Top 10 Perfumes For Winter 2024 – Nostalgic Scents
Persolaise I’m always slightly suspicious of the self-indulgent aspects of nostalgia, but I decided to revel in the feeling when broadcasting the rundown of my top 10 perfumes for winter 2024.…
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.…
Guerlain Shalimar Millesime Jasmin review – Delphine Jelk; 2024
On paper, the idea of a jasmine-inflected Shalimar promises something absolutely terrific — not only would it emphasise the 1925 scent’s floral, animalic aspects, but it would also make sense…
Guerlain Patchouli Paris, Diptyque Les Essences and Jo Malone London Hinoki & Cedarwood reviews – 2024
Japan, France and a coral reef at the bottom of an ocean were just three of our ports of call in a recent session of Love At First Scent, in…
Sometimes Magic Happens – An Interview With Guerlain’s Delphine Jelk
– I thought about two lovers hanging out in Paris, during the night. I imagined that patchouli is my lover and that I have to tame it, to make it…
Top 10 Classic Eaux De Cologne – The Perfect Pick-Me-Up
It may be the oldest perfumery genre in existence, but it’s taken me until now to present my list of the Top 10 best eaux de cologne, for reasons which…
Guerlain Habit Rouge, Vetiver & L’Homme Ideal parfums review – Delphine Jelk; 2024
Why entice us with just one scent when three bottles lined up next to each other look so much better in a photo? Perhaps that’s what the Powers That Be…
Top 10 Perfumes For Spring 2024 – The Power Of Nature
As I type these words, hailstones are tapping away on our roof, but never mind — spring is here, right? Ever the optimist, I presented my list of the Top…
Guerlain Neroli Plein Sud, Aqua Allegoria Florabloom, Hermes H24 Herbes Vives and Ffern reviews – 2024
An air of bracing freshness swept through my most recent episode of Love At First Scent, thanks to the sunny vitality of Guerlain’s new Neroli Plein Sud, their blossom-focussed Florabloom,…
Top 10 Perfumes For Valentine’s Day 2024 – Paint The Town Red!
For this year’s Valentine’s Day list on Love At First Scent I decided to take a synesthetic approach and present a rundown of the Top 10 perfumes that evoke the…
Top 10 Best Perfumes Of 2023
It’s often been said that perfumery doesn’t set trends: it simply latches onto the coat-tails of those formed by other creative endeavours. Perhaps this is why we had to wait…
Gucci Guilty Elixir Pour Femme & Pour Homme, Puente Eaden, Ulrich Lang Suncrest and other reviews – 2023
For this year’s final regular episode of Love At First Scent, we went all the way from sunny peaches to asteroid-bound rocket fuel, via delicate orange blossom and butcher-than-expected lavender,…
Top 10 Best Perfumes For Winter 2023 – Scents Of Timeless Wisdom
Everyone needs a Gandalf in their life. Or an Athena, or an Atticus Finch. Sadly, such figures aren’t always easy to find, so perhaps that’s why I’ve recently been drawn…
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…
Guerlain Les Extraits Signature review – Thierry Wasser & Delphine Jelk; 2023
As promised, over on YouTube the other day, I shared a few thoughts on the new, excruciatingly expensive extraits Guerlain have released under the L’Art & La Matiere banner. The…
Guerlain Tobacco Honey review – Delphine Jelk; 2023
Goodness me, the folks at Guerlain have been keeping busy. Not only have they given us new Shalimar, La Petite Robe Noire, L’Homme Ideal and Habit Rouge flankers this year,…
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…
Top 10 Perfumes For Autumn 2023 – Sophisticated Scents
In many aspects of etiquette, there’s a fine line between the casual and the inconsiderate. I suspect a fear that we’re veering too close to the latter was the guiding…
Guerlain Shalimar Millesime Iris Review – Delphine Jelk; 2023
After 2021’s Vanilla Planifolia and last year’s Tonka, the folks at Guerlain are trying to generate another burst of frenzied buying with a third entry in the limited edition Shalimar…
Top 10 Best Citrus Perfumes – Zesty Lip-Lickers
It was time to get tart over on my YouTube channel the other day when I ended the current run of episodes with a presentation of my Top 10 best…