Dariush Alavi // Persolaise

Here’s my first post on my Substack. Enjoy! dariushalavi.substack.com/p/setting-out-…

@nowsmellthis The rumour is Kenzo kicked up a fuss.

Frederic Malle Synthetic Jungle appears to have been renamed Synthetic Nature harveynichols.com/frederic-malle…

@PersiainPeckham Happy anniversary!!! Thank you for all that you do. As it happens, I was going through one of your cookbooks yesterday, looking up fesenjoon and kookoo. A menu was planned… 😉

Happy 22nd birthday to us. We’ve been purveying the pick of Persia to Peckham since 2001…

@nowsmellthis The sheer inventiveness of these names beggars belief.

Posted at NST: Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium Over Red ~ new fragrance nstperfume.com/2023/12/12/yve…

@madonnatribe He needs to tell her to start 😂

Madonna's manager Guy Oseary is attending the show tonight #LiveFromLondon #MadonnaCelebrationTour #London #Show26

@madonnatribe He was great 😃

David warming up the audience at the O2 tonight #LiveFromLondon #MadonnaCelebrationTour #Show26 #Madonna

Art, law, history and TV: Tusk’s plan to remake Polish life after rightwing rule theguardian.com/world/2023/nov…

There are no words. amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/n…

The quest continues… amp.theguardian.com/science/2023/o…

@madonnatribe @sweetysweety I’ll have to send you my pic of Bob’s cigar… which ended up in my hands after he threw it into the audience 😂

More pictures from last night's show #Madonna Thanks to @sweetysweety #TheCelebrationTour #Show3

@nowsmellthis They could have at least stretched to 750g of gold.

If you have to ask, you can't afford it: Guerlain Le Bouquet de la Cour nstperfume.com/2023/09/27/the…

Top 10 perfumes for autumn — instagram.com/p/CxloMHVI50o/…

The death of the nightclub: what Britain will lose when the dancing stops theguardian.com/music/2023/aug…

Skellig is 25! The beautiful new edition, with wonderful art by Tom de Freston, is published next week.

Sinéad O’Connor dies aged 56 theguardian.com/music/2023/jul…

Posted at NST: Frederic Malle Heaven Can Wait ~ new fragrance nstperfume.com/2023/07/11/fre…

@IowaViewer @guardian Perhaps hysterical laughter is the only sane reaction…?

@Persolaise @guardian I shouldn’t laugh… this is also the States since about the 80s…

If the state of the nation could be summed up in two paragraphs… This is from @guardian online.

Mangling The Language, chapter 318. This is from @waitrose Magazine.

You can’t make this stuff up — Robert Jenrick has cartoon murals painted over at children’s asylum centre theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/j…