The Dutch Beauty Awards are the premier professional awards in the Netherlands for cosmetics, perfumes, and skincare. Every year, an independent jury assesses the most innovative and effective products – with an eye for quality, experience, and effectiveness. This year, we at Retreat were once again invited to participate, and we are proud to share that we won awards for two perfumes and took first prize for the best salon treatment in the Netherlands. A wonderful recognition of our dedication, vision, and love for perfumes and body treatments.
What these awards confirm is exactly what we at Retreat stand for every day: selecting products and developing treatments that go beyond the mainstream. Innovative, honest, natural, and sensorially appealing. We are grateful for this recognition from our peers, and even more grateful for the trust you place in us daily. Curious about the winning products?
Come discover them in-store or online – and experience for yourself why they are in the spotlight.
respire | four hands ritual
"Gold for RESPIRE, a treatment where traditional Asian techniques come together in four massaging hands, during a two-hour soothing ritual. Lola's Apothecary essential oils ensure that you float out of the treatment room mentally reborn. 'Lighter, grounded, supple and completely zen,' noted the experts, and: 'This is not just a massage, but a tsunami of powerful grips'."
rouge smoking extrait | bdk parfums
"Bold, sensual, and warm, this vibrant red head-turner sharpens all your senses. An homage to the lively Pigalle district in Paris, where cherry, tonka bean, saffron, and vanilla blend into a sensual amber composition. The jury was particularly impressed by the strong perfume concentration (30%, to be precise), its longevity, and the unique way this perfume develops."
high standards | obvious parfums
"Transparent perfumes that you can layer – that's what the French brand Obvious is known for. With the perfume trio High Standards, the fragrance house is breaking new ground. The winner in the Gender-Free Perfumes category is the complex, layered, and distinctive High Standards. Perfumer Julien Rasquinet expresses his love for Middle Eastern fragrances three times olfactorily."
