Exotic Packaging: Bluebell Guest Soaps

I have no idea who made this little box of guest soaps. You might say that it must have been a French company but many soaps, face creams and cosmetics are labelled in French as Paris is universally seen as the capital of the beauty/perfume industry.

So a mystery maker but rather a charming design.

Exotic Packaging: Somerfield Melon & Avocado Glycerine Soap

Interesting looking own brand soap from Somerfield.
An unusual flavour... or fragrance I suppose, and a simple but arresting packaging design.
Swanky use of typeface too. Very nice.

Exotic packaging: Crabtree & Evelyn Avocado Foaming Bath Gel

I don't remember this Avocado Foaming Bath Gel at all but it sounds rather good. My mother wasn't much of a one for bath gels, or bubbles in her bath either. She was more likely to go for old fashioned bath salts. So I'm guessing this was probably mine. Perhaps a Christmas present from Mummy with a view to keeping the pretty packaging herself? That sounds about right.

A Little Bit of Chocolate Does You Good: Cailler Sublim Noir Truffon

Classy dark chocolate from Cailler of Switzerland

Paper Bag: Penhaligons

What a lovely bag. 

Beautifully textured thick paper with handsome gold lettering and a golden cord.

Very nice indeed.

You can see that Penhaligon's can announce itself by appointment to both 

the Prince of Wales, and the Duke of Edinburgh. I wonder what they buy?

Exotic Packaging: Thomas J Fudge's Florentines

The Chef is very fond of florentines so I buy some for him now and then as a treat. Thomas J Fudge make several kinds of florentines approved by the Chef, and the packaging is rather wonderful don't you think?

Exotic Packaging: National Galleries of Scotland

The National Galleries of Scotland own a beautiful painting of a skater by Sir Henry Raeburn  and they use the image (or used to) on their paper bags and tissue paper.

This little bag and the tissue paper show a silhouette of the Reverend Robert Walker skating on Duddingston Loch. Click on the link above to find out more. 

It's a lovely picture of a man skating on what looks like a nasty cold day. And yet he doesn't seem to have wrapped up much. I guess in 1700 something people didn't have central heating so did not feel the need to wrap up so much when they left the house.

I had to tape the tissue paper to the window in order to photograph it. 

The design is white on white. Very chic. But you can't scan it.

A friend came back from Edinburgh years ago with a bunch of souvenirs and she gave me this paper. 

I've been using it to wrap my Christmas decorations ever since. 

When was that? Goodness... at least 15 years ago I think, maybe more.