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 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 8th Annual Basenotes Awards
Best Fragrance House: Guerlain

Gold Award: Guerlain
Silver Award: Chanel
Bronze Award: Serge Lutens Les Salons du Palais Royal Shiseido
Guerlain is one of the oldest perfume houses in the world - founded in 1828 by Pierre-Franois-Pascal Guerlain. It was family-owned until 1994 when it was sold to luxury goods company, LVMH.
Guerlain recently renovated their flagship store on the Champs Elysees, which as well as the popular Guerlain's one can also find exclusives and once-lost classics.













