Celebrating 13 Years Of Persolaise -- Ask Me Anything - Persolaise Love At First Scent episode 350

[@Sliceisnice850]

Congratulations. I’m delighted to learn there is 13 years’ worth of content to enjoy. Your videos continue to have a life-affirming quality. Thank you for the work you do.

[@Persolaise]

That's very sweet, John. Thank you.

[@marktube5732]

We absolutely love and appreciate you Mr. Persolaise. Your value to the fragrance world cannot be expressed with words. Thank you for all the great content sir.

[@Persolaise]

That's too kind -- thank you, Mark.

[@MsAmarille]

Congratulations Mr Persolaise and thank you very much!

[@Persolaise]

Thanks for watching.

[@akwellevallis]

Looking good, Mr. P! How do you stay fit?😇

[@Persolaise]

Thanks… but I’m not sure I’m especially fit.

[@illiona3289]

Amazing jumper ❤ Pedro Almodovar films, my favorite being Tacones lejanos ❤

[@Persolaise]

Ah, that's a classic.

[@devourtheirsouls]

Ramsey has unbelievable amounts of knowledge and interesting videos

[@Persolaise]

Absolutely.

[@Dukiduledoozy]

Congratulations, Mr. Persolaise! Absolutely love the TSMM top!

[@Persolaise]

Thanks very much 😃

[@beardy272]

@Persolaise I appreciate you taking the time on-air to answer my question earlier amongst the sea of comments flooding the box. Your response made perfect sense, and I thank you for it. You truly are an inspiration - your quick wit and eloquence is genuine and never contrived. It’s sometimes difficult for us more diffident in nature to muster the courage to engage the conversation, but you make the environment welcoming. You have a knack for instilling happiness in your viewers, whilst educating and encouraging our involvement - as any proper teacher should. Please know that your craft is perfected. Please know that these videos and your work impact our lives so meaningfully so. If ever your passion should slip, please never forget those facts. P.S. My wife is an educator as well, and similarly far less “geeky” when it comes to fragrances as I - so I can completely relate on that front and sometimes it can be bit of a hard pill to swallow … but I love every attempt to chip away at the subtle apathy 😊

[@Persolaise]

Beardy, these are such touching words. Thank you very, very much indeed.

[@liselotteamblat6953]

Couldn't put my thoughts better than that!

[@zakia484]

Congratulations on 13 years of captivating content that kept us entertained and gave us a sense of community and 1st class company! I am from the Middle East (Lebanon) and have moved to the UAE recently. I hope you visit the UAE some time soon - I'd love to meet you in person!

[@Persolaise]

Thank you, Zakia. I’m always happy to return to the UAE.

[@aromafromheaven]

Congratulations ✅

[@Persolaise]

Thanks very much indeed.

[@joeribt]

Happy anniversary! Your knowledge (and influence on my purchases...) is epic! Up to the next 13!

[@Persolaise]

Thanks very much.

[@OlfactiveStories]

Congratulations Dariush! ❤

[@Persolaise]

Thanks very much indeed.

[@liselotteamblat278]

Missed it ! Congrats. Thanks for being you ! I don't know why but I don't get bored of you !!! It must be the formality, the constance, the humour ("humour potache" we'd say in French, like humour you use in school !).

[@liselotteamblat278]

Meant to say like schoolboy humour !

[@Persolaise]

Oh dear :-D Is schoolboy humour a good thing?? Thanks for the kind comment, Liselotte.

[@liselotteamblat6953]

@@Persolaise 😂Haha I see your concerns but yes I'd say old school schoolboy! That gets very technical! I should add of course thanks for the scents you made me discover, the hairy chested Habit Rouge ("doesn't lack in hair follicles" 😂 your words exactly, a scent which is sometimes hard for me to wear but I can't get enough of the lemon! "Icing sugar on top of a desert" as you once said.), the wonderful Jardin sur le Nil and also H24 Hermès... I agree Madres Paralelas was very good. You make me want to go back and watch the films.

[@scp5577]

Big Congrats on the anniversary, Mr. P! You're an KZbin institution and we all love you!

[@Persolaise]

Well... I don't know about 'institution'. But thank you!

