Maison Yusif Fragrance won the Best Perfume/Oil/Fragrance award at the 2026 Ghana Beauty Awards, which marked its 10th anniversary at Labadi Beach Hotel.
Maison Yusif was represented at the ceremony by founder and head of creatives Yusif Jnr Meizongo, General Manager Baidawi Shauna, Deputy Manager Abdul Jalal Meizongo and Female Olfactory Director Shardow Suwebatu. The founder is Ghana’s first certified artisan perfumer and the first West African perfumer certified as an olfaction trainer by the International Perfume Foundation.
Meizongo began selling perfume from the boot of his car in 2017. He built Ghana’s first niche fragrance house in Accra, where the team still blends its perfumes by hand in small batches. Meizongo composes every fragrance, drawing on Ghanaian ingredients such as cocoa and prekese.
“Our vision has always been to show that luxury perfumery can be authentically African while meeting the highest international standards,” Meizongo said in comments published by MyJoyOnline in March.
Awards in Ghana and abroad
Earlier this year, Acquisition International named Maison Yusif Best Niche Fragrance House 2026 – Africa. In August, the brand became the first Ghanaian fragrance house to win at FragCon in Houston, where it received the Best African Heritage Fragrance House award.
In September, Maison Yusif won Innovative Luxury Fragrance Brand of the Year at the Ghana Industries and Manufacturing Awards, its third consecutive win at the event. The same awards named it Perfume Manufacturing Company of the Year in 2024.
The house won its first international perfume award in 2023, when The Vatican took Best Niche Fragrance at the Perfumista Awards in France. It also earned the Fragrance Innovation Brand title at the Ghana Trade & Commerce Awards, received fragrance honours at the 2025 Ghana Beauty Awards and was named among the 2025 Top 100 Fragrance Houses in Africa.
Expansion in Ghana and overseas
Maison Yusif describes itself as Africa’s fastest-growing niche fragrance house. In Ghana, its network includes the Kokomlemle flagship and East Legon boutique in Accra, with branches in Kumasi’s Asokwa neighbourhood, Tema and Tamale. Its mobile perfume boutiques serve Tseaddo in Accra and Takoradi.
Overseas, Maison Yusif is stocked by Flying Solo in New York’s SoHo and Little Africa Village in Paris. It has also partnered with Number 10 Barber Store in Newark, New Jersey, and offers collection by arrangement in London. (flyingsolo.nyc, littleafricavillage.com)
In announcing the Ghana Beauty Awards win, Maison Yusif thanked the customers and supporters who voted for the house and continue to introduce its fragrances to others.
