The Night Archives -

Top 10 Perfumes For The X-Men – Super-power Scents!

Persolaise 29th April 2024 0 Comments

As regular readers will be all too aware, every now and then, I give in to my silly side and broadcast a video that could generously be described as ‘light-hearted’.…

Perfume review

Hermes H24, Dior Oud Rosewood, Frederic Malle The Night and other reviews – Skin Time August 2021

Persolaise 22nd August 2021 6 Comments

Skin Time August 2021 - Persolaise reviews Hermes H24, Nicolai Cap Neroli, Olfactive Studio Iris Shot, Chanel Paris-Edimbourg, Dior Oud Rosewood, Frederic Malle The Night

Perfume review Video

Top 10 Best Frederic Malle Perfumes – Super Scent

Persolaise 12th April 2020 5 Comments

Top 10 best Frederic Malle perfumes selected by award-winning critic Persolaise

Perfume review

Persolaise Review: The Night ‘الليل’ from Editions De Parfums Frederic Malle (Dominique Ropion; 2014)

Persolaise 13th January 2017 3 Comments

Frederic Malle The Night perfume review by award-winning critic, Persolaise (Dominique Ropion, scent, oud, 2014)

Uncategorized

Malle, Oud & Sex – An Interview With Dominique Ropion

Persolaise 2nd February 2016 12 Comments

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…

I am a four-time Jasmine Award winning writer with a lifelong interest in the world of fine fragrance.

I have written for Harrods Magazine, The Sunday Times, Conde Nast Traveller, Wallpaper*, Business Traveller, Grazia, Feelunique, Glass, The Scented Letter, Basenotes.net and Now Smell This, amongst others. I have been a regular columnist for Esprit Magazine and ParfumPlus.

My knowledge and expertise have been recommended by the Financial Times, the BBC, The Guardian, The Observer, Die Zeit and several other publications.

My perfume guide, Le Snob: Perfume, is published by Hardie Grant. For more information and to order a copy, please click here.

To read my award winning London Perfume Shopping Guide, please click here.

Please feel free to write to me at persolaise at gmail dot com or by using the email form on my Contact page.

Persolaise.com features reviews of perfumes, interviews with fragrance industry figures and general articles related to the world of scent. The site is not affiliated in any way to any brands*, wholesalers, retailers or organisations involved with the fragrance industry.

All reviews are entirely independent. The content of posts is never ‘sponsored’ by any external agencies.

Some reviews are based on samples provided by brands; others are based on samples obtained by the author. This has no bearing on the content of the reviews.

* I am occasionally commissioned by brands to carry out specific projects, such as consultancy or copywriting. In such situations, I do not review the relevant brands’ perfumes for an extended period of time, nor do I mention the brands in any posts/articles where perfumes from several brands are presented as part of a selection/collection.

Regrettably, my current site provider doesn’t offer an automatically-updated blogroll facility, so the best I can do is this set of links to the other blogs I try to read. I believe many of the below have some kind of subscription function that works either through email or social media, so perhaps you could use that to receive updates about new posts. If anyone knows of some way to include a ‘live’ blogroll widget on WordPress, please get in touch.

Andy Tauer
Basenotes
Black Narcissus
Bois De Jasmin
Grain De Musc
Now Smell This
Perfume Posse
Perfume Shrine

Hermes H24, Dior Oud Rosewood, Frederic Malle The Night and other reviews – Skin Time August 2021

Top 10 Best Frederic Malle Perfumes – Super Scent

Persolaise Review: The Night ‘الليل’ from Editions De Parfums Frederic Malle (Dominique Ropion; 2014)

Malle, Oud & Sex – An Interview With Dominique Ropion

You Missed

Top 10 Perfumes For Winter 2024 – Nostalgic Scents

Tom Ford Amber Intrigue (Pascal Gaurin & Julien Rasquinet), Memo Abu Dhabi (Mylene Alran), Memo Indian Leather (Juliette Karagueuzoglou) reviews – 2024

Maison Francis Kurkdjian Absolue Pour Le Soir and Le Matin, Maison Crivelli Oud Cadenza, Roger & Gallet Cologne Twist, Le Labo and Eau De Boujee reviews – 2024

Maison Noir Quandoley 805, To My Ships Polygonum, Jo Malone London Fir & Artemisia, Aramis Tuscany and other reviews – 2024