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ART AND OLFACTION AWARDS 2025 Winners

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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, which was be proceeded by Scent Week 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 to share with our community so we all can join the celebration of independent, experimental, and artisan perfumers and fragrance lovers who attended from all over the world.

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 excellence, and was judged in an informal ballot by the larger perfume community.

ART AND OLFACTION AWARDS 2025 PEOPLE’S CHOICE: INDEPENDENT