Persolaise Love At First Scent Episode 19 Now On YouTube
Persolaise The 19th episode of Love At First Scent – streamed on Friday 31st August 2018 – is now available on YouTube; watch it above or by clicking here. In this…
Persolaise Love At First Scent Episode 17 Now On YouTube
Episode 17 of Love At First Scent (broadcast live on Facebook) is now available as a permanent upload on YouTube; watch it above or by clicking here. In this edition…
Persolaise Love At First Scent: Alien Man from Mugler (Jean-Christophe Herault; 2018)
For this single-perfume edition of Love At First Scent (first streamed on Instagram, hence the portrait orientation… of which I’m not a fan, but most people don’t seem bothered by…
Vanilla Perfume Recommendations – Persolaise On Feelunique + Next Love At First Scent On Friday 12th January
image: Feelunique In my new article for Feelunique, I’ve turned to one of the oldest – and, arguably, one of the most divisive – perfumery ingredients: vanilla. To see which…
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…
10 Must-Try Fragrances For Men – Persolaise Video On Feelunique’s YouTube Channel
Next up on my list of collaborations with Feelunique: a showcase of must-try masculine perfumes. Enjoy! If you’d like to watch the video on the YouTube site, please click here.…
10 Must-Try Fragrances For Women – Persolaise Video On Feelunique’s YouTube Channel
The other videos I recorded with the team at Feelunique have now appeared on their YouTube channel, so I’ll link to them over the course of the next few days.…
Persolaise Love At First Scent Episode 9 On YouTube
Episode 9 of Love At First Scent – complete with poinsettia – is now on YouTube. Watch it above or by clicking here. In this edition I covered Wonder Bouquet…
Best Evening Perfumes – Persolaise On Feelunique
image: Feelunique Bow ties, sparkling dresses and impossible heels are all over the shops again, which must mean it’s party season. So for my latest piece for Feelunique, I’ve turned…
Searching For The Silver Lining: The Best Modern Perfumes For Young Women
A little while ago, I published a post bemoaning the fact that many new perfume releases aimed at young women don’t treat their target audience with the intelligence they deserve.…
Maiden Call: Thoughts On Chanel Gabrielle, Twilly D’Hermès, Mugler Aura & Gucci Bloom
Reviews of Chanel Gabreille, Hermes Twilly, Gucci Bloom & Mugler Aura by award-winning perfume critic Persolaise
Perfume Mini-Reviews From Twitter: April to June 2017 [part 2]
For more mini-reviews, please click here. Orange Leaf from Perfumer H (Lyn Harris; 2017)* Cologne-like presentation of a vivid citrus leaf on a smouldering bark of wood. Displays typical Harris…
Persolaise Sixty Second Scents: Alien Musc Mysterieux from Mugler (Dominique Ropion; 2017)
Time for a dose of Sixty Second Scents. Today it’s the turn of yet another Mugler flanker: Alien Musc Mysterieux. If you’d prefer to watch it on the YouTube site,…
Persolaise Love At First Scent Episode 2 Is Now On YouTube
Last Friday’s episode of Love At First Scent is now on YouTube, so you can watch it either by clicking above or going to the YouTube site (please click here).…
Persolaise Sixty Second Scents – Hot Cologne from Mugler (Jean-Christophe Hérault; 2016)
Here’s my YouTube review of the latest addition to Mugler’s Les Exceptions range, Hot Cologne, by Jean-Christophe Hérault. To view the video on the YouTube site, please click here. Persolaise
Superfood Scents – Persolaise In The Sunday Times Style
image: Sunday Times Style A little while ago, I made a brief mention of the fact that gourmand scents seem to be going through a calorie-conscious phase. I’m now thrilled…
The Best Perfumes Of 2016… In 60 Seconds
Something a little bit different for you today: a video version of my list of the best perfumes of 2016. Fear not, it’s only 60 seconds long… although it does…
The Best Perfumes Of 2016 – Greens, Dry Petals & Disco Balls
Rightly or wrongly, it looks as though 2016 is going to be marked as a particularly horribilis annus by the gods of record-keeping. Certainly, in political terms, events in the…
The Complete Persolaise Christmas Gift Guide 2016
Those of you who follow me on Twitter will be aware that, over the last few days, I’ve been posting Christmas gift recommendations under the tag #PersolaiseXmas. All those posts…
Persolaise’s Sexy Perfumes Revealed
Following the publication of my recent Grazia article on the latest crop of ‘sexy’ perfumes, I received several emails from non-UK-based readers who were disappointed that they couldn’t get their…