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.…
Reviews of Chanel Gabreille, Hermes Twilly, Gucci Bloom & Mugler Aura by award-winning perfume critic Persolaise
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…
image: Fashionbeans Male grooming expert and award-winning writer Lee Kynaston has just published a piece on Fashionbeans about ‘luxury’ perfumes for men. It features a few contributions from me, so…
Another Sixty Second Scents video review for you: Christine Nagel‘s Eau Des Merveilles Bleue for Hermès… complete with painful French pronunciation. To view the video on the YouTube site, please…
It’s all too easy to forget that before she had you, your mum had a life of her own. You may have grown used to seeing her just as the…
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…
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…
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…
Those of you who follow me on Twitter will be aware that, over the last few days, I’ve been posting Christmas gift recommendations under the tag #PersolaiseXmas. All those posts…
In recent weeks, much of my time has been taken up with writing articles for other platforms, which means that I haven’t had many opportunities to share my scented views…
THIS POST WAS SHORTLISTED IN THE ‘INDEPENDENT – SOUNDBITE’ CATEGORY OF THE 2016/17 UK JASMINE AWARDS The soundbites If Galop D’Hermès were a painting, it would be Two Dancers In…
Hermès founder, Thierry Hermès Guess what: I found this Super Scent list very difficult to compile. But for an unexpected reason. As I explained to Candy Perfume Boy when I…
It’s that time of year again when dads get their own share of the shopping spotlight. So if you’re looking for gift ideas, please take a moment to scroll through…
The soundbites If Muguet Porcelaine were a colour it would be: aqua green with a suggestion of pink If it were a piece of music, it would be: Alone In…
It’s that time again: a round-up of my mini-reviews from Twitter. Come back soon for part 2. Cedro Di Taormina from Acqua Di Parma (2016)* Typically elegant AdP cologne, this…
Today’s review takes the form of a conversation between the outgoing, in-house perfumer at Hermès, Jean-Claude Ellena, and his replacement, Christine Nagel. It is entirely fictional. Probably. — Christine Nagel…
Here’s the third and final part of the latest compilation of mini-reviews. Fresh Couture from Moschino (2015)* Yes, the bottle is original & chuckle-worthy. The scent is a cliched mandarin-floral…
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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;…
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