Perfume creator, Naomi Goodsir, has become the first Australian to win at the prestigious FIFI Awards, held in Paris. Goodsir won the Experts' Award for The Best Niche and Independent Brand Fragrance for Nuit de Bakélite, an interpratation of the nocturnal flower tuberose.
The Fragrance Foundation's FIFI Awards aim to promote the best talents and creativity in perfumery, as well as its cultural and artistic values.
A former Mosman resident, Goodsir now lives in the south of France. She thanked her parents and Nuit de Bakélite's perfumer, Isabelle Doyen, in her acceptance speech.
"This perfume was a long time in the making, around four years. We wanted to try and create a tuberose fragrance that has not been done before," Goodsir said.
Fragrance blog Persolaise describes Nuit de Bakélite: "Inspired by Goodsir's love of vintage, Bakelite jewellery, it is one of the most convincing, three-dimensional tuberose compositions I've had the pleasure to experience for quite some time.
"Doyen has made the white blossoms all her own, emphasising their bitterness with angelica and artemisia, their dreamy, cream-laden qualities with musks and ylang ylang, and their unquenchable optimism - the characteristic which makes them such an obvious choice for the garlands you see in India - with cool green notes."
