07/30/2026
The Core Collection as Apartments -
Today, I did a lil solo Bookstore Crawl. Just thru my neighborhood in the Quarter, without the phone, and my favorite book i found was Private Paris. Just Parisian apartments from 1989. Thumb thru the rest in store in the Tiny Living Room at Bayou Rose.
This Snail in the Kitchen is *obviously* Marsh My Mellow. A woodsy gourmand : milky, damp, subtly sweet, and musky. Slightly animalic with a predominant meringue accord that I personally LOVE. Very snail trail across a kitchen counter strewn with spilt milk.
This screams Delta Dawn to me. One of my first ever, and just a gorgeous wild rose with notes of sweet pepper bush and sea lettuce that remind you the bayou isn't far away. "Faded rose from days gone by" really fits this table.
At first i thought "Midcentury", but then I thought about WHO lives here and this is Fine Shrine. Someone who holds the tension between minimalism and maximalism. Who likes their desk to be workable, but see everything that visually inspires them every day and lives in rhythm with that natural light from the skylights. THIS is their sanctuary.
OK, this is Secret Garden. Not technically in the Core Collection but now in stock year round because yall love her so much. If this doesn't give Misselthwaite Manor, then I need to just hang it up right now.
La Vie Boheme hands down. This apartment HAS to be in Montmartre. Its giving Boheme. Its giving "green fairy". Whoever lives here smokes an occasional cigarette in the bathtub and understands the importance of a heavy glass with two cubes and two fingers of your favorite spirit sipped slowly while rippin' you're favorite record, track for track. I am her. She is me. We are all together. I am the walrus. (spoiler alert : that record is the OG Rent Broadway Cast recording. You. Me. You. Mimi.)
Midcentury ten toes down. Think plastic covered furniture, wood paneling, found vinyl that skips your favorite songs so you're forced to find deep cuts. Heavy glass ashtrays, lingering to***co smoke. You're already here.
