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 Men's Fragrance: Égoïste / L'Égoïste by Chanel
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Silver Award: Vetiver by Guerlain
Bronze Award: Green Irish Tweed by Creed
A first-time win for Chanel's Egoiste in this category which normally is won by Guerlain's Vetiver or Mugler's A*Men.
Egoiste started life in 1987 as a fragrance called Bois Noir which was only available in selected Chanel boutiques. The fragrance was relaunched, slightly re-orchestrated, and renamed in 1990.
Egoiste is a woody-oriental fragrance with notes of rosewood, sandalwood and vanilla.
Guerlain's classic Vetiver picked up the Silver Award and Creed's popular Green Irish Tweed takes the Bronze Award.
The Finalists...
- A*Men / Angel Men by Thierry Mugler
- Antaeus by Chanel
- Bois du Portugal by Creed
- Eau Sauvage by Christian Dior
- Fahrenheit by Christian Dior
- Green Irish Tweed by Creed
- M7 by Yves Saint Laurent
- Terre d'Hermès by Hermès
- Vetiver by Guerlain
- Égoïste / L'Égoïste by Chanel
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)
A*Men / Angel Men by Thierry Mugler (2006)

















