One YouTube broadcast will never be sufficient to discuss everything there is to say about the increasingly thorny and emotive issue of perfume prices, but I did my best to…
Home is a feeling. And sure enough, feelings were high on the agenda the other day when I broadcast a very special, home-centred episode of Love At First Scent with…
Catherine Mitchell IFF interview by award-winning perfume critic Persolaise in The Perfume Society's Scented Letter (2020)
Mugler Alien Mirage, Chloe Nomade absolu de parfum, Papillon Bengale Rouge, Calvin Klein CK Everyone, Boucheron Jaipur Homme reviews by award-winning perfume critic Persolaise (2020)
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…
Episode 16 of Love At First Scent (broadcast live on Sunday on YouTube) is now available as a permanent upload; watch it above or by clicking here. In this edition…
In my latest article for Feelunique, I provide a few recommendations for ensuring that your perfume wardrobe contains at least one example of each of the main scent styles.To see…
Next up on my list of collaborations with Feelunique: a showcase of must-try masculine perfumes. Enjoy! If you’d like to watch the video on the YouTube site, please click here.…
Do we need another flanker to CK One? Turns out that we do. Here’s my Sixty Second Scents review of the brand new CK All, put together by Alberto Morillas…
I’ve just had another piece published on Feelunique – this time about alternative forms of perfume – so please click here if you’d like to read it. Thanks! Persolaise
The second and final part of my January-to-March mini-review round-up. Fahrenheit Cologne from Christian Dior (François Demachy; 2016)* Addition of sweet citrus is touch incongruous, but the more translucent violet-leaf…
Here’s part 2 of my digest of mini-reviews from Twitter, spanning January to March 2015. For part 1, please click here. À La Rose from Maison Francis Kurkdjian (Francis Kurkdjian;…
“Frederic Malle is much more directive. But he doesn’t tell you what to do. I would sit with him and he would give ideas. Sometimes I agreed with his ideas,…
If there’s one figure in the niche world who needs no introduction, it’s Frederic Malle. This is more than a little ironic, as the Frenchman owes his status and reputation…
There was once a pot which called a kettle black. I try to remind myself of this each time I feel the urge to become snooty about so-called ‘summer scents’.…
It’s always round about this time of year (can’t think why) that I tend to be asked what makes so-called Arabic-style perfumes smell so… Arabic. If I were a chemist…
Here’s something that doesn’t happen very often: I don’t have a perfume I’d like to review this week. To be more precise, I’ve got plenty which I could review, but…
It’s the final week of August, the holiday’s nearly over and life will soon have to return to normal at Maison Persolaise. It’s going to take a little while for…
You know the onomatopoeic ‘sound effect’ captions used in comic books? Well, Owari opens with a KA-POW, BANG, SHAZZAM! The top notes leap off the skin in a burst of…
When I found out that Escape For Men has been discontinued, a triumphant smile appeared on my face. Sadly, that’s now faded, because CK have played around with the formula…
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