Michael Edwards, American Legends, Live Interview
Persolaise He may be the busiest man in the business, but fortunately for all of us, Michael Edwards, the supreme perfume guru, found some time to pop into my virtual studio…
Sophie Maisant, Bastille, Live Interview
For my first YouTube broadcast of the year, I did one of my favourite things: ask lots of questions. The person at the receiving end of my nosiness was Sophie…
Frederic Malle Synthetic Jungle Review – Anne Flipo; 2021
Frederic Malle Synthetic Jungle review by award-winning perfume critic Persolaise (Anne Flipo, 2021)
Christopher Yu Ostens Live Interview
Christopher Yu Ostens interview by award-winning perfume critic Persolaise (2021)
Masque Milano Alessandro Brun Interview
Masque Milano Alessandro Brun interview by award-winning perfume critic Persolaise (2021)
Richard E Grant Jack Perfume Live Interview
Richard E Grant Jack Perfume interview by award-winning perfume critic Persolaise (2020)
Catherine Mitchell IFF Interview By Persolaise In The Scented Letter
Catherine Mitchell IFF interview by award-winning perfume critic Persolaise in The Perfume Society's Scented Letter (2020)
Capturing The Scent Of War + Facebook Live Reminder!
I imagined I was walking in a town, partly destroyed by the war, with some fires burning, but maybe also still with some trees and some flowers around. And I…
Perfume Mini-Reviews From Twitter: January to March 2016 [part 2]
The second and final part of my January-to-March mini-review round-up. Fahrenheit Cologne from Christian Dior (François Demachy; 2016)* Addition of sweet citrus is touch incongruous, but the more translucent violet-leaf…
Malle, Oud & Sex – An Interview With Dominique Ropion
A few months ago, when he was in London for an IFF event, I managed to have an all-too-brief conversation with one of the undisputed masters of scent composition: Dominique…
Making Wasabi – An Interview With Céline Verleure Of Olfactive Studio
Regular readers will be aware that Olfactive Studio‘s Panorama is without question one of my favourite perfume releases of the year so far. With its juxtaposition of a laser-charged, green…
Persolaise Review: Jack from Jack Perfume (Aliénor Massenet; 2014)
According to his exhilarating account of the creation of his first scent (click here to read it), Richard E Grant was advised to aim for a polarising composition. Nothing wishy-washy:…
The Risk And The Reward – Richard E Grant On The Creation Of Jack
In his engrossing online account of the birth of his perfume Jack (I’d urge you to click here and check it out) Richard E Grant describes a creation process rich…
Fragrance Flitting – IFF Speed Smelling Comes To London
Alexis Dadier at Speed Smelling, Salon De Parfums image: Harrods “What raises the pitch of the event to an especially heart-rending level is the fact that none of these works…
A New Type Of Femininity – Cartier’s Mathilde Laurent On Female Perfumers, Guerlain & L’Heure Perdue
“With La Panthère, I really wanted to renew the femininity you can find on the market. I wanted to offer something different. Because I thought at that moment that femininity…
Persolaise Review: Aromatics In White from Clinique (Nicolas Beaulieu; 2015)
By the pricking of my thumbs, something musky this way comes. Or should that be, “something snowy”? Two trends seem to be gaining momentum in the perfume world – i)…
“You Have To Be More Direct” – An Interview With Carlos Benaïm
“Frederic Malle is much more directive. But he doesn’t tell you what to do. I would sit with him and he would give ideas. Sometimes I agreed with his ideas,…
You Have To Be Modest Sometimes – An Exclusive Interview With Frederic Malle (part 2)
The first instalment of this exclusive interview ended with Frederic Malle commenting on the pressure he places on his perfumers – and on himself – to aim for the highest…
Olivier Polge Joins His Father Jacques As Perfumer At Chanel
Big news from the house of the double-C logo. Here’s a press release I received this morning: CHANEL takes great pleasure in announcing the arrival of Olivier Polge as Perfumer…
FiFi 2013 Perfume Extraordinaire Shortlist
As the date for the FiFi awards ceremony draws closer, the people at Fragrance Foundation UK are busily releasing the final category shortlists. One of the latest to emerge is…