Wow! What a night.

We couldn't be happier with how our inaugural Art and Olfaction Awards event went. From the plethora of smiling faces to our water-tight friendly and efficient team, the night was as smooth as silk, and we have the photos to prove it.

In fact, check out some of the photosets on our Facebook page, and feel free to tag yourself if you were in attendance.

We really need to start this off by giving a big shout out to the finalists and the presenters -- many of whom came from foreign parts such as Poland, Berlin... and the Valley.

All the work in competition was stellar, and every single one of the finalists is deserving of special recognition and congratulations. Please check out their work in the Artisan and Independent category, and send them a big old mazal tov, if you ever have the chance.

In fact, without every single perfumer who submitted their work, this entire undertaking would have been quite impossible. So thank you, also, to all the perfumers out there, toiling away in their labs coming up with ever more inventive and ever more creative formulations. We can only say that we can't WAIT to see what comes through for next year's competition.

--

GRATITUDE

While we're on the subject of thanking people, we'd like to extend further extra special thanks to our partners, volunteer event staff, judges and friends-who-stepped-in to help us out in a pinch.

Partners:

Lucky Scent and Scent Bar
L'Artisan Parfumeur
The Goethe Institut
The Standard, Hollywood
AutumnSeventy
Beski Projekts
Hollywood Blonde
Odelab
Fragrantica
The Fragrant Man
Consulate General of the Republic of Poland (Los Angeles)
Felicity Wilson-Brown
Happily
Miniature Perfume Shoppe
Olfactif

Event Staff:

Anya Ivanova – Event producer
Christine Giberson – Production, Pre-event
Spring Lee – Digital Media Lead
Julianne Lee – Social Media Lead
Ilene Hoffman – Finalists, Liaison
Miriam Hoffman – Finalists,Product
Jackie Rosen – Hospitality, Welcomer
Tracy Lynch -Hospitality, Welcomer
Debra Piver - Hospitality , Food and Drink
Shelly Ray – Hospitality , Food and Drink
Chad Clark – Hospitality , RSVP
Ben Chase – Hospitality , RSVP
Jeffrey Paul – Hospitality , General
Steven Remlinger – Photography
Nicolas Kaviani – Photography
Tom Green – Drummer
Ashley Eden Kessler – Perfumer in Residence, Institute for Art and Olfaction
KJ Baysa – CSO, Institute for Art and Olfaction
Saskia Wilson-Brown – Art + Olfaction Awards Director/Founder

Judges:

Ashley Eden Kessler - IAO Perfumer in Residence
Brent Leonesio - Perfumer
Daniel Krasofski - Educator
Hank Jenkins - Plant Provocateur
James McHugh - Historian
Koan Jeff Baysa - Curator, Doctor
Marcos Lutyens - Artist
Steven Gontarski - Manager Scent Bar, Artist
Sherri Sebastian: - Perfumer
Carlos Alvarez, Yvettra Grantham, Laura Johnson, Rachel Sondag - The Scent Bar team
Christophe Laudamiel - Perfumer
Luca Turin - Scientist, Critic
Mandy Aftel - Perfumer, Writer
Sarah Horowitz-Thran - Perfumer, Educator
Stefan Sagmeister - Designer, Filmmaker

--

WHAT COMES NEXT?

Well, we take a few weeks to recover and then we start it all over again.

We'll be announcing information about submissions for the 2015 event within a month, so watch this space.

To follow news specifically related to The Art and Olfaction Awards, please:

• Like our NEW dedicated Facebook page
• Follow us on our NEW dedicated Twitter account!

We'll see you in 2015!