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Creed Spring Flower Review – 2023

Persolaise 27th May 2023 0 Comments

Creed’s Spring Flower from 1996 appears to have been given the re-make treatment. I reviewed the latest version in a recent episode of Love At First Scent which you can…

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Cinema Scent: Trainspotting (dir. Danny Boyle; 1996)

Persolaise 27th October 2017 6 Comments

The layer of scent that is forever hovering a few inches above the surface of Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting (still his best work, arguably) is almost unremittingly scatological. Based on the…

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Prize For Byredo’s 1996 – Winners Of 2014 Fragrance Foundation UK FiFi Awards

Persolaise 19th May 2014 0 Comments

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…

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Persolaise Review: 1996 from Byredo (Jérôme Epinette; 2013)

Persolaise 4th October 2013 4 Comments

I don’t envy perfume brands the task of coming up with a ‘story’ for a new release. It’s a thankless job, fraught with paradoxes. If the perfume is sub-standard, its…

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Creed Spring Flower Review – 2023

Cinema Scent: Trainspotting (dir. Danny Boyle; 1996)

Prize For Byredo’s 1996 – Winners Of 2014 Fragrance Foundation UK FiFi Awards

Persolaise Review: 1996 from Byredo (Jérôme Epinette; 2013)

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