Christmas 2024 Perfume Gift Guide
Persolaise I have no doubt that the vast majority of you are forward-thinking, super-organised, careful-planning types, so I expect you finished all your Christmas shopping in October. However, if some of…
Top 10 Tuberose Perfumes — All Our Favourite Divas
It was time for a bit of diva domination over on YouTube the other day when I presented my list of the Top 10 best tuberose perfumes — a compilation…
Top 10 Best Perfumes Of 2021 – Hovering In Limbo
Top 10 best perfumes of 2021 selected by award-winning critic Persolaise
New Perfumes For October 2021 And £25,000 For Chanel No. 5
Chanel No. 5 Baccarat extrait edition, Les Indemodables Ambre Supreme, Naomi Goodsir Corpus Equus, Burberry Hero, Mugler Alien Essence Absolue, Kilian Apple Brandy On The Rocks and L'Heure Verte reviews…
Top 10 Underrated Perfumes With Max Forti
Top 10 underrated perfumes selected by Max Forti and award-winning critic Persolaise (2021, feat. Guerlain, Kenzo, Olfactive Studio, Ulrich Lang and others)
Best Perfumes Of The Decade 2010-2019 part 1
Best perfumes of the decade 2010-2019 by award-winning critic Persolaise (part 1)
The Best Perfumes Of 2017 – Tobacco, Witches & Unmade Beds
I’m told ‘busy’ is now the word we most commonly use in response to ‘How have you been?’ (apparently just saying ‘Very well’ smacks of some kind subversive, trouble-making, rat-race-denying…
Persolaise Review: Nuit De Bakélite from Naomi Goodsir (Isabelle Doyen; 2017)
Tuberose is going through something of a mini revival. If the press notes are to be believed, it forms a significant part of Chanel‘s new Gabrielle (consider me unconvinced on…
Best Perfumes Of 2013
Don’t look now, folks, but I think we’ve made it to the end of another December. Rose-tinted nostalgia goggles aside, it’s probably fair to say that 2013 has been as…
Persolaise Review: Cuir Velours from Naomi Goodsir (Julien Rasquinet; 2012)
It’s so wonderful to be able to approach a perfume with almost no prior knowledge of its construction, especially when it turns out to be as impressive as Cuir Velours.…