Hiram Green, Live Interview On The Launch Of Ultra
Persolaise I was delighted to welcome self-taught, Holland-based perfumer Hiram Green into my virtual studio a few days ago. He discussed his latest release, Ultra — which he describes as channelling…
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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…
Before & After – A New Series On My Substack, Charting The Development Of Renowned Perfumers
– This is almost pointless. A fact that’s slightly ironic given that, on paper, the idea looks as though it shouldn’t be the least bit tricky to pull off. Step…
Les Indemodables Patchouli Noisette Live Interview With Antoine Lie and Valerie & Remi Pulverail
Antoine Lie and Remi and Valerie Pulverail – the creative forces behind Les Indemodables – have just released a new perfume called Patchouli Noisette (click here for my review), which…
Aurelien Guichard Matiere Premiere Interview
Aurelien Guichard live interview by award-winning perfume critic Persolaise (2022)
Francesca Bianchi Live Interview
Francesca Bianchi interview by award-winning perfume critic Persolaise, 2021
And Fragrance Simon Constantine Live Interview
Simon Constantine And Fragrance interview by award-winning perfume critic Persolaise (2020)
Miller Harris Sublime Blossom Review – Bertrand Duchaufour; 2019
Miller Harris Sublime Blossom review by award-winning perfume critic Persolaise (Bertrand Duchaufour, 2019)
“Your Claims Have To Be Honest” – An Interview With Rodrigo Flores-Roux
With no fewer than 12 Fragrance Foundation Awards under his belt – the first one being for Clinique‘s Happy – Rodrigo Flores-Roux is unquestionably one of the most successful and…
Scent Imitates Art – Basenotes Interview With Evody’s Cerine Vasseur & Perfumer Cecile Zarokian
image: Basenotes Vasseur (left) with Zarokian “What abstract artists did was to use shapes and colours. I thought that if I had to transpose abstraction into my field, my art,…
Capturing The Scent Of War + Facebook Live Reminder!
I imagined I was walking in a town, partly destroyed by the war, with some fires burning, but maybe also still with some trees and some flowers around. And I…
“Seventeen Families” – An Exclusive Interview With Francis Kurkdjian [part 2]
Part 1 of this exclusive interview with Francis Kurkdjian was published yesterday on Now Smell This; please click here to read it. Persolaise: If you could place perfume anywhere in…
“An Easy Subject To Lie About” – An Exclusive Interview With Francis Kurkdjian [part 1]
Part 1 of my exclusive interview with perfumer Francis Kurkdjian has just been published on Now Smell This; please click on this link to read it. Part 2 will be…
“Treading In Funny Territory” – Rodrigo Flores-Roux At The Launch Of John Varvatos Dark Rebel
I haven’t had many opportunities to meet Givaudan‘s Rodrigo Flores-Roux (Neroli Portofino, Anima Dulcis, Oeillet Bengale, amongst several others), but each time our paths have crossed, I’ve bemoaned the fact…
“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…
Malle, Oud & Sex – An Interview With Dominique Ropion
A few months ago, when he was in London for an IFF event, I managed to have an all-too-brief conversation with one of the undisputed masters of scent composition: Dominique…
A New Type Of Femininity – Cartier’s Mathilde Laurent On Female Perfumers, Guerlain & L’Heure Perdue
“With La Panthère, I really wanted to renew the femininity you can find on the market. I wanted to offer something different. Because I thought at that moment that femininity…
Thierry Wasser On Habit Rouge
For my final interview to mark the 50th anniversary of Jean-Paul Guerlain’s Habit Rouge, we turn to the scent’s current guardian: Thierry Wasser. In his role as the venerable fragrance…
‘Fake It Till You Make It’ – An Interview With Papillon’s Liz Moores
image: Liz Moores When Papillon‘s debut trio emerged last year, it immediately caused a stir amongst scentusiasts in the UK. Tobacco Rose was the crowd pleaser, but the deadly Anubis…
“I Try To Take You By The Hand” – An Interview With Jean-Claude Ellena, Perfumer At Hermès
image: Hermès “My perfumes are sensual like the women of Hitchcock. I love Kim Novak. I can watch the same Kim Novak movie several times. And Grace Kelly too. There’s…