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Axes & Paper -- Summer 2025 Book Recommendations
Summer ends with two depressing developments.
Sep 2
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Dariush Alavi
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August 2025
Lavender Undecided - Floris Purple Memoire perfume review (Penny Ellis & Nicola Pozzani; 2025)
For reasons that are probably related to various twists and turns of history, several perfume brands with British roots seem to have gone through…
Aug 24
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Dariush Alavi
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Accessible Indie - L’Entropiste perfume showcase review (Bertrand Duchaufour; 2025)
A few years ago, the main trend in the perfume industry was the creation of high-end, exclusive (read: expensively-priced) ranges from established…
Aug 15
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Dariush Alavi
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Before & After - Quentin Bisch - Etat Libre D'Orange La Fin Du Monde (2013) and Marc-Antoine Barrois Aldebaran (2025)
To read the introduction to this series and the rationale behind it, please click on this link.
Aug 6
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Dariush Alavi
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Before & After - A Prologue To A New Series
This is almost pointless.
Aug 1
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Dariush Alavi
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July 2025
One Mere Voice
In his must-see Drop Dead Years stand-up show, the American comedian Bill Burr offers his take on the current situation in the Middle East:
Jul 27
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Dariush Alavi
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Lego Brick Perfume - Christian Dior Bois Talisman perfume review (Francis Kurkdjian; 2025)
It all seems to have gone a bit topsy turvy in the world of Captain Kurk.
Jul 21
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Dariush Alavi
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Patience Is A Virtue - Vyrao Perfumes Showcase Review
Those who bemoan the current state of the publishing world often say that in the past, things were better because authors were given time to grow.
Jul 11
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Dariush Alavi
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Together At Last - Amouage's Renaud Salmon In Conversation With Yours Truly At Harrods - 14th July 2025
This has been a long time coming.
Jul 2
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Dariush Alavi
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The Poetry Rings True - Reviews Of Shifty (Adam Curtis; 2025), On Falling (Laura Carreira; 2024) & Incendies (Denis Villeneuve; 2010)
Adam Curtis’ Shifty (a new, five-part documentary currently on the BBC iPlayer) begins with a sequence of Jimmy Savile taking some children to No.
Jul 2
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Dariush Alavi
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June 2025
The Best Perfumes Of 2025... So Far
Believe it or not, half a year has passed since we put away the sparkly shoes and made all those well-intentioned resolutions, which means it’s an apt…
Jun 22
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Dariush Alavi
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Meet Me At The Chanel Exclusifs Event At Harrods - 10th July 2025
If you’re free on Thursday 10th July and you’re going to be in or near London, please come along to Harrods for a special Chanel event I’ll be…
Jun 20
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Dariush Alavi
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