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"Beauty assistant Laurel Pantin attends the launch of L'Eau d'Issey Florale and dishes about her week in Paris! The supercool presentation viewing room. It felt like a mix of Gattaca and Miami Beach, only in a Marie Antoinette setting.\n\nfacebook dialogPinterest\n\nfacebook dialogPinterest\n\n My new pal, a superfriendly chien in the cutest collar I've ever seen.\n\n Aha! Texas, represent!\n\n There's no place on earth like Paris-something I've become well aware of while in the City of Lights this week (for the first time in my life!), to preview Issey Miyake's new fragrance L'Eau d'Issey Florale. From the moment I landed I knew this would be an experience unlike any I'd ever had, and all I can say so far is WHOA! I have to continually shake myself to be sure that this is really my life and not some amazing floral-scented (and jasmine macaroon-flavored) dream.\n\n The big reveal took place in the Hotel D'Evreux, right off the Place Vendome, in a supergorgeous building that can only be described as \"so Parisian!\" All around me were courtyards, high, narrow windows, creamy limestone . . . In other words, heaven! But the presentation was also something totally unique: Upon entering the lovely location, I was ushered into an all-white room with six smushy white reclining beds. Then I was given a pair of 3-D glasses. Deep down in my nerdy heart of hearts I was hoping for a screening of Avatar, but what we got was much neater! Above my head was a circular movie screen that showed a short video encapsulating the spirit of the fragrance (which launches in the U.S. in March). Think blossoming roses, ginger lily, drops of rain, and butterflies. After the screening, I (along with a supercute pooch in a fancy French dog collar) learned all about the feeling behind the fragrance. Mr. Miyake wanted to evoke a blissful emotion with this scent, and though the bottle is tinted a pale pink, in his words, \"You feel the pink, you don't see it!\"\n\n I saw it, I smelled it, and I loved it.\n\nThe fragrance is light and obviously floral, but it's also very green. Not at all syrupy or artificial, it smells like a rosebud--distinctly rosy, but still fresh. I don't know if it's Paris, or the 3-D nerd/chic presentation, or the scent itself (definitely the latter) but I'm in love. After the presentation, things got even more exciting for me when I stumbled upon the plaque marking the location of the Texas Embassy (from way back when Texas was still its own country) right off the Place Vendome. As a native Texan, I was pretty thrilled. I spent the rest of the day in a haze of greeny pink bliss, hardly able to plant my feet on the ground and come to grips with the fact that all of this has really happened.\n\n Tomorrow promises to be even more life altering... I'm visiting the Elie Saab boutique, favorite of royals and red carpet regulars, for an extra special tour. I must say, this first trip to Paris will be pretty hard to beat!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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