Banana Jam
Martinique (where I’m lucky to be at the moment) is heavily influenced by the French culture. If you’re so inclined, you can spend your days here eating croissants, frits and dame blanches with some punch coco thrown in for local flavour. As I can get enough..
14 Things from My In-Flight Beauty Bag
I have a somewhat unhealthy interest in what people take with them when travelling. It combines two things I find exciting: the taste of individual women and the process of editing. I’ve talked about my own travel essentials before, but this post is slightly..
Greetings from Martinique
Dahlings, I have safely arrived in Martinique, after some adventures on the way. The train to Paris stopped suddenly and we had some nerve-wracking minutes until we learned that nothing horrible had happened. What excatly happened remained a mystery, though,..
How to Read More Books
Statistically, the questions I hear most often are: “Oh my god, are you unwell?” when I haven’t applied any make-up and “How do you manage to read so much?” when I’ve finished another book and feel the whole world should know. The latter question is often as..
5 Jo Malone Fragrances I Wear All the Time
Today is the first day of spring and this seemed a good time for a post on Jo Malone, the brand that reinvented cologne for modern consumers. Perfumistas can be a bit dismissive of Malone, as the fragrances aren’t very complex or statement-making. I complain..
Pastels, Again
I would never describe myself as a pastel person, but the evidence says otherwise: I’ve just searched the blog and in less than a year, I’ve written posts on pink, lilac and light blue. Similarly, there is no denying the fact that I’ve merrily worn pastels f..
A Slow Read: Richard Mabey’s The Cabaret of Plants
Among the things I promised to do in 2016 was reading longer books, as an antidote to my impatience and my growing inability to concentrate. I haven’t been doing too badly: in addition to quite a few other books, I recently finished The Silk Roads by Peter F..
Silly Stickers
Most children who grew up in Estonia during the last gasps of the Soviet Union, have a special relationship with stickers. Stickers were inherently western – unnecessary, shiny and bright – and therefore desirable. Me and my brother had an entire side of a c..
11 (French) Pharmacy Favourites
What to buy in a pharmacy in Paris seems to be one of the fundamental questions of modern times, something every blogger has to address at some point. Obviously, I swore I’d never do it. But the more I read posts that unfailingly mentioned Bioderma micellar ..
Bored with Blazers
Where I live, the question of the appropriate cover-up is ever-present. If we are lucky, there are three evenings a year warm enough to sit outside in a t-shirt. But for 362 days, you would need something to wear on top of your dress/blouse/shirt/camisole/ju..