The Art and Olfaction Awards are designed to raise interest and awareness for independent perfumers, artisan perfumers, and experimental practitioners with scent on an international scale.
With only nine prestigious Golden Pear awards handed out a year, The Art and Olfaction Awards provide an important marker for excellence in independent, artisan and experimental perfumery. By shining a spotlight on perfumery’s most outstanding creators, we hope to help generate support for independent practices in perfumery as a whole.
The Art and Olfaction Awards and the Golden Pears™ are a program of The Institute for Art and Olfaction, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization based in Los Angeles, USA.
The judging process for winners and finalist perfumes is conducted with the utmost objectivity, as it is carried out blindly, focusing solely on the scent and a short creative brief. The identity of the submitted perfumes - including branding, naming, perfumer, creative director, country of origin, cost, and marketing approach - remains concealed from the judges. This ensures that evaluations are based purely on the olfactory experience, and that the outcomes are determined by the fragrance's inherent qualities alone. Non-olfactory aspects of the finalists and winners are not assessed, and as such do not reflect the personal values or opinions of the organizers of the awards, or the judges.
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