We caught a whiff of Halle Berry, a sniff of Paz de la Huerta and a deep breath of Padma Lakshmi. At the Fragrance Foundation’s FiFi Awards, billed as the Oscars of the perfume industry, our correspondent came face to face with a sea of celebrity wrists on Wednesday night. All around us, scented arms, flung into the faces of others, were sniffed with the solemnity of a sommelier.
The celebrities in the audience sat out of smelling distance from one another at the awards show, which was held in a tent at Lincoln Center. A good thing, we learned. Ms. de la Huerta hates rose scents, while Ms. Lakshmi was doused in the flower; Ms. Berry finds vanilla scents too cloying, but Ms. de la Huerta smelled like a cupcake; and Ms. Lakshmi, it seemed, wouldn’t have worn either aroma — she doesn’t do commercial scents.
Desirée Rogers, the former White House social secretary, presented the awards for Media Campaign of the Year. Nominees like Mary J. Blige and Fergie took home perfume bottle-shaped trophies. Fergie won an award for her fragrance “Outspoken” (appropriately, since her speech included some unprintable language
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