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Grand Prix du Parfum (French Fifi Awards) ~ the 2010 winners

Posted by Robin on 8 April 2010 20 Comments

Grand Prix du Parfum 2010

The Fragrance Foundation of France has announced the winners of the 2010 Grand Prix du Parfum, the French version of the Fifi Awards. And the winners are:

Best women's fragrance: Ricci Ricci by Nina Ricci

Best men's fragrance: Ego Facto Jamais le Dimanche

Marie Claire Editors favorite: Hermès Eau de Gentiane Blanche

Marie Claire Readers favorite: Guerlain Idylle

Prix des Spécialistes (panel of bloggers, evaluators & journalists): Cartier XIII La Treizième Heure

Prix des Parfumeurs (panel of perfumers): Cartier XIII La Treizième Heure

(via Osmoz on Twitter)

See also: the Fragrance Awards page.

Filed Under: perfume in the news
Tagged With: awards, fragrance foundation france, grand prix du parfum

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  1. asuperlongusername says:
    8 April 2010 at 11:13 pm

    Go Gentiane Blanche! I’m wearing a small bit of that today.

    I really wish I knew where they were keeping those Cartiers….

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    • Robin says:
      8 April 2010 at 11:26 pm

      They’re keeping them at Saks. And Cartier boutiques, I think.

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      • asuperlongusername says:
        8 April 2010 at 11:28 pm

        Oh? I know what I’m doing tomorrow night. And I’m bringing sample vials. Thanks for the tip.

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        • Robin says:
          9 April 2010 at 11:53 am

          Good luck!

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  2. carmencanada says:
    9 April 2010 at 2:46 am

    I was soooooooo happy Mathilde Laurent won two awards, especially since I was a member of the Prix des Spécialistes jury and I went in determined to sway my fellow jurors in favor of La Treizième Heure! Mind you, a lot of them were already convinced, though Géranium pour Monsieur (Frédéric Malle), Dover Street Market (Comme des Garçons) and Havana Vanille (L’Artisan) also made it to the short list.

    Our choice of La Treizième Heure was vindicated by the perfumers who also gave her the award they voted on, which makes me twice as happy.

    In her acceptance speech, Mathilde insisted on the importance of real perfume criticism and the role of the blogs. The journalists who were present in the room were not amused, apparently. But I’m glad she talked about it to the biggest players in the French perfume industry!

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    • Robin says:
      9 April 2010 at 8:42 am

      Nice, thanks D.

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    • miss kitty v. says:
      9 April 2010 at 10:54 am

      It’s sad that fashion journalism has to be so ruled by advertising dollars. You can write honest book, music and movie reviews, but I guess there is not advertising revenue to worry about when you pan Brittney Spears.

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  3. Absolute Scentualist says:
    9 April 2010 at 5:19 am

    Wow I feel out of the loop. I haven’t smelled *any* of these… *hides face*

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    • Robin says:
      9 April 2010 at 8:43 am

      Oh well! It isn’t that long a list.

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  4. Karin says:
    9 April 2010 at 7:04 am

    Has anyone tried Ricci Ricci? Haven’t seen this one…

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    • Robin says:
      9 April 2010 at 8:43 am

      It has not launched in the US. I haven’t smelled it either.

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      • JAntoinette says:
        9 April 2010 at 3:48 pm

        Adorable ad, but the scent…meh. Pleasant enough but sweeeeet. Like I got a cavity smelling this sweet.

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  5. mjr17 says:
    9 April 2010 at 10:59 am

    I wasn’t that excited about La Treizième Heure when I sniffed it.

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    • Robin says:
      9 April 2010 at 11:53 am

      I feel bad that I have not smelled these yet. But Saks is not my favorite place in the world.

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  6. Zazie says:
    9 April 2010 at 11:49 am

    Oh, it was the only “heure” I liked, but I sniffed only twice.
    It smelled Guerlainish and a bit bitter on top, nothing groudbreaking, but would have loved to sample it better.
    I personally found the most surprising and complex 2009 French release to be Ropion’s Geranium For Monsieur… I do not wear it, but I think it deserved a prize.
    I can’t imagine a perfumer choosing XIII over GPM by any stretch of imagination, but apparently I am wrong!

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    • Robin says:
      9 April 2010 at 11:54 am

      I am just happy that they had a perfumer prize at all. The US Fifis are so market-driven.

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    • carmencanada says:
      9 April 2010 at 12:08 pm

      Well it wasn’t only *a* perfumer, but twelve of them, and another jury of six perfume evaluators, two journalists and four bloggers. Géranium pour Monsieur is, I agree, outstanding and it was hard to select one winner. I can’t speak for the perfumers, but in the jury where I was, the argument that won the day for XIII over Géranium was that the latter was so overdosed with mint it felt a little unbalanced, unlike Dominique Ropion’s usually finely calibrated work.

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      • Zazie says:
        10 April 2010 at 4:27 am

        I usually appreciate a slight “unbalance” in compositions, like a slightly rude but passionate individual, and I also can understand a blogger or perfume amateur/connaisseur choosing XIII over GPM, because it is overall more pleasing and less challenging ( it is just my opinion, of course!). I thought the perfumers board would choose the uniqueness instead, but of course I am wrong (I did understand the board was attended by more than one professional, though ;) ). And maybe GPM is less innovative than I think: I just wore it twice, like XIII, so… But it makes a lot of pirouettes, and unexpected turns, and the ride was a very interesting and pleasurable one!

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  7. nozknoz says:
    10 April 2010 at 12:22 pm

    Uncharacteristically, I have actually tried two of these. Thanks to ebay, I have travel sizes of Eau de Gentiane Blanche and Geranium pour Monsieur. I think I will wear them often in spring and summer. I welcome the Geranium as an alternative in the same register as vetiver – and it’s not every day someone invents a new vetiver, so I can understand why that was one of the finalists. I MUST find a way to try that Cartier!

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    • Robin says:
      10 April 2010 at 3:40 pm

      Get thee to Saks!

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