Best Wishes For Easter 2016
Persolaise To all of you celebrating the imminent conclusion of Lent: a very happy Easter. Forget about guilt, enjoy the feasting and permit yourselves to indulge in excess! My warmest wishes,…
Persolaise Review: Bottega Veneta Pour Homme Essence Aromatique (Amandine Marie; 2016)
Where’s the line between old-school masculines which are too… well… old-school and those which don’t feel out of place in a contemporary setting? Is it somewhere near notions of transparency:…
Persolaise Wins 4th Jasmine Award + Final Reminder About Aerin Event
Yesterday, I had the tremendous and unexpected honour of winning a Jasmine Award – my fourth! – for an article I wrote for the Perfume Society‘s Scented Letter about my…
“Treading In Funny Territory” – Rodrigo Flores-Roux At The Launch Of John Varvatos Dark Rebel
I haven’t had many opportunities to meet Givaudan‘s Rodrigo Flores-Roux (Neroli Portofino, Anima Dulcis, Oeillet Bengale, amongst several others), but each time our paths have crossed, I’ve bemoaned the fact…
Persolaise Review: Opus X from Amouage (Pierre Negrin & Annick Menardo; 2016)
If the number of comments a perfume receives is a direct measure of the distinctiveness of its personality, then Amouage‘s Opus X (composed by Pierre Negrin and none other than…
Persolaise Turns 6
If there’s anything the passage of the last 12 months has taught me, it’s that… well… nothing moves as relentlessly as time. However, today, I’d like to take just a…
Persolaise & Aerin At Selfridges On 21st March
It’s the eve of the 6th anniversary of my blog, which makes me doubly excited to announce that I’ll be talking about my passion for perfume, my scented writing and,…
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…