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Ineke After My Own Heart perfume review by award-winning critic Persolaise (Ineke Ruhland; 2006; also featuring Evening Edged In Gold, Derring-Do, Field Notes From Paris, Hothouse Flower and Iddylwild)

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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

Favourites Perfume review

Guerlain Habit Rouge Review – The Favourites – Jean-Paul Guerlain; 1965

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Guerlain Habit Rouge perfume review by award-winning critic Persolaise (Jean-Paul Guerlain, 1965)

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Top 10 Best Frederic Malle Perfumes – Super Scent

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Top 10 best Frederic Malle perfumes selected by award-winning critic Persolaise

Favourites Perfume review

Christian Dior Diorissimo Review – The Favourites – Edmond Roudnitska; 1956

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Christian Dior Diorissimo perfume review by award-winning critic Persolaise (Edmond Roudnitska, 1956)

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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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Lush Sappho & Fresh As Review – Emma Dick; 2019

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Lush Sappho, Fresh As perfume reviews by award-winning critic Persolaise (Emma Dick, 2020)

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Escentric Molecules 05 Review – Geza Schoen; 2020

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Escentric Molecules 05 perfume review by award-winning critic Persolaise (Geza Schoen, 2020)

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Tom Ford Rose Prick Review – 2020

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Tom Ford Rose Prick perfume review by award-winning critic, Persolaise (2020)

Archive Perfume review

L’Artisan Parfumeur Traversee Du Bosphore Review – From The Archive

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L'Artisan Parfumeur Traversee Du Bosphore perfume review by award-winning critic Persolaise (Bertrand Duchaufour, 2010, from the archive)

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Dior Homme edt Review – Francois Demachy; 2020 – UPDATE

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Dior Homme edt 2020 review update by award-winning perfume critic Persolaise (Francois Demachy, 2020)

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Top 10 Best Perfumes For Women 2020… Sort Of

Persolaise 30th March 2020 4 Comments

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

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

Perfume review

Bulgari Le Gemme Erea (Alberto Morillas) & Kobraa (Jacques Cavallier) Review – 2020

Guerlain Shalimar 95th Anniversary Review – The Favourites – Jacques Guerlain; 1925

Serge Lutens Des Clous Pour Une Pelure Review – Christopher Sheldrake; 2020

Penhaligon’s Babylon (2019) & The Favourite (2020) Review

Ineke After My Own Heart (and others) Review – Ineke Ruhland; 2006

Guerlain Habit Rouge Review – The Favourites – Jean-Paul Guerlain; 1965

Top 10 Best Frederic Malle Perfumes – Super Scent

Christian Dior Diorissimo Review – The Favourites – Edmond Roudnitska; 1956

Lush Sappho & Fresh As Review – Emma Dick; 2019

Escentric Molecules 05 Review – Geza Schoen; 2020

Tom Ford Rose Prick Review – 2020

L’Artisan Parfumeur Traversee Du Bosphore Review – From The Archive

Dior Homme edt Review – Francois Demachy; 2020 – UPDATE

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