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Serge Lutens Ambre Sultan Review – The Favourites – Christopher Sheldrake; 1993

Persolaise 28th July 2024 0 Comments

— I’m pretty sure our first encounter was at a perfumery in Nice. It was part of a large Lutens display — an austere assembly of those slim, rectangular bottles,…

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Jean-Paul Gaultier La Belle & Le Beau ‘Le Parfum’ Reviews, with Classique & Le Male

Persolaise 19th March 2022 1 Comments

Jean-Paul Gaultier Classique edt (Jacques Cavallier, 1993), Le Male (Francis Kurkdjian 1995), La Belle Le Parfum (Quentin Bisch & Sonia Constant, 2021) and Le Beau Le Parfum (Quentin Bisch, 2022)…

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Chanel Cristalle Review – Henri Robert; 1974

Persolaise 17th February 2021 0 Comments

Chanel Cristalle review by award-winning perfume critic Persolaise (Henri Robert, 1974)

Cinema Scent

Cinema Scent On BBC Radio 4 Film Programme: The Age Of Innocence (dir. Martin Scorsese; 1993)

Persolaise 30th November 2017 0 Comments

Tighten that corset and sweep all that lust under the silk rug. For my latest segment on Francine Stock’s Film Programme on BBC Radio 4, I’m delving into the extravagant…

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.

Andy Tauer
Basenotes
Black Narcissus
Bois De Jasmin
Grain De Musc
Now Smell This
Perfume Posse
Perfume Shrine

Serge Lutens Ambre Sultan Review – The Favourites – Christopher Sheldrake; 1993

Jean-Paul Gaultier La Belle & Le Beau ‘Le Parfum’ Reviews, with Classique & Le Male

Chanel Cristalle Review – Henri Robert; 1974

Cinema Scent On BBC Radio 4 Film Programme: The Age Of Innocence (dir. Martin Scorsese; 1993)

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