Lutens Keep Playing
Persolaise …continued from yesterday’s post (click here to be taken to it) The latest entries from some of the more bling-tastic brands haven’t registered on my fragrance radar. I have sniffed…
Making Wasabi – An Interview With Céline Verleure Of Olfactive Studio
Regular readers will be aware that Olfactive Studio‘s Panorama is without question one of my favourite perfume releases of the year so far. With its juxtaposition of a laser-charged, green…
Persolaise Review: Florabellio from Diptyque (Fabrice Pellegrin; 2015)
How thrilling it is when an idea manages to survive the journey from thought to creation. At the London launch of Florabellio, perfumer Fabrice Pellegrin explained that the vision he’d…
Persolaise Review: Sunshine Man from Amouage (Pierre Negrin & Fabrice Pellegrin; 2015)
Ah, dear old lavender. When it’s misused – as it so often is – it’s a whopping clanger of a cliche, plunging a composition into the depths of the generic,…
Persolaise Review: Nanban from Arquiste (Rodrigo Flores-Roux; 2015)
After a side-step that saw him produce two scents in collaboration with J Crew, Arquiste‘s Carlos Huber returns to his signature range and quells fears that his sensibilities may have…
Persolaise Review: J’Adore Touche De Parfum from Christian Dior (François Demachy; 2015)
The J’Adore family welcomes a glamorous new cousin, dubbed Touche De Parfum. With her oil-based constitution, she may well have been brought into the fold to woo the Middle Eastern…
Persolaise Review: Sauvage from Christian Dior (François Demachy; 2015)
Sigh sigh sigh. There are several springboards from which I could leap into my review of Dior‘s new Sauvage (composed by in-house perfumer, François Demachy), but despite my best efforts…
The Risk And The Reward – Richard E Grant On The Creation Of Jack
In his engrossing online account of the birth of his perfume Jack (I’d urge you to click here and check it out) Richard E Grant describes a creation process rich…
Persolaise Review: Opus IX from Amouage (Pierre Negrin & Nathalie Lorson; 2015)
Top marks to Amouage for continuing to embrace the stranger territories of olfactory art. After the somewhat underwhelming Sunshine, Creative Director Christopher Chong has returned to the brand’s Library Collection…
Persolaise Review: Chance Eau Vive from Chanel (Olivier Polge; 2015)
Olivier Polge‘s profile at Chanel continues to rise. A few months ago, the guardians of the double-C logo released his first sole-authored creation, Misia, but that was part of the…
Persolaise In The Observer
If you’re a reader of the UK’s Observer newspaper, you may have noticed that yours truly was quoted in a perfume-related article published on 12th July 2015. The piece, by…
Persolaise Review: Panorama from Olfactive Studio (Clément Gavarry; 2015)
Edmond Roudnitska‘s words about the way in which a great perfume ought to begin have been widely documented. Years ago, he wrote that a scent should elicit a ‘shock’ from…
Persolaise Review: L’Eau Corail from Nicolaï (Patricia De Nicolaï; 2015)
Trust Patricia De Nicolaï to prove that ‘fruity’ doesn’t always have to mean ‘loopy’. Had it been put together by a high street brand, her new Eau Corail would almost…
Persolaise Review: Noir Extreme from Tom Ford (2015)
I don’t know where Tom Ford has been eating his kulfi, but I’m pretty sure it isn’t the same place where I’ve been eating my kulfi. The taste of the…
French Coca-Cola In New York – Cartier’s Mathilde Laurent On Working With Oud
In 2014, when Cartier launched their three oud scents – Oud & Rose, Oud & Musc and Oud & Oud (yes, really) – I confess I was rather disappointed. Yet…
Persolaise Review: Marni Spice from Marni (Daniela Andrier; 2015)
Hats off to the people at Marni for the way in which they’re handling their perfume portfolio. They hired an excellent creator, Daniela Andrier, to put together their first scent.…
Looking For Something Unique – Harrods’ Mia Collins On The Salon De Parfums
image: Harrods “We had a Portuguese craftsman come to hand paint all of the gold leaf detailing on the oak panels, in the Henry Jacques boutique; we had a team…
Father’s Day Ideas – What To Do If Your Dad’s Perfume Collection Is Already Quite Healthy
Blame the geek in me: I’m always on the lookout for an excuse to make a new list. And I’ve just discovered that I haven’t addressed Father’s Day since 2011…
A New Type Of Femininity – Cartier’s Mathilde Laurent On Female Perfumers, Guerlain & L’Heure Perdue
“With La Panthère, I really wanted to renew the femininity you can find on the market. I wanted to offer something different. Because I thought at that moment that femininity…
Persolaise Review: Oud Satin Mood from Maison Francis Kurkdjian (Francis Kurkdjian; 2015)
I confess I find it extremely interesting to watch what Francis Kurkdjian does with his brand. He has made it clear that he does not wish the scents released under…