The Perfume Basis will honor Nicolas Hieronimus, L’Oréal’s CEO, with its Corridor of Fame Award on the 2023 Perfume Basis Awards on Thursday, June 15 on the David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Heart, in New York Metropolis. The Perfume Basis Awards acknowledges innovation, creativity and achievement within the perfume trade.

By the 2023 Corridor of Fame Award, the Perfume Basis seeks to honor the contribution of Nicolas Hieronimus, the sixth CEO of the L’Oréal Groupe in its 113-year historical past, to the world of perfume.

Nicolas Hieronimus has been a significant participant within the perfume trade for greater than a decade, mentioned the Perfume Basis. Starting in 2011 as President of the L’Oréal Luxe Division, Hieronimus’ distinctive imaginative and prescient paved the way in which for L’Oréal to turn into the world’s wonderful perfume chief. Underneath his management, iconic fragrances the world has come to like, comparable to Lancôme’s La Vie Est Belle, Yves Saint Laurent’s Black Opium and Libre in addition to Si by Armani have been born.

“On behalf of the L’Oréal Group, I’m very honored to obtain the distinguished Corridor of Fame Award from the Perfume Basis, which is a recognition of the fervour, dedication and wonderful perfume know-how of our groups,” mentioned Nicolas Hieronimus, Chief Government Officer of the L’Oréal Groupe. “Perfume performs an enormously vital function in fostering particular person wellbeing and contributing positively to society and tradition. Over the centuries, fragrance has had the facility to stimulate our senses, our recollections, and our feelings. And we’re seeing right this moment that perfume is extra related than ever as a result of it helps us join with ourselves and with others.”

The Perfume Basis mentioned L’Oréal cultivates a novel perfume “savoir-faire,” mastering all of the sides of the wonderful perfume creation, anchored in French heritage. All through the years, with its portfolio of complementary and aspirational luxurious perfume manufacturers (Lancôme, Yves Saint Laurent Beauté, Armani, Prada, Mugler, Viktor & Rolf, Valentino, Cacharel, Azzaro, Diesel, Atelier Cologne, Maison Margiela, Ralph Lauren), the L’Oréal Groupe has performed a significant function within the historical past of perfumes.

The Basis additionally credited Hieronimus for L’Oréal’s robust ambition to invent the way forward for perfume. “A pioneer in refillability, the L’Oréal Groupe has been on the forefront of transformation to carry extra sustainability to the world of fragrances. A lot of its iconic, blockbuster fragrances, comparable to Lancôme La Vie Est Belle and Prada Paradoxe, can be found in refill. L’Oréal has additionally been harnessing the facility of cutting-edge expertise to boost the perfume expertise for customers. In 2021, L’Oréal debuted Yves Saint Laurent Beauté’s Scent-Sation, which for the primary time used an EEG-measuring headset to assist customers seek for their good perfume by analyzing their emotional response to totally different scents.”

“We look ahead to honoring Nicolas Hieronimus for his management, imaginative and prescient and exemplary ends in the perfume class within the USA and globally. Nicolas is absolutely dedicated to #FragranceForwardTFF and shares our values of environmental sustainability and variety, fairness & inclusion,” mentioned Linda G. Levy, President, The Perfume Basis.