Exotic Packaging: Crabtree & Evelyn Tea Rose & Glycerine Soap

More Than Yesterday

Less than Tomorrow

For some reason the french text does not mention that this soap was heart-shaped.

I remember it well from 1975. A great big red heart.

Exotic Packaging: Caswell-Massey Orchard Soap Plum

This is another of the soaps I bought for my mother in New York City in late autumn 1993.
Lovely soaps, wonderfully wrapped in richly coloured tissue paper inside beautifully designed boxes.

Caswell-Massey were the oldest chemists and perfumers in America, established in 1752. Amazing! I remember it was a wonderful shop and I am delighted to report the company is still going strong. Although nothing on their website today is quite as lovely to look at as this packaging... but you can't smell the products online can you? Well, perhaps I should take myself off to Fortnum & Mason because apparently you can buy their products there. OK.

Paper Bags: Under the Golden Gate

 

A beautiful soft paper bag brought from San Francisco this week by the Dutch taste tester.

Very handsome indeed. Sadly not mine to keep.

Paper Bags: Lord & Taylor Christmas 2

Another lovely Christmas bag from Lord & Taylor.

How clever to make the Christmas tree from folded ribbon. This is really beautiful with the Lord & Taylor logo in silver. Nice quality paper too. Altogether a great bag. I have one framed and hanging on my bathroom wall.

Merry Christmas everyone.