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Your support makes all the difference.The French fragrance foundation awarded its annual prizes exclusively to local brands last week.
Its main awards for best fragrance of the year went to Yves Saint Laurent's update of Opium, Belle d'Opium, in women's perfumes and Bleu de Chanel in the men's category. All other winning brands, including Lancôme, Hermès, or Biotherm, also hail from France.
The choices don't correspond with the recent prizes bestowed by Marie Claire magazine, which used to be the partner of the official French fragrance awards: its editors' favorites were Balenciaga Paris and Thierry Mugler's Womanity.
France's fragrance awards are a lot more democratic than their American counterpart - scheduled for May 25 - with seven of ten prizes being voted on by the public. Here is the full list of winners:
Best Women's Perfume
YSL Belle D'Opium
Best Men's Perfume
Bleu de Chanel
Best Packaging (Women's)
Balenciaga Paris
Best Packaging (Men's)
Voyage D'Hermes
Best Publicity Campaign (Women's)
Lancome Tresor in Love
Best Publicity Campaign (Men's)
Biotherm Homme Force
Best Perfume Distributed Under Its Own Name
L'Occitane en Provence Pivoine
Specialist's Prize
Etat Libre D'Orange Like This, Tilda Swinton
Perfumer's Prize
Thierry Mugler Womanity
Special Prize of The Fragrance Foundation France Board
Romano Ricci of Juliette Has a Gun
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