Crisis? What Crisis? Just Hand Out The Awards
The UK FiFis came and went in a fizz of pink champagne and several semi-embarrassed murmurs of “Who’s Kim Kardashian?” Personally, I was disappointed that nobody informed me that Ms…
The UK FiFis came and went in a fizz of pink champagne and several semi-embarrassed murmurs of “Who’s Kim Kardashian?” Personally, I was disappointed that nobody informed me that Ms…
During my recent trip to Dubai, I had the pleasure of meeting Shahzad Haider, the Chairman of Fragrance Foundation Arabia. He took some time out from preparing for the second…
Yesterday I showcased the finalists in this year’s FiFi UK Best Fragrance Commercial categories, so today I thought I’d publish the shortlist for the Hall Of Fame. The twenty fragrances…
The FiFi UK awards ceremony will take place on Thursday (expect live tweets and Facebook updates!) which means this is an excellent time to have a closer look at the…
You may remember that a few weeks ago I posted the shortlist for the Best Independent Perfume prize at this year’s FiFi UK awards. The other category in which I’ve…
There’s nothing like a Top Secret Writing Project to make time fly. I told myself I mustn’t wait too long before letting you all know a bit more about the…
I’m sure you all know this by now, but please, just indulge me, because I’m going to get a real kick out of typing the following words: Tauer Perfumes’ Orange…
I’m just taking a few moments out of what’s proving to be an enjoyably eventful week to send a couple of updates and reminders your way. First of all, meeting…
You know what they say about waiting for buses? Well, I think the adage could probably be applied to my appointments diary for the week beginning 11th April. After a…
Pardon me for going on and on about the Day Job, but this is the time of year when it starts demanding a disproportionate amount of my attention. As I’ve…
This entry is intended to be a polite nudge… or three nudges, to be precise. Nudge #1: You’ve only got until the end of today to enter my give-away draw…
It’s been a while since I’ve written in any meaningful detail about my own perfume making. Paradoxically, this isn’t because I haven’t been doing any, but because I’ve actually been…
The shortlist for this year’s FiFi UK Best Niche Perfume award has just been revealed on Basenotes and it features a few of my favourite releases of 2010. Here’s the…
What’s the smell of the modern dandy? Does a metrosexual wear one of the generic woody cocktails that flood the market at the rate of twenty a week? Does he…