The Fragrance Foundation of Germany has announced the finalists for the 2009 Duftstars awards, the German version of the Fifi awards for best fragrances. The nominees are:
Women's Prestige
Bvlgari Jasmin Noir
Chanel No. 5 Eau Première
Chloé by Chloé
Jean Paul Gaultier Ma Dame
Lancôme Magnifique
Men's Prestige
Bvlgari Aqva pour Homme Marine
Christian Dior Dior Homme Sport
Guerlain Homme
Porsche Design Essence
Prada Infusion d'Homme
Women's Exclusive
Azzaro Couture
Burberry The Beat for Woman
Guerlain Cologne du 68
Tom Ford Private Blend Collection
Tom Ford White Patchouli
Men's Exclusive
Bois 1920 Classic 1920
Ineke Derring-Do
Jaques Fath Green Water
Lalique Lalique White
Mark Jacobs Fig Splash
The distinction between "Exclusive" and "Prestige", by the way, is determined by how many stores carry the fragrance.
The awards ceremony will be held on 15 May in Berlin. (via cosmoty.de) You can find out more about the Duftstars awards at duftstars.de (in German).
See also: the Fragrance Awards Page.
I'm excited to see Jasmin Noir on the list, I wore my sample again yesterday and remarked on how nice I smelled, it's very easy and non-edgy for daytime. I like it enough to keep getting samples from Sephora! I still need to try White Patchouli sometime.
I would guess it will make lots of the awards lists this year…
I am pleased about Jasmin Noir too.
Wouldn't have called Burberry The Beat exclusive, though?
As I said above, it's all just based on how widely something is distributed, nothing more!
I don't get it — hasn't JF Green Water been around forever? (By the way, there's a review of it by Kevin in your archive that you can link to.)
I don't get it either! But thanks for reminding me, I'd forgotten K reviewed that one.
The nominees on http://www.fragrancefoundation.de/fifi.php?t=oscars&c=nominees09 are different than those listen in http://www.duftstars.de
I guess we’ll find out which ones are the real ones really soon.
It looks like the selections on the 2nd link are just a selection of those nominated as opposed to the finalists.