The Award Categories
For Women
- Best Fragrance
- Best New Fragrance
- Best Fragrance for Day Wear
- Best Fragrance for Evening Wear
- Best Fragrance Packaging
- Best niche, independent, artisanal or boutique fragrance
- Best designer, mainstream or fine fragrance
- Best mass-market, drugstore, budget or direct-sell fragrance
- Best Celebrity Fragrance
For Men
- Best Fragrance
- Best New Fragrance
- Best Fragrance for Day Wear
- Best Fragrance for Evening Wear
- Best Fragrance Packaging
- Best niche, independent, artisanal or boutique fragrance
- Best designer, mainstream or fine fragrance
- Best mass-market, drugstore, budget or direct-sell fragrance
- Best Celebrity Fragrance
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 Seventh Annual Basenotes Awards
Best mass-market, drugstore, budget or direct-sell fragrance: Tabu by Dana
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Silver Award: White Musk by Body Shop
Bronze Award: 4711 Echt Kölnisch Wasser by 4711
Dana's Tabu fragrance wins the award this year.
Created in 1932 by perfumer, Jean Carles it has endured the test of time and was recently nominated for Fifi Hall of Fame Award .
The Finalists...
- 4711 Echt Kölnisch Wasser by 4711
- Charlie / Charlie Blue by Revlon
- Extraordinary by Avon
- Jovan White Musk by Jovan
- Sand & Sable by Coty
- Skin Musk / Bonne Bell Skin Musk by Prince Matchabelli
- Tabu by Dana
- Vanilla Musk by Coty
- White Musk by Body Shop
- Wild Musk by Coty
Previous Winners...
White Musk by Body Shop (2005)
Vanilla Musk by Coty (2006)

















