So you all remember the Marie Antoinette shoot I did about a year ago right? Sadly Sonia Akono of SGA Events, for whom we did the shoot had stalled her wedding planning business for the time being, but Frédérique Sivadier of the Wedding Tea Room has been building hers! (She did the decoration on the…
Catégorie : French
Laggridore, luxury perfume
I was contacted recently by a new perfume company and asked if I was interested in writing about their product. After a brief description and a browse of their website I said « Oui! » but that I thought it best if I « discovered » their perfume in person. (I much prefer to blog about things I have tasted or tested or touched. It gives a more authentic perception for my readers. So I set up a meeting with François Marmey who represents the company and is putting together an internet publicity campaign. He said I was one of the first bloggers to respond, which makes me happy to be one of the first bloggers to write about it from a first-hand experience! We met for an after-work glass of wine at the Crillon hotel (I figured that the discovery of a new luxe product called for a luxe setting). We took a table on the indoor courtyard patio as the weather was nice for a change, and the tables are large enough so we had space to spread out the products and test them.
French fashion on a budget!
There is a small brand that I have always liked, that I often find for sale at some of my local destock stores in the Daumesnil neighborhood. It’s simple yet chic an not expensive : Autre Ton. Well I was delighted to learnt that they did a little collaboration with Monoprpix, the local grocery/home goods…
100 years of French lingerie
The Espace Pierre Cardin is holding a FREE exposition on French lingerie. It’s a small space and a limited collection, but a charming and innocent thing to do while in Paris this month.
French Spirit
Sometimes, I like to be reminded that the French are proud of being French… You know how they are known to be « râleur » as we say in French (loud complainers). So it’s good to see a little French pride once in a while! Often it takes a sports game to brig out that national spirit,…
Caron, perfume and powder for a century
The perfume house of Caron has been around for over one hundred years. A small but respected entity, it was created in 1904 by Ernest Daltroff, a chemist from a family of perfume artists. He teamed up with his brother Raoul and Félicie Wanpouille who had been a popular dress maker and stylist. Together they…
Repetto : press release : ballet slipper school
Normally I don’t publish posts about the press releases I get in my email inbox; this is because I want my blog to reflect my vision and my discoveries of Paris. But this one, I felt compelled to communicate on this platform because it speaks to me in so many ways that I felt it…
Kissing in French
Aaaah, the French kiss… This post was inspired by a question from a friend of mine who was asking about the differences between the French words used to say « kiss ». I thought it would be appropriate to help define them here for my readers as there are several words and their meanings or connotations are…
Chocolate and Cake
Chéri and I stumbled upon this little tea room one evening as we wandered around the Île Saint Louis. It drew us in with its warm colors and promises of chocolat chaud à l’ancienne (old fashioned hot chocolate), and the neatly arranged cakes and cookies on the counter top. This place is everything a hot…
Friday en français : …non pas la fin, mais…
Ce segment qui a lieu tous les vendredis depuis un certain temps, que j’appelle « Friday en français » ne sera pas terminé…mais ne sera pas soutenu non plus. La vie, elle s’entasse des choses à faire, des obligations, des rendez-vous, et tout et tout… Et je me trouve ayant du mal à m’inspirer toutes les semaines…