Peonies in Paris

When I saw the first peonies in the marché I was not enthralled. Then I read somewhere that the fragrance 👃 was wonderful.

SOLLI asked me which marché was best for buds. I took another look and bought 8 at Bastille marché.

A bouquet in Lionel's Marché aux Fleur shop. I thought surely he would have potted plants 🪴 of peonies. But no, he said they grow on bushes. Plus it was too late in the season.

How is it these tightly, wrapped-up golf balls can explode so quickly into almost volley-ball sized ruffled blooms? And the smell of them.

Near my house a big white square structure was going up in front of Institute Monde Arabe. By chance I came by just as the attendees for Dior Homme Spring 2020 were arriving dressed in peony pink.

Inside banks of pink peonies to go with the pink walls and the hand-painted prints suits.

Sometimes a series of events happens and you're simply swept along. Over the weekend at the Vide Grenier I fell for this miniature Fragonard Pivoine bottle. Go figure.

Wouldn't you know Monique Campeau of LA TABLE DE NANA showed the peony bushes in her garden in Canada over the weekend. At last! La vraie choise.

Peony enthrallment has got me. Between the Seine map and packing for Cannes I've been painting Monique's flowers.

3 guesses where I'm going soon as I hit Cannes tomorrow.

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