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 Niche Men's Fragrance: Green Irish Tweed by Creed

Winner of the best men's Niche 2006 goes to Creed's Green Irish Tweed. GIT, as it is often referred, is currently Creed's best selling fragrances and contains notes of Verbena, Violet Leaves, Florentine Iris, Sandalwood and Ambergris.
Runner up was Bond No. 9's New Haarlem .
The Finalists...
- Acier Aluminium by Creed
- Bois d'Iris by Different Company
- Dzing! by L'Artisan Parfumeur
- Green Irish Tweed by Creed
- Musc Ravageur by Editions de Parfums Frederic Malle
- New Haarlem by Bond No. 9
- Piper Nigrum by Lorenzo Villoresi
- Santal Noble by Maître Parfumeur et Gantier
- Silver Mountain Water by Creed
Previous Winners...
Piper Nigrum by Lorenzo Villoresi (2004)
Bois du Portugal by Creed (2005)












