In The Mood For Summer? – Persolaise On Feelunique
I know it doesn’t exactly feel like summer down here along the south coast of England, but hopefully warmer weather is on its way… so if you’re looking for scented,…
I know it doesn’t exactly feel like summer down here along the south coast of England, but hopefully warmer weather is on its way… so if you’re looking for scented,…
The Facebook Live broadcast I streamed on Friday is now on YouTube, so you can watch it right here (see above) or if you prefer to watch it on the…
I imagined I was walking in a town, partly destroyed by the war, with some fires burning, but maybe also still with some trees and some flowers around. And I…
image: Andy Tauer The realm of scent is probably the most enigmatic territory in which the Ape and the Angel meet: it somehow manages to be both entirely primal and…
Here’s a new Twitter mini-review round-up, this time covering the first three months of 2017. Colonia Quercia from Acqua Di Parma (2016)* Brave trying to do a mossy note. Linked…
Another Sixty Second Scents video review for you: Christine Nagel‘s Eau Des Merveilles Bleue for Hermès… complete with painful French pronunciation. To view the video on the YouTube site, please…
I can’t help but envy Italian men their sense of style. Yes, I know I’m making a generalisation as broad as the shoulders of Michelangelo’s David, but spend a few…
Frederic Malle Superstitious review by award-winning perfume critic, Persolaise (Dominique Ropion, 2017)
Here’s my latest Sixty Second Scents review: the 2017 version of Dior Homme Sport, composed by François Demachy. To view the video on the YouTube site, please click here. Persolaise
It’s all too easy to forget that before she had you, your mum had a life of her own. You may have grown used to seeing her just as the…
Woah! Don’t ever let me say that mainstream masculine scents can’t be surprising any more. After years of fobbing us off with various editions of the amoeboid dross that is…
On the eve of the 7th anniversary of this blog (doesn’t seem possible!) here’s my next Sixty Second Scents video review. This one is of a perfume which I first…
This year’s perfume calendar just became much more exciting: Somerset House have announced an exhibition they’re calling ‘Perfume – A Sensory Journey Through Contemporary Scent’. In itself, this would have…
Here’s part 2 of my latest round-up of Twitter mini-reviews. For part 1, please click here. Eau Des Delices from Jardins Retrouvé (Yuri Gursatz; 2016)* Classic cologne, with bright mandarine,…
Here’s another Sixty Second Scents video review for you: Sophia Grojsman‘s Outrageous for Frederic Malle, which has just come out of its exclusivity to Barneys and joined the brand’s regular…
I suspect the folks at Feelunique were enjoying a spot of the ol’ tongue-in-cheekery when they called my latest piece ‘The Sexiest Scents Ever’. Or maybe they weren’t! Either way,…
The soundbites If Bois Marocain were a colour, it would be a rich, iridescent mustard, somewhere between yellow and brown. If it were an item of food, it would be…
Time for another YouTube review: this one’s for Amouage‘s Bracken Woman, composed by Karine Vinchon Spehner and Dorothée Piot, under the Creative Directorship of Christopher Chong. To view the video…
Dior Fahrenheit reminds me of my Dad on family summer holidays. Of nights together for family meals, enjoying the warm summers without a care in the world and my brothers…
Here’s a round-up of some of my Twitter mini-reviews from October-December 2016. Part 2 will be posted soon. Carrot Blossom & Fennel from Jo Malone (Anne Flipo; 2016)* More like…