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Top 10 Tuberose Perfumes — All Our Favourite Divas

Persolaise 9th June 2024 0 Comments

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…

Interview

Christine Nagel On The Creation Of The New Hermes Oud Alezan And H24 Herbes Vives

Persolaise 3rd March 2024 0 Comments

“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…

Interview Video

Bayly Ledes – Robert Piguet Parfums – Live Interview

Persolaise 5th December 2021 0 Comments

Interview with Bayly Ledes (Robert Piguet, Fashion Fragrances & Cosmetics CEO) by award-winning perfume critic Persolaise (2021)

Perfume review

Robert Piguet Baghari Review – Francis Fabron; 1950

Persolaise 16th October 2021 0 Comments

Piguet Baghari review by award-winning perfume critic Persolaise (Francis Fabron, 1950)

Perfume review

Fragrance Du Bois, Hedonik Divine Perversion and other reviews – Skin Time September 2021

Persolaise 28th September 2021 3 Comments

Skin Time September 2021 - Persolaise reviews Fragrance Du Bois, Miller Harris Oud Eclat, Hedonik Divine Perversion, Piguet Fracas

Interview Video

Rodrigo Flores-Roux Live Interview

Persolaise 29th April 2021 6 Comments

Rodrigo Flores-Roux interview by award-winning perfume critic Persolaise (2021)

Perfume review Video

Hermes H24 Review – Christine Nagel; 2021

Persolaise 18th February 2021 7 Comments

Hermes H24 review by award-winning perfume critic Persolaise (Christine Nagel, 2021)

Interview Video

Antoine Lie Live Interview

Persolaise 28th January 2021 1 Comments

Antoine Lie interview by award-winning perfume critic Persolaise, 2021, feat. Secretions Magnifiques, Rien, Green Spell, Pharrell Williams

I am a four-time Jasmine Award winning writer with a lifelong interest in the world of fine fragrance.

I have written for Harrods Magazine, The Sunday Times, Conde Nast Traveller, Wallpaper*, Business Traveller, Grazia, Feelunique, Glass, The Scented Letter, Basenotes.net and Now Smell This, amongst others. I have been a regular columnist for Esprit Magazine and ParfumPlus.

My knowledge and expertise have been recommended by the Financial Times, the BBC, The Guardian, The Observer, Die Zeit and several other publications.

My perfume guide, Le Snob: Perfume, is published by Hardie Grant. For more information and to order a copy, please click here.

To read my award winning London Perfume Shopping Guide, please click here.

Please feel free to write to me at persolaise at gmail dot com or by using the email form on my Contact page.

Persolaise.com features reviews of perfumes, interviews with fragrance industry figures and general articles related to the world of scent. The site is not affiliated in any way to any brands*, wholesalers, retailers or organisations involved with the fragrance industry.

All reviews are entirely independent. The content of posts is never ‘sponsored’ by any external agencies.

Some reviews are based on samples provided by brands; others are based on samples obtained by the author. This has no bearing on the content of the reviews.

* I am occasionally commissioned by brands to carry out specific projects, such as consultancy or copywriting. In such situations, I do not review the relevant brands’ perfumes for an extended period of time, nor do I mention the brands in any posts/articles where perfumes from several brands are presented as part of a selection/collection.

Regrettably, my current site provider doesn’t offer an automatically-updated blogroll facility, so the best I can do is this set of links to the other blogs I try to read. I believe many of the below have some kind of subscription function that works either through email or social media, so perhaps you could use that to receive updates about new posts. If anyone knows of some way to include a ‘live’ blogroll widget on WordPress, please get in touch.

Andy Tauer
Basenotes
Black Narcissus
Bois De Jasmin
Grain De Musc
Now Smell This
Perfume Posse
Perfume Shrine

Christine Nagel On The Creation Of The New Hermes Oud Alezan And H24 Herbes Vives

Bayly Ledes – Robert Piguet Parfums – Live Interview

Robert Piguet Baghari Review – Francis Fabron; 1950

Fragrance Du Bois, Hedonik Divine Perversion and other reviews – Skin Time September 2021

Rodrigo Flores-Roux Live Interview

Hermes H24 Review – Christine Nagel; 2021

Antoine Lie Live Interview

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