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…
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…
Please click on this link to read my latest piece for the Middle East’s ParfumPlus magazine. Some of you may recognise it as an edited version of my recent post…
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…
Best summer, sunny day perfume selection by award-winning critic Persolaise, with Chanel, Tom Ford, Frederic Malle, Guerlain, Hermes and others
Part 2 of my digest of mini-reviews from Twitter, spanning October to December 2014 Hommage À L’Homme Voyageur from Lalique (2014)* The violet leaf of the original leads to a…
Watch out, the 70s have just walked into the room. Or have they? The first thing that attacks you from Tom Ford‘s latest Private Blend is, appropriately enough, a bell-bottom-wearing,…
Guide to the best oud perfumes by award-winning critic Persolaise (feat. Tom Ford, Amouage, Dior, Le Labo, Montale, Nicolai, Ajmal, Francis Kurkdjian)
I’m reliably informed that mere hours before its official opening, a few sections of Harrods‘ Salon De Parfums didn’t even have a floor yet. Well, someone must have worked their…
The Roja Dove Haute Perfumerie photographed in July 2014, a few weeks before its transformation If there’s one reason for the enduring success of Harrods, it’s the fact that the…
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…
Don’t look now, folks, but I think we’ve made it to the end of another December. Rose-tinted nostalgia goggles aside, it’s probably fair to say that 2013 has been as…
Back when YSL‘s M7 was worthy of the image of a naked, hairy martial arts expert, I bought myself a bottle of one of the scent’s ancillary products, a so-called…
There’s a new perfume brand at Selfridges and – surprise surprise – it hails from the Arab world… or does it? Click here to read my Basenotes interview with its…
I confess I don’t find the overarching concept of this year’s Tom Ford Private Blend quartet as convincing as last year’s. In 2012, the house released four scents under the…
photo: Andy Barter; set design: Nick Wood Those of you hopping aboard a British Airways flight this summer may be interested to learn that the current issue of High Life…
This time, I seriously considered throwing in the towel. When Carrie asked us to pick one of the seven deadly sins for our next joint-list project, I immediately claimed ‘wrath’…
Is Tom Ford on a gender-bending mission? Last year he energised the masculine market with the female-friendly Noir (recent winner of the Perfume Extraordinaire award at the UK’s FiFis). Now…
My FiFi evening began with a wardrobe malfunction. Just as Madame Persolaise and I were about to step onto the red carpet at the entrance to London’s Brewery, I felt…
Loretta has a secret, but she hides it in plain sight. The first time she digs her claws into your neck, you experience a moment of fear, but you quickly…
When L’Eau Serge Lutens appeared in 2010, most fans were up in arms. They felt betrayed, they said, by a fragrance which seemed to fly in the face of the…