ART AND OLFACTION AWARDS WINNERS 2025
The Art and Olfaction Awards 2025 Winners were announced May 29, 2025 at the Cicada Club in Los Angeles and included the Experimental Scent Summit, now in its sixth edition at Institute for Contemporary Art LA (ICALA) and the return of Scent Fair LA at Craft Contemporary. As a supporting partner from the very beginning, ÇaFleureBon is excited join the celebration of independent, experimental, and artisan perfumery.
Jérome Roux (Board of Advisors, Institute for Art and Olfaction) and Saskia Wilson-Brown (Founder and
Executive Director, Institute for Art and Olfaction) thank the partners, at the 11th Art and Olfaction Awards.
Photo credit: Alondra Castilla, for the Art and Olfaction Awards
ART AND OLFACTION AWARDS 2025 WINNERS: INDEPENDENT CATEGORY and ARTISAN CATEGORY
Bad Lily by TALE Parfum (United States)
Perfumer: Michael Nordstrand
Creative Directors: Chad Hodge, Diandra Barsalou
Northern by Soulvent 所闻 (China)
Perfumer: Ciny Ye
Creative Directors: Dennis Zhu, Yvonne Guo
ART AND OLFACTION AWARDS 2025 WINNERS: ARTISAN CATEGORY
Mekha Aranya by SIAM1928 (Thailand)
Perfumer: Nutt Wesshasartar
Mint Rose by OrdioLab (Taiwan)
Perfumer: Jerry Lin
ART AND OLFACTION AWARDS 2025 WINNER: EXPERIMENTAL CATEGORY
The award is 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.
Sfumato
Artist: Karola Braga
Incense maker: Theo Bibancos
A land art installation where smoke recreates the aromatic trail of an ancient Incense
ART AND OLFACTION AWARDS 2025 WINNERS: DISCRETIONARY AWARDS
ART AND OLFACTION AWARDS 2025 NEWCOMER WINNER AWARD
Principalities by Caeleste
Perfumer: David-Lev Jipa-Slivinschi, Creative Director: Stefan Radut
Linda Andrews, founder of The Perfumers Apprentice, accepts the Contribution to Scent Culture Award, as Alex Wiltschko (Founder Osmo) and Saskia Wilson-Brown (founder, Art and Olfaction Awards) look on. Photo credit: Alondra Castilla, for the Art and Olfaction Awards
ART AND OLFACTION AWARDS 2025 WINNER: CONTRIBUTION TO SCENT CULTURE AWARD
Linda Andrews, the founder of The Perfumer’s Apprentice
ART AND OLFACTION AWARDS 2025 WINNER EXCEPTIONAL VISION
The Winner is Anika Yi, NY
For the first time, the Art and Olfaction Awards featured a “People’s Choice Award”. This presented a more informal celebration of olfactive excellence, and was judged in an informal ballot by the larger perfume community.
ART AND OLFACTION AWARDS 2025 PEOPLE’S CHOICE: INDEPENDENT
THE MANDALA
Param Sara (India | China)
Perfumer: Alex Lee
Creative Director: Ankita Gill
ART AND OLFACTION AWARDS 2025: PEOPLE’S CHOICE ARTISAN
YOU & I (WILL DIE)
House of Mammoth (United States)
Perfumer: Benjamin Esposito
The Gold Pear ©
Congratulations to all the Winners, Finalists and Honorable Mentions. In 2026, the Art and Olfaction Awards will be held in Athens, Greece.
The Finalists and Honorable Mentions of 2025 are here
Michelyn Camen, Editor-in- Chief via press release and my own synopsis
Disclaimer: The bottle photos were supplied earlier by Art and Olfaction
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