XI. Art And Olfaction Awards (2025.)

The winners and the finalists

The Institute for Art and Olfaction announced the 11th Art and Olfaction Awards finalists in juried categories on April 11, 2025. The winners in all categories were announced on May 29 at a ceremony in Los Angeles.
Iva Mirisna

3 min.

12/04/2025

Artisan category

For perfume brands owned or co-owned by the brand’s primary perfumer, who initiated and created the submitted perfume’s formula in-house.

Winners

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Finalists

Honorable mentions

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.

Winners

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Finalists

Honorable mentions

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The Golden Pear

Sadakichi award

Creative or experimental practitioners who use scent in an unconventional or experimental manner that is taking it out of the domain of traditional perfumery.

Winner

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  • Sfumato
    Artist: Karola Braga
    Incense maker: Theo Bibancos
    A land art installation where smoke recreates the aromatic trail of an ancient Incense route.

Finalists

  • Buscando Alma
    Artist | Perfumer: Nina LaMaison (Argentina)
    The search for the soul when technology has eclipsed what is essentially human.
  • New Olfactory Molecules (Hyperflor, E12)
    Artist | Perfumer: Sean Raspet (United States)
    Scent molecules are presented in an unmediated olfactory experience.
  • Recollection
    Writer: Georgia Ketels, Producer: Cathy Hunt (Potkettleblack)
    Perfumer: Erin Adams, Smell Art (Australia=
    Custom scents fill the theater in a theatrical production exploring loss.
  • Schmerzh, Memories Don’t Evaporate
    Project Lead: Olivia Wiederkehr, Live Lab AG, Fachstelle KiöR
    Perfumer: Andreas Wilhelm (Switzerland)
    Addressing unspoken societal wounds through scent as a strategy for inclusive remembrance.

NEWCOMER AWARD

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SCENT CULTURE AWARD

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Read the press release here.

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