June is the month of the rose, a flower that strikes me as being quintessentially Parisian. Sure, the rose is internationally beloved, having a long history in China, Greece, Egypt, Rome, the Middle East, England … but it just seems so perfectly at home in Paris. Maybe it’s because my first-ever perfume was the olfactory […]
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Eight Pretty (& Easy) Ways to Parisfy your Place
It has been a while between posts … When I’ve not been dreaming about Paris, I’ve been trying to keep my mind off the fact that we can still only get to Paris in our dreams by doing what we’ve all been doing. Baking. Reading. And focussing on home renovations. Not that we’ve been doing […]
My Paris: Illustrator Clémentine Campardou
Having moved her life from Paris to Sydney several years ago, Clémentine Campardou now well appreciates the yearning much of the rest of the world has for the City of Light; while she has become very much a Sydneysider (if she’s not in her atelier Blule you’ll probably find her surfing the waves of Bondi […]
Five of the Best: Paris Museum Cafés
In France, food is art on a plate. So it makes sense that some of the most memorable eating experiences can be found in some of Paris’s most delectable museums … Rose Bakery, Musée de la Vie Romantique Rose Bakery, with its perfumed teas and olde-worlde cakes (think marble-swirled, berry slathered in pink icing, and […]