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Fragrance Foundation Awards: Which Came Out Smelling Like a Rose?

Clap along if you feel like the winningest perfumes deserved the accolades
While celebrity "let's pat ourselves on our collective backs" award season is officially over and the crème de la crème are fête-ing it up in Cannes, those in the nose gathered Monday evening at New York City's Lincoln Center for the 39th annual Fragrance Foundation Awards ceremony.


Hosted by Dana Carvey with fashion royal Carrine Roitfeld and model Coco Rochas as sidekicks (sorry, co-chairs), the awards paid tribute to the finest fragrances in the biz.

"The Fragrance Foundation Awards is the most important night for the beauty industry and we are in awe of this year's creative achievements and accomplishments," president of the foundation Elizabeth Musmanno boasted. "We congratulate all the winners and finalists who continue to master the art of fragrance."

READ: TotalBeauty.com Editors' Signature Fragrances

Awards, running the gamut from Most Popular to Most Prestige with a smattering of Packaging and Consumer's Choice thrown in for good measure, were doled out to various notables in the olfactory world, with Clinique's 17 year-old "Happy" being inducted into the Fragrance Hall of Fame where it will rest on all of its ruby red grapefruit and bergamot laurels alongside previous winners like Elizabeth Arden's Red Door.

Here's the list of big winners. Did your go-to merit a mention? Mine (Paris by Yves St. Laurent) did not. But I'm not bitter. The fewer people that know how sublime it is, the more original I remain. Oops.

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MEN'S POPULAR

VICTORIA'S SECRET VERY SEXY PLATINUM FOR HIM – Victoria's Secret

WOMEN'S POPULAR

VICTORIA BY VICTORIA'S SECRET – Victoria's Secret

 

MEN'S PRESTIGE

POLO RED – L'Oréal/Ralph Lauren Fragrances

 

WOMEN'S PRESTIGE

MODERN MUSE EAU DE PARFUM – Estée Lauder

 

MEN'S LUXURY

TOM FORD RIVE D'AMBRE – Tom Ford Beauty

 

WOMEN'S LUXURY

PRIVE ROSE D'ARABIE – Giorgio Armani

 

PERFUME EXTRAORDINAIRE OF THE YEAR

MANE -- AEDES DE VENUSTAS, IRIS NAZARENA by Perfumer Ralf Schwieger

 

FRAGRANCE HALL OF FAME

CLINIQUE HAPPY – Clinique

HALL OF FAME

MICHAEL GOULD, Former Chairman and CEO of Bloomingdale's

 

PERFUMER OF THE YEAR, LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

CARLOS BENAIM, Master Perfumer of IFF

PACKAGING OF THE YEAR:

MEN'S

BOTTEGA VENETA POUR HOMME – COTY

PACKAGING OF THE YEAR:

WOMEN'S

HONEY MARC JACOBS – COTY

 

INTERIOR SCENT COLLECTION OF THE YEAR

PASSION COLLECTION FOR THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION – NEST Fragrances

MEDIA CAMPAIGN OF THE YEAR:

MEN'S

POLO RED – L'Oréal/Ralph Lauren Fragrances

 

WOMEN'S (TIED)

JEAN PAUL GAULTIER CLASSIQUE -- Beauté Prestige International

No5 – Chanel

 

CONSUMER CHOICE AWARDS

CELEBRITY

OUR MOMENT ONE DIRECTION -- Elizabeth Arden

WOMEN'S

VICTORIA BY VICTORIA'S SECRET -- Victoria's Secret

 

MEN'S

POLO RED –L'Oréal/Ralph Lauren Fragrances

 

BY AUDREY FINE | JUN 18, 2014 | SHARES
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