Top Three Finalists: Technological Breakthrough

Member companies who submit entries for Technological Breakthrough of the Year are required to make a presentation and be judged by a distinguished panel of technical experts. Submissions for this award are judged on the following criteria: the innovation must have been created in 2011, must be original and must have the potential to move the industry ahead as a whole.

2012 FiFi Technological Breakthrough Awards will be presented at the World Perfumery Congress during the closing session on June 14th, 2012 at the MGM Grand at Foxwoods Resort in Mashantucket, CT.

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2012 FiFi Award Top Three Finalists

Announcing The 2012 Top Ten FiFi Finalists

 
“Announcing the Top Ten Finalists is exciting as now we can really say we are in FiFi mode and look forward to the fun and anticipation at The FiFi Finalists Breakfast, April 27th in the Grand Ballroom of The Mandarin Oriental when it gets narrowed down to the Top Five,” commented Jill Belasco, Chair of The Fragrance Foundation Board.

“Every year we look forward to receiving all the submissions and take great joy in seeing the stunning array of fragrances, fabulous packaging, exciting media campaigns and ingenious technology that goes into each creation, and wondering, along with everyone else, who will win what!” said Mary Ellen Lapsansky, Vice President of the Foundation.

At the same time, the Foundation is delighted to welcome the warm personality and bright smile of this year’s breakfast host Janice Huff, Chief Meteorologist for WNBC TV New York who will light up the proceedings at the industry’s most fun, yet nerve-wracking event! Will Janice be able to predict the FiFi winners? You’ll have to join us for breakfast on “Fragrance Friday” to find out.

The Fragrance Foundation is pleased to announce and congratulates all the 2012 Top Ten FiFi Finalists:

40 Years of Chanel and FiFi

Last Monday, we announced that Gabrielle Chanel would be this year’s inductee into the FiFi Hall of Fame, chosen by the Board of Directors of The Fragrance Foundation for bringing “extraordinary ingenuity, creativity, dedication and inner resources to bear, not only to [her] company’s success but to the fragrance industry as a whole.”

Mademoiselle Chanel is the third Chanel employee to receive this honor (joining H. Gregory Thomas (1976) and Arie L. Kopelman (2005)). As a company, Chanel has now received a total of 26 FiFi Awards over the past 40 years.

Here is a complete list of these FiFi honors in chronological order:

A Closer Look at The FiFi Award-Winning osMoz.com iPhone App

 
 

“We are delighted to be able to deliver to fragrance lovers all of the great features of osMoz in such an innovative and convenient app.  It is a true honor, and we are very proud to have received this FiFi recognition from The Fragrance Foundation.”

- Jerry Vittoria, VP Perfumery NA, Firmenich

 

On April 8, 2011, at the Mandarin Oriental in New York City, The Fragrance Foundation held its Annual FiFi Finalists’ Breakfast. During the morning, FiFi Awards were handed out for both Editorial Excellence and Technological Breakthrough. For the first time ever, this included a Technological Breakthrough FiFi Award for Information Technology, a category specifically highlighting digital communication advancements in the world of fragrance. With that in mind, we thought it might be nice to take a closer look at our first FiFi winner, Osmoz.com’s iPhone application.

Celebrating 4 Years Online

This year, our little FiFi Awards blog celebrates its fourth birthday. Like you, our birthday has us feeling a bit nostalgic. It’s truly been amazing these years witnessing the many exciting changes in the online fragrance world, closely accompanying the lightning fast pace of new technology. Through it all, it has been four wonderful years lovingly dedicated to celebrating the many joys of fragrance.

It’s amazing how much we’ve grown. What began as a simple conversation about exploring MySpace as a new gathering area for fragrance aficionados, quickly grew like a flower, blossoming into multiple online presences including Facebook, Iqons, YouTube, WordPress and Twitter. Each new iteration offering people a closer look behind the scenes of all the events leading up to the biggest night in fragrance, The FiFi Awards.