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The Most Popular Posts Of 2020 – Persolaise In Numbers

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The most popular posts and videos of 2020 on Persolaise.com and the Persolaise YouTube channel

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Best Perfumes Of 2020 – A Time For Seeking Beauty

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Best perfumes of 2020 selected by award-winning critic Persolaise

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Top 10 Best Patchouli Perfumes 2020

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Top 10 best patchouli perfumes selected by award-winning critic Persolaise (2020; feat. Chanel, Serge Lutens, Tom Ford, YSL, Frederic Malle and others)

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Christmas 2020 Perfume Gift Guide – Part 2 Everything Else

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Part 2 of Christmas 2020 perfume gift guide by award-winning critic Persolaise, feat. Serge Lutens, Dior, Frederic Malle, Kilian, Guerlain and others

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Christmas 2020 Perfume Gift Guide – Part 1 The Extraits

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Christmas 2020 perfume gift guide by award-winning critic Persolaise, feat. extraits from Chanel, Guerlain, Hermes, Tauer, Tom Ford, Cartier

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Top 10 Best Masculine Perfumes Of The Last 5 Years, With Max Forti

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Top 10 best men's perfumes of the last 5 years, selected by Persolaise and Max Forti, with Amouage, Comme Des Garcons, Issey Miyake and others (2020)

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Best Perfumes For A Sunny Day – From The Archive

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Best perfumes for summer chosen by award-winning critic Persolaise (2015, from the archive) feat. Guerlain, Hermes, Chanel, Frederic Malle, Tom Ford and others

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Best Perfumes Of 2020 – So Far

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Best perfumes of the first half of 2020 selected by award-winning critic, Persolaise (feat. Amouage, Serge Lutens, Dolce & Gabbana, Aesop, Escentric Molecules)

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Top 5 Best Penhaligon’s Perfumes 2020

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Top 5 best Penhaligon's perfumes selected by award-winning critic, Persolaise, 2020

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Top 10 Best Jasmine Perfumes 2020

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Best jasmine perfumes 2020 selected by award-winning critic Persolaise

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Perfume & Music – Persolaise In The Scented Letter

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Perfume and music article by award-winning critic in Perfume Society's Scented Letter

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Top 10 Best Happy Perfumes – Scents To Make You Smile

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The top 10 best happy perfumes selected by award-winning critic Persolaise

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Top 5 Best Chanel Exclusive Perfumes 2020 – Les Exclusifs

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Best Chanel exclusive perfumes selected by award-winning critic Persolaise (2020)

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Top 10 Best Rose Perfumes 2020

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Best rose perfumes selected by award-winning critic Persolaise (2020)

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Best Classic Perfumes 1 – Scented Memory Lane

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A selection of the best classic perfumes, chosen by award-winning critic Persolaise (feat. YSL Opium, Dior Dune)

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Top 7 Best Serge Lutens Perfumes – Super Scent

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Best Serge Lutens perfumes selected by award-winning critic Persolaise

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Top 10 Best Incense Perfumes 2020 – Scents For Meditation

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Best incense perfumes selected by award-winning critic Persolaise, 2020

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Top 10 Best Perfumes For Women 2020… Sort Of

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Top 10 best perfumes for women selected by award-winning critic Persolaise, 2020

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Top 10 Best Perfumes For Spring 2020 – Scent Of The Outdoors

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Best perfumes for spring 2020 selected by award-winning critic, Persolaise

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My Top 10 Perfumes – Celebrating 10 Years Of Persolaise

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Top 10 perfumes chosen by award-winning critic, Persolaise

I am a four-time Jasmine Award winning writer with a lifelong interest in the world of fine fragrance.

I have written for Harrods Magazine, The Sunday Times, Conde Nast Traveller, Wallpaper*, Business Traveller, Grazia, Feelunique, Glass, The Scented Letter, Basenotes.net and Now Smell This, amongst others. I have been a regular columnist for Esprit Magazine and ParfumPlus.

My knowledge and expertise have been recommended by the Financial Times, the BBC, The Guardian, The Observer, Die Zeit and several other publications.

My perfume guide, Le Snob: Perfume, is published by Hardie Grant. For more information and to order a copy, please click here.

To read my award winning London Perfume Shopping Guide, please click here.

Please feel free to write to me at persolaise at gmail dot com or by using the email form on my Contact page.

Persolaise.com features reviews of perfumes, interviews with fragrance industry figures and general articles related to the world of scent. The site is not affiliated in any way to any brands*, wholesalers, retailers or organisations involved with the fragrance industry.

All reviews are entirely independent. The content of posts is never ‘sponsored’ by any external agencies.

Some reviews are based on samples provided by brands; others are based on samples obtained by the author. This has no bearing on the content of the reviews.

* I am occasionally commissioned by brands to carry out specific projects, such as consultancy or copywriting. In such situations, I do not review the relevant brands’ perfumes for an extended period of time, nor do I mention the brands in any posts/articles where perfumes from several brands are presented as part of a selection/collection.

Regrettably, my current site provider doesn’t offer an automatically-updated blogroll facility, so the best I can do is this set of links to the other blogs I try to read. I believe many of the below have some kind of subscription function that works either through email or social media, so perhaps you could use that to receive updates about new posts. If anyone knows of some way to include a ‘live’ blogroll widget on WordPress, please get in touch.

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