Persolaise The Smell Of Your Soul – Persolaise Visits The Fragrance Lab At Selfridges London
image: Hufton + Crow It turns out I’d got it all wrong. When I agreed to delve into Selfridges‘ Fragrance Lab – part of their current Beauty Project – I…
Prize For Byredo’s 1996 – Winners Of 2014 Fragrance Foundation UK FiFi Awards
Seeing as I provided you with a fair amount of pre-FiFi coverage, I thought I ought to give you the list of winners from Thursday night’s Fragrance Foundation UK awards…
Persolaise Review: Cuir Cannage from Christian Dior (François Demachy; 2014)
When the arrival of Cuir Cannage was first rumoured, the story went that François Demachy wanted it to represent his memories of his mother’s handbag. This very personal anecdote now…
Fragrance Foundation UK FiFi Awards 2014 – Best New Fragrance Nominees
Here are Fragrance Foundation UK’s nominees for what are often referred to as the two most important FiFi categories: Best New Female Fragrance and Best New Male Fragrance. Ladies’ list…
Fragrance Foundation UK FiFi Awards 2014 – Best New Fragrances In Limited Distribution Nominees
More FiFi UK shortlists. Today, it’s the turn of what the Fragrance Foundation calls perfumes “in limited distribution”, ie those which are available in a relatively small number of retail…
Perfume Event: Alyssa Harad In Conversation With Persolaise In London On 20th May
If you’re going to be in or near London on Tuesday 20th May and you fancy a scented evening in the company of fellow perfume-lovers, please come along to Dirty…
Persolaise Review: 1932, Beige & Jersey extraits from Chanel (Jacques Polge; 2014)
A ‘parfum’ by Chanel. How unutterably lovely. And no, I am not being sarcastic. Consider the sensuousness loaded behind that short phrase. First there’s the ‘parfum’ part. The most ancient…
Fragrance Foundation UK FiFi Awards 2014 – Perfume Extraordinaire Nominees
The Perfume Extraordinaire category of Fragrance Foundation UK’s FiFi Awards represents one of the more interesting ways of rewarding achievement in fragrance creation. Perfume production companies – as opposed to…
We Want To Dare More – An Interview With Guerlain’s Sylvaine Delacourte At The Masters Of Fragrances Exhibition
I wonder if Sylvaine Delacourte is thinking what I’m thinking. I’ve never met Guerlain‘s long-standing Creative Director before, so I daren’t make any assumptions about what might be happening behind…
EU Amendments To Cosmetics Regulation – Deadline Approaches!
A brief reminder that the 14th of May is the deadline for the submission of messages to the EU’s public consultation on proposed amendments to the Cosmetics Regulation. Some of…
Fragrance Foundation UK FiFi Awards 2014 – Best New Independent Fragrance Nominees
Fragrance Foundation UK have released the shortlist for what is perhaps considered to be the most exciting FiFi Award by die-hard scentusiasts: Best New Independent Fragrance. The definition of ‘independent’…
Fragrance Foundation UK FiFi Awards 2014 – Best Perfume Commercial Nominees
The excitement around this year’s Fragrance Foundation FiFi Awards is starting to heat up! To mark the approach of one of the most important dates on the UK’s scented calendar,…
Persolaise Review: Tralala from Penhaligon’s (Bertrand Duchaufour; 2014)
What to make of Tralala? I confess that when I first discovered the name of this latest release from Penhaligon’s, I gave in to a burst of gleeful excitement. Silly,…
Persolaise Review: Amber Oud and Rose Oud from Nicolaï (Patricia De Nicolaï; 2013)
Ah, the power of peer pressure! A few years ago, you needed quite a few fingers to count the number of brands who said they’d “never do an oud.” Now,…
Happy Easter 2014
image: Cadbury’s A very brief post from me today, just to wish a very Happy Easter to everyone out there celebrating the occasion. Lent is over… enjoy the chocolate! Persolaise
The Osmothèque Reviews: Iris Gris from Jacques Fath (Vincent Roubert; 1946)
THIS POST WAS SHORTLISTED IN THE ‘BLOGGERS AWARD’ CATEGORY OF THE 2014 JASMINE AWARDS *** For background information on my Osmothèque Reviews, please click here *** Iris Gris had the…
Perfume Mini-Reviews From Twitter – January to March 2014
Could this be the start of a regular feature? Below, you’ll find all the mini-reviews I’ve posted on Twitter since January of this year. I’ve decided to re-publish them here…
Perfume Course – Design With Scents 2014 At Kingston University
image: S Sense If you’re on the lookout for a perfume-related course and you’re going to be in the London area in mid-July, then you’d do well to consider enrolling…
Persolaise Review: Fahrenheit Le Parfum from Christian Dior (François Demachy; 2014)
They say men mellow with age. Whether the statement is true is up for debate – last time I checked, grumpy old codgers weren’t exactly thin on the ground –…
I’m Not Business-Driven – An Interview With Céline Verleure Of Olfactive Studio
Olfactive Studio could have been created only in the era of the Internet. In 2011, inspired by cyberspace’s populist bias, founder Céline Verleure set up a Facebook page entitled The…