The 2008 UK Jasmine Awards (“celebrating excellence in fragrance journalism”) ceremony was held on March 11, 2009. This year’s winners include:
Jasmine Literary Award (magazine): Susan Irvine for “The Scents of Nostalgia”, November issue of Vogue.
Jasmine Literary Award (news press): Hannah Betts for “Let us Spray”, Guardian Weekend on 6th December.
Best Article on Men’s Fragrance: Dr. Luca Turin for “Talking Scents”, October issue of Esquire.
Best Website Feature on Fragrance: Liz Upton for “Body Odour – or how I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Musk”, Basenotes, 20th July.
The other category winners are currently displayed at the Jasmine Awards website.
See also: the Fragrance Awards page.
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So–are these for British journalists only, then? Seems strange not to see Chandler Burr's name anywhere up there.
A, I couldn't figure that out from the website. But it's the sort of thing where you nominate yourself anyway, & presumably not everyone would bother?
Ah, yes. I wondered about that. Thanks.