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 New Women's Fragrance: Songes by Annick Goutal
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Silver Award: Insolence by Guerlain
Bronze Award: Black Orchid by Tom Ford
Annick Goutal's Songes contains notes of Frangipani, Ylang-Ylang, Jasmine, Vanilla and was created by perfumer Isabel Doyen. Close behind in terms of votes were Guerlain's Insolence and Tom Ford's Black Orchid (Lauder).
The Finalists...
- Armani Code for Women by Giorgio Armani
- Black Orchid by Tom Ford
- Burberry London by Burberry
- Délices de Cartier by Cartier
- Gold by Donna Karan
- Insolence by Guerlain
- L by Lolita Lempicka
- Orris Noir by Ormonde Jayne
- Songes by Annick Goutal
- West Side by Bond No. 9
Previous Winners...
Eau des Merveilles by Hermès (2005)
Un Jardin sur le Nil by Hermès (2006)

















