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 12:32 pm

    Many congrats for a job well done, R. Gold it is!

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  23. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 12:34 pm

    Hi Robin,

    Congratulations .. NST – The Gold Award . What an honor !

    How are you celebrating ?

    Wishing you continued scented success ~~~

    Madelyn E

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  24. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 12:37 pm

    Congratulations! I am more for lurking than commenting but I enjoy your site immensely and you had my vote. Again, congratulations.

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  25. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 1:00 pm

    Congratulations, Robin! That accolade couldn't be more deserved.. ๐Ÿ™‚

    I love your modesty too. And you blog's new look.

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  26. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 1:15 pm

    Thanks Dusan ๐Ÿ™‚

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  27. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 1:16 pm

    Thanks Tom ๐Ÿ™‚

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  28. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 1:16 pm

    Thanks V, and congrats to you as well!

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  29. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 1:17 pm

    Yay, we need a mother-hen around here ๐Ÿ™‚

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  30. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 1:20 pm

    With any luck, I'll celebrate by getting some chores done…hope Basenotes will send a plaque so I can hold it up when my family complains that nothing ever gets done around here, LOL…

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  31. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 1:22 pm

    That's very nice, thanks ๐Ÿ™‚

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  32. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 1:23 pm

    Thanks A!

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  33. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 1:24 pm

    Thanks so much J!

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  34. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 1:25 pm

    Butting in to applaud the first runner-up ๐Ÿ™‚ Congrats, Vika!

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  35. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 1:47 pm

    Congratulations!!! So very deserved. Yours was the very first perfume blog I ever read…well, actually the first blog in general ๐Ÿ™‚ I heart NST.

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  36. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 2:37 pm

    Thank you M, and so glad I introduced you to blogs…yours is one of my daily must-reads. Congrats to you ๐Ÿ™‚

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  37. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 2:43 pm

    Hip hip hooray indeed! I feel so lucky that the top three winners were the first, second, and third blogs to become daily reads for me in my ever-growing scentimental education — I think all three of you ladies bring very different and necessary sensibilities to the field and I'm grateful for all of you. Robin, your site is my delight, but also my encyclopedia — I'm constantly cross-referencing your site and use it as the starting point for all my (dangerous) web-shopping. You are my enabler, for sure, but also a much needed screener. THANK YOU!

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  38. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 2:48 pm

    Congrats, R! You deserve it. Like your new look too. Very soothing colors.

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  39. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 3:40 pm

    Congrats Robin – no one deserved it more ๐Ÿ™‚

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  40. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 3:47 pm

    How nice, thanks! Always glad to enable, LOL ๐Ÿ˜‰

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  41. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 3:48 pm

    Thanks, and so glad you find it soothing — that is exactly what I was going for. That hot pink was driving me up the wall.

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  42. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 3:49 pm

    Thanks Katie!

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  43. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 5:01 pm

    Well done Robin. Was there really any competition. Your hard work shows in the results

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  44. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 5:37 pm

    Congratulations!

    NST, Bois de Jasmin And Perfume Smellin` Things are my three favorite blogs. In my book, it`s a three way tie for gold.

    I enjoy your reviews and info on noses, houses and new scents and Angela`s musings on perfume very much.

    I don`t comment much, but I love you blog.

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  45. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 7:41 pm

    I'm a ditz, I didn't even realize they'd announced! I'm joining everyone else in congratulating you and agreeing that the winners were better this year (because I like them better.)

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  46. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 8:55 pm

    A 3 way tie for gold is fine with me…this isn't the Olympics ๐Ÿ™‚

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  47. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 8:57 pm

    Thanks so much!

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  48. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 8:57 pm

    Thanks M!

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  49. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 11:44 pm

    Congratulations, Robin! You're our pioneer of perfume blogging! ;D

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  50. Anonymous says:
    21 February 2007 at 9:29 am

    Thanks Ina ๐Ÿ™‚

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  51. Anonymous says:
    21 February 2007 at 1:20 pm

    Robin, I hope you aren't tired of hearing this, but congratulations on the well-deserved award. It couldn't have been given to a better blog/site.

    And I think the re-design of NST is lovely — really appropriate!

    Thanks again for your wonderful blog!

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  52. Anonymous says:
    21 February 2007 at 4:18 pm

    So glad you like the new look, thanks ๐Ÿ™‚

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