– This has been a long time coming. Over the last few years, Amouage’s Creative Director, Renaud Salmon, has been kind enough to give me several interviews on my YouTube…
If you’re free on Thursday 10th July and you’re going to be in or near London, please come along to Harrods for a special Chanel event I’ll be co-hosting with…
– I thought about two lovers hanging out in Paris, during the night. I imagined that patchouli is my lover and that I have to tame it, to make it…
— There’s this sentence that I always repeat: she asked for “an artificial perfume.” Artificial in the sense that she didn’t want the scent to smell exactly like a rose…
He’s one of the most successful perfumers of our times. The man who gave us Mugler Angel and perhaps single-handedly created an endless appetite for gourmand scents. The creator of,…
He’s the guardian of Shalimar. The man responsible for protecting the integrity of some of the most important perfumes ever made. The creator of Iris Ganache, Tonka Imperiale and Epices…
Persolaise Amouage Masterclass at Harrods 17 March 2023, with Karine Vinchon-Spehner, creator of the brand's new scent, Lineage.
Mark Constantine interview at Lush Florence Perfume Library opening, November 2019
This year’s perfume calendar just became much more exciting: Somerset House have announced an exhibition they’re calling ‘Perfume – A Sensory Journey Through Contemporary Scent’. In itself, this would have…
This chap needs no introduction. Frederic Malle, the man behind one of the most influential perfume brands of the 21st century, will be making a personal appearance at the London…
It’s the eve of the 6th anniversary of my blog, which makes me doubly excited to announce that I’ll be talking about my passion for perfume, my scented writing and,…
image: Kevin Jaako Here’s something that doesn’t happen every day: Amouage‘s Creative Director, Christopher Chong, will be delivering a lecture on perfume in Cambridge on Wednesday 28th October. The event…
I’m extremely excited to announce that on Saturday 10th October, I’ll be taking part in You Magazine’s Big Beauty Weekend in London: Jo Fairley will be chatting to me about…
On Friday 21st November, I’ll be giving a talk at the Dana Centre at London’s Science Museum on the subject of writing about perfume and smell. The event will part…
If you’re going to be in or near London on Tuesday 20th May and you fancy a scented evening in the company of fellow perfume-lovers, please come along to Dirty…
The UK branch of Look Good Feel Better has teamed up with Selfridges to put together a week-long Festival Of Fragrance at the beginning of March. I’m deeply honoured to…
If you’re in or near London on Wednesday 6th Feb, you might like to make your way to Rivington Street for a Gorilla Perfume event at which I’m going to…
Please click here to be redirected to my Basenotes article about the final event at Harrods’ Perfume Diaries: a presentation by Baccarat. Have a wonderful weekend, Persolaise.
This is just a brief, pre-weekend reminder that you’ve still got a couple of days left to enter the Tauer Perfumes draw for a bottle of either Une Rose Vermeille…
My head’s full of smoke and leather. It’s a shame the same can’t be said for the empty vials on my window sill. I keep telling myself that one day,…
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