F&B
World Contributor to Judge
2014 Taste TV Artisan Fragrance Salon Awards
The
3rd Annual luxury fragrance competitions, held in San Francisco,
Seattle and Los Angeles are under way and will decide the "Top
Artisan Fragrances of the Year," and the judging
will be done by a panel of judges to include respected local
editors, publishers, journalists, and TV hosts representing
a bevy of media outlets, as well as fragrance industry professionals.
Included on this year's judging panel is Santa Barbara local
Bonnie Carroll, who has been a judge for the
TasteTV awards since its inception in 2010. The TasteTV
Awards are the premier awards celebrating the year's
best in Food, Fashion and Lifestyle programs on Television,
in Film, Online, and Radio. According to Carroll "working
with the TasteTV producers and award recipients for the past
three years has been inspiring and very rewarding and last year
it was fun to have one our Santa Barbara "Iron Chefs"
Cat Cora attend the gala as a presenter."
Fragrances
submitted will be judged by a national panel of fragrance and
taste experts representing media and fragrance industry professionals
including Felicia M. Hazzard, Founder &
Editor in Chief Fragrance Belles-Lettres Magazine; Tama
Blough Senior Editor of FleureBon.com; Marle
Elliot Harrison of Perfume Critic.com; Anya
McCoy of NaturalPerfumers.com; Bonnie Carroll,
Publisher of www.lifebitesnews.com.; Amy Reiley,
Author of Fork Me, Spoon Me & Romancing the Stove, Susan
Irby, Host KABC, www.thebikinichef.com; Megan
Smith of Cake & Whiskey Magazine; Lucy
Zhen, Daily Disguise; Joann Natalia Aquino,
lifestyle journalist; Tina Witherspoon, glam.spoon;
Aly M. Cleary, Pen 'N Stilettos Media, Mary
Orlin, Orlin Wine and Perfume Blogger on Huffington
Post.
Entrants
represent local, national and international perfumers, and categories
being judged include best ingredient combination, best aroma,
most unique, most seductive scent, top artisan perfumer and
best logo & brand designer. Los Angeles winners will be
announced in the October 2014, and the final competition winners
will be presented their awards at the TasteTV Awards
January 2015 in Hollywood. All winners become official fragrance
partners of Taste Awards. Winners for each competition are announced
in press releases, and updates on the TasteTV Awards
ceremony can be found at www.tastetv.com.
By Bonnie Carroll
http://www.lifebitesnews.com