Les Parfums de Rosine, Paris

Well. If you had ever did have doubts of going to Paris on May, I can set your mind not at a rest. It is beautiful, fresh, overwhelming, funny and utterly charming. Even surreal - inspite of all the tourists running around sweating and NOT dressed, alost not washed. Paris can stand it and it feels like an old lady who has seen it all and just shrugs her left shoulder and goes on with the business of beauty. It does not matter. Yesterday I was on the way to have dinner with dear old friends and spent hours in the taxi at 6pm, not a good idea. Passing by the Arc de Triomph I saw a young,  radiant japanese couple, sitting in the sun, she in her bridal merengue dress and he next to her on the bench and it was just charming.....

But to those latest musts for a Parisvisit! Getting married is not yet on the list. Scent is!!!

"Les Parfums de Rosine" is a delightful little shop in the right hand corner of the garden, right in the back, of the Palais Royal in Paris.

Actually my friend Susanne has discovered it and since a while has been a faithful follower of those magnificent scents - all around roses! But she is a lucky girl, every scent on her smells divine and we others around stay in awe of her natural ability to pick out the most marvelous scents on the market. I wonder, why nobody has - until now! - discovered her talent.

It has now been already a while, that "Roses" do have a great come-back in scents and even skincare. There are several "roses" on the market right now, in all sorts of disguises. I like, I have to confess, the roses of Frédéric Malle and the ones here, of Rosine.

Mademoiselle Pauy, fountain of patience

It is nice to know, that Les Parfums de Rosine are indeed not a new invention - Jean Patou created in 1912 a perfume for his daughter, "Rose de Rosine" - a classic niche scent. Then it became quiet about the firm and the revival started a couple of years ago.

When I am in Paris, time is scarce and has to be filled in with all the things I want to do and see. But in this case, time was not an issue. The lovely and very kind saleslady had all the patience of the world to sniff everthing with us through, we took our time and had a good chat about ingredients and impressions - all things important in choosing a scent and an essential part in the pleasure involved doing so. No hushing and pressing on to buy something - a clever way of making the customer long to come back!



Next time you are in Paris, by all means pop into the little gem of a shop in the galeries of the Palais Royal...
And next time, when I am in Paris I shall have to go the the little shop we discovered in the Rue Richelieu de Patricia de Nicolay, with all of those gorgeous scents of her.... No rest for the wicked!