A Look at this Year’s Nominees for the 5th Annual Golden Pineapple Fragrance Awards

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On June 28th 2025, the Golden Pineapple Fragrance Festival returns for its 5th year. Fragrance houses, perfumers, content creators, and enthusiasts from across the globe will gather in Orange County, California for one of the most anticipated days of the year in the fragrance industry. During the day some of the biggest names and rising stars in indie fragrance will showcase their fragrances at our Meet & Greet & Sniff event, then in the evening we will honor the best of the best fragrances in the entire fragrance industry at The Golden Pineapple Fragrance Awards.

We invite you to join us on this special occasion to explore the Fantastical Worlds of fragrance. Tickets to the fragrance lovers’ fragrance event are available here.

The Golden Pineapple Fragrance Awards are a unique breed of awards. Our goal since launch is to put all fragrances on an even playing field. That means everyone from the most well-known names in the industry to the newest, smallest least known indie houses all compete through our rigorous blind testing system. Our system was devised by Team Pinappos and open democratization from the public to ensure the most fair and unbiased system possible for awards selection.

Submissions are the only guaranteed way to be considered for nomination and fragrance houses across the globe submit their fragrances every year for consideration, but the secret sauce of this all could very well be that submissions aren’t the only way to be considered. A select team of fragrance loving researchers, scour the world for fragrances they believe are worth discovering and acquire those fragrances to have entered for consideration.

All fragrances, no matter how they are entered for consideration, are decanted into non-descript sample sprayers with coding and sent out to the Pinappos Influential Press (PIP) who then test each fragrance to determine the best of the best. PIP is made up of members of our team as well as other carefully selected people outside of our team with little to no ties to the fragrance industry to avoid as much bias as possible. We select people from all walks of life to allow for the most diverse perspectives on judging. Once the votes are tallied for each category, the highest votes become the nominees. PIP will then revisit each of the nominated fragrances and vote for the best of the best in each category to vote on a winner. Each step remains coded for PIP. The nominees and winners aren’t revealed until we announce them. After all decanted fragrances have passed the nominee and winners process, PIP will then take careful steps to judge the things that we cannot judge blindly like House of the Year or Perfumer of the Year. In the end, the winners will be sealed in an envelope, revealed only to a select few need-to-know people in the event committee who are sworn to secrecy, with the public finding out the results when the envelopes are opened on June 28th.

Take a look down below at this year’s Nominees for the Golden Pineapple Fragrance Awards. Also, you can scroll down past this year’s nominees to see the previous winners of these historic awards.

Fragrance of the Year winners will be revealed exclusively at The Golden Pineapple Awards on June 28th. Don’t miss the most anticipated fragrance event of the year. Get your tickets here.

NOMINEES FOR THE GOLDEN PINEAPPLE FRAGRANCE AWARDS V

HOUSE OF THE YEAR