“Fragrances are like people”

“Fragrances are like people – if you try to seduce everybody then you
become incredibly boring and no one invites you to parties anymore.”
- Frederic Malle

Career announcement

Dear friends and partners,
I have the pleasure of announcing a new step in my career. Through my company, Madison Rand Promotions, I have taken over a vast territory (15 countries), in order to represent Intertrade Europe, as of August 1st 2009. My position in this partnership is CSE Europe Director of Sales and [...]

The Jil Sander dress…

…which took center stage in almost all September issues.

Alexis Mabille

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It’s been a while since I’ve gotten this excited about a fashion designer.
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Happy New Year and welcome to the new Madison member!

Happy New Year to everyone, and thank you for keeping close to us!  We wish you a 2009 just as great as 2008 was for us!—and that’s saying a lot!
Aside from having the best Christmas season ever at Madison, I personally experienced the greatest achievement of my and my husband’s life: the birth of our [...]

Venchi and The Mews

I miss the times when I was active in writing on Psst!; it was there where I would rave about all the things I liked in Bucharest and the rest of the country…  So for everyone who’s interested in knowing what’s noteworthy nowadays, I have two new places that I’m excited about: Venchi Chocogelatteria [...]

The Perfect Scent

Today Octavian will be closer to Romania and further from Paris; can’t wait to see him!
Today, I also started reading Chandler Burr’s “The Perfect Scent” .

I am enjoying it tremendously, especially because

Marocco

Yesterday was a very happy day! Besides being the 1st of March and having a great day at Madison, Radu and I got a puppy: Marocco.

He’s a black and gold yorkshire terrier: adorable, fuzzy, curious, and very playful.

paris, feb. 2008

two weekends ago we went to paris. the agenda was full of very important things to do. what we looked forward to the most, though, was meeting Octavian.
thanks to the www, he and i conversed for a year without meeting. he became a very important, influential guide to the whole Madison endeavor, [...]