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July 3, 2009

Celine Ellena & Thierry Hernandez Mix & Blend Bombay Bahia for Bombay Sapphire {Fragrant Recipe} {Fragrance News}

Perfume and cuisine, perfume and beverages, the possibilities are endless as taste and smell are so inter-dependent. Gourmand perfumes, fragrances with a wine or spirits note tentalize the senses. Perfumer Jean-Michel Duriez composed once a cocktail directly inspired by Joy by Patou. More recently mixologist Tony Conigliaro devised a cocktail based on Chanel No 5. In September, visitors to Paris will be able to taste an original concoction called Bombay Bahia created by perfumer Céline Ellena of Charabot together with the director of the bar of the Plaza Athénée in Paris, Thierry Hernandez...

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January 5, 2009

Kusmi Tea Detox (2007): Review {Fragrant Gourmet Notes}

So you have partied, re-partied, re-re-partied during the Holidays, crossed over to the new year 2009 and tomorrow is Epiphany day, yet another opportunity to feast on a traditional dessert, the galette des rois, a buttery mille-feuilles delight filled with fragrant and tasty almond paste.

What you need now and for the rest of the year is Kusmi Tea Detox, a new blend introduced in the summer of 2007 to celebrate the 140th anniversary of tea house Kusmi Tea Est. 1867 in St Petersburg, short for the name of the founding Kousmichoff family.

As its name Detox makes explicit this tea blend helps drain and purify your organism while - as it turns out - being pleasurable to the nose and tastebuds all at the same time. What I personally appreciate with the Detox tea - a green blend - besides its depurative properties is how smooth a green tea concoction it is. This makes it a great candidate for day-long sipping without feeling dehydrated by a high level of theine/caffeine. In second and equal position as far as I am concerned comes its fragrance...

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April 22, 2008

El Bulli is Best Restaurant in the World for 3rd Time in a Row {Taste Notes}

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Restaurant Magazine has given the 2008 award for Best Restaurant in the World to El Bulli for the 3rd consecutive year. It is their 4th win since 2002. Each year the Costa Brava restaurant headed by chef Ferran Adrià garners several prizes.....

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April 18, 2008

Philippe Faur Caviar Sorbet (2008) {Food & Luxury Notes - New}

A new mountain in gastronomy has been climbed and conquered. Upscale French artisan ice-cream maker Philippe Faur has made his idea of creating a caviar sorbet come true thanks to a collaboration with Armen Petrossian. It is reported to be a world premiere.

After such original products as the Truffle Ice-Cream, the Roquefort ice-cream or the Foie Gras de Canard sorbet developed with Rougié, the latter product which earned them the Grand Prix International de l'Innovation 2007, here comes a sorbet made of 60 % of caviar Alverta Royal Petrossian, from a white sturgeon, which took both specialists 6 months to develop......

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April 6, 2008

Tiny Trapeze Truly Chocolate & Clearly Coconut Marshmallows {Food Notes - Review}

Tiny Trapeze is a brand of sweet confections that specializes in creating all-natural and organic goodies for the sweet-toothed with a conscience and dietary preoccupations. They are distributed through Whole Foods. What truly caught our attention before even getting to read the fine print about the green credo, was the humongous sizes of the marshmallows, their hand-made, hand-cut feel, their good color, and their perceived fluffiness allied with satisfying substance, all evident to the naked eye.

To choose food, you can touch (sellers hate that), you can smell (still risky and seen as a bit primitive in certain quarters), taste of course occasionally, and no less importantly, you have to eye the food before deciding to give it a go. In their wrapping, the Tiny Trapeze Truly Chocolate Marshmallows which advertised themselves as "sweet madness without a net" seemed to have an honest look about themselves and not afraid to express a rustic style.....

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January 20, 2008

Harney & Sons Valentine's Blend: Chocolate Tea With Rosebuds {Gourmet Review} {Smell-The-Roses-Till-Valentine's Day Challenge - Day 5}

For Valentine's Day, Harney & Sons have prepared a special blend of chocolate-scented tea mixed with rose petals called the Valentine's Blend. The ox-blood red of the tin packaging is appealing with little cherubs and a red heart decorating the paper label to commemorate the day of love, friendship, and affection....

