Favourites Archives - https://persolaise.com/category/favourites Independent perfume reviews and thoughts on the world of scent from a multi award winning writer Sat, 15 Nov 2025 09:08:21 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://i0.wp.com/persolaise.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/PersolaiseTwitterLogo.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Favourites Archives - https://persolaise.com/category/favourites 32 32 163821299 Cartier Declaration review – The Favourites – Jean-Claude Ellena; 1998 https://persolaise.com/2024/10/cartier-declaration-review-the-favourites-jean-claude-ellena-1998.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cartier-declaration-review-the-favourites-jean-claude-ellena-1998 https://persolaise.com/2024/10/cartier-declaration-review-the-favourites-jean-claude-ellena-1998.html#respond Sun, 13 Oct 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://persolaise.com/?p=15482 — Back in the 80s, in the UAE, a soap was launched onto the market. Little did we know that it came from a brand that had actually been established in the early 1950s, but there you go: the apparent newness of everything was part of the excitement of living in the Middle East in […]

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]]> https://persolaise.com/2024/10/cartier-declaration-review-the-favourites-jean-claude-ellena-1998.html/feed 0 15482 Serge Lutens Ambre Sultan Review – The Favourites – Christopher Sheldrake; 1993 https://persolaise.com/2024/07/serge-lutens-ambre-sultan-review-the-favourites-christopher-sheldrake-2023.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=serge-lutens-ambre-sultan-review-the-favourites-christopher-sheldrake-2023 https://persolaise.com/2024/07/serge-lutens-ambre-sultan-review-the-favourites-christopher-sheldrake-2023.html#respond Sun, 28 Jul 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://persolaise.com/?p=14938 — I’m pretty sure our first encounter was at a perfumery in Nice. It was part of a large Lutens display — an austere assembly of those slim, rectangular bottles, with the unassumingly serious typeface on the labels. Although at this point in time, we were well into the twenty-first century, I confess I knew […]

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]]> https://persolaise.com/2024/07/serge-lutens-ambre-sultan-review-the-favourites-christopher-sheldrake-2023.html/feed 0 14938 Yves Saint Lauren Paris review – Sophia Grojsman; 1983 https://persolaise.com/2024/03/yves-saint-lauren-paris-review-sophia-grojsman-1983.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=yves-saint-lauren-paris-review-sophia-grojsman-1983 https://persolaise.com/2024/03/yves-saint-lauren-paris-review-sophia-grojsman-1983.html#respond Sun, 17 Mar 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://persolaise.com/?p=14297 The other day, I finally managed to catch Still, the documentary about Michael J Fox’s life and career, the last few decades of which have been affected by the increasingly debilitating symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. In many ways, the film is a nostalgia-fest, and of course, one of its main areas of focus is Family […]

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]]> https://persolaise.com/2024/03/yves-saint-lauren-paris-review-sophia-grojsman-1983.html/feed 0 14297 Chanel Coco review – Jacques Polge; 1984 https://persolaise.com/2024/01/chanel-coco-review-jacques-polge-1984.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=chanel-coco-review-jacques-polge-1984 https://persolaise.com/2024/01/chanel-coco-review-jacques-polge-1984.html#comments Sun, 14 Jan 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://persolaise.com/?p=13720 It’s currently cool to be dismissive of Coco, in much the same way that it’s deemed acceptable to be snooty about Chance. Curiously, there’s a whiff of ageism in the attitude towards both those fragrances. In the case of the latter, the main criticism is that the scent is too air-headedly youthful (whatever that means). […]

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]]> https://persolaise.com/2024/01/chanel-coco-review-jacques-polge-1984.html/feed 8 13720 Serge Lutens Iris Silver Mist Review – The Favourites – Maurice Roucel; 1994 https://persolaise.com/2023/05/serge-lutens-iris-silver-mist-review-the-favourites-maurice-roucel-1994.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=serge-lutens-iris-silver-mist-review-the-favourites-maurice-roucel-1994 https://persolaise.com/2023/05/serge-lutens-iris-silver-mist-review-the-favourites-maurice-roucel-1994.html#comments Fri, 12 May 2023 13:30:00 +0000 https://persolaise.com/?p=11988 My memory of this may not be accurate, but I’m fairly certain that in a biography of the Pet Shop Boys, which I read a couple of decades ago, there was a passage discussing the key line in their song Rent. The lyric is “I love you. You pay my rent,” and the discussion in […]

