Take a look at AOL Awards 2022 winners and finalists: the finalists were announced in an online event on April 22, 2022, and the final ceremony took place at the World Perfumery Congress in Miami on July 1, 2022.
After a year’s covid-induced hiatus, Art and Olfaction Awards judges and board members joined together to announce the finalists and the winners the 8th AOL Awards:
The AOL Awards 2022 finalists were announced in an online event on April 22, 2022 (link: here), and the final ceremony took place at the World Perfumery Congress in Miami on
July 1, 2022. (link: here).
Due to extraordinary global circumstances, AOL Awards 2022 included perfumes and experimental projects with scent released in 2020 and 2021.
The Art and Olfaction Awards, established in 2014 by The Institute for Art and Olfaction, are given to outstanding creators in the categories of independent, artisan, and experimental perfume from across the globe.
Awarded to just eight projects and perfumes per year, The Art and Olfaction Awards are designed to celebrate excellence in independent perfumery, and raise public interest and awareness around new developments in perfumery, on a global scale.
JURIED CATEGORIES
The panel of AOL Awards 2022 judges for the independent and the artisan category included: Anahita Mekanik, Andreas Keller, April Long, Ashley Eden Kessler, Chi Wai Tang, Dana El Masri, Daniel Krasofksi, Darin Klein, Ida Meister, Jeanne Doré, John Biebel, Julianne Lee, Kaya Sorhaindo, Klara Ravat, Lakenda Wallace, Mandy Aftel, Mark Behnke, Matthias Tabert, Maxwell Williams, Rubia Chaudri, Sarah Horowitz-Thran, Simon Niedenthal, and Yosh Han.
INDEPENDENT CATEGORY
For brands that employed an external perfumer or fragrance house to initiate and create the formula for the submitted perfume, then released under the brand’s name.
AOL Awards 2022 announced 10 finalists and 2 winners.
THE WINNERS
Aged Tea / Pan Seven International
Parfumeri: Pan Yu Ching, Huang Chien Shun
Kreativni direktor: Pan Yu Ching
Taiwan
Saskia / Grandiflora
Parfumer: Christophe Laudamiel s Ugo Charron (DreamAir)
Kreativni direktor: Saskia Havekes
Australia
THE FINALISTS
A’mmare / Carthusia I Profumi di Capri
Parfumer: Luca Maffei (Atelier Fragranze Milano)
Kreativna direktorica: Virginia Ruocco
Italy
Basilica / Milano Fragranze
Parfumerka: Violaine Collas (Mane)
Kreativni direktor: Alessandro Brun,
Italija
Beton Brut / Atelier Oblique
i Lightfalls / Atelier Oblique
Parfumer: Serge de Oliveira (Robertet)
Kreativni direktor: Mario Lombardo
Germany
Libertalia / House of Wanderers
Parfumer: Paul Kiler (nezavisan)
Kreativni direktor: Charlie Romano
USA
Naples / Gallivant
Parfumer: Luca Maffei (Atelier Fragranze Milano)
Kreativni direktor: Nick Steward
United Kingdom
Omen / Manos Gerakinis Parfums
Parfumer: Miguel Matos (nezavisan)
Kreativni direktor: Manos Gerakinis
Greece
Park of the Monsters / In Fieri
Parfumer: Enrico Buccella (nezavisan)
Kreativni direktor: Maria Teresa Venezia
USA / Italy
ARTISAN CATEGORY
For perfume brands that are owned or co-owned by the brand’s primary perfumer, who initiated and created the submitted perfume’s formula in-house.
AOL Awards 2022 announced 10 finalists and 2 winners.
THE WINNERS
Mayan Chocolate / Aether Arts Perfume
Parfumer: Amber Jobin
USA
Oolong Tea / One Day
Parfumer: Michael Wong
Hong Kong, China
THE FINALISTS
Angora Oud / Gallup Perfume
Parfumer: Amyllia Gallup
USA
Behold, Patchouli / Gallagher Fragrances
Parfumer: Daniel Gallagher, with Mindy Ruiz
USA
Celadawn / Matteo Parfums
Parfumer: Matthew J. Sánchez
USA
Divined / Mobius Fragrances
Parfumer: Tianyou Lou
China
Gentle King / Voice from the Sky
Parfumer: Tianle Feng
China
Great Wall Valley / Scent Strip Perfume
Parfumer: Jil Croquet
USA
This Ember / Anka Kuş Parfüm
Parfumer: Ali Erkekli
Australia
Zanzibar / Olfactum Fragrances
Parfumer: Barry Southers
USA
SADAKICHI AWARD
For creative or experimental practitioners who make use of scent in an unconventional or experimental manner, that takes it out of the domain of traditional perfumery.
AOL Awards 2022 announced 6 finalists and the winner.
THE WINNER
Viral Parfum / Maki Ueda
Parfumer: Maki Ueda
Japan
THE FINALISTS
Memory Bar / Thomas Buckley
Parfumer: Renske van Vroonhoven
Netherlands
Olfabet / Peter de Cupere
Parfumer: Peter de Cupere
Belgium
Pulse / Charlotte Eta Mumm
Parfumer: Frank Bloem i Lefki Mevissen
Netherlands
Scent in Cinema / Twitch & Sniff by Jas Brooks, Tammy Burnstock, Ashlyn Sparrow
Parfumer: Neil Harris / Print-A-Scent
USA / Australia
Thanatos / Eric Fong
Parfumer: Euan McCall
United Kingdom
DISCRETIONARY AWARDS
Aftel award for handmade perfume
This award honours one outstanding, small-batch perfume that was 100% perfumer-created, in-house, with no use of outsourced compounding or expansion at any stage of the process.
Behold, Patchouli by Gallagher Fragrances
Perfumer: Daniel Gallagher
USA
Contribution to the scent culture award
This award honours outstanding and significant contributions to global public awareness of artisan, independent and experimental practices with scent.
NEZ
SEPTIMUS PIESSE VISIONARY AWARD WINNER
This award honours an outstanding person showing proof of exceptional vision with regard to how scent is used, developed, or imagined.
Mandy Aftel
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