Interview With Gallivant’s Nick Steward – Send In Your Questions
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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)
Givaudan Evaluator Interview – “A Very Sacred Bond” Paula Cantuaria
Givaudan evaluator interview Paula Cantuaria by perfume critic Persolaise (2019)
Vero Kern Interview 2011 – From The Archive
Vero Kern interview by perfume critic Persolaise (2011, From The Archive, Vero Profumo)
Taking The Layered Approach – An Interview With Emmanuelle Moeglin Of Experimental Perfume Club
Award-winning perfume critic, Persolaise, interviews Emmanuelle Moeglin of Experimental Perfume Club (scent, fragrance, 2019)
“Now Everybody Is An Artist” – An Audience With Frederic Malle + Next Episode Of Love At First Scent On Sunday 28 April 2019
Perfume brand founder, Frederic Malle, interviewed in London (scent, fragrance, 2018)
Persolaise On ABC Radio Australia With Michael Pavlich + Next Episode Of Love At First Scent
A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Michael Pavlich on his Overnights programme on Australia’s ABC Radio. The segment is now available online, so if…
Persolaise In Wallpaper* – Interview With Alessandro Gualtieri Of Nasomatto
A slight, wizard-bearded figure in bright red plimsolls and a wrap-around, teal lab coat, he doesn’t immediately come across as the contrarian that his rare, past interviews suggest he is.…
The Moment Of Doubt: An Interview With Christine Nagel Of Hermès + The Next Episode Of Love At First Scent
Towards the end of 2017, the current in-house perfumer at Hermès, Christine Nagel – whose past credits include Eau De Cartier, Archives 69 for Etat Libre D’Orange and more than…
“Your Claims Have To Be Honest” – An Interview With Rodrigo Flores-Roux
With no fewer than 12 Fragrance Foundation Awards under his belt – the first one being for Clinique‘s Happy – Rodrigo Flores-Roux is unquestionably one of the most successful and…
Persolaise Interviews Christopher Chong In The Latest Nez + Next Facebook Live This Friday
“I don’t think any of my perfumes are strange, maybe because I live with them every single second of my life. It’s like having a child. Even if your child…
Scent Imitates Art – Basenotes Interview With Evody’s Cerine Vasseur & Perfumer Cecile Zarokian
image: Basenotes Vasseur (left) with Zarokian “What abstract artists did was to use shapes and colours. I thought that if I had to transpose abstraction into my field, my art,…
Unisex Perfumes – Double Dose Of Persolaise On BBC Radio
The subject of unisex perfumes has obviously been high on the minds of some BBC Radio producers, because two of them asked me to appear on their programmes to chat…
The Fallen Linguist: An Interview With Nick Steward Of Gallivant
Interview with Nick Steward, founder and creative director of Gallivant, by award-winning critic Persolaise
The Point At Which They Meet: Nicolas Chabot On Æther
You talk with buyers in London, they say, ‘Okay, if you want to get into our stores, you need to use oud, you need to concentrate at 30%, you need…
Stepping Over To The Other Side – Chandler Burr On You Or Someone Like You
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…
Knowing How To Seduce – Interview With Nathalie Feisthauer On Basenotes
image: Basenotes At the recent London launch of Aedes De Venustas‘ Pelargonium, I managed to interview its creator, Nathalie Feisthauer (Eau Des Merveilles, Honour Man, Putain Des Palaces). Our lively…
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…
What Was I Wearing? – Persolaise On We Wear Perfume
image: We Wear Perfume A few weeks ago, the lovely people behind We Wear Perfume asked if I’d mind getting in the ‘interviewee’ seat for a change. The results of…
“Seventeen Families” – An Exclusive Interview With Francis Kurkdjian [part 2]
Part 1 of this exclusive interview with Francis Kurkdjian was published yesterday on Now Smell This; please click here to read it. Persolaise: If you could place perfume anywhere in…