What is more important, the journey or the destination? Why do we travel? I do… to experience, experiment and treasure the memories forever… So, when I discovered Memo, I thought…  How creative… A genius idea! I revisit my trips by looking at photo albums and making some scrapbooking pages… Clara and John, Memo’s creators, create perfumes…. Yes, you read it right… Perfumes… Memo, means memories… Memories of their trips…. Traveling is so important to both of them and they wished to eternalise the experience and they way they found to do it was by creating scents for each of the… Read more

When I was a kid I used to ask my mother to buy me dresses that I could match with my dolls… I remember when she gifted my the first set of matching dresses… I still remember my amusement… The dresses got so worn and torn… I only wanted to dress that one… She had difficulties to have it washed… More than 30 years have passed and that experience created the expectation that I would only dress my daughter (if one day I had one, and I do) as a little princess, with laces and ribbons… Well well well… My… Read more

Some places and some chefs are just above any comments… And what about when you have both combined? The Sunday Brunch at the Hotel Plaza Athénée in Paris, mastered by the super stared chef Alain Ducasse is to die for… First… It is affordable… Not cheap… Second, it is delicious… Last, it is unforgettable… The place is just amazing… I have already written a few lines about this brunch, but further to requests, I decided to dedicate a full post to it… The hotel is a Parisian Institution, one of the few to have the Palace nomination, which is the… Read more