Happy New Year!!!

Hope 2012 brings all good things!  Hope it brings a trip to Paris too ;)

I haven’t written for a long time but I’m still here.  I’m always looking for all things French I just took a break.

I’m still very much inspired by all things French and hope to one day speak it.  Until next time…

 

Pic from Shop: etsy.com/shop/ireckon?ref=seller_info

 

The Women on the 6th Floor Film

At The Paris Theater in NYC

THE WOMEN ON THE 6TH FLOOR…Paris, 1960. Jean-Louis (Fabrice Luchini, Potiche) lives a bourgeois existence absorbed in his work, cohabitating peacefully with his neurotic socialite wife Suzanne (Sandrine Kiberlain, Mademoiselle Chambon) while their children are away at boarding school. The couple’s world is turned upside-down when they hire a Spanish maid María (Natalia Verbeke). Through María, Jean-Louis is introduced to an alternative reality just a few floors up on the building’s sixth floor, the servants’ quarters.  He befriends a group of sassy Spanish maids (Pedro Almodóvar regular Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Berta Ojea, Nuria Solé, Concha Galán), refugees of the Franco regime, who teach him there’s more to life than stocks and bonds, and whose influence on the house will ultimately transform everyone’s life. In French and Spanish, with English subtitles.

Sounds very interesting.  Can’t wait to see it :)

 

Marie Antoinette’s Fragrance

Perfumer Lubin has recreated Marie Antoinette’s fragrance of preference, according to Vogue. A blend of rose, jasmine and bergamot, the scent was created by Jean-Louis Fargeon, “originally conceived as an ode to her beloved Trianon gardens at Versailles.” The fragrance, called Black Jade, is being sold for $130 at New York’s Aedes de Venustas and online at aedes.com.

I’ll have to find out where this place is so I can get a whiff ;)

Correction, its cost is now $160!

Courtesy: Huffingtonpost.com

Laduree in NYC

During the Bastille Day Festival I was introduced to some delicious raspberry tart pastries from Financier Patisserie  I ordered 4 because they were so gooood :)

Now I found out that the well known Parisian  Shop and Cafe, Laduree, will open up a store in NYC located @  864 Madison Avenue.  Their website does not say when the Grand Opening will be :( all I know it’s either in July or August. But regardless I will be venturing there for some macarons :) .