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Top 10 Best Perfumes Of 2022

Persolaise 30th December 2022 5 Comments

The top 10 best perfumes of 2022, selected by award-winning critic Persolaise

Interview Video

Joseph Quartana Live Interview

Persolaise 26th November 2022 0 Comments

Joseph Quartana interview by award-winning perfume critic Persolaise (2022)

Perfume review Video

Guerlain Ouds, Quartana Ierofante, Francesca Bianchi Unspoken Musk Reviews – 2022

Persolaise 25th September 2022 8 Comments

Guerlain Oud Nude (Delphine Jelk), Oud Khol (Thierry Wasser), Cherry Oud (Delphine Jelk), Quartana Ierofante (Luca Maffei), Francesca Bianchi Unspoken Musk (Francesca Bianchi) reviews by award-winning perfume critic Persolaise (2022)

List Perfume review Video

Top 10 Best Alternative Perfumes For Summer 2022

Persolaise 14th June 2022 3 Comments

Best perfumes for summer 2022 selected by award-winning critic Persolaise, feat. Cartier, Guerlain, Frederic Malle, Etat Libre D'Orange, Les Indemodables, Comme Des Garcons, Perris, Histoires De Parfums, The Different Company,…

Perfume review

Matiere Premiere, Gallivant Naples and Guerlain Habit Rouge Dress Code – Skin Time November 2021

Persolaise 30th November 2021 0 Comments

Skin Time November 2021 - Persolaise reviews Matiere Premiere, Gallivant Naples and Guerlain Habit Rouge Dress Code

I am a four-time Jasmine Award winning writer with a lifelong interest in the world of fine fragrance.

I have written for Harrods Magazine, The Sunday Times, Conde Nast Traveller, Wallpaper*, Business Traveller, Grazia, Feelunique, Glass, The Scented Letter, Basenotes.net and Now Smell This, amongst others. I have been a regular columnist for Esprit Magazine and ParfumPlus.

My knowledge and expertise have been recommended by the Financial Times, the BBC, The Guardian, The Observer, Die Zeit and several other publications.

My perfume guide, Le Snob: Perfume, is published by Hardie Grant. For more information and to order a copy, please click here.

To read my award winning London Perfume Shopping Guide, please click here.

Please feel free to write to me at persolaise at gmail dot com or by using the email form on my Contact page.

Persolaise.com features reviews of perfumes, interviews with fragrance industry figures and general articles related to the world of scent. The site is not affiliated in any way to any brands*, wholesalers, retailers or organisations involved with the fragrance industry.

All reviews are entirely independent. The content of posts is never ‘sponsored’ by any external agencies.

Some reviews are based on samples provided by brands; others are based on samples obtained by the author. This has no bearing on the content of the reviews.

* I am occasionally commissioned by brands to carry out specific projects, such as consultancy or copywriting. In such situations, I do not review the relevant brands’ perfumes for an extended period of time, nor do I mention the brands in any posts/articles where perfumes from several brands are presented as part of a selection/collection.

Regrettably, my current site provider doesn’t offer an automatically-updated blogroll facility, so the best I can do is this set of links to the other blogs I try to read. I believe many of the below have some kind of subscription function that works either through email or social media, so perhaps you could use that to receive updates about new posts. If anyone knows of some way to include a ‘live’ blogroll widget on WordPress, please get in touch.

Andy Tauer
Basenotes
Black Narcissus
Bois De Jasmin
Grain De Musc
Now Smell This
Perfume Posse
Perfume Shrine

Joseph Quartana Live Interview

Guerlain Ouds, Quartana Ierofante, Francesca Bianchi Unspoken Musk Reviews – 2022

Matiere Premiere, Gallivant Naples and Guerlain Habit Rouge Dress Code – Skin Time November 2021

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