[@scp5577]

@@Persolaise It's Sujata, Mr. P., and my education and academic background is in political theory and literature. If an "institution" is an established or settled practice, for your subscribers, you are indeed a most beloved institution. I am a relative newbie to this world you've created, but I see it with every video I watch! A cup of coffee or tea and Persolaise - a glass of wine and Persolaise - it's clearly a thing! 😊

[@conchitacolez]

With great gratitude for all you've given us these past 13 years. Happy Anniversary!

[@conchitacolez]

Krzysztof Kieślowski 💙🤍❤

[@Persolaise]

I’m the one who’s grateful to all of YOU. Thank you so much for this 🙏

[@recherche4528]

Love your shirt! ❤

[@Persolaise]

Thanks very much.

[@emmagutierrez1408]

I knew it! Your favourite British writer HAD to be Kazuo Ishiguro. Don't ask me why but I knew. Fantastic writer! Congrats on 13 years of stunning work!!!

[@Persolaise]

Oh wow -- that's amazing. I wonder what made you think that.

[@emmagutierrez1408]

@@Persolaise Well, it's a feeling I had. It's very sophisticated storytelling with rather dark, even poignant subjects, but there is controlled passion in every page, intense emotion kept in check, which makes the reading experience profound and elevating. I find Ishiguro belongs with the nobler kind of writers, if that makes sense. And I sense something like that about you too. 🙂 I am French but I teach English literature, you see.

[@Persolaise]

@@emmagutierrez1408 This is so fascinating -- it's precisely this quality that I adore about his work.

[@liselotteamblat6953]

@@Persolaise I kind of see what Emma is saying (hello to a fellow French fan! ). I have not read this author's work but I have recently discovered the adaptation of Remains of the day with Anthony Hopkins and you share the restraint of the general mood that maybe makes us all come back! 😂🤔 It's quite powerful when you think about it, that they succeeded in conveying that in the film, the book must be quite something!

[@Persolaise]

@@liselotteamblat6953 That is a superb adaptation of the book. Merchant Ivory's crowning achievement, I'd say.

[@lucianamonteiro90]

Congratulations! Love your vídeos! Thank so much! I'm from Brasil. Carioca from Rio de Janeiro.

[@Persolaise]

Thank you very much, Luciana.

[@zvikaso]

I've learned a lot today - you're an author, an English teacher, you have the travelling virus (like me) and you're a grandpa !! All that while being Mr. P (P for perfume). WOW. I am new to the game. I've started my journey less than 2 years ago. Until then I was a one scent man (a 'collection' of 1 bottle for a few decades). I fell into the rabbit hole during a weekend in Italy - for me it all began with Lorenzo Villoresi, which I smelled in Milan (Sandalo, Theseus, Patchouli and Atman Xaman). There was a switch i nmy brain that has turned on, and I became a "sniffer" :). I'm still falling in the rabbit hole ... I'm learning a lot from your channel/chanel :) Thank you for these lovely videos. I appreciate your knowledge and analysis, although my personal taste doesn't correlate to yours precisely... no two noses are alike. I have no nostalgy to childhood scents like you, so I've pretty much started my journey 'taboula rasa'. There is something fun about discovering this world of wonders from scratch. On the other hand, I don't have attachments to old scents such as chanel no 5, so maybe I'm missing something here.

[@Persolaise]

What a wonderful comment to receive - thank you. And I’m so pleased you’re enjoying the channel. Enjoy the journey through the rabbit hole!

[@peggyhui901]

Has it really been 13yrs already? Wow...keep up the good work Mr.P!

[@Persolaise]

Peggy, I know. Where has the time gone?

[@lynnleglaire4819]

Wonderful session. Congratulations on 350 videos and a 13 year journey you expected to last 6 months. I learned so much from your videos and your interviews. I hope to catch a live soon! Cheers to you! Hope that evening dinner went well.

[@Persolaise]

Thank you so much, Lynn. I appreciate it.

[@MoahGentle]

Cool vid, again 🎉

[@Persolaise]

Thanks very much indeed.

[@annemiekevandenbelt2971]

Congratulations dear Persolaise! 🎉 so sorry I missed this live… I love this wonderful work you are doing, I learn so much from you and also ve try much enjoy the flock of people that you managed to attract these last 13 years 🙏🏻 I am going to watch this video later to give it all the attention it deserves! 🥰

[@Persolaise]

Please take your time, Annemieke. And thanks for the kind words.

