After a year-long Covid-induced hiatus, The Art and Olfaction Awards (A+OA) are back. Submissions are open for the Art and Olfaction Awards 2022, which will take place on July 1 2022 at the World Perfumery Congress in Miami.
Montal So Iris Intense smells like watching a watercolour being painted. As the fragrance warms on the skin, it releases delicate carrot and lemon notes that fill in the flower’s aroma. It is quite lovely in these moments, a quintessential young iris soliflore with an undercurrent of flowery Oolong tea that stays with the fragrance into its dry-down.
Musc et Madame Ambrette Rose is an opulent wave upon first spray. It vibrates with intense feeling and emotion, but is languorously smooth and silky, and downright indulgent.
DSH Perfumes Le Sazerac is Dawn Spencer Hurwitz’s holiday offering for 2021: if we ever needed jollity, the time is now. Le Sazerac is a blowsy, boozy all-natural fragrance inspired by (and named after) the famous Old New Orleans cocktail.
God and the sea, salt and smoke. These things mingle in Gallivant Naples, Luca Maffei’s beautiful composition with swirling dolce vita, sensual cool shadows and irresistible charm. The collision of salted air laced with algae-stained stone with the woosh of church doors opening on interiors woody with shimmering light and snuffed out candles makes Naples quite the experience
Quintis Sandalwood, in partnership with the American Society of Perfumers, is launching a global competition for perfumers of all experience, inviting them to reimage the ancient botanical of Indian sandalwood within a fragrance, using it as their muse.
