We all like to smell good, to have a fragrance that represents us and makes us recognizable. In the world of perfumes, each person is different: some prefer cooler notes, others more warm and sweet, and some, the most risky, look for scents like wood or leather. What is clear is that there is a perfect fragrance for each of us.
Being relatively expensive products, times of discounts such as the black friday They are perfect occasions to get a quality perfume. and nothing better than go to the hands of experts to achieve the perfect fragrance.
The Perfume Academy has chosen this month the best perfumes of the year, in a awards with different categories. This non-profit foundation is dedicated to spreading the world of perfume, with emphasis on its facet of artistic creation. It has in its midst an excellent group of Academicians, including some of the best perfumers in the world, who form the jury that has chosen the winners.
The XV Edition of the 2022 Academy of Perfume Awards has chosen five winners in the female categories, fragrances that, whether due to their smell, their design or their advertising campaign, have stood out in recent months. Here we leave you the list of the best perfumes of the year and where to get them this Black Friday.
Perfume of the Year Award 2022: A Drop D’Issey by Issey Miyake
Perfume A Drop D’isseyby designer Issey Miyake, is the winning perfume of the most important category of these awards. Its creators define this fragrance as “a wildly feminine composition”, a perfume with an enveloping scent of lilaca musky note and a hint of almond milk. This fragrance is bottled in a round and transparent bottle, which combines the purity and simplicity that characterize it.
Price on Amazon (50 ml): €53.80
Best Iconic Perfume: Angel by Mugler
This category, the Best Iconic Perfume, chooses the best fragrance of the year among the great classics. On this occasion, the Perfume Academy has chosen Angel, a Mugler perfume. “Bold, timeless, sensual and ultra-addictiveAngel is a timeless novelty”. This is how the brand defines the product, which has celebrated its 30 years of activity with the launch of the perfume. The star-shaped bottle, carved in blue glass, contains a fragrance that combines the smell of patchouli with the sweetness of pralinered fruits and bergamot.
Price on Amazon (100 ml): €42.13
Best Lifestyle Perfume: Gadea Perfume by Hoss Intropia
The Lifestyle category falls on more ‘casual’ fragrances, and in it, for example, the perfumes of celebrities such as Aitana participate, a product that was also among the nominees. The winner was the Gadea perfume, by Hoss Intropia, a fragrance with mediterranean flower essencefresh and with touches of gardenia and jasmine and a seabed of sandalwood and moss.
Price in Druni (100 ml): €49.95
Perfume with Best Design: Trussardi
Walking through the perfume aisle is synonymous with appreciating the beautiful packaging and bottle designs. Although aesthetics is not the main thing, it is an important part of the perfume (everything enters through the eyes). For this reason, the Academy has decided to create the category of Best Design, an award that has recognized the beauty and care in the packaging of trussardi.
This new feminine fragrance is made with typical ingredients that evoke the essence of Italy. It is made up of aromas of tangerine, neroli, lavender, jasmine and white dahlia, as well as notes of violet, patchouli and leather. The bottle, with a perfect cylindrical shape, is decorated with matt pink, black and white stripes, a golden stopper.
Price at Sephora (30 ml): €54.99
Best Campaign: Miss Dior de Dior
Natalie Portman It is the image of Miss Dior, the emblematic perfume that has now been reinvented. This fragrance reappears with a new millefiori scent with hints of centifolia rose, with a peony accord, apricot note and powdery iris notes. The new ‘eau de parfum’ Miss Dior It comes with a colourful, pointillist couture bow and a bottle engraved with Dior’s iconic houndstooth motif.
Price at Sephora (50 ml): €53.99
The nominated perfumes
Not only absolute winners deserve your attention. four fragrances They have been included in the top 5 of the best perfumes of the year, being at the gates of the grand prize.
One of these fragrances, a perfume with pop references and Japanese style, is Flora Gorgeous Jasminea cheerful ‘eau de parfum’ from gucci that combines jasmine with pear blossom and a touch of brown sugar.
Price in Druni (50 ml): €59.95
The fragance Naturelle by Chloe, has also been at the gates of the award for best perfume of the year. In a simple and elegant bottle, fresh scents such as citron and blackcurrant are bottled, combined with the distinctive base notes of cedar.
Price at El Corte Inglés (30 ml): €54.95
The French brand rocks He has also achieved a position in this top 5 with his new fragrance girl, a perfume with a vegan composition and a refillable container. Its scent is characterized by hints of neroli, pink berries and black currant, with notes of jasmine and a background of cedar wood.
Price at El Corte Inglés (100 ml): €62.15
The last perfume on this list is Ginzaa fragrance designed by Shiseido. Its scent is made up of strawberry, jasmine, magnolia and Japanese orchid petals, emphasized by woods that balance the fragrance.
Price at Sephora (50 ml): €52.99
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