Perfume Masterclass Episode 1 – Ingredients – Lavender & Tuberose
Persolaise Perfume Masterclass on lavender & tuberose, with Remi Pulverail and award-winning critic Persolaise (2022)
Perfume Ingredients Masterclass Coming To Persolaise YouTube Channel
Coming soon to YouTube -- perfume ingredients masterclass by Remi Pulverail of Les Indemodables, and award-winning perfume critic Persolaise. Order your Grand Crus ingredients set now.
Precious Perfume Ingredients In Harrods Magazine
Article in Harrods Magazine July 2022 on precious perfume ingredients by award-winning critic Persolaise
Nose Film Review (dir. Clement Beauvais; 2021)
Nose perfume documentary review by award-winning writer Persolaise (2021)
The Things You See At A Perfume Factory – A Visit To Robertet In Grasse
The photo above shows one of the sights that greeted me and Madame Persolaise when we visited Robertet’s Grasse factory in February*. A heap of mimosa, filling the air with…
Dora Arnaud Interview On Basenotes
In a recent interview, Dora Arnaud – creator of L’Artisan Parfumeur‘s Caligna (soon to be reviewed here) – revealed that the scent contains a relatively new raw material: a tincture…
To Snub Or To Scathe?
You know you’re exhausted when you place an order for what you think is a new raw material only to discover that you’ve already got it in your lab. In…
Perfumery Pause + Orange Star Draw Winner
Pardon me for going on and on about the Day Job, but this is the time of year when it starts demanding a disproportionate amount of my attention. As I’ve…
Persolaise 1st Anniversary Prize Draw
A year ago today, I plunged into this blog’s inaugural entry with no preamble whatsoever. So I think it’s right that I mark the first anniversary of Persolaise.com by going…
Is That A Curry I Smell Before Me?
I managed to find some time this weekend to work on a couple of formulae I’m trying to develop, which means the air in my study is now a bizarre…
Why Complain?
All being well, fingers crossed, with a bit of luck, as long as the wind’s blowing the right way and if everything goes according to plan, by the time I…
Perfume Regulation On The BBC
UK readers may like to click on this link to listen to the latest podcast of BBC Radio 4’s You & Yours. About 27 minutes into the episode you’ll find…
Hard Pressed
I don’t quite know how, but in between the extra demands of the day job, the insurmountable ironing and the million-and-one other things that need doing every single weekend, I…