Scents For Classic Halloween Characters – Top 10 Perfumes For 2025
Persolaise For this year’s Halloween list, I paired perfumes with some classic costume ideas, and enlisted a bit of visual assistance from Google Gemini. Here’s a link to the video: Top…
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Tauer Vanilla Absolue, Arquiste Nocturnality, Granado Apotecario and other reviews – 2025
There was a time when the word ‘Tauer’ was almost entirely synonymous with the idea of independent perfumery. Zurich-based Andy Tauer — a self-taught perfumer who started his brand by…
The Top 25 Perfumes Of The 21st Century… So Far
As 2024 came to an end, many of you asked if I’d compile a rundown of the best perfumes of the decade so far. I found the idea appealing —…
Top 10 Best Perfumes Of 2024 – Searching For The Human
— It doesn’t seem possible that twelve months have passed since I put together my last end-of-year roundup, but the reality is plain to see in the electronic diary beaming…
Christmas 2024 Perfume Gift Guide
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 Perfumes For Autumn 2024 – Scents To Bring Us Together
If all the spam advertising emails are to be believed, autumn is the time for curling up on a sofa with a warm blanket and a mug of hot chocolate.…
Carlos Huber, Arquiste, Live Interview
We finally made it happen! A few days ago, Carlos Huber, founder of Arquiste, popped into my virtual studio for a long-overdue interview in which he chatted about his two…
Louis Vuitton Lovers, Les Indemodables Oranger Sirocco, Arquiste A Grove By The Sea and other reviews – 2024
We travelled all the way from North Africa to Croatia and a couple of distant constellations in a recent episode of Love At First Scent – via a stop-off at…
Top 10 Perfumes For Autumn 2023 – Sophisticated Scents
In many aspects of etiquette, there’s a fine line between the casual and the inconsiderate. I suspect a fear that we’re veering too close to the latter was the guiding…
Summer Fragrances 2022 In Conde Nast Traveller By Persolaise
Summer perfumes for 2022 in Conde Nast Traveller, selected by award-winning critic Persolaise (feat. Guerlain, Acqua Di Parma, Akro, Arquiste, Alexandre J, Penhaligon's, DS & Durga)
Fiole Interview – Josh Carter & Samuel Gearing
Fiole interview (Samuel Gearing and Josh Carter) by award-winning perfume critic Persolaise (2022)
L’Artisan Parfumeur Memoire De Roses, Arquiste Peau, Perris Vetiver Java, Marie Jeanne Brume D’Ete Reviews
L’Artisan Parfumeur Memoire De Roses (Christophe Raynaud, 2022), Arquiste Peau (Rodrigo Flores-Roux, 2021) , Perris Vetiver Java (2021), Marie Jeanne Brume D’Ete reviews by award-winning perfume critic Persolaise
Glyphs, Arquiste Misfit, Masque Milano Kintsugi and other reviews – Skin Time May 2021
Skin Time May 2021 - Persolaise reviews Arquiste Misfit & Sydney Rock Pool, Masque Milano Kintsugi, DS & Durga St Vetyver, Glyphs
Rodrigo Flores-Roux Live Interview
Rodrigo Flores-Roux interview by award-winning perfume critic Persolaise (2021)
Top 10 Best Romantic Perfumes – Valentine’s Day 2021
Top 10 best romantic perfumes chosen by award-winning critic Persolaise for Valentine’s Day 2021, feat. Guerlain, Hermes, Acqua Di Parma, Neela Vermeire, Frederic Malle, Arquiste, Swiss Arabian, Comme Des Garcons,…
Best Perfumes Of The Decade 2010-2019 part 1
Best perfumes of the decade 2010-2019 by award-winning critic Persolaise (part 1)
The Best Perfumes Of 2016… In 60 Seconds
Something a little bit different for you today: a video version of my list of the best perfumes of 2016. Fear not, it’s only 60 seconds long… although it does…
The Best Perfumes Of 2016 – Greens, Dry Petals & Disco Balls
Rightly or wrongly, it looks as though 2016 is going to be marked as a particularly horribilis annus by the gods of record-keeping. Certainly, in political terms, events in the…
Persolaise’s Scents For Winter 2016 In Parfum Plus
Please click here to read my latest piece for ParfumPlus magazine, in which I run through my scented recommendations for winter 2016*. If you flick through to the next page…
The Complete Persolaise Christmas Gift Guide 2016
Those of you who follow me on Twitter will be aware that, over the last few days, I’ve been posting Christmas gift recommendations under the tag #PersolaiseXmas. All those posts…