Welcome to another edition of Mood Scent 4 with my perfume blogging friends, I Scent You A Day and A Bottled Rose. We’re here to scent moods and occasions and today we’ll be writing about Scents of Place. L’Esperessence is currently taking a break but […]
Cannes at Film Festival time becomes a town full of loosely worn lanyards and people talking up their projects. As it was a public holiday last Monday I went to have a peek and meet up with friends. Maybe small glimmers of glitz would rub off on […]
If you’re visiting Nice and its surrounds I highly recommend a trip to Villa Ephrussi in Saint Jean Cap Ferrat. The villa was built between 1905 and 1912 by Baroness Béatrice de Rothschild and designed by Aaron Messiah. It’s brimming with antiques, paintings, sculptures, a porcelain […]
It’s now spring in the South of France and this week it started to feel that the sombre mood of the past few months is lifting and the days are getting lighter and longer. I’ve popped over to St Tropez twice recently as it is the perfect […]
Another French celebration occurred this week. La Fête du Mimosa. Well there’s not a lot of mimosa in evidence in our neck of the woods. There’s a scattering of flowers but not much of a presence as yet. Mimosa is a yellow flowering plant, introduced from […]
Here’s a link to a short piece (a couple of paragraphs!) I wrote about my favourite scented travel memory from the French Riviera for the website Scent Corner. Scent Corner has a great premise that I think is a brilliant idea. It promotes sustainable and ethically sourced […]
I love a walk in the country and there’s nothing better to usher in the New Year than some time spent in the great outdoors. Today we journeyed to La Plan de la Tour a small village near Sainte Maxime and explored the surrounding countryside. Nothing […]
French Pharmacies really are the bees knees. The internet is brimming with posts extolling the virtues of French pharmacy products and the enthusiasm is well placed. Wandering into a French Pharmacy is a real treat. Shelves are jam packed with interesting, strangely named products. It […]
Day trips are a must do when living in France, there are so many gorgeous villages and cities to explore and I never seem to grow weary of it. The kids however are of a different disposition – the lure of ‘another pretty village’ is […]
