Art and Olfaction Awards 2022

After a year-long Covid-induced hiatus, The Art and Olfaction Awards (A+OA) are back. This is the 8th year that the organization will honor the very best in artisan and independent perfumery, as well as experimental work with scent.  Submissions for the 8th annual Art and Olfaction Awards 2022 are open between November 1, 2021 and December 11, 2021.   The award ceremony whichtake place on July 1, 2022 at the World Perfumery Congress in Miami. For this 8th edition of the awards, Art and Olfaction will accept perfumes that have been or will be released to market in the period between January 1, 2020 and December 31 2021.

Golden Pear Award via Instagram 2019 Art and Olfaction

 “In the spirit of bridging communities, the 8th Art and Olfaction Awards take place at the World Perfumery Congress in Miami. In a special evening on July 1, 2022, we’ll take part in a larger celebration of excellence in perfumery at all levels of the industry. At the 8th Art and Olfaction Awards event, we will announce the winners in four juried categories: the Art and Olfaction Artisan Award, the Art and Olfaction Independent Award, the Sadakichi Award for Experimental Work with Scent, and the Aftel Award for Handmade Perfume. We will additionally announce the winners of the Contribution to Scent Culture Award (honoring a person or entity that has made contributions to public awareness of artisan, independent and experimental practices with scent), as well as the Piesse Award, which will be given to an outstanding person showing proof of exceptional vision with regards to how scent is used, developed, or imagined”. -Saskia Wilson Brown, Director and Founder

 Dawn Spencer Hurwitz receiving her 2019 Art and Olfaction Award for American Perfumer “Colorado”.  Photo via Art and Olfaction© at The Oude Kerk—Amsterdam, Netherlands

 In line with the organization’s  commitment to furthering global dialogue within the field, the finalists for the 8th Art and Olfaction Awards will be announced at a special press event at Esxence in Milan, March 17-22, 2022, the pre-eminent fragrance exhibition for independent and artistic perfumery. Marking a change from past event, there will be only five finalists in the Art and Olfaction Artisan Award, as well as in the Art and Olfaction Independent Award, and in the Sadakichi Award for Experimental Work with Scent.

Naomi Goodsir, Renaud Coutadier and Isabelle Doyen for Nuit de Bakelite the Winner 2018 photo Sarah McCartney© at The Tabernacle, in London’s Notting Hill.

All submissions in the Art and Olfaction Artisan Award category, the Art and Olfaction Independent Award category, and the Aftel Award for Handmade Perfume category will be judged blindly by an international group of judges who have themselves shown exceptional dedication to the field of perfumery. New judges (including CaFleureBon Deputy Editor Ida Meister) will serve alongside returning judges;  they engage in the task with no fiscal remuneration, as a service to the community, and abide by a strict code of ethics, which you can review here:

Submission rules and categories can be found here: http://www.artandolfactionawards.org/rules/

Submissions will be accepted on November 1, 2021 here: https://artandolfaction.submittable.com/submit

via Press release and my own synopsis

Please read our 2014 interview with Saskia-Wilson Brown,  Director and Founder of The Art and Olfaction Awards written by  Contributor Stevie Wilson

Michelyn Camen, Editor-in-Chief