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December 27, 2007

Mo's Bacon Bar by Vosges: The Latest Idea in Chocolate Decadence {Fragrant Recipe}

As far as we are concerned, we are still feeling the atmosphere of the holiday season and bent on prolonging it! Decadently rich food is one of the signs that this time of the year rings a time for indulgence.

Vosges is a chocolate brand that proposes a range of chocolate bars with quirky adventurous taste associations. They do not hesitate to mix savory and sweet for example or to add red chili (in the spirit of a molé), Wasabi, or black olives to their concoctions. Their latest creation is Mo's Bacon Bar, in their collection Exotic Chocolate Bars , and as one can see, it is based on the idea that dressed-down bacon has its place of honor in a fancy niche chocolate bar......

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November 23, 2007

Peach Ginger Twist by Harney & Sons {Fragrant Recipes}

Although the concept of drinking fruity tea is attractive in principle, oftentimes one feels disappointed by the experience as the "fruit" is simply an added flavor and a very conventional one at that. If the fruit in your tea seems simply to have migrated from a fruit juice or a sweet, you are losing the experience of authenticity that a good tea brings with it. Not so with Peach Ginger Twist by Harney & Sons......

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October 1, 2007

Chaîne Rose - Les Recettes des Blogueuses: Free Pink Recipe eBook for Breast Cancer Awareness Month {Fragrant Recipes}

Sophie Kune, the author of Femmes Avant Tout, a blog dedicated to the on-going celebration of one's femininity even through sickness, together with her friend Requia, have organized a "pink chain" of solidarity that originally involved 160 women bloggers who were asked to create a pink recipe for the cause of breast cancer awareness month. 120 recipes were retained and are featured in a free down-loadable eBook.

For each person that clicks to get the *free* eBook until the end of January 2008, Roche, the partner of the blog, will donate 1 Euro each time to the association "Le Cancer du Sein, Parlons-en", up to 15 000 Euros total......

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September 13, 2007

Immortelle L'Amour by Ayala Moriel Parfums {New Perfume} {Fragrant Recipe}

Perfumer Ayala Moriel of Ayala Moriel Parfums is preparing to launch her new creation called Immortelle L'Amour (Everlasting, Love) based on immortelle or Everlasting flower in November of 2007. Immortelle has a wonderful complex and original aroma in and of itself of caramel, roasted coffee, honey, maple syrup, and more and so this should be one to look forward to. It is also a warm scent that marries well with autumn as an antidote to the cold weather. Not content with issuing only a perfume for the skin, the perfumer will also propose an Immortelle L'Amour tea blend to perfume your palate.

In Ayala Moriel's own words:......

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July 3, 2009

Celine Ellena & Thierry Hernandez Mix & Blend Bombay Bahia for Bombay Sapphire {Fragrant Recipe} {Fragrance News}

January 5, 2009

Kusmi Tea Detox (2007): Review {Fragrant Gourmet Notes}

April 22, 2008

El Bulli is Best Restaurant in the World for 3rd Time in a Row {Taste Notes}

April 18, 2008

Philippe Faur Caviar Sorbet (2008) {Food & Luxury Notes - New}

April 6, 2008

Tiny Trapeze Truly Chocolate & Clearly Coconut Marshmallows {Food Notes - Review}

January 20, 2008

Harney & Sons Valentine's Blend: Chocolate Tea With Rosebuds {Gourmet Review} {Smell-The-Roses-Till-Valentine's Day Challenge - Day 5}

December 27, 2007

Mo's Bacon Bar by Vosges: The Latest Idea in Chocolate Decadence {Fragrant Recipe}

November 23, 2007

Peach Ginger Twist by Harney & Sons {Fragrant Recipes}

October 1, 2007

Chaîne Rose - Les Recettes des Blogueuses: Free Pink Recipe eBook for Breast Cancer Awareness Month {Fragrant Recipes}

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