The Award Categories
For Women
- Best Fragrance
- Best New Fragrance
- Best Mass-market Fragrance
- Best Niche Fragrance
- Best Fragrance for daywear
- Best Fragrance for evening
- Best Fragrance packaging
For Men
- Best Fragrance
- Best New Fragrance
- Best Mass-market Fragrance
- Best Niche Fragrance
- Best Fragrance for daywear
- Best Fragrance for evening
- Best Fragrance packaging
Other
Other Basenotes Awards:
- The 8th Annual Basenotes Awards
- The Seventh Annual Basenotes Awards
- The Sixth Annual Basenotes Awards
- The Fifth Annual Basenotes Awards
- Basenotes Men's Fragrance and Grooming Awards 2004
- The Basenotes Fragrance and Grooming Awards 2002
- The Basenotes Men's Fragrance & Grooming Awards 2001
- The Basenotes Men's Grooming Awards 2000
- Awards Index
The Fifth Annual Basenotes Awards
Best New Women's Fragrance : Eau des Merveilles by Hermès

Probably could get away as a unisex scent. EdM contains no floral note and is its notes are upside down. All the woody-musky notes are on top, rather than the base of the fragrance.The bottle is round with a silver cap.
The Finalists...
- Cinéma by Yves Saint Laurent
- Daim Blond by Serge Lutens Les Salons du Palais Royal Shiseido
- Eau des Merveilles by Hermès
- Le Baiser du Dragon by Cartier
- Omnia by Bulgari
- Prada (new) by Prada
- Trouble by Boucheron
- Yohji Yamamoto Pour Femme by Yohji Yamamoto













