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September 16, 2017 - Comments Off on SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN

SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN

We're thrilled to announce that submissions for the 5th annual Art and Olfaction Awards are open. We accept submissions from perfumers, brands and experimental practitioners with scent from all countries, for perfumes (and experimental projects) first released to market between January 1 and December 31, 2017.

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June 1, 2017 - Comments Off on April 21: London.

April 21: London.

Save the date and start looking for flights!

We will be holding the 5th annual Art and Olfaction Awards on April 21, 2018 at The Tabernacle, in London's bohemian Notting Hill neighborhood.

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June 1, 2017 - Comments Off on LA! Smell the winners and finalists, at the IAO

LA! Smell the winners and finalists, at the IAO

Dearest LA friends: We haven't forgotten about you.

Join us on June 27 to smell the fourth annual Art and Olfaction Awards finalists + winners, at an informal party at the Institute for Art and Olfaction in LA's historic Chinatown.

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May 13, 2017 - Comments Off on PARTING SHOTS: The Awards, Moving Forward

PARTING SHOTS: The Awards, Moving Forward

Dear friends,

Saskia here. I wanted to take a moment to publish the speech I was going to give at the beginning of the 4th annual Art and Olfaction Awards, before I lost track of myself. It was an amazing event, and I am proud of the work we did. However, I am also cognizant of the challenges facing the awards. So, for those of you who weren't there in person (and for those of you who were but missed the bulk of what I wanted to say because... Well... I forgot to say it)... Here we go!

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May 6, 2017 - Comments Off on 2017: ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS

2017: ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS

BERLIN - MAY 7, 2017 Guests and nominees congregated to witness the fourth annual Art and Olfaction Awards at the Silent Green Kulturquartier—a former crematorium built in 1911 revitalized as an arts venue—in Berlin, Germany on the evening of Saturday, May 6, 2017.

SEE PHOTOS FROM THE EVENT HERE

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April 17, 2017 - Comments Off on Let’s talk about judging bias

Let’s talk about judging bias

We're a few weeks away from the 4th annual Art and Olfaction Awards, and now feels like a great time to post about one challenge we face as an organization: The fairness of our judging process.

In a perfect world, we would identify and persuade 28 people who both have excellent noses AND zero existing relationships in the industry to spend months of their time assessing the submissions for nothing more than an enthusiastic thank you.

However, our world is not quite perfect, and people who understand perfume tend to... well... work in the perfume industry. In other words, pre-existing relationships are a given: There is no reasonable way to avoid them, short of coralling a pack of robots to evaluate the submissions (and even that might create some issues along the way).

We are, however, very aware of a relationship's potential to bias the awards. Although every mechanism has potential flaws (and every year brings us a new exception to what we thought was a hard rule), we do our very, very best to make the awards as fair as possible. Here's how!

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April 5, 2017 - Comments Off on PICKING UP THE SCENT

PICKING UP THE SCENT

Every year, we commission a writer to compose some lines on what scent means to them. This year, we invited Los Angeles-based writer Maxwell Williams to take on the task. What follows are Maxwell's musings on the value, the subjectivity and the ultimate beauty of smelling.

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March 29, 2017 - Comments Off on 2017 FINALIST ANNOUNCEMENT: VIDEO

2017 FINALIST ANNOUNCEMENT: VIDEO

On March 23 2017, Luca Turin, Adam Eastwood, Franco Wright, Helder Suffenplan and Antonio Gardoni joined Saskia WIlson-Brown to announce the finalists for the fourth annual Art and Olfaction Awards at Esxence in Milan.

Watch the video of the announcement, below.

 

March 23, 2017 - Comments Off on ANNOUNCING THE 2017 FINALISTS

ANNOUNCING THE 2017 FINALISTS

We are thrilled to announce the finalists of the 4th annual Art and Olfaction Awards.

Awarded to just four perfumes and one experimental scent project a year, The Art and Olfaction Awards are designed to raise public interest and awareness around new developments in independent perfumery.

The 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, chosen for perfumes released in 2016.

On March 23, 1pm CET we announced the finalists with the help of some of our friends and judges at Esxence, in Milan. Hailing from 12 countries and four continents, 2017's finalists fully represent the diversity of our global independent, artisan and experimental perfume community.

MEET THE FINALISTS HERE

 

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