Christian Dior Dioriginals showcase review (2026)
Persolaise – This isn’t the sort of thing that happens very often. In fact, it may well be a first. Francis Kurkdjian, current in-house perfumer at Christian Dior, has gone back…
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Christian Dior Dior Paradise, Neela Vermeire Creations Neith, Etat Libre D’Orange Let’s Pretend, L’Objet Delphes reviews – 2026
Please click on this link for my YouTube and Substack reviews of: Christian Dior Dior Paradise; Neela Vermeire Creations Neith; Etat Libre D’Orange Let’s Pretend; L’Objet Delphes. The post is…
L’Artisan Parfumeur L’Amant, Christian Dior Cuir Saddle and Le Labo Violette 30 reviews – 2026
For reviews of Christian Dior Cuir Saddle, Le Labo Violette 30 and L’Artisan Parfumeur L’Amant please click on this link to my Substack: Christian Dior Cuir Saddle, Le Labo Violette…
20 Years Of Escentric Molecules – Live Interview With Geza Schoen
Escentric Molecules — the brand that continues to win fans and divide opinion with its single-ingredient Molecule 01 — is twenty years old. To mark the occasion, co-founder and perfumer…
Cartier L’Envol (Mathilde Laurent; 2016) & Guerlain Coriolan (Jean-Paul Guerlain; 1998) perfume reviews
– In recent months, I’ve found myself thinking what a shame it is that Cartier L’Envol seems to have vanished for good. Released as an eau de parfum in 2016…
Christian Dior Bois Talisman review – Francis Kurkdjian; 2025
– It all seems to have gone a bit topsy turvy in the world of Captain Kurk. His latest version of Dior Homme was a pleasant surprise, displaying a real…
Christian Dior Homme Parfum review – Francis Kurkdjian; 2024
– There have nearly been as many Dior Hommes as there have been Miss Diors. Those of you with anything greater than a perfunctory interest in the number of the…
Scented Kylie – Perfumes For Her 10 Best Songs
Kylie Minogue has long maintained an image as one of pop music’s most fun-loving characters, so I suspect she would have approved of a recent episode of Love At First…
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 —…
Balmain and Bottega Veneta 2024 re-launches, Dior Tendre Poison and Serge Lutens Iris Silver Mist reviews
The gremlins were out in full force for this year’s final set of Love At First Scent broadcasts. The audio at the start of one of the videos turned out…
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.…
Timothee Chalamet, Martin Scorsese & John Galliano – Thoughts On Bleu and High & Low
— To be clear: I could not be happier about the impact of feminism and the improvements to the lives of women made over the course of the last few…
Top 10 Tuberose Perfumes — All Our Favourite Divas
It was time for a bit of diva domination over on YouTube the other day when I presented my list of the Top 10 best tuberose perfumes — a compilation…
14 Years Of Persolaise + Christian Dior Miss Dior parfum, Nez 1+1, Gucci A Reason To Love and L’Artisan Parfumeur La Botanique reviews – 2024
Dior have now created so many versions and flankers of Miss Dior, they must surely have enough to make up a football team, with plenty of players left over for…
Christine Nagel On The Creation Of The New Hermes Oud Alezan And H24 Herbes Vives
“In my entire career, I’d made only one oud perfume. I didn’t like oud; I never had a passion for it. If you look on the market, there are many…
Christian Dior New Look review – Francis Kurkdjian; 2024
The gremlins were out in full force the other day when I tried to review Christian Dior New Look (Francis Kurkdjian’s latest addition to La Collection Privee) so much so…
Chanel Coco review – Jacques Polge; 1984
It’s currently cool to be dismissive of Coco, in much the same way that it’s deemed acceptable to be snooty about Chance. Curiously, there’s a whiff of ageism in the…
Scented Madonna – Perfumes For Her 10 Best Songs
I blame all of you. A few weeks ago, on my YouTube channel, one person suggested that I should match my favourite Madonna songs with appropriate perfumes. And from that…
Top 10 Perfumes For Halloween 2023 – Scents For The Vampire In You
Halloween didn’t feature at all in my childhood, but that doesn’t mean I can’t have a bit of perfumed fun with it now. And lots of you have written to…
400 Episodes Of Love At First Scent & Christian Dior Dolce Vita review – Pierre Bourdon; 1995
I said it on the video, so I’ll say it here as well. You make my vita molto, molto dolce. So when the time came to broadcast my 400th episode…