Today's mid-afternoon snack, perhaps? The limited edition Fauchon éclair Rose Pompon, in collaboration with Annick Goutal: "Topped with a chic and flowery white chocolate shell, this eclair conceals a pink berry cremeux resting on a whipped rose ganache and delicious fresh raspberries." You can buy it at the Fauchon at 30 Place de la Madeleine, Paris, through July 22.
I love summer. Yes, I’ll complain about the heat like everyone else, but I’d rather bake than freeze any day. Plus, the fruit! Even if you don’t like summer, you have to admit that the abundant variety of fresh fruits (that haven’t been flown in from another continent) is worth a little extra sweat on your brow. Here are 9 reasonably new-ish (all came out within the past 5 years, and most of them within the last 2 years) fruit fragrances to help keep you feeling cool and lighthearted, plus one veg, because you have to have your veg…
After my mother died I needed to get away and traveled to Mauritius and became captivated by the spellbinding scent of frangipani that evoked the emotion of a dream within me. I brought one of the flowers back with me to show Isabelle [Doyen], but it died on my trip back. Luckily when I showed her the flower she was very familiar with it since she lived in Tahiti. It took five years to perfect the fragrance and to balance the sun, the moon, the tree, and the flower.
— Camille Goutal on Annick Goutal Songes. Read more at Annick Goutal: How Passion For Life Inspired One Of France's Most Iconic Perfume Brands at Forbes.
For any (serious) Petite Chérie fans, this is the (unscented) Petite Chérie Tee from the Annick Goutal + Claudie Pierlot collection. Available in three sizes, in cotton and modal, £120 at Claudie Pierlot. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the French non-profit La Chaîne de l'Espoir.
More limited edition collector fragrance bottles, with the usual disclaimers: in most of these cases, the juice is unchanged, just the bottle is “special” (or not, as the case may be), and some of these may not be available in the US. Today’s post includes special edition bottles from Annick Goutal, Jo Malone, Christian Dior and Paco Rabanne, plus a new Eau de Toilette version of Shiseido Ever Bloom.
From Annick Goutal, a collector edition of Petite Chérie with decorations from French brand Claudie Pierlot. Due to launch this month, in 100 ml (above left), plus 20 ml travel spray with pouch (above right) and 50 ml Hair Mist (not shown). There’s also a Claudie Pierlot Petite Chérie t-shirt. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the French non-profit La Chaîne de l’Espoir…