The 22nd episode of Love At First Scent – streamed on Friday 2nd November 2018 on Facebook Live – is now available on YouTube; you can watch it above or…
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…
For more mini-reviews, please click here. Orage from Louis Vuitton (Jacques Cavallier; 2018)* Fascinating beast. Its studied non-violence makes me think it should’ve been called Apres L’Orage, such is its…
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.…
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.…
image: Feelunique In case you hadn’t realised it, we’re less than a month away from that day when the odd present is exchanged beneath a tree, so my latest Feelunique…
image: Feelunique A rose is a rose is a rose… but when it’s a perfume, it can also be so much more, a delicious phenomenon I explore in my latest…
A little while ago I had the honour of being invited into Feelunique’s London studio to record some videos for their YouTube channel. The first result of our efforts is…
image: Feelunique Following on from my bridal perfume piece a few weeks ago, Feelunique have now published the bridegroom counterpart: please click here to read it. Persolaise
I suspect the folks at Feelunique were enjoying a spot of the ol’ tongue-in-cheekery when they called my latest piece ‘The Sexiest Scents Ever’. Or maybe they weren’t! Either way,…
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…
Here’s part 2 of my latest compendium of Twitter mini-reviews. Please note that, this time around, we’ve got a part 3; it’ll be published soon. Shalimar Cologne from Guerlain (Thierry…
The UK branch of the Fragrance Foundation held its annual awards ceremony last night at London’s Brewery. According to the votes of the Foundation’s members, the best feminine release of…
Part 2 of my digest of mini-reviews from Twitter, spanning October to December 2014 Hommage À L’Homme Voyageur from Lalique (2014)* The violet leaf of the original leads to a…
From left to right: Alexandra and Chantal Roos, co-founders of Dear Rose “Oh, Bloody Rose! Bloody Rose has no rose in it. It’s a hypnotic white flower. It’s the naughty…
Monsieur makes me angry. Sure, it displays the high levels of technical competence that we’ve now come to expect from Pierre Guillaume – it’s diffusive, long-lasting and generally cohesive –…
Back when YSL‘s M7 was worthy of the image of a naked, hairy martial arts expert, I bought myself a bottle of one of the scent’s ancillary products, a so-called…
Wow! Cover me with slices of lemon and sprinkle me with a pinch of salt. Eau De Monsieur is back. Sadly, I never had a chance to smell the original…
Pick a blotter… read the question… give a short, snappy answer! I mean this as a compliment: Rodrigo Flores-Roux loves to talk. The Givaudan perfumer is a bundle of anecdotes,…
There was once a pot which called a kettle black. I try to remind myself of this each time I feel the urge to become snooty about so-called ‘summer scents’.…
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