PHOTO: EYEVINE. ADDITIONAL PHOTOS: MARCO VITTUR. AERIN, ESTEELAUDER.CO.UK. ATELIER COLOGNE, SELFRIDGES.COM. L’ARTISAN PARFUMEUR, SELFRIDGES.COM. NASAMATO, ROULLIERWHITE.COM. ROBERT PIGUET, LIBERTYLONDON.COM. BERNARD LALANDE BLEU DE FRANCE BY HADLEY FREEMAN
Mystery and sophstication, but most of all it smelt of adulthood
MY MOTHER NEVER wore make-up, and still doesn’t. But when I was a child, whenever she was going somewhere special, she put on Bleu De France by Bernard Lalande. Little known then, and pretty much discontinued now, my father bought it for her on a business trip to Paris. To us, an American family in New York, the idea of a French perfume seemed the height of sophistication.
As she was the only person who wore that scent it is, for me, inextricable from my mother. The first time I went to…
