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My Own Tiny Effort – Thoughts On The Current Situation

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Here on Persolaise.com, the ups and downs of the outside world have always been kept at arm’s length. This has been a place for all of us to enjoy the…

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Persolaise Is Ten Years Old – Perfume Blog Anniversary

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Award-winning perfume blog Persolaise celebrates its tenth anniversary

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Mark Constantine Interview At Lush Florence Perfume Library Opening

Persolaise 18th November 2019 2 Comments

Mark Constantine interview at Lush Florence Perfume Library opening, November 2019

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Persolaise On Ko-Fi – How To Support My Work

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How to support the work of award-winning perfume critic, Persolaise

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London Perfume Shopping Guide – 2019 Updates

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London perfume shopping guide by award-winning critic, Persolaise (2019 updates, featuring Harrods, Selfridges, Les Senteurs, Amouage, Frederic Malle)

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Changes At Persolaise.com

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Persolaise At Oxford University – Brasenose College Arts Week

Persolaise 10th May 2019 2 Comments

Award-winning perfume critic, Persolaise, delivers lecture at Brasenose College Oxford Arts Week 2019

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Persolaise In Business Traveller + 9th Anniversary Of Blog

Persolaise 11th March 2019 No Comments

Award-winning critic, Persolaise, on oud perfumes in Business Traveller (2019, scent)

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.

Basenotes
Black Narcissus
Bois De Jasmin
Now Smell This
Parfumo

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My Own Tiny Effort – Thoughts On The Current Situation

Persolaise Is Ten Years Old – Perfume Blog Anniversary

Mark Constantine Interview At Lush Florence Perfume Library Opening

Persolaise On Ko-Fi – How To Support My Work

London Perfume Shopping Guide – 2019 Updates

Changes At Persolaise.com

Persolaise At Oxford University – Brasenose College Arts Week

Persolaise In Business Traveller + 9th Anniversary Of Blog

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