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It is a daydream

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I'm just a girl from a small village in the North of France. Being a perfumer is not a job; it is a daydream. Every scent I've created is a story I tell of the encounters I have made along the way. My sole goal when I create a scent is to generate pleasure and well-being.

— Perfumer Anne Flipo on winning the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Fragrance Foundation this year. Read more in IFF Master Perfumer Anne Flipo Receives Fragrance Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award at Yahoo! Finance, or see all this year's winners at Beauty Packaging.

Bravo

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From Givaudan, a 4 1/2 minute tribute to perfumer Olivier Gillotin, who won the Lifetime Achievement Perfumer Award from the American Society of Perfumery this year. Includes footage of Shalimar Alpacas, his farm in Warwick, New York.

The 2017 fragrance awards season ~ the big winners

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L'Homme Prada

The 2017 fragrance awards season is (mostly) over, and we have a tie: L’Homme Prada and Chanel No. 5 L’Eau. They are not really what you’d call BIG winners, though — both fragrances took 3 awards, making this the year with the least consensus since I started keeping track in 2008 (see below).* Most years I also announce second and third place winners, but for 2017, there’s no there there…

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