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The Slow Burn – Top 10 Best Tobacco Perfumes

Persolaise — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:00:00 +0000

Smoking may be a socially dubious activity these days — and rightly so — but there’s no doubt whatsoever about the allure of tobacco perfumes, which is why I featured them over on YouTube the other day. Here’s a link to the video, followed by a list of all the scents I covered, with timestamps: […]

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Perfume Bottles On Cosmopolitan UK

Persolaise — Thu, 02 May 2013 05:30:00 +0000

Since my video interview appeared on Cosmopolitan UK’s website last week, I’ve received several emails asking me to identify the bottles on the table. From left to right, they are: Ambre Sultan (Serge Lutens); Un Jardin Sur Le Nil (Hermès); Trayee (Neela Vermeire Creations); Lonestar Memories (Tauer Perfumes); Leather Oud (Christian Dior); Jasmin Et Cigarette […]

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Twenty Blotters For… Etienne De Swardt

Persolaise — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 05:30:00 +0000

Okay, like last Tuesday’s post, this one isn’t by a guest either, but it does hand the microphone to someone other than myself, which means it’s very much in keeping with the spirit of bringing new voices to Persolaise.com during May and June. In the first of what will hopefully turn out to be a […]

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Persolaise The Personal Shopper

Persolaise — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 08:50:00 +0000

For the last week or so I’ve been playing the role of perfume consultant for a very close relative who’d like me to buy him a bottle of something for his birthday. The experience has been great fun, but it’s also raised all the familiar issues of subjectivity and the difficulty of finding a shared vocabulary of scent. I decided […]

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