Persolaise Persolaise Turns 8 + Love At First Scent & #Smellfie
Exactly eight years ago today, I published my very first post here on Persolaise.com, so I wanted to mark the occasion by saying a larger-than-Karl-Lagerfeld’s-ego thank you to each and…
Persolaise Mini-Reviews: October to December 2017 [part 2]
Here’s part 2 of my latest round-up of mini-reviews. For part 1, please click here. Enjoy! Un Air De Bretagne from L’Artisan Parfumeur (Juliette Karagueuzoglou; 2017)* I remain a huge…
Persolaise Review: Cardamusc from Hermès (Christine Nagel; 2018)
I have spent a disgraceful amount of time trying to write this particular piece, as I have never been in the position of composing anything quite like it. One false…
Once Upon A Scent – Persolaise On Romantic Perfumes In ParfumPlus
My latest article in the Middle East’s ParfumPlus magazine turns to the not-unfamiliar connection between perfume and romance. To read it, please click on this link which will take you…
“Your Claims Have To Be Honest” – An Interview With Rodrigo Flores-Roux
With no fewer than 12 Fragrance Foundation Awards under his belt – the first one being for Clinique‘s Happy – Rodrigo Flores-Roux is unquestionably one of the most successful and…
Persolaise Mini-Reviews: October to December 2017 [part 1]
It’s mini time again: another round-up of my reviews from Twitter and Instagram. To read the others in the series, please click here. La Petite Robe Noire Black Perfecto from…
Persolaise Love At First Scent Episode 12 On YouTube
The 12th episode of Love At First Scent was broadcast on Facebook Live on Sunday and you can now catch it on YouTube. As always, you can watch it above…
Persolaise Review: Dryad from Papillon (Liz Moores; 2017)
It’s so wonderful to behold a perfumer maturing right under your nose. With her debut trio, Papillon’s Liz Moores proved that hers is a considerable talent, even though at least…
Cinema Scent On BBC Radio 4 Film Programme: Black Narcissus (dir. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger; 1947)
Cinema Scent is back on BBC Radio 4’s Film Programme tomorrow (Thursday 1st Feb) at 4 pm (UK time) and in this episode, the movie I’ve chosen takes us to…
Persolaise Sixty Second Scents: Bruma from Trudon (Antoine Lie; 2017)
The latest instalment of Sixty Second Scents features a release that made it onto my list of the best perfumes of 2017: Antoine Lie‘s Bruma for Trudon. You can watch…
Who Am I Today? – Persolaise On Feelunique
image: Feelunique The mood-shifting – or should that be ‘mood-reflecting? – power of perfume is the subject of my first article of the year for Feelunique. Please click here to…
Persolaise Review: L’Oudh from Tauer Perfumes (Andy Tauer; 2017)
One of the statements made most often in assessments of the success of Apple is that, in terms of coming up with a certain product or idea, the company was…
Persolaise Love At First Scent Episode 11 On YouTube
This year’s first episode of Love At First Scent was broadcast on Facebook Live on Friday and it has now been uploaded to YouTube. As ever, you can watch it…
Persolaise Interviews Christopher Chong In The Latest Nez + Next Facebook Live This Friday
“I don’t think any of my perfumes are strange, maybe because I live with them every single second of my life. It’s like having a child. Even if your child…
Vanilla Perfume Recommendations – Persolaise On Feelunique + Next Love At First Scent On Friday 12th January
image: Feelunique In my new article for Feelunique, I’ve turned to one of the oldest – and, arguably, one of the most divisive – perfumery ingredients: vanilla. To see which…
Scent Imitates Art – Basenotes Interview With Evody’s Cerine Vasseur & Perfumer Cecile Zarokian
image: Basenotes Vasseur (left) with Zarokian “What abstract artists did was to use shapes and colours. I thought that if I had to transpose abstraction into my field, my art,…
The Best Perfumes Of 2017 – Tobacco, Witches & Unmade Beds
I’m told ‘busy’ is now the word we most commonly use in response to ‘How have you been?’ (apparently just saying ‘Very well’ smacks of some kind subversive, trouble-making, rat-race-denying…
Christmas Wishes 2017
We’ve nearly made it, folks: another year is about to end. I’ll be posting my annual Best Of list on Friday 29th December (so please come back to read it)…
Cinema Scent: Marjorie Prime (dir. Michael Almereyda; 2017)
A part of me wants to say that the makers of Marjorie Prime missed a trick, but I realise that would just be a case of giving into churlishness. Because…