However, friends who often pay attention to this award will find that this list is a gathering place for big names and stars such as Dior, Chanel and ysl to bring their own perfumes all the year round.
For many people, Feifei Award can be regarded as a very important reference for purchasing perfume. After all, since 1973 was held, its authority has been recognized by many people.
But for a few people who play with incense, they have a more interesting list than Feifei Award, that is AOA Award!
First of all, the most popular Feifei Award is organized by the Perfume Foundation. All the participating perfumes are recommended by the major perfume member countries in the world. Foundation members refer to the annual sales volume of perfume, and consumers and professional jury will also vote to select the winners of the year by combining these dimensions.
The list of ethnic minorities who play with incense is the Art and Smell Excellence Award held by new york Institute of Art and Smell, which is the full name of the Art and Smell Award and the English abbreviation is AOA.
The trophy form of this award ceremony is a golden pear, so many people will call this award ceremony the "Golden Pear Award".
This award ceremony has been held since 20 14, and has been held for 7 times now. Different from Feifei Award, AOA Award focuses on the recognition of excellent independent perfume, handmade perfume, artistic perfume and even laboratory perfume, and the registration fee is only $45, so for many small perfume companies with limited funds, AOA list can be regarded as a professional recognition.
As for the selection mechanism of AOA list, it is blindly tested by masters in different fields, so the perfume selected may not be liked by everyone, but it will definitely have a "unique" atmosphere.
(Affected by the epidemic, this award ceremony was completed online. )
If Feifei is the perfume prize of the general public, then AOA is the carnival of the niche perfume circle.
Don't be surprised if you don't know a lot of perfumes here. Believe me, maybe even many perfumers don't know this list. Today, we will watch a wonderful game as amateurs. If we see it one day, we might as well stop and have a try.
AOA list mainly consists of three parts: artisan perfume, independent perfume and experimental works related to fragrance. In addition, there are awards at the discretion of the awarding party, such as the odor culture contribution award, the handmade perfume award, and the industry "outstanding vision" award.
The award requires the winning brands to be owned or jointly owned by the perfumer, and the perfume must be created and launched by the perfumer. In other words, everything from brands to perfumes is owned by perfumers (or jointly owned by partners).
Perfume brand: the house of the matriarch
Name: bonsai
Master of Flavor: Christie Machel
Reference price: USD 330/50ml.
Top notes: juniper, spice, chrysanthemum and green notes.
Middle notes: incense, rice orchid, coba fat.
After adjustment: wood and cypress
Official website introduced this perfume, which is a neutral perfume advertised as "Zen". It can smell the fragrance of tea and chrysanthemum, mixed with the smell of the earth, and burn incense. After reading the general introduction, I think it is a perfume that is very suitable for yoga, healing and meditation.
Perfume brand: parallax sense of smell
Name: Nimbus
Flavor master: Linda Siveriken
Reference price: USD 65/30ml
Aroma: iris, vibrating violin string, violet ozone ray, paste (if you think there is something wrong with my translation, please help me answer what it is ... blue iris, vibrating violin string, purple ozone ray, paste).
It's strange to see the fragrance. Not only that, official website described the perfume as a falling star ball. Does it sound a little foggy? Because this brand expresses abstract concepts through fragrance, it is incomprehensible. That's right!
This part of the perfume is that some brands hire external perfumers or companies to make perfumes, but these perfumes are launched in the name of the hired brands.
Brand: Bruno Acampora Profumi
Name of perfume: Young Heart
Master of Flavor: Miguel matos
Reference price: 168/ 100ml.
Top notes: pine, Persian resin, lemon, birch leaf, saffron.
Middle note: aromatic tree paste fir, jasmine, rose
Keynote: oak moss, patchouli, musk amber
The brand itself is an Italian brand. This young hearts is a perfume in xipu, full of floral fragrance, high-cold pine fragrance and even lemon fragrance. After watching the promo, it is even harder to imagine what kind of perfume this is.
Brand: son Ven? n
Name of perfume: PostHume
Perfume Master: Rose Courage
Reference price: 127/50ml
Top note: cinnamon
Middle notes: clove, tobacco
Postscript: vanilla, leather, vetiver, Lingling bean, smoky smell.
According to official website, this perfume is inherited from Northern Europe. The most distinctive feature is the "tar smell" in perfume, which is said to come from the traditional architecture in northern Europe. Just reading the introduction makes people curious.
This award is aimed at small quantities of perfume with outstanding performance. This kind of perfume is entirely made by the perfumer himself, and it is produced in personal tailor or according to the order, and there is no large amount of external production.
Brand: Pomare's stolen perfume
Name of perfume: Rasa
Perfumer: Rachel Binder
Reference price: USD 90.00-USD 365,438+USD 00.00.
According to reports, this perfume is made by perfumers with organic passion fruit, pink lotus, calendula, Zhu Xilu, jasmine, saffron and ebony from Nagalan jungle.
The name of this perfume is rasa, which comes from Sanskrit and means "taste". Because this perfume belongs to handmade perfume, it has not been mass-produced, so it has been sold out in official website at present, and the specific smell is probably known only to those who have bought it.
This is an award for creative or experimental people who use unconventional smells. These perfumes do not belong to the traditional perfume field.
This is not perfume, but a fragrance device made by Jónsi Birgisson, who is an Icelandic musician himself. This fragrance device created by Jónsi is aimed at the form of sound, what kind of feeling the sound brings us, and whether we can smell the sound. It looks really ideological.
In addition to these award-winning perfumes, there are actually many finalists. I won't introduce it much this time. You can leave me a message if you are interested. Next time I will make a shortlist and open my eyes with you!
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