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Welcome to The Fifth Annual Basenotes Awards

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Thanks to all of you for voting in the 5th Annual Basenotes Awards. Unlike some other Beauty Awards, The Basenotes awards are chosen by the consumers themselves

This year, the awards are sponsored by Beauty Cafe (see right column), who kindly donated a $200 Beauty cafe Voucher to one lucky winner.

The winner of the $200 Beauty Cafe Voucher is John Van Nostrand. Congratulations!

The winning product list is dominated by Mugler, Creed and Chanel.

A*Men picked up Best Men's Fragrance, Best Men's Packaging and Best Men's Scent for Evening. B*Men was voted best New Men's Fragrance and Angel came runner up in the Best Women's Fragrance for Evening category. -- With a new fragrance planned this year, Mugler is certainly on a role.

Basenotes Forum favourites, Creed, collected awards for Best Niche Scent for Men (Bois de Portugal), Best Daytime Scent for Men (Green Irish Tweed) and Best Daytime Scent for women (Spring Flower)

Chanel picked up three awards, and two runner-ups. Best Women's packaging and Best Women's Fragrance went to Chanel No.5; Chanel also picked up the award for overall Best Fragrance House. Egoiste recieved the runner-up award for Best Men's Fragrance and the runner up for Best Women's daytime scent went to Coco Mademoiselle.

The links (above right) will guide you through the awards and give you more information about the fragrances that won each award and who was nominated

About this year's sponsor: Beauty Cafe

The Beauty Cafe is a beauty boutique specializing in finding unique product lines and was founded in July 1997 by Lisa Slavik.

After several years of actively participating in alt.fashion, Lisa identified a common theme running throughout numerous discussions [a.k.a. "threads" in newsgroup-speak], many of the recommended products were extremely difficult to find, particularly for customers not located in major metropolitan areas. Whereas all of the alt.fashion subscribers had computer access, not all had access to retail stores nor eclectic product lines. A secondary theme also emerged from the newsgroup, poor customer service often resulted in consumers going elsewhere to make their purchases.

As a graduate of the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, as well as a graphic artist, this realization sparked Lisa's idea to establish a "cyber-store" dedicated to offering hard-to-find fragrances, skin care, and bath and body products to customers plus to provide superior customer service via the internet.

Through the years, Beauty Cafe has been featured in various beauty and fashion magazines from WWD, W, Jane, InStyle, Allure, Mademoiselle, and Redbook. Beauty Cafe specialize in locating the products that you read about in the magazines, bringing them home to you.