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The 2013 fragrance awards season ~ the big winners

Posted by Robin on 30 June 2013 18 Comments

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The 2013 fragrance awards season is over, and we have a winner: Viktor & Rolf Spicebomb, which took 6 awards.* This is the first time in years that the "big winner" was a fragrance I actually liked.

The second place winner is Tom Ford Noir, with four awards, and we have a four way tie for third place — Marc Jacobs Dot, Balenciaga Florabotanica, Chanel Coco Noir and Guerlain La Petite Robe Noire took 3 awards each. 

A quick run down of past winners:

2012: Gucci Guilty Pour Homme, with 5 awards

2011: Bleu de Chanel, with 8 awards

2010: Marc Jacobs Lola, with 7 awards

2009: Chloé Eau de Parfum, with 5 awards

2008: Marc Jacobs Daisy, with 7 awards

See also: the Perfume Awards page.

 

*This is my own (very) unofficial count, mind you, and only includes the award categories I report on — I usually skip awards for things like advertising and packaging, and I frequently skip consumer choice awards too. And it includes two late-in-the-year award programs from 2012 (Spain’s Academia del Perfume awards and the Fifi Awards Arabia, both of which take place in November).

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  1. eaudemale says:
    30 June 2013 at 11:38 am

    This must have been the weakest year I’ve seen…

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    • Robin says:
      30 June 2013 at 11:41 am

      Yeah? I don’t know, it usually seems like a dismal bunch of choices to me. I do like Spicebomb.

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  2. ringthing says:
    30 June 2013 at 12:33 pm

    I like Spicebomb and really like TF Noir. I even like Coco Noir quite a bit – once I got over wanting it to be a Coco flanker and appreciating it for itself.

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    • Robin says:
      30 June 2013 at 1:06 pm

      I think Angie has come to appreciate Coco Noir more since she reviewed it. I admit I have not given it another chance, maybe I should.

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    • TheNoseKnows says:
      1 July 2013 at 4:56 am

      it’s better if you Think of Coco Noir as a Darker Version of Coco Madamoiselle and NOT as a Darker Flanker to the Original Coco, Which it clearly is not nor could ever be! But as a Darker Coco Madamoiselle… I get it totally!

      BTW…. I Do ADORE Coco Noir, Not saying I didn’t Like it. Just maybe clearing up some confusion, if there ever was any!

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  3. Marjorie Rose says:
    30 June 2013 at 1:31 pm

    I’ve given Spicebomb a try a few times, but maybe only once on skin?, and it doesn’t do anything for me.

    It really is a shame that the department store frags are generally pretty boring, IMO. Was discussing with a friend current pop music and it’s general lack of creativity at the moment , and maybe like music, I can look forward to scents having an ebb and flow of risk-taking and creativity? Until then, thank the gods for Our Lady and niche samples!

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    • Robin says:
      30 June 2013 at 2:40 pm

      I do think it seems worse than it is just because of the sheer number of new releases. If 80% of new fragrances are going to be dull, it’s less noticeable at 300 new releases a year than at 1500. Also true that if there were only 300, presumably they’d take more care…

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      • Marjorie Rose says:
        30 June 2013 at 3:33 pm

        Oh, that’s a good point–it’s more than a matter of percentages but sheer numbers. I expect you’re right. Even still, I find that I’m pretty unwilling to sift through the numbers in hopes of finding the few that are worth a sniff.

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  4. TheNoseKnows says:
    1 July 2013 at 4:57 am

    How that Headache Inducing DRECK of Balenciaga’s Florabotanica won anything but WORST Fragrance is BEYOND ME!

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    • Robin says:
      1 July 2013 at 8:29 am

      It’s all a mystery.

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  5. Persolaise says:
    1 July 2013 at 5:43 am

    Thanks for this very useful round-up. Spicebomb wasn’t one of my favourite releases of last year, but I certainly have no problem with it winning mainstream awards. It’s a good scent and streets ahead of most of the stuff clogging up department store shelves. Personally, I’m pleased to see that Tom Ford Noir has received the recognition it deserves.

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    • Robin says:
      1 July 2013 at 8:31 am

      To me, getting this kind of award recognition is almost a double-edged sword. I mean, say Tom Ford Noir won in a year when Daisy was the big winner — what would that say about TF Noir? If it were me, I’d rather not win at all. But I do like Spicebomb, so I’ll try to tamp down my cynicism for a year :-)

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  6. Omega says:
    1 July 2013 at 1:07 pm

    Don’t really care for much of the scents, SB is kinda too masculine for me to wear but too Red Hot-y for my husband to wear! lol. Coco Noir was a big blah to me, wouldn’t want a fb.

    I admit, I do really like Daisy though! lol.

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    • Robin says:
      1 July 2013 at 1:22 pm

      Daisy is a really well done, very likable scent…just hard to believe it is the best thing the perfume industry can produce in a whole year, you know?

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      • Omega says:
        1 July 2013 at 1:58 pm

        I know what you mean! And the bottle, while cute upon first sight..has become a bit of annoying looking to me, lol. Idk, maybe cause everyone jumped on the obnoxious fume bottle top train? Idk. I do like the black bottle with the gold flowers a bit. But ya..the Daisy flowers have gotten old to me.

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  7. dolcesarah says:
    2 July 2013 at 3:30 pm

    I’m missing something. I don’t have any of the recent winners except Lola and Daisy and I bought those before I got into niche. I went to Daisy the other day and I liked it but after 20 minutes I was …angry that I didn’t know about one of my L’Artisans or Guerlains. Or some of my Diptyique, that’s what Daiay could be. It reminds me a little of Tam Dao or Do Son. Which I like better much better the Dyptique. I guess my point is I don’t understand why they don’t make a winner out of one of my niche loves.

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    • Robin says:
      2 July 2013 at 5:51 pm

      All of these awards programs are sponsored & paid for by the mainstream fragrance industry. The US Fifi does have an indie award program now.

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  8. Carmen says:
    20 August 2013 at 11:40 am

    I haven’t given Spicebomb a try yet, but experiences of those who’ve tried sound amazing and now maybe I should. But yea, those award programs are a pure motivation for users.

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