The Best Perfumes Of 2018 – Nostalgic Defiance
The best perfumes of 2018, chosen by award-winning critic, Persolaise
The best perfumes of 2018, chosen by award-winning critic, Persolaise
I’m told ‘busy’ is now the word we most commonly use in response to ‘How have you been?’ (apparently just saying ‘Very well’ smacks of some kind subversive, trouble-making, rat-race-denying…
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…
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…
Some of you may remember that in 2014 I published my guide to the best oud perfumes (please click here to read it). An edited version of that post has…
Hermès founder, Thierry Hermès Guess what: I found this Super Scent list very difficult to compile. But for an unexpected reason. As I explained to Candy Perfume Boy when I…
Regular readers will be aware that, for me, the summer usually involves travel. However, for various reasons, this year is shaping up to be rather different… which perhaps explains why…
The best Chanel perfumes selected by award-winning critic Persolaise (feat. No. 5, No. 19, Cuir De Russie, Antaeus, Coromandel, scent)
The latest edition of the Middle East’s ParfumPlus magazine features my run-down of the best perfumes of last year. If you’d like to read it, please click here. For an…
Etienne De Swardt THIS POST WAS SHORTLISTED IN THE ‘INDEPENDENT – SOUNDBITE’ CATEGORY OF THE 2016/17 UK JASMINE AWARDS It doesn’t seem possible that Etat Libre D’Orange is only 10…
In a year that saw the release of a film about the evils of sugar, mainstream scent compositions seemed to keep getting sweeter and sweeter. Perhaps that’s not surprising: I…
The best perfumes from Dior, selected by award-winning critic Persolaise (feat. Poison, Dior Homme, Diorissimo, Dune, Eau Noire, Dioressence)
I am genuinely excited to announce that the latest edition of The Scented Letter – the Perfume Society‘s Jasmine-award winning magazine – features a piece I wrote about my all-time…
The best Estee Lauder perfumes selected by award-winning critic Persolaise (feat. Youth Dew, Beyond Paradise, Cinnabar, Beautiful, White Linen, scent)
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you probably know that I’m fond of lists. You may also know that this passion for ordering things and presenting them in…
As we sink deeper into the melee affectionately described as ‘awards season’, some of you might like to make your own voices heard about your favourite perfume releases of last…