chinese silk

"With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown."

some sense scents

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
-W. Somerset Maugham

less, if not more, is better

Parts of a whole more intriguing? I think so!

icon bag and scarf

The little Gucci bag and a scarf with it's brethren portrayed, looking rather Vermeer-styled after I raised the brightness for the image. (Before looking just rather murky...)

Pierres d'Orient et d'Occident

One of my first Hermès scarves. Chosen for it's detailed exotic design, jewel colours, and my love of birds, flowers and pearls.

les capucines

Something I got for m'girl, for her 14th birthday, Jul 2004.