Baptiste

Paris! Ah! When one thinks of Paris, everyone has their own unique way of envisioning this city. There are as many associations with Paris as there are countless sights in this city. With such a plethora of options, describing the places,...

On the evening of July 3, 1973, David Bowie announced on stage at the London Hammersmith Odeon with the words “…not only is it the last show of the tour, but it’s the last show that we’ll ever do” the end of Ziggy Stardust....

“Mom, why am I not a boy?” With this grammatically not quite correct question posed by a little girl, a song by Mylène Farmer begins, which stormed the French charts in 1987 and later also the German ones. “Say Mom, why am I not a boy?”...

It was September 1, 1932. Fritzi Massary sat in front of the makeup mirror in her dressing room at the Berlin Metropol Theater, the dull light bulbs illuminating her fifty-year-old but fine face. She was excited; it was the premiere...

"I was born one evening in March 1941 under a bench in the Café de Flore," noted Simone Signoret in her memoirs, describing the beginning of her film career. Further on, one reads an almost endless list of French actors, directors, and writers who gathered...

After testing the new "Shalimar Cologne," looking distressed and trying to put this into words, I unfortunately couldn't quite decide on a title. The options were: "Shalimar, where art thou?" "What ever happened to Baby Shalimar?" "It's Shalimar,...

...like this probably difficult long-distance relationship between Aimé in France and a woman named Jicky in England, this fragrance leaves me. At the turn of the century, a perfume is created that is entirely new, that smells different from previous...

What was one of my first maxi singles Holiday for? What did we break our arms flailing to Vogue on the dance floors in 1990? Why did I hop around my apartment in my underwear to Madonna's music for decades? Why did I spend...

At the end of the 60s of the last century, the revolution of love began. Post-war conventions were finally thrown overboard, the mod style could no longer be called fashion, music, drugs, and festivals became the main pursuits...

Spring is already treating us to sunny freshness and floral scents by the wayside, a song lies on our lips, summer is approaching, and, as every year, the Eurovision Song Contest is just around the corner. However, one can hardly...

"Sous le Vent" is just as difficult to translate into German as it is to describe its scent. Formally, the name describes the southern island group of the Antilles in the Caribbean, which lies "under the wind" of the northeast trade winds, meaning...

I apologize for the headline and I'm not sure if I'll get away with it here, but it was simply the first thing that came to mind when spraying and smelling Versus Uomo. My God, how time flies and how it suddenly catches up with...