2022 edition - Participate!

Opened to professional and independent perfumists

Contest for perfumers of any nationality who wish to show their creative capacity. The contest is and framed within the fair "Pair of the Senses (Maridatge dels Sentits)" and of Teià. And it is part of the annual activities of the BOW (Barcelona Olfaction Week). Any perfumer creator may submit its perfumes to the competition.

The Rose - the olfactory note at the 2022 edition

The olfactory note is different each year and meet with the flower, plant or olfactory note that will be the common thread of the Pair of the Senses (Maridatge dels Sentits). In the 2022 edition the Rose has been selected by the organisation and all the new perfumes must be created around this olfactory note.

Registration opened until 15th February 2022

The registration to the Contest is opened only until mid february. Registration has an specific cost explained in the rules of the contest (available for download at this webpage). Only paid registrations will be considered by the Jury.

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Mouillette d'Argent

THE AWARDS

The Award is a unique trophy with a very beautiful design made by a young talent. The three prizes were awarded on Saturday 5 June 2021 at the Espai d'Art Ca l'Antiga (Teià) in a public event in the afternoon, where all contestants were invited.

The 2021 edition

Coinciding with the fourth edition of the Pairing of the Senses, Teià hosted the celebration of the IV International Mouillette Silver Perfumery Contest. An annual event aimed at professional perfumers from around the world who want to publicize their creative capacity.

The jury of the award will be chaired by the master perfumer Rosendo Mateu and made up of a group of experts in the world of perfume, design, gastronomy, art and the winners of the 2021 edition.

There will be three “* Mouillette d'argent” awards: Best Perfume Award - general category, Audience Award and Best Perfume Award - freelance category. The jury will select from all the perfumes sent, 6 perfumes from the general category and 6 perfumes from the freelance category, which will go to the final, and from which the best perfume in each category will be chosen. In addition, these 12 finalist perfumes will be the ones to compete to become, one of them, the winner by voting of the general public.

The fourth edition of the International Perfume Competition – Mouillette d’Argent had a historical record of participants. More than 100 perfumers from 25 countries registered to participate in a contest that has already become an international benchmark for perfumery.

In this 2021 edition, perfumers has been eligible for the jury award in two different categories: professional perfumers (who work in the industry) and independent perfumers. Additionally, all perfumes presented competed for the audience award.

Registered perfumers came mainly from Spain, France, the United States, Italy, the United Kingdom, Argentina, Brazil and Germany. The presence, for the first time in this 2021 edition, of perfumers from South Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Greece and Kuwait stands out.

The awards ceremony took place in Ca L’Antiga (Teià) on June 5th of 2021. The contest, promoted since its inception by the Beauty Cluster, the Teià City Council and Ainea Perfums has grown edition after edition to bring together the main international specialists in the perfume industry.

Meet the 2018-2021 winners

The talented perfumers