The first Jasmine Award for On The Scent Media, for the perfume podcast
It’s not their first Jasmine Award – but today, ‘On The Scent’ podcast hosts Nicola Bonn and Suzy Nightingale are celebrating the first of these fabulous accolades since the launch of this website and On The Scent magazine. We hope it’s the first of many awards to come – and we give you the low-down on all 2026’s winners
Alice du Parcq won for a tribute to her late aunt – a touching and moving piece
In this brilliant episode, which is such a deserving winner in the Best Audio Category of the Jasmine Awards 2026, Nicola and Suzy talked to Tasha Marks – @avmcuriousities – who is an award-winning scent artist and historian tasked with recreating the the smells of Marie Antoinette’s life for the sensational, sell-out Marie Antoinette: Style exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum. In this fascinating interview, Tasha tells the team how she constructed the aromas this doomed Queen would have known - from powdered wigs and courtly balls at Versailles, the wildflower meadows of Le Petit Trianon, to her eventual damp-filled prison cell.
Click here to find the episode on our website – or enjoy it where you usually get your podcasts.
Beyond this win, we were truly delighted to celebrate with some of our most talented colleagues as they scooped this year’s awards, from a wide field of shortlisted entries…
The Jasmine Awards Short Piece
Published on her ‘The Perfume Playground’ Substack by Alice du Parcq, this wonderful read is a personal and emotional exploration of her late Aunt Suzy’s personality, as remembered through the iconic 1980s scent Dior Poison.
Thomas Dunckley was this year’s big winner, with two Jasmine Awards to add to his mantelpiece
The Jasmine Award for Visual Media
The first of two Jasmine Awards this year for Thomas Dunckley, formerly known as ‘The Candy Perfume Boy’, who returned to the world of fragrance media at the end of 2024 as @makingscentsmakescents, and has been making a stir once again, ever since. (We’re thrilled to have him back after that two-year hiatus.) The bottom line of this winning article: why pay more, when there are such fabulous and affordable scents around…?
The Jasmine Awards Literary Piece
A fabulous win for Dazed Beauty, rising star Lily McGonigal scooped this year’s prestigious literary award with her article, ‘From Ancient Rome to 305Tok: A Brief History of “Smelling Like a Whore.”’ You can read it here – although prudes need not apply…
The Jasmine Awards Special Recognition
One of fragrance’s gifts is its ability to evoke memories of those we’ve loved and lost, something embodied both in Alice du Parcq’s win, and this second award for Thomas Dunckley, for an @makingscentsmakescents Substack post which poignantly talked about his late mother, and a life told in scent – or rather, four scents: Ralph Lauren Safari, CHANEL Allure, Estée Lauder Beautiful and My Queen, by Alexander McQueen. The judges were clearly moved by the piece – and many of us were moved to tears by Thomas’s win.
We could not be more pleased for the winners – but we really are especially thrilled by Suzy and Nicola, seen with their gorgeous Lalique winners’ statuettes.