[@Polpofemo_5]

I missed some of the last lives, bur i want to congratulate with you for your 13 years on KZbin. One of the best perfume critics. I was relieved when i found your channel a little more than a year ago ( and then i found others from here ) because there's.virtually no interesting channel on perfumes in Italian and some of them are embarrassing. Finally I found some serious and stimulating talk on the subject . So, congratulations on your well deserved thirteenth anniversary!

[@Persolaise]

That’s very, very kind. Thank you 😊

[@margaritamaciasdealba5011]

Congratulations, 13 year of shearing your knowledge 🙏💛

[@Persolaise]

Thanks very much indeed.

[@davidluke781]

Congratulations, Mr. P!

[@Persolaise]

Thank you!

[@carlas.5332]

Congratulations on 13 years Persolaise, here's to the next 13!

[@Persolaise]

Thanks very much indeed.

[@chocolate-mantra-box]

You are wonderful! Lovely! Congratulations! What was your wedding perfume? Oh...and what was Mrs. P's wedding perfume? ♥

[@Persolaise]

Ah... perhaps I'll save that one for another video. Thanks for watching.

[@binkkytube]

Congradulations! great outfit as per normal.

[@Persolaise]

Thank you.

[@ruthdwinger4887]

Thank you for your informative videos. I now have a love for Chanel and are adding some to my collection.

[@Persolaise]

Oooh, enjoy them!

[@lanaconstanti-nova6379]

I loooove your top

[@Persolaise]

Thank you.

[@cyrussmith1875]

Congratulations Mr. P! I have a question for you... I've managed to get my hand on a Dior Homme Cologne from 2007, brand new unopened for a very reasonable price and it is simply magnificent! Like a diaphanous & airy version of Dior Homme (Polge). It was release the same year Hedi Slimane left Dior. My question... Was Hedi Slimane involved in this flanker and who is the nose behind it? On certain site it is said Francis Kurkdjian and on others site François Demachy??? This Cologne is directly linked to the original Dior Homme from Polge (silver stem) and has nothing in common with the citrus/musky cologne released later in 2013 and 2022. Thanks, great episode! 👏

[@Persolaise]

Thanks for this, Cyrus. I've replied on the other post... not that I have a great answer, though.

[@shunyaspirit5321]

Happy Anniversary 🌸🌻🌼🥀🍀😊

[@Persolaise]

Thank you so much 😀

[@kevinthreat9781]

Hi Persolaise, What are your thoughts about Roja Parfums? More specifically, the range of aouds? I’m very interested especially given your life experience in the Middle East.

[@Persolaise]

Honest answer: it's been years and years since I've smelt his ouds. I seem to remember liking some of them.

[@lolanifenring2692]

What are some very-closely-resembling alternatives to Absolue Pour le Soir that you'd suggest? And why can't Francis order a limited-run batch of APlS to be made?!?!?! APlS is a legendary sweet raunchy amber

[@Persolaise]

That's a tough one, because APLS is quite special. What about Peau De Bete? It's different in terms of ingredients/notes, but similar in terms of that animalic/delicate contrast.

[@lolanifenring2692]

@@Persolaise Ta. I will investigate Peau de Bete. I am still, to this very day, seething with bitter regret for not buying back-up bottles of APlS!

[@margaritamaciasdealba5011]

When you have your Novel be sure that I can buy it in México I love to read a novel that I can imagine as I read it I can smell, and probably some character will have a tew perfums or notes. I can not waith to read it.

[@Persolaise]

That's too kind, Margarita. Thank you.

[@melipone]

Congratulations and thanks for the cool video as always!! Let me ask a question you must have already answered 100 times: where does the name Persolaise comes from or what does it refer to? :-)

[@Persolaise]

Essentially, it's a combination of perse and polonais. Thanks for watching.

[@melipone]

Ahah okay, I would not have guessed! 😄

[@lyneae3786]

I wanted to like this video but something about the number 333 made me not want to change the number with a like.

[@Persolaise]

Ha! 😂 Okay.

[@davec3568]

I think you can still get MFK APLS from the boutique or if you call them they might sell it to you. I like it, but I think my bottle will last a lifetime. 🙂

[@Persolaise]

That's good to know -- thank you.