The Fragrance Foundation

Events

November 4, 2021

CIRCLE OF CHAMPIONS 2021

Table and ticket sales will open in August.

A digital platform for dialogue about fragrance, and the way that it relates to community and culture.

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT PERFUMER: CALICE BECKER

Calice Becker, the widely adored 2021 Fragrance Foundation Lifetime Achievement Perfumer Award recipient, has made the world a more beautiful place in countless ways. Her work has a signature grace, but she is also unafraid to be daring, and her singular vision has brought us such masterpieces as Dior J’Adore, Tommy Hilfiger Tommy Girl, and several distinctive By Kilian creations including Back to Black and Woman In Gold. The VP Perfumer is also Director of the Givaudan Perfumery School, where she shares her thoughtful approach and accumulated wisdom with the next generation.

HALL OF FAME: PHILIPPE BENACIN

Though he may be humble about his impact, Philippe Benacin revolutionized the way that fragrances are licensed and distributed when he co-founded Interparfums in 1982. The hugely influential global company designs, produces, and distributes perfumes and cosmetics for such brands as Coach, Jimmy Choo, Lanvin, Montblanc, Montcler, Van Cleef & Arpels, and Kate Spade, among others, bringing them success and visibility in the fragrance world. Chairman and CEO Benacin, who is an avid musician and art collector, has been recognized with a Creative Audacity Prize awarded by French Prime Minister Francois Fillon in 2011 and now he has won the coveted Fragrance Foundation Hall of Fame Award for 2021. To mark this milestone, he reflects on his career and shares wisdom he has learned along the way.

BEHIND THE SCENTS: INDIE BRAND FOUNDERS

For this edition of ACCORDS, The Fragrance Foundation interviewed the Brand Founders for Indie Fragrance of the Year for the 2021 TFF Awards.

THE INSIDE SCOOP: LINDA G. LEVY

This June issue of Accords includes insightful one-on-one interviews with the 2021 TFF Awards honorees whom we just celebrated: Calice Becker, Lifetime Achievement Perfumer and Philippe Benacin, Hall of Fame; and conducted a Q&A exchange prior to the winner announcement on June 10th, with the finalists in the very special category Indie Fragrance of the Year.