Sniff. We’d like to thank…

If you’ll excuse a little own-trumpet tooting, I’ve got to say things smell especially sweet when passion pays off. The Fragrance Foundation Jasmine Awards for fragrance journalism were dished out yesterday and gleaming gongs went to writers from Emporium, Shop Til You Drop and, well, here.

Bh is the blushingly chuffed owner of this year’s award for Best Online Article, and I’ve got to do a shout out…

Don’t worry, no Gwyneth-getting-an-Oscar hysterics here…

First up, a shout out has to go to my to my glamorous grandma. My fascination with fragrance began with the crystal flacons on her dresser – they caught the light like kaleidoscopes and I thought her beloved Chanel (‘chanul’ to my eight-year-old mind) smelled like magic. Since then, I’ve followed my nose on perfume pilgrimage to Grasse in France and bespoke-bottle perfumeries in London back alleys. And I’ve turned my house into my personal David Jones fragrance floor.

I guess that’s why I wrote Find Your Signature Scent, the article that got the gong. I hoped other people would be intrigued by the invisible art of perfume too (secret subtext: I’m less of a fragrance freak if everyone else is equally obsessed) and get as much out of it as I do.

So thanks gran. And thanks to the Fragrance Foundation and the judges who gave beautyheaven Best Online Article and made us second runner-up for the big one, The Jasmine Award (fabulous first runner-up was Suzanne Wangmann from Sunday Magazine and the very deserving winner was Katrina Lawrence from Myer’s Emporium magazine).

But, just as crucially, thanks to you for being a part of beautyheaven and listening to us all sound off about our beauty addictions every day. We couldn’t (literally, because there’d be no one here to write for) have done it without you.