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]]> https://persolaise.com/2023/05/serge-lutens-iris-silver-mist-review-the-favourites-maurice-roucel-1994.html/feed 14 11988 Christian Dior Poison Review – The Favourites – Edouard Flechier & Jean Guichard; 1985 https://persolaise.com/2022/08/christian-dior-poison-review-the-favourites-edouard-flechier-1985.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=christian-dior-poison-review-the-favourites-edouard-flechier-1985 https://persolaise.com/2022/08/christian-dior-poison-review-the-favourites-edouard-flechier-1985.html#comments Wed, 17 Aug 2022 15:00:00 +0000 https://persolaise.com/?p=8837 Christian Dior Poison review by award-winning perfume critic Persolaise (Edouard Flechier, Jean Guichard, 1985)

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]]> https://persolaise.com/2022/08/christian-dior-poison-review-the-favourites-edouard-flechier-1985.html/feed 15 8837 The Top 10 Best Perfumes On Me https://persolaise.com/2022/07/the-top-10-best-perfumes-on-me.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-top-10-best-perfumes-on-me https://persolaise.com/2022/07/the-top-10-best-perfumes-on-me.html#comments Sat, 02 Jul 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://persolaise.com/?p=8648 Top 10 best perfumes on me, as chosen by Madame Persolaise (2022)

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]]> https://persolaise.com/2022/07/the-top-10-best-perfumes-on-me.html/feed 2 8648 Yves Saint Laurent Pour Homme Review – The Favourites – Raymond Chaillan; 1971 https://persolaise.com/2020/09/yves-saint-laurent-pour-homme-review-the-favourites-raymond-chaillan-1971.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=yves-saint-laurent-pour-homme-review-the-favourites-raymond-chaillan-1971 https://persolaise.com/2020/09/yves-saint-laurent-pour-homme-review-the-favourites-raymond-chaillan-1971.html#comments Tue, 01 Sep 2020 18:00:00 +0000 https://persolaise.com/?p=5271 YSL Pour Homme perfume review by award-winning critic Persolaise (Raymond Chaillan, 1971)

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]]> https://persolaise.com/2020/09/yves-saint-laurent-pour-homme-review-the-favourites-raymond-chaillan-1971.html/feed 4 5271 Guerlain Shalimar 95th Anniversary Video Now On YouTube https://persolaise.com/2020/05/guerlain-shalimar-95th-anniversary-video-now-on-youtube.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=guerlain-shalimar-95th-anniversary-video-now-on-youtube https://persolaise.com/2020/05/guerlain-shalimar-95th-anniversary-video-now-on-youtube.html#comments Tue, 26 May 2020 09:00:00 +0000 https://persolaise.com/?p=5099 Guerlain Shalimar review video by award-winning perfume critic Persolaise now on YouTube

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]]> https://persolaise.com/2020/05/guerlain-shalimar-95th-anniversary-video-now-on-youtube.html/feed 2 5099 Guerlain Shalimar 95th Anniversary Review – The Favourites – Jacques Guerlain; 1925 https://persolaise.com/2020/05/guerlain-shalimar-95th-anniversary-review-the-favourites-jacques-guerlain-1925.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=guerlain-shalimar-95th-anniversary-review-the-favourites-jacques-guerlain-1925 https://persolaise.com/2020/05/guerlain-shalimar-95th-anniversary-review-the-favourites-jacques-guerlain-1925.html#comments Tue, 19 May 2020 18:00:00 +0000 https://persolaise.com/?p=5064 Guerlain Shalimar review on the scent's 95th anniversary, by award-winning perfume critic Persolaise (Jacques Guerlain; 1925)

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