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 Sixth Annual Basenotes Awards
Best Men's Fragrance: A*Men / Angel Men by Thierry Mugler

The award for the best men's fragrance goes to Thierry Mugler's A*Men. 2006 is the third consecutive year that A*Men has won this award and is also the year that it celebrates it's tenth birthday.
The fragrance itself contains edible notes of chocolate and coffee.
The runner up was Chanel's Antaeus
The Finalists...
- A*Men / Angel Men by Thierry Mugler
- Antaeus by Chanel
- Eau de Santal by Floris
- Kenzo pour Homme by Kenzo
- Marc Jacobs for Men by Marc Jacobs
- Mouchoir de Monsieur by Guerlain
- Musc Ravageur by Editions de Parfums Frederic Malle
- New York by Parfums de Nicolaļ
- Piper Nigrum by Lorenzo Villoresi
Previous Winners...
Vetiver by Guerlain (2000)
Cool Water by Davidoff (2001)
Vetiver by Guerlain (2002)
A*Men / Angel Men by Thierry Mugler (2004)
A*Men / Angel Men by Thierry Mugler (2005)












