The Fragrance Foundation of Germany has announced the finalists for the 2010 Duftstars awards, the German version of the Fifi awards for best fragrances. The nominees are:
Women's Prestige
Christian Dior Miss Dior Chérie L’Eau
Gucci Flora
Hugo Boss Boss Orange
Jil Sander Jil
Yves Saint Laurent Parisienne
Men's Prestige
Davidoff Hot Water
DSquared2 He Wood Rocky Mountain Wood
Gucci by Gucci Pour Homme
Paco Rabanne 1 Million
Shiseido Zen for Men
Women's Exclusive
Bois 1920 Vento di Fiori
La Prairie Life Threads Silver, Gold & Platinum
Marc Jacobs Lola
Narciso Rodriguez Essence
Viktor & Rolf Eau Mega
Men's Exclusive
La Martina Cuero
Linari Vista Sul Mare
Marc Jacobs Splash Lemon
Tom Ford Grey Vetiver
True Regligion For Men
The distinction between "Exclusive" and "Prestige", by the way, is determined only by how many stores carry the fragrance.
The awards ceremony will be held on 7 May in Berlin. (via cosmoty.de)
See also: the Fragrance Awards Page.
I would go for La Prairie for the womens exclusive but I haven’t smelled Bois 1920 so .. who knows???
In general with these awards, smelling the fragrance won’t help you pick the winners 🙂
Yeah I thought so too. Isn’t it just about advertising.
Usually, they reward the fragrances that have done well, and that presented a good “total package” in terms of the advertising, packaging & whatnot.
Good thing they don’t take fragrance ad campaigns into account, because La Prarie’s would surely creep out the judges no matter what they smell like. And I’m surprised to see NR’s Essence on the list. I haven’t tried it, but that’s because it just sounded so-so and I wasn’t moved to do so. Now TF’s Grey Vetiver sounded nice…
I think the NR Essence is selling very well — a better predictor of award-winning status than how it smells.
I’m a bit stunned to see Bois 1920 up against Lola and Eau Mega in the Exclusive category. They don’t even seem to be on the same planet! Anyway, Lola is so ubiquitous here, it’s hard to see what classification of ‘exclusive’ could possibly encompass those two. In London, Bois 1920 is sold in about three doors, and Lola’s available in 3000!
Bois 1920 has been in this category in the Duftstars before, so assuming they have an active German distributor? Don’t know the background. And quite sure that in some of the various Fragrance Foundation awards this year, we’ll see MJ Lola in the prestige category. I guess in Germany it is not so widely distributed (?) I don’t know their criteria, but the old US criteria for exclusive was simply anything under 250 stores…a pretty wide category, yes, and arguably not meaningful.
(Adding — and it might explain why the US added a third category last year for under 50 doors)
I did like Miss Dior Cherie L’eau, but what uninspired choices!!!
They usually are.
So has anyone tried this “Hot Water” thing?
I haven’t! So far as I know, it isn’t in the US yet.
Its available online. I almost bought a bottle, but didnt want to waste my money on an unsniffed purchase.
Me neither.
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I’m happy because La Martina Cuero is from Argentina :D!
Nice!!
Parisienne and Lola are my types
And probably one of them will win.