*KWESTIONARIUSZ CHARLIEGO* - Clayton Ilolahia
Clayton Ilolahia
Clayton is a New Zealander residing in Australia.
He is the Evaluation and Communications Manager at Fragrances of the World. Mentored by industry icon, Michael Edwards, Clayton was previously an award-winning fragrance writer and content creator. Years ago I was drawn by his blog What Men Should Smell Like - one of the first perfume blogs I read. I associate Clayton with classical and fresh style in perfume. Outside of perfume, he loves travel, art, culture and languages.
What was your first seriously worn perfume?
Yves Saint Laurent Pour Homme.
2. What do you love in perfumes?
I love perfume’s ability to transcend time and space. A perfume can take a person’s mind to a different time and a different place in the space of a split second.
3. What annoys you in perfumes?
The price of perfume continues to rise but I feel like I am seeing a rise in creativity or value which justifies the price.
4. The first place you apply perfume on is…?
Probably all over my body in the form of a perfumed shower gel in the morning. I can’t start my day without my shower to reset and wake up.
5. Your personal perfume would definitely feature the note of…?
Sandalwood. I can wear sandalwood essential oil as a perfume on it’s own.
6. Your recent perfume crush?
Harry Lehmann Eau de Berlin. I love how this classic Berlin brand has been revivied and I love this city. Eau de Berlin is so Berlin and reminds me of the first fragrances I wore like Pour Homme by Yves Saint Laurent.
7. When you forget to apply perfume…?
I never do. If I am not wearing fragrance, it is a deliberate choice, usually because I am working and I cannot wear fragrance when I am evaluating.
8. You can be gifted with a liftime supply of all perfumes from one brand. Which one do you choose?
That’s a hard question because brands evolve, and I evolve. If I could say Editions de Parfums Frederic Malle but from the mid-2000s. At this time the brand could do no wrong.
9. Which perfume do you miss?
Chanel Sycomore Eau de Toilette. I have a large bottle from 2008 but the juice is smelling rounder with age and has lost some of the fresh top notes I remember enjoying. The eau de parfum and extrait don’t give me the same emotions.
