My Top 10 Perfumes – Celebrating 10 Years Of Persolaise
Persolaise Top 10 perfumes chosen by award-winning critic, Persolaise
Etat Libre D’Orange
Best Perfumes Of 2019 – Waiting For The Revolution
Best perfumes of 2019 selected by award-winning critic Persolaise
Etat Libre D’Orange She Was An Anomaly Review – Daniela Andrier; 2019
Etat Libre D'Orange She Was An Anomaly review by award-winning perfume critic Persolaise (Daniela Andrier, 2019)
Best Perfumes Of The Decade 2010-2019 part 1
Best perfumes of the decade 2010-2019 by award-winning critic Persolaise (part 1)
Best Perfumes For Autumn 2019 – Keeping An Open Mind
Best perfumes for autumn 2019 by award-winning critic Persolaise (featuring Tom Ford, Gucci, Chanel, Hermes, Tauer, Cartier, Etat Libre D'Orange)
Persolaise Love At First Scent Episode 30, Scenes 1 & 2 On YouTube – featuring Perfumer H and Experimentum Crucis from Etat Libre D’Orange
Live reviews of Experimentum Crucis from Etat Libre D'Orange & Suede and Dust from Perfumer H
The Best Perfumes Of 2017 – Tobacco, Witches & Unmade Beds
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…
Persolaise Review: Roland Mouret – Une Amourette from Etat Libre D’Orange (Daniela Andrier; 2017)
Three aspects of the new Une Amourette – an Etat Libre D’Orange collaboration with fashion designer Roland Mouret – are worthy of attention. The first is that it marks a…
Stepping Over To The Other Side – Chandler Burr On You Or Someone Like You
A double-whammy for you today, you lucky, lucky people. Over on Basenotes (click here), you can read my interview with Etienne De Swardt of Etat Libre D’Orange, conducted at the…
Persolaise Sixty Second Scents: You Or Someone Like You from Etat Libre D’Orange (Caroline Sabas; 2017)
The people at Etat Libre D’Orange have just released another one of their collaboration scents – this time created together with Chandler Burr – and here’s my Sixty Second Scents…
Persolaise Love At First Scent Episode 1 On YouTube + Next Facebook Live Is This Friday!
The Facebook Live broadcast I streamed on Friday is now on YouTube, so you can watch it right here (see above) or if you prefer to watch it on the…
Perfume Mini-Reviews From Twitter: October to December 2016 [part 1]
Here’s a round-up of some of my Twitter mini-reviews from October-December 2016. Part 2 will be posted soon. Carrot Blossom & Fennel from Jo Malone (Anne Flipo; 2016)* More like…
Super Scent – The Very Best Of Etat Libre D’Orange
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…
Perfume Mini-Reviews From Twitter – April to June 2015 [part 2]
Here’s part 2 of my round-up of Twitter mini-reviews, from April to June 2015. La Panthère Eau Légère from Cartier (Mathilde Laurent; 2015)* Lighter, more accessible version of the growling…
Perfume Mini-Reviews From Twitter – January to March 2015 [part 2]
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;…
Uplifting Scents On ParfumPlus
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…
Goldfish, Rice And Musky Teleporters – Perfume Recommendations For A Sunny Day
Best summer, sunny day perfume selection by award-winning critic Persolaise, with Chanel, Tom Ford, Frederic Malle, Guerlain, Hermes and others
“Our Job Is To Listen” – Antoine Maisondieu At The Launch Of Bottega Veneta Pour Homme Extreme
It’s always dangerous to draw conclusions about an artist from their work. By most accounts, T S Eliot wasn’t a grey-faced depressive, Charlie Chaplin wasn’t exactly child-like and Toni Morrison…
Perfume Mini-Reviews From Twitter – July to September 2014 [part 2]
Here’s the second part of my compilation of Twitter mini-reviews published between July and September 2014. Cologne from Etat Libre D’Orange (Alexandra Kosinski; 2014)* Pays homage to Mugler’s Cologne. Citruses…
Persolaise Review: Rien Intense Incense from Etat Libre D’Orange (Antoine Lie; 2014)
Could Rien possibly get any bigger? Yes and no. Soon after it bulldozed its way onto the market in 2006, the scent became the very definition of a perfumery juggernaut.…