Persolaise In Harper’s Bazaar India
It is with massive excitement that I’d like to share this piece of news with you: the latest edition of none other than Harper’s Bazaar India features an article by…
It is with massive excitement that I’d like to share this piece of news with you: the latest edition of none other than Harper’s Bazaar India features an article by…
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…
Watching Babak Anvari’s superb Under The Shadow reminded me that, more often than not, the way film-makers choose to depict smell is by showing their characters’ reactions to it. Eyes…
Episode 5 of my Facebook Live Love At First Scent series – complete with its annoying technical issue – is now on YouTube; watch it by clicking above or going…
image: Tauer Perfumes I feel very fortunate to be able to say that latest edition of Tauer Mag features another piece by yours truly, this time on the far-too-vast-for-one-article subject…
image: Feelunique A whisper of minimalism makes its way into my latest piece for Feelunique, featuring scents for those times when you just need to tone things down a tiny…
Perfume names are a constant source of puzzlement to me. More of than not, it’s because so many of them are downright awful (Girl Of Now?!!) but sometimes, the cause…
Time for a dose of Sixty Second Scents. Today it’s the turn of yet another Mugler flanker: Alien Musc Mysterieux. If you’d prefer to watch it on the YouTube site,…
I guess it’s fair to assume that Tom Ford found gold at the bottom of his pool of water: last year’s release of an Acqua version of Neroli Portofino must…
What’s the smell of disillusionment? According to Mike Nichols’ The Graduate – currently enjoying a 50th anniversary, big-screen re-release – it’s cigarette smoke and whisky on ice. The film’s most…
For more mini-reviews, please click here. Pelargonium from Aedes De Venustas (Nathalie Feisthauer; 2017)* A geranium carved out of pine, sprinkled with lemon and infused with white incense. Elegant and…
Interview with Nick Steward, founder and creative director of Gallivant, by award-winning critic Persolaise
image: Jovoy Just in case some of you aren’t aware – or you need a reminder – I ought to mention that one of this site’s most popular posts is…
Consider me won over. When I first began to explore Comme Des Garçons’ new Concrete – housed in a suitably industrial-looking, scratch-prone version of the familiar pebble bottle – I…
image: Feelunique For my latest Feelunique article, I’ve presented a very simple guide to some of the main fragrance families (ie chypre, oriental, leather et al). If you’d like to…
Those of you who missed Episode 4 of my Facebook Live Love At First Scent series may be interested to know that it’s now on YouTube; watch it by clicking…
You talk with buyers in London, they say, ‘Okay, if you want to get into our stores, you need to use oud, you need to concentrate at 30%, you need…
For the third and final video I made with the Perfume Pros, I was asked to consider the question of why some perfumes might lend themselves more to the ‘unisex’…
I hope you won’t mind my stepping away from the world of perfume for a moment to bring you some news about another creative field that is dear to my…
My latest Sixty Second Scents review is on a new release from Andy Tauer: a modern cologne called L’Eau. To watch it on the YouTube site, please click here. —…