I'm pleased to see that my beloved Terre d'Hermès won the Best New Prestige Male Fragrance award last night in London. Nadine says it is:

surely the most wonderful men’s fragrance to be formulated for years.

It's great on women, too (and I'm not the only one who thinks so; the guys on the floor at Harvey Nichols told me that they get more women buying this for themselves than for men). It's a real comfort fragrance for ...

Portrait of an african girl wearing a tradiionnal boubou style hat
Originally uploaded by anthonyasael.

The less words I use here, the better, but: Have you ever seen such a stunning mix of regalness and innocence?

I usually like London's Sunday Times' beauty writing, but this piece on how French women manage to look so good is astonishingly stupid. It's full of tired, scientifically bankrupt tips that amount to nothing at all worth reading. Nice picture, though.

Speaking of pictures, here's one of my favorite photos of Claire, my fiancé's French mother (shown feeding Antoine as a newborn in 1965). Now she knows from chic.

Salt + pepper shakers + Kenzo Amour 
  Originally uploaded by dynamist.

Those two orange things are vintage salt and pepper shakers, for which I paid a pretty penny at Mark Fisk's Mainly Art, the best store in the whole WORLD. The tall, curvaceous creature next to them is not a pricey sculpture, but a bottle of Kenzo Amour, which was gifted to me by Kenzo's PR people. ...