Best Perfumes Of 2020 – A Time For Seeking Beauty
Persolaise Best perfumes of 2020 selected by award-winning critic Persolaise
Christmas 2020 Perfume Gift Guide – Part 2 Everything Else
Part 2 of Christmas 2020 perfume gift guide by award-winning critic Persolaise, feat. Serge Lutens, Dior, Frederic Malle, Kilian, Guerlain and others
Comme Des Garcons Rouge Review – 2020
Comme Des Garcons Rouge review by award-winning perfume critic Persolaise (2020)
Top 10 Best Masculine Perfumes Of The Last 5 Years, With Max Forti
Top 10 best men's perfumes of the last 5 years, selected by Persolaise and Max Forti, with Amouage, Comme Des Garcons, Issey Miyake and others (2020)
Top 10 Best Incense Perfumes 2020 – Scents For Meditation
Best incense perfumes selected by award-winning critic Persolaise, 2020
Zoologist Bee Review – 2019
Zoologist Bee review by award-winning perfume critic Persolaise (2019) with thoughts on Tauer Les Annees 25 Bis, Comme Des Garcons Clash Radish Vetiver Celluloid Galbanum Chlorophyll Gardenia, Eris Mxxx, Different…
Best Perfumes Of 2019 – Waiting For The Revolution
Best perfumes of 2019 selected by award-winning critic Persolaise
Best Perfumes Of The Decade 2010-2019 part 1
Best perfumes of the decade 2010-2019 by award-winning critic Persolaise (part 1)
Comme Des Garcons Copper Review – Alienor Massenet; 2019
Comme Des Garcons Copper review by award-winning perfume critic Persolaise (Alienor Massenet; 2019)
Persolaise Love At First Scent Episode 18 Now On YouTube
Episode 18 of Love At First Scent (broadcast live on YouTube) is now available as a permanent upload, complete with incorrect orientation, thanks to the ol’ Tube letting me down;…
Persolaise Mini-Reviews: October to December 2017 [part 2]
Here’s part 2 of my latest round-up of mini-reviews. For part 1, please click here. Enjoy! Un Air De Bretagne from L’Artisan Parfumeur (Juliette Karagueuzoglou; 2017)* I remain a huge…
Once Upon A Scent – Persolaise On Romantic Perfumes In ParfumPlus
My latest article in the Middle East’s ParfumPlus magazine turns to the not-unfamiliar connection between perfume and romance. To read it, please click on this link which will take you…
Vanilla Perfume Recommendations – Persolaise On Feelunique + Next Love At First Scent On Friday 12th January
image: Feelunique In my new article for Feelunique, I’ve turned to one of the oldest – and, arguably, one of the most divisive – perfumery ingredients: vanilla. To see which…
Persolaise Mini-Reviews: July to September 2017 [part 2]
Here comes part 2 of the latest digest of my mini-reviews. For part 1, please click here. Bamboo Rose from Aerin (2017)* One of a trio of rose ‘colognes’ (which…
Searching For The Silver Lining: The Best Modern Perfumes For Young Women
A little while ago, I published a post bemoaning the fact that many new perfume releases aimed at young women don’t treat their target audience with the intelligence they deserve.…
Persolaise Review: Concrete from Comme Des Garçons (2017)
Consider me won over. When I first began to explore Comme Des Garçons’ new Concrete – housed in a suitably industrial-looking, scratch-prone version of the familiar pebble bottle – I…
Persolaise Sixty Second Scents – Blackpepper from Comme Des Garçons (Antoine Maisondieu; 2016) + Persolaise Turns Seven!
On the eve of the 7th anniversary of this blog (doesn’t seem possible!) here’s my next Sixty Second Scents video review. This one is of a perfume which I first…
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…