The Fragrance Foundation has announced its 2024 award-winning fragrances, and some PALMER favorites made the list.
Guerlain’s Tabacco Honey Eau de Parfum, from L’Art & La Matière Collection, was crowned “Perfume Extraordinaire.” The prize is awarded to a fragrance in honor of its craftsmanship, aesthetic beauty and olfactory intensity. Created by in-house perfumer, Delphine Jelk—a graduate of the prestigious Grasse Institute of Perfumery—Tobacco Honey is a bold scent with notes of (as you may have guessed) honey and tobacco.
Guerlain Tabacco Honey Eau de Parfum. $395 for 50ml; guerlain.com
Valentino took home the “Fragrance of the Year: Women’s Luxury” award for its Born in Roma Donna Eau de Parfum Intense. Launched in 2019, the amber floral fragrance is a women’s perfume inspired by Rome. Created by the über-talented Honorine Blanc and Amandine Clerc-Marie, it combines one of the most luxurious ingredients in perfumery, jasmine sambac, with woody cashmeran, and a rich, leathery vanilla bourbon. The bottle pays tribute to the iconic Valentino Rockstud. This edgy pyramidal design, inspired by Roman architecture, is a house signature of the Maison. It is made even more modern thanks to the contrast of black leather with vivid pink.
Valentino Born in Roma Donna and Born in Roma Uomo. $150 for 50ml; valentino-beauty.us
Hermès un Jardin à Cythère Eau de Toilette — a citrus and woody fragrance from the Parfums-Jardins Collection was awarded “Fragrance of the Year—Universal Prestige.” Created by Swiss perfumer Christine Nagel, who has worked in-house for the French luxury brand since 2016, it combines notes of grass with olive wood and fresh pistachio, and bottled in a design inspired by the lines of a horse-draw carriage lantern with luminous yellow glass which echoes its sunny scent.
Hermès un Jardin à Cythère Eau de Toilette. $156 for 3.38 fl.oz.; hermes.com
Tom Ford’s new Vanilla Sex Eau de Parfum won “Fragrance of the Year: Universal Luxury.” Created for men and women by noted French perfumer Nathalie Gracia-Cetto, it features an enveloping amber scent of vanilla notes, while florals, and sandlewood.
Tom Ford Vanilla Sex. $1350 for 250ml; tomfordbeauty.com
Finally, NEST was awarded “Fragrance of the Year: Popular” for their Lychee Rose Eau de Parfum. Created by Perfumer Jerome Epinette, this effervescent fruity floral fragrance features a vibrant combination of rose absolute and fresh lychee accentuated with the sparkling essence of pink champagne and a hint of raspberry. And NEST New York donates $1 to NEXT for AUTISM with every fine fragrance purchase on their web site.
Nest New York Lychee Rose Eau de Parfum, $92 for 50ml; nestnewyork.com.