Persolaise Review: Malabah by Penhaligon's (2003)
This isn’t quite a scrubber, but it outstays its welcome very quickly and adds fuel to the argument made by several critics that Penhaligon’s scents aren’t nearly weighty and meaningful…
Happy To Pay
Who would ever have thought I’d be looking forward to paying a custom’s charge! I arrived home today to find a slip left by Royal Mail which meant only one…
Review: Voyage d'Hermès by Hermès (2010)
The idea of a perfume taking you on a trip has been a cliché for quite some time, so when you encounter a new creation which dares to call itself…
Questionable Secretions
The other day I was carrying out a totally non-perfume related presentation at work. One of the points I wanted to make was that we need to appreciate that many…
Squeeze
Over the last couple of days, my Net-roving eye has been caught by some articles about the increasingly tight restrictions imposed on the perfume industry by regulatory bodies. Apparently, jasmine…
Mountain Voices
I’ve got considerable experience of teaching, so I should know better than most people that the first steps up the mountain tend to be the hardest. Still, when you’re the…
Weekend Knowledge
If too many cooks spoil the broth, then maybe one cook can spoil the broth with too much tinkering… especially if the broth needs several days – if not weeks…
Vert 14
I should have been doing other things last night, but I’m afraid I pushed them all aside and set up my mini-lab on my window sill. It’s typical of me…
Vert 12
No preambles… except to say welcome to the blog if you’ve only just got here. The plan is for this to be a space where I chronicle my attempts to…