Harvey Prince Fragrance Giveaway!

Darlings, CC is so excited to introduce you to Harvey Prince, a fabulous line of boutique-quality fragrances... There's a perfect scent for every fashionista! And just in time for Mother's Day... As a matter of fact, the line was founded by two brothers as a gift for their mother ~ how lovely!
Here's a bit about the collection from the Harvey Prince website:"It began with a rebellious idea: boutique-quality scents should not be overwhelming, overpriced, and filled with toxic chemicals. Then came the inspiration: our mother, who loves honest products that feel and smell great. One Mother's Day, we crafted a scent that captured her effortless and radiant aura. The result: Ageless, the first of our signature fragrances to take on the industry's usual cosmetics-counter fare. We take great pride in using only the finest ingredients for each note in every scent, with no toxic chemicals... We draw on the expertise of leading dermatologists, doctors, scientists and scent experts to create fragrances with a purpose, each with its own inspired scent and story." All items at harveyprince.com.
Ageless... CC has and adores. This eau de toilette is so sweet and lovely, with gentle floral notes and a scent light enough for day, but also beautiful for evening!
Coupling
Eau de Creme
Eau Fling
Eau Flirt
Hello
Yogini
Fabulous news, darlings! CC and Harvey Prince have 15 (fifteen) 1.7 oz. bottles of the lovely Ageless scent to give away to 15 (fifteen) lucky CC readers! In addition, Harvey Prince is offering an amazing discount to CC readers. You can receive 50% off the 3.4 oz. Ageless scent with the code agelessvintage.

Ten Day Contest: To enter, simply "like" Harvey Prince on Facebook and tell CC you have done so in the comments section of this post. For an additional entry, follow Harvey Prince on Twitter and tell CC you have done so in a separate comment on this post.
International Fellow Fashionistas welcome!
Good luck, darlings... CC is thrilled to be able to select the fifteen fabulous winners!
xoxox,
CC

Ode to Printemps!

Last night French Girl and I went out to shoot the windows/les vitrines... Au Printemps department store was celebrating La Fete du Printemps... With giant floral bunnies... Floral swans...

In lavender no less...

And flower-headed Rockette Chorus girls...

Lined up...

In sumptuous rows...

A flower power couple even...

This flower girl succumbed to Spring Fever and fainted...

In a swoon from rose perfumes...

Hidden in ribboned boxes...

Suddenly behind us on boulevard Haussmann we heard a great WOOSH!

Hundreds upon hundreds of Parisien skaters took over the street in a woosh of Spring Fever!

One was decked out in blue lights!!

Then they were gone...

Ah, the ever present French escargot in luscious pink roses...

Don't forget Paris is laid out like a snail with the 20 arrondissements curling around on themselves and #1 at the center...

Et voila!

BONJOUR AU PRINTEMPS!

FORTNUM & MASON Xmas Windows?

Here's a London Xmas mystery for you to solve...
When I saw the windows at Fortnum & Mason in October I was puzzled...
I went inside and asked the liveried doorman if these mushroomie, underworld, Hobbit-esque window decorations were for Halloween?
I was assured these were the Christmas windows!?
What?

Is it possible?

Mustrooms and moss + British jams..?

Giant acorns + tiny lamps...

Champagne amidst the leaves - this looks a tad Christmasy...

But silver champagne glasses full of green moss?

Huh?

Champagne and macarons, contact me, 9" x 11"
Please say it isn't so!

I can live with a Beefeater chess set - what a perfect Xmas gift.

Burgundy velvet slippers in the hay?

Hmmm...

French parfums amongst the moss..?

non non non!

Mustard under glass - is this a vision from the latest, darkest Harry Potter movie? Please tell me someone was pulling my leg.

This can NOT be Christmas at F&M in Piccadilly.

Doesn't one deserve a bit of dessert after that?

BONJOUR FORTNUM & MASON!

French Bows 2

I know I keep harping on how the French love their bows...
Well they did invent ribbons/rubans so big woof right?
Where would the French ballerina be without a bow pray tell?

A bow on an evening shoe?

The perfect feminine accompaniment non?

Bow training (preferably pink) starts early...

And continues ever after...

Without cease.

A French woman of any age can wear a bow plastered on her chest.

A bow plastered on the candy box has become a universal tradition...

On the other hand, French pastry chefs spurn the bow as decoration for some unknown reason...

The Russian pastry chef does not, as witnessed by these gateaux at the Printemps' Ruskie cafe, Patisserie cafe Pouchkine.

The French dog is not obliged to wear a French bow?!

L'eschape - oui! Le noeud - non.

What's up with that?
And what an unpronouncable word is Le noeud (which can have some naughty slang meanings, but we won't go into that).

Is it NEW-ya or NEW-A or what?

YOU tell me SVP.

Bears everywhere, not just French Bears, are perfectly happy wearing bows, usually rouge...

French Girl rarely leaves the house without sporting some kind of bow worn hither or thither...

Should I too start eating GOBS of beurre/butter for petit dej',

so I can wear a bow regularly? One does wonder...

A napkin tied as a bow?

Perfection to advertise a French cafe...

Did Miss Kitty influence French fashion?

Non,non, non...this has been going on way too long before she arrived on the scene, though she may have given the French bow a little nudge...

Here's a shining example of the hair bow worn on a giant pin from savvy French jewelry company, N2. They have a stand in Galeries Lafayette as well as a new concept store on 3, rue Bourg L'Abbe, 75003. I bought an all-macaron bracelet that is 2-die-4, even though it has no French bows...

BONJOUR FRENCH BOWS (again)!!!