For reviews of Christian Dior Cuir Saddle, Le Labo Violette 30 and L’Artisan Parfumeur L’Amant please click on this link to my Substack: Christian Dior Cuir Saddle, Le Labo Violette…
– For years, the arrival of a Frederic Malle perfume has been a cue for a total nerd-fest. But the brand’s latest release, Contre-Jour, pushes the opportunities for geekery to…
The other day I reached episode 600 of my Love At First Scent series, but as I didn’t want to devote any portion of that instalment to anything other than…
Frederic Malle may have left Estee Lauder, but his name is all over the brand’s publicity material for one of the most unexpected flankers in recent years: an oud version…
Time-hopping was high on the agenda in my recent set of Love At First Scent broadcasts: I compared the new Il Profumo version of Acqua Di Parma Colonia with the…
The gremlins were out in full force for this year’s final set of Love At First Scent broadcasts. The audio at the start of one of the videos turned out…
Ships, trains, airports, Tuscany and the Place Vendome — they all made themselves known in one way or another during a recent session of Love At First Scent over on…
I have no doubt that the vast majority of you are forward-thinking, super-organised, careful-planning types, so I expect you finished all your Christmas shopping in October. However, if some of…
As though determined to send us fragrance nerds into fits of apoplexy, Hermes are calling their latest release, Barenia, their very first chypre. Yes, you may well gasp. But dubious…
— On paper, the scent sounds as though it should be one of the company’s more likeable releases. The website blurb talks of orange peel simmering on a stove and…
— If the perfume world has a guru, then it’s almost certainly Michael Edwards, the Australia-based expert whose Fragrances Of The World database has slavishly tracked and chronicled the rising…
It was time for a bit of diva domination over on YouTube the other day when I presented my list of the Top 10 best tuberose perfumes — a compilation…
He may be the busiest man in the business, but fortunately for all of us, Michael Edwards, the supreme perfume guru, found some time to pop into my virtual studio…
— The speculators I alluded to above are theorising about all manner of likely (and less likely) reasons and scenarios. Take your pick from whichever of the following you fancy:…
I presented a mixed bag of delights over on Love At First Scent the other day: new releases from Montblanc, Van Cleef & Arpels, 27 87, the UAE-based brand Arcadia…
Talk about opening a can of worms. At first glance, the project seems quite simple: Frederic Malle wants to reimagine a few classic Estee Lauder scents, so he enlists the…
“The ideas were great, but the formulas were very, very long. I mean, Azuree was more than 200 products. We just had to shorten the formula, take all of the…
It’s currently cool to be dismissive of Coco, in much the same way that it’s deemed acceptable to be snooty about Chance. Curiously, there’s a whiff of ageism in the…
Everyone needs a Gandalf in their life. Or an Athena, or an Atticus Finch. Sadly, such figures aren’t always easy to find, so perhaps that’s why I’ve recently been drawn…
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Balenciaga 2025 releases, Nissaba Les Alpes, Prada Paradigme and other reviews – 2025
Five reviews in brief 9:21Le Dix 12:50Getaria 17:09Extra 23:10Muscara 27:07No Comment 31:17 A few years ago, brands followed the ‘why make one when you can make three’ strategy of perfume…