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Guests Gather at the Perfumed Plume Awards’ Celebration

Scenes from the awards presentation and cocktail gala at the Society of Illustrators on Manhattan’s upper east side.

Perfumed Plume Awards Celebration

Mary Ellen Lapsansky, co-founder, Perfumed Plume Awards, greeting guests before the awards presentation begins.

Perfumed Plume Awards Celebration

(R) Beauty Packaging’s publisher, Jay Gorga, announcing the winner in the Scent Stories, Mainstream Media category, Racquet Magazine’s Rachel Syme. (L) Mary Ellen Lapsansky, co-founder, Perfumed Plume Awards; Jay Gorga, publisher, Beauty Packaging; Perfumed Plume Award winner Rachel Syme of Racquet Magazine; Lyn Leigh, co-founder, Perfumed Plume Awards

Perfumed Plume Awards Celebration

Mary Manning, co-founder, SilkRoute Strategists, shared the stage with other members of Perfumed Plume’s consulting committee as they hosted the awards presentation. Back row, L-R: Virginia Bonofiglio, chairperson, Cosmetics & Fragrance Marketing, FIT; Henry de Monclin, president, HDM Design; Bart Schmidt, managing partner / fragrance expert, Brands with Purpose.

Perfumed Plume Awards Celebration

Lyn Leigh, co-founder, Perfumed Plume Awards; Marc Rosen of Marc Rosen Associates; Mary Ellen Lapsansky, co-founder, Perfumed Plume Awards; and Ulrich Lang, perfumer, Ulrich Lang New York Fragrances, who accepted the Visualization of Scent Stories Award on behalf of Scentury’s Per Zennström, photographer and Helder Suffenplan, creative director.

Perfumed Plume Awards Celebration

Perfumed Plume Awards’ co-founders Lyn Leigh (far left) and Mary Ellen Lapsansky (far right) with Annette Green (center), president emeritus of The Fragrance Foundation and consultant, RMJ Laboratories.

Perfumed Plume Awards Celebration

Photo on Left: Beauty Packaging’s publisher Jay Gorga with Darryl Do, perfumer/owner, Delbia Do Fragrance & Flavor Development; Photo on Right: Lyle Saunders, creative consultant and member of Perfumed Plume’s consulting committee with guests Arlette Thebault, pr and corporate communciations professional and Laurie Palma, former sr. vice president of fragrance and olfactive development at Chanel.

Perfumed Plume Awards Celebration

(L-R) Denise Hawksley, project manager, Silgan Dispensing Systems; Eduardo Nau, Jr., sales director, Verescence; Rachel Eisenberg, director of packaging, The Estée Lauder Companies Inc., La Mer; Cristen Latzoni, Silgan.

Perfumed Plume Awards Celebration

(L-R) Aggie Burnett, founder, Aggie Burnett Creative; Bart Schmidt, managing partner / fragrance expert, Brands with Purpose; Sheherazade Chamlou, vice president of sales & marketing, Verescence NA and member of Perfumed Plume’s consulting committee; Aymeric Descoqs, key account manager in Verescence’s Paris headquarters.

Perfumed Plume Awards Celebration

Felipe Sena, creative director, Marc Rosen Associates; Marc Rosen, Marc Rosen Associates; and Jay Gorga, Beauty Packaging’s publisher

By Marie Redding, Associate Editor 05.11.18

Fragrance industry professionals gathered at the Society of Illustrators in April for the 2018 Perfumed Plume Awards Presentation.

See scenes from the celebration in the slideshow above.

Here is the complete list of the 2018 Perfumed Plume winners, in our Online Exclusive: Perfumed Plume Presents Awards for Fragrance Journalism

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