Top 10 Best Perfumes For Winter 2025 – A Light In The Darkness
Persolaise Perfume as a light with which to combat the darkness — that was the theme of my latest seasonal Top 10 broadcast, in which I presented my scented recommendations for…
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Before & After – Quentin Bisch – La Fin Du Monde & Aldebaran
– I first became aware of Quentin Bisch not by smelling one of his works but by seeing him on my TV screen. In the second episode of Ian Denyer’s…
Top 10 Perfumes For Summer 2025 – Super-Joy Scents!
Perfume feels increasingly trivial at a time when more corners of the world are being plunged into darkness. But joy is never trivial. So as spring turns to summer, I…
Scented Kylie – Perfumes For Her 10 Best Songs
Kylie Minogue has long maintained an image as one of pop music’s most fun-loving characters, so I suspect she would have approved of a recent episode of Love At First…
Guerlain Ambre Samar, Marc-Antoine Barrois Aldebaran, Spoturno showcase and other reviews – 2025
Regular readers will know that I don’t consider a perfume’s ability to attract compliments to be especially important; it’s not a factor I think about when deciding what to wear.…
The Top 25 Perfumes Of The 21st Century… So Far
As 2024 came to an end, many of you asked if I’d compile a rundown of the best perfumes of the decade so far. I found the idea appealing —…
Top 10 Best Perfumes Of 2024 – Searching For The Human
— It doesn’t seem possible that twelve months have passed since I put together my last end-of-year roundup, but the reality is plain to see in the electronic diary beaming…
Finding A Simple Happiness – An Interview With Marc-Antoine Barrois On The Launch Of Tilia
— There are two people Quentin Bisch loves to work with. I hope he loves to work with me. And he has great admiration for Renaud Salmon . The lucky…
Celestial Scents – Persolaise In Harper’s Bazaar UK
If you’re based in Britain, you might be interested to learn that the September 2024 issue of Harper’s Bazaar UK (out now) contains an article by yours truly on the…
Marc-Antoine Barrois Tilia (Quentin Bisch; 2024), Armani Blanc Kogane (Benoist Lapouza; 2023) and Noir Kogane (Sophie Labbe; 2023) reviews
Marc-Antoine Barrois and perfumer Quentin Bisch have added a new scent to their astronomically inspired collection: it’s called Tilia and it marks something of a departure from their usual style.…
Top 10 Baroque Perfumes – Rich, Detailed, Ornate Scents
Few things can dispel the winter gloom as effectively as perfume — especially if you choose a scent that’s distinctive, dramatic and full of striking contrasts. A Baroque perfume, you…
Marc-Antoine Barrois Ganymede extrait Review – Quentin Bisch; 2023
Marc-Antoine Barrois Ganymede extrait review by award-winning perfume critic Persolaise (Quentin Bisch, 2023)
Top 10 Perfumes For Valentine’s Day 2023 – Old-World Glamour
Top 10 best perfumes for Valentine's Day 2023, selected by award-winning critic Persolaise (feat. Chanel, Hermes, Tom Ford, Cartier, Le Labo, Les Abstraits, L'Artisan Parfumeur, Marc-Antoine Barrois, Eris, Papillon)
Top 10 Best Perfumes Of 2022
The top 10 best perfumes of 2022, selected by award-winning critic Persolaise
Marc-Antoine Barrois Live Interview
Marc-Antoine Barrois live interview by award-winning perfume critic Persolaise (2022)
Gucci A Reason To Love, Juliette Has A Gun Ego Stratis, Marc-Antoine Barrois Encelade and other reviews – 2022
Juliette Has A Gun Ego Stratis, Gucci A Reason To Love (Alberto Morillas), Givenchy Equivoque, Laboratorio Olfattivo (Jean-Claude Ellena), Ginori 1835 Rajathra Palace, Marc-Antoine Barrois Encelade (Quentin Bisch) and Dior…