The Diptyque summer collection has just launched, and it’s super good. Here, the most notable products, reviewed: I love both of these brands — if you’re not familiar, Susanne Kaufmann is an Austrian skincare brand founder specializing in alpine herbs and botanicals. I was introduced to her products by....
Tariffs — and the economic havoc that has accompanied their introduction — may radically shift the cost of your Paris vacation. Here’s how. As I write this, the tariffs affecting EU nations are on hold, as are the retaliatory tariffs EU leaders proposed against the U.S. (For an official summary,....
This is not my typical purview, but I have an answer to the question: Where is the musical Waitress set? I googled this myself just a few minutes ago as I watched Waitress: The Musical (now streaming on Max), only to be informed that the answer could not be more....
Wondering how to get to Versailles from Paris? It’s easy — and you have your choice of method. Maybe more than you’d think! Versailles, and its famous palace, aren’t far from Paris: only nine miles, and just beyond the city’s southwestern suburbs. Method #1: RER The easiest, and most popular,....
Paris hotels with an Eiffel Tower view actually aren’t all that hard to come by: Paris is a low city, profile wise, and the Eiffel Tower is exceptionally tall — it’s more akin to a mountaintop, widely viewable from across the city (like Mount Fuji), than a monument hidden behind....
Welcome to our Emily in Paris: Season 1, Episode 5 recap! Welcome to the cringiest polycule this side of the Seine! It is (presumably) the morning after: an errant kiss, a newfound girlfriend. Camille is dating Gabriel, and Emily hates it (see expression above. “I really wish Gabriel had told....
Two big things happen in this episode, one extremely plausible, one extremely implausible. First, Emily makes a French friend. This is actually implausible. Or maybe I’m just the worst? But I spent most of my first year there having coffee dates and language exchange sessions with Frenchies who, they were....
Read 100 stories on the best beauty shops in Paris and 80 will say: CityPharma. Another other 10 might say the newer Grande Pharmie du Forum des Halles (indisputably a better choice) and the rest might say the beauty floors at Le Bon Marché, La Samaritaine, or Printemps. They are....
If you’re looking for the best chocolate in Paris, you’ve come to the right post — and to the right city: While other places may be more closely identified with chocolate (like Antwerp, perhaps, or Switzerland), surely Paris claims the highest concentration of world-class chocolatiers and chocolate shops. If you....
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