Top 10 Perfumes For Autumn 2024 – Scents To Bring Us Together
Persolaise If all the spam advertising emails are to be believed, autumn is the time for curling up on a sofa with a warm blanket and a mug of hot chocolate.…
Charlotte Tilbury Perfume Collection, Acqua Di Parma Mandarino Di Sicilia, Ormonde Jayne Vanille Des Afriques and other reviews – 2024
Trust Charlotte Tilbury to come up with perfume names like More Sex, Cosmic Power and Love Frequency… and trust her to make the scents more interesting than they have any…
Geza Schoen Escentric Molecules Interview Now On YouTube
Geza Schoen Escentric Molecules interview by award-winning perfume critic Persolaise
Perfume Mini-Reviews From Twitter: April to June 2017 [part 2]
For more mini-reviews, please click here. Orange Leaf from Perfumer H (Lyn Harris; 2017)* Cologne-like presentation of a vivid citrus leaf on a smouldering bark of wood. Displays typical Harris…
Persolaise Love At First Scent Episode 3 On YouTube
Episode 3 of my Love At First Scent series is now on YouTube, so you can watch it either by clicking above or going to the YouTube site (please click…
Perfume Mini-Reviews From Twitter – October to December 2014 [part 1]
Here’s another instalment of my regular compilation of mini-reviews from Twitter, covering October to December 2014. Nevermore from Frapin (Anne Sophie Behaghel; 2014)*** Curious mix of metallic rose, ozonic note…
Ormonde Jayne Sets The Record Straight
Although we often find plenty of reasons to complain about developments in the perfume industry, there’s at least one change which deserves to be celebrated: the fact that brands’ public…
What I Hate About Perfumistas: More Thoughts From Francis Kurkdjian
I received so many emails in response to the brief extract from my interview with Francis Kurkdjian that I’ve decided to publish a few more comments he made during our…
Ormonde Jayne Winner + Back To Grasse
After a weekend spent decorating the house (under the watchful eye of Madame Persolaise, who has had to stay in bed for the last few days thanks to a nasty…
Persolaise Christmas 2011 Recommendations + Ormonde Jayne Give-Away
My love of list-making isn’t often reflected on my blog – mainly because I rarely seem to have the time to indulge in this most boyish of activities – but…
Maack, Jayne & Opus V
If numbers are anything to go by, last night’s Andrea Maack event at Les Senteurs was a runaway success. I’d never seen the place so packed before! Now I just…
Perfume Regulation On The BBC
UK readers may like to click on this link to listen to the latest podcast of BBC Radio 4’s You & Yours. About 27 minutes into the episode you’ll find…