Don’t Mind My Shoulder Pads – Top 10 Perfumes Leading The Eighties Revival
Persolaise Please click on the following link for my Substack post on new scents that are taking us back to the eighties: Top 10 modern eighties perfumes. Persolaise
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For The 600th Episode Of Love At First Scent – A Live Interview With Patricia De Nicolai
For the 600th episode of my Love At First Scent series, I was joined in the virtual studio by a very special guest: Patricia De Nicolai, founder of her eponymous…
Parfum D’Empire Madagascar Le Baume Vanille, Diptyque Lazulio, Le Labo Osmanthus 19 and other reviews – 2025
Osmanthus 19 4:10Eucalyptus 20 15:20 One of the few enjoyable things about summer ending is that it means I get to resume my YouTube broadcasts and my interactions with all…
Parfums De Marly Castley, 27 87 Hakuna Matata, Nicolai showcase and other reviews – 2025
It’s pleasing to see that Nicolai are enjoying increasing success and acclaim in the UK at the moment. Goodness knows, we could certainly do with a few more perfumers possessed…
Estee Lauder Legacy White Linen Oud, Nicolai Patchouli Spirit, Maison Francis Kurkdjian Kurky and other reviews – 2025
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…
Top 10 Best Perfumes For Spring 2023 – The Scent Of Rejuvenation
Best perfumes for spring 2023 selected by award-winning critic Persolaise, feat. Guerlain, Cartier, Tauer, Caron, Frederic Malle, Histoires De Parfums, L'Artisan Parfumeur, Escentric Molecules, Nicolai, Bulgari
Top 10 Best Perfumes For Winter 2022 – Longing For Things Not To Change
Top 10 best perfumes for winter 2022, selected by award-winning critic Persolaise (feat. Chanel, Federic Malle, Guerlain, Le Labo, Lilanur, L'Artisan Parfumeur, Nicolai, BDK, Hermes, Penhaligon's)
Top 10 Best Perfumes For Autumn 2022 – The Scent Of Trust
Top 10 best perfumes for autumn 2022, selected by award-winning critic Persolaise (feat. Chanel, Guerlain, Frederic Malle, Serge Lutens, Les Indemodables, Nicolai, Lubin, Reminiscence, Eris, Etat Libre D’Orange)
Nicolai Riviera Verbena Review – Patricia De Nicolai; 2022
Nicolai Riviera Verbena review by award-winning perfume critic Persolaise (Patricia De Nicolai, 2022)
Hermes H24, Dior Oud Rosewood, Frederic Malle The Night and other reviews – Skin Time August 2021
Skin Time August 2021 - Persolaise reviews Hermes H24, Nicolai Cap Neroli, Olfactive Studio Iris Shot, Chanel Paris-Edimbourg, Dior Oud Rosewood, Frederic Malle The Night
Persolaise Sixty Second Scents: Patchouli Sublime from Nicolaï (Patricia De Nicolaï; 2017)
For my latest dose of Sixty Second Scents, I’ve turned to the new release from Patricia De Nicolaï: Patchouli Sublime. You can watch the review above or directly on YouTube…
Persolaise Review: Rose Royale from Nicolaï (Patricia De Nicolaï; 2017)
Perfumery is often an exercise in minor variations. Pick a familiar tune. Give it a subtle twist. Change the tempo. And voila: you’ve ended up with something that manages to…
The Best Perfumes Of 2016… In 60 Seconds
Something a little bit different for you today: a video version of my list of the best perfumes of 2016. Fear not, it’s only 60 seconds long… although it does…
The Best Perfumes Of 2016 – Greens, Dry Petals & Disco Balls
Rightly or wrongly, it looks as though 2016 is going to be marked as a particularly horribilis annus by the gods of record-keeping. Certainly, in political terms, events in the…
Perfume Mini-Reviews From Twitter: July to September 2016 [part 2]
Here’s part 2 of the latest mini-review round-up. For part 1, please click here. Missoni edt from Missoni (Quentin Bisch; 2016)* Last year’s rainbow-hued, calorie bomb of an edp made…
Persolaise Review: Oud Sublime from Nicolaï (Patricia De Nicolaï; 2016)
The soundbites If Oud Sublime were a colour, it would be deep maroon. If it were a fabric, it would be expensive upholstery velvet. If it were a piece of…
The Persolaise Guide To The Best Oud Perfumes In ParfumPlus
Some of you may remember that in 2014 I published my guide to the best oud perfumes (please click here to read it). An edited version of that post has…
The Best Perfumes Of 2015 In ParfumPlus
The latest edition of the Middle East’s ParfumPlus magazine features my run-down of the best perfumes of last year. If you’d like to read it, please click here. For an…
Perfume Mini-Reviews From Twitter – October to December 2015 [part 1]
Here’s another digest of my Twitter mini-reviews, spanning the period October to December 2015. Pallisandre D’Or from Aedes De Venustas (Alberto Morillas; 2015)* Red rather than gold take on rosewood,…
Best Perfumes Of 2015 – Flankers, Musks & Lots Of Calories
In a year that saw the release of a film about the evils of sugar, mainstream scent compositions seemed to keep getting sweeter and sweeter. Perhaps that’s not surprising: I…