The Fragrance Foundation has announced the winner of their first annual Indie* Fifi Award: Odin New York 06 Amanu. If you missed it, you can find the finalists here, and the announcement of the Indie award here.

(via Fifi Awards at Twitter)

The Fragrance Foundation has announced the finalists for the first annual Indie Fifi Awards.* The winner will be announced at the Elements Showcase trade show on January 30. The finalists are…

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The Fragrance Foundation has announced the finalists for the 2011 Fifi Awards, known as the “Oscars of the fragrance industry”. For each category, the original list of 10 semi-finalists is now whittled down to 5 (or more, in the case of a tie). Consumer voting begins on April 18; the final awards will be presented on May 25.

And the finalists are:

Women’s Luxe (sold in over 250 doors)

Giorgio Armani Acqua di Gioia
Chanel Chance Eau Tendre…

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The Fragrance Foundation has announced the semi-finalists for the 2011 Fifi Awards, known as the “Oscars of the fragrance industry”. Note that some categories show more than 10 fragrances because of tied votes and some have fewer than 10 because not enough fragrances were nominated.

Each category will be whittled down to 5 fragrances at the Fifi Finalists Breakfast on April 8th; the final awards will be presented on May 25. The award statue is shown above.

And the finalists are…

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Shown above, two of the four finalists from The High School of Fashion Industries Design Contest for The Fragrance Foundation (the students were invited to create bottle designs for the One Mighty Drop campaign).You can find the other finalists at the One Mighty Drop page at Facebook, or you can create your own bottle here.

Looking to attracting the attention of the massive holiday shopping crowds in New York City, The Fragrance Foundation unveiled a new "street-wise" element to its One Drop Changes Everything campaign. It will utilize eye-catching telephone kiosk placements strategically located across midtown Manhattan starting Nov. 19.

— From One Drop Changes Everything... at Happi. Has anyone actually seen any One Drop advertising in the wild? (and if you have no idea what that is, see here)

Bloom says that for the past 10 years, seven out of the 10 top-selling luxury fragrances in the U.S. have remained the same. For example, Donna Karan's flowery Cashmere Mist, which first launched in 1994, and the truly timeless Chanel No. 5, which has adorned women since 1921.

— That's Rochelle Bloom of the Fragrance Foundation, quoted in Smelling Out Sales In Perfume at Forbes.

The Fragrance Foundation has announced the winners of the 2010 Fifi Awards, known as the “Oscars of the fragrance industry”:

Women’s Luxe (sold in over 250 doors) ~ Marc Jacobs Lola

Men’s Luxe ~ Tom Ford Grey Vetiver…

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Starting today, the Fragrance Foundation will be giving away one Fifi-nominated fragrance every day at 5 pm on their Facebook page — all you need to do is become a fan and leave a comment, although only residents of the US are eligible to win. Today's fragrance prize is Avon's Reese Witherspoon In Bloom, and there at least 11 more to come.

It's the last week to vote for your favorite fragrances in the 2010 Fifi Awards program. Voting ends May 19th; you can cast your vote here.