Top 10 Perfumes For Halloween 2024 – Scents Of Darkness
Persolaise It’s that time of year again when demons, witches and goblins take over the world. I’ve never been one for ‘celebrating’ Halloween, but as you know, I can’t resist a…
Lalique Encre Indigo review – Annick Menardo; 2023
The number of flankers released by Lalique for their successful 2006 Encre Noire has been commendably low. It suggests a desire to proceed with caution and not follow most other…
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…
Top 10 Best Vetiver Perfumes 2021
Top 10 best vetiver perfumes presented by award-winning critic Persolaise (feat. Guerlain, Hermes, Frederic Malle, Tom Ford, Lalique, Francesca Bianchi, Sugandhco, Chanel, Marie Jeanne, The Different Company, 2021)
Brioni Review – Michel Almairac; 2021
Brioni 2021 eau de parfum review by award-winning perfume critic Persolaise (Michel Almairac, 2021)
Persolaise Love At First Scent Episode 21 Now On YouTube
Episode 21 of Love At First Scent – streamed on Sunday 28th October 2018 on Facebook Live – has just been uploaded to YouTube; you can watch it above or…
Persolaise Mini-Reviews: August to September 2018 [part 1]
For more mini-reviews, please click here. Aura eau de toilette from Mugler (2018)* Plays it even safer than the edp, toning down the vine-y greenness to make more room for…
Persolaise Love At First Scent Episode 16 Now On YouTube
Episode 16 of Love At First Scent (broadcast live on Sunday on YouTube) is now available as a permanent upload; watch it above or by clicking here. In this edition…
Persolaise Love At First Scent Episode 8 On YouTube
Episode 8 of Love At First Scent – featuring my suitably Halloween-esque orange shirt – is now on YouTube; please watch it by clicking above or by going directly to…
Persolaise Love At First Scent Episode 4 On YouTube
Those of you who missed Episode 4 of my Facebook Live Love At First Scent series may be interested to know that it’s now on YouTube; watch it by clicking…
Perfume Mini-Reviews From Twitter: April to June 2016 [part 1]
Here we go, ladies and gents: another round-up of my mini-reviews from Twitter, spanning the months April to June. La Petite Robe Noire eau de parfum intense from Guerlain (Thierry…
“You Have To Give, Give, Give” – Nathalie Lorson On Lalique, Le Labo & L’Oreal
Lalique‘s Encre Noire enjoys what you might call a god-like status in the perfume community. Not long after it emerged in 2006, its uncompromising, legible structure of vetivert and musks…
Perfume Mini-Reviews From Twitter – October to December 2015 [part 2]
Here’s part 2 of my latest compendium of Twitter mini-reviews. Please note that, this time around, we’ve got a part 3; it’ll be published soon. Shalimar Cologne from Guerlain (Thierry…
Perfume Mini-Reviews From Twitter – October to December 2014 [part 2]
Part 2 of my digest of mini-reviews from Twitter, spanning October to December 2014 Hommage À L’Homme Voyageur from Lalique (2014)* The violet leaf of the original leads to a…
FiFi UK 2013 Best Independent Perfume Award Shortlist
Image: Fragrance Foundation UK The people at Fragrance Foundation UK have just released the shortlist for this year’s Best Independent Perfume FiFi Award, a category for which I had the…
Love At Chapter One: Perfumes For Valentine’s Day 2013
You won’t be surprised to learn that I think my book would make an ideal present for Valentine’s Day: it’s pretty, it’s entertaining and it might lead the scentusiast (or…
Persolaise Review: Hommage À L’Homme from Lalique (2011) + Volutes from Diptyque (2012)… And Some More Thoughts On A*Men Pure Leather
Please click here to be taken to my Glass Magazine reviews of Diptyque’s Volutes, Lalique’s 2011 masculine, Hommage À L’Homme and Mugler’s new A*Men Pure Leather. If you’ve got a…
A List For Falling Leaves – Scents For Autumn
It’s joint-list-making time again. On this occasion, it’s Barney‘s turn to choose our theme and he’s drawn inspiration from that touch of dampness in the air… the plunging temperatures… the…
Advance Warning: Perfume Giveaway + Scentsations of Southampton
This weekend brought a wholly unexpected and very welcome surprise. I was trying to find some information on a company about which all I could remember was that its name…