The Fragrance Foundation has released the names of the 2007 Fifi Award winners. The ceremony was held last night at the Winter Garden at the World Financial Center in New York. Presenters included Sean Combs, Paula Abdul, Daisy Fuentes, Zac Posen and Jane Seymour, and this year’s Hall of Fame Award went to Donna Karan. The winners are:
NOUVEAU NICHE – WOMEN’S ~ Kenzo KenzoAmour
NOUVEAU NICHE – MEN’S ~ Viktor & Rolf Antidote…
The Fragrance Foundation has released the names of the finalists for the 2007 Fifi Awards. For each category, the original list of 10 semi-finalists is now whittled down to 5. The final awards are decided next month.
Giorgio Armani Privé Cuir Amethyste (unisex)
Cartier Delices de Cartier
Kenzo KenzoAmour
Bond no. 9 The Scent of Peace
Tom Ford Black Orchid…
The UK Fifi Awards ceremony was held this past Monday night, and the winners are:
Women’s: Agent Provocateur Maitresse
Men’s: Hermès Terre d’Hermès…
The Fragrance Foundation has announced the semi-finalists for this year’s Fifi Awards, known as the “Oscars of the fragrance industry”. Each category will be whittled down to 5 fragrances next month; the final awards will be presented in May. Note that Armani Cuir Amethyste, a unisex, appears under both the men’s and women’s categories, and there are 11 semi-finalists for nouveau niche men’s due to a tie. The new award statue is shown at right.
And the finalists are…
The BBC has an interesting story on bergamot growers in Calabria. Long an important ingredient in perfumery, bergamot is now often replaced with synthetic substitutes in fragrance:
...the oil does have one side-effect that has hampered its sales in recent years - if put on human skin and then exposed to sunlight it causes discolouring and burning. Faced with this consumer time bomb, companies turned to manufactured versions of the oil and prices have dropped. Last year a kilo of bergamot essential oil sold for 62 euros; today it goes for 45 euros.
The New York Times has a run-down on the celebrities who attended Monday night's Fifi awards.