Christmas 2024 Perfume Gift Guide
Persolaise I have no doubt that the vast majority of you are forward-thinking, super-organised, careful-planning types, so I expect you finished all your Christmas shopping in October. However, if some of…
Top 10 Classic Eaux De Cologne – The Perfect Pick-Me-Up
It may be the oldest perfumery genre in existence, but it’s taken me until now to present my list of the Top 10 best eaux de cologne, for reasons which…
Top 10 Best Citrus Perfumes – Zesty Lip-Lickers
It was time to get tart over on my YouTube channel the other day when I ended the current run of episodes with a presentation of my Top 10 best…
Persolaise Mini-Reviews: April to July 2018 [part 2]
For more mini-reviews, please click here. Oud extrait de parfum from Maison Francis Kurkdjian (Francis Kurkdjian; 2018)* When Kurkdjian released his first Oud in 2012, he did what many perfumers…
Reviews: The Smell Of Freedom & Orange Blossom by Gorilla Perfumes (2010)
It’s always helpful to be reminded that snobbery has no place in perfume appreciation. A branch of Lush – with its cheerfully dressed-down aesthetics – may not be the first…
All Greened Out
The words ‘outdoorsy, ‘practical’ and ‘green fingered’ are never, ever used to describe me, which is why today was something of a trial. A sizeable patch of our garden has…
And The First One I Sprayed Was…
Although this blog doesn’t have thousands of readers, I flatter myself that perhaps one or two people wander by every now and then to read my ramblings, so I thought…