Author's Note: "Paris, On t'aime!" means "Paris, We love you!"

Sanem absolutely loves Paris and I believe it's her "soul-city". Akin to her, Paris is purely romantic, historic in its memories, gorgeous and beautiful, extremely feminine, evolving everyday, speaks a sensual language and the cuisine, the taste of it, is really exquisite!

We're in Paris, our 4th time together, and the 2nd time this year alone! At this rate, we may be securing a vacation home here... and I'm so tempted to do it seeing her joyous glow and excitement whenever we visit here!

March 2021

We celebrate our 2nd wedding anniversary this week ... and incidentally we're also here to introduce her parfüm at the international fragrance conference!

Within a few minutes of the conference start, an anonymous buyer bids very high for royalties to her parfüm. Considering our past bad experience, I want to make sure that we are partnering with the right company that'll have her best interests at heart! I question the veracity of their bid and it's all very dramatic when they reveal their world famous reputed brand. After that, we're requested to end the showing as they are ready to buy her parfüm at any cost! I knew it... others will go just as crazy for her parfüm, same as me... I simply knew it!

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Sanem's kokun and essence belongs only to me... but her talent in creating fragrances is so phenomenal that I have to share her with the world. Over the past few months, I became determined to bring her other fragrances to market!

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We now had an extra special reason to celebrate... she is on her way to becoming a fabled Perfumer! First the novella and now this, I'm bursting with pride and joy for her... my love, my one and only, my wife... who seems to be leaping from strength to greatness! I'd like to get her a special gift to commemorate this moment ... literally I want to make it unforgettable!

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Like me, she's into bandanas and what better store to buy one than at the Hermès in Paris. While she's busy, I walk to the store, describe her to the sales lady and ask if they have a scarf that would fit her personality!

"Innocent, inquisitive, spontaneous, dreamer, fearless, beautiful, colorful, adorable and adventurous" - the lady, surprised by my words, stares at me for a moment, slowly recovers, then smiles widely and says they have the perfect scarf for me!

WOW... it's limited edition, it's in fact in stock and I'm so excited about it! The lady then wishes me the best and hopes my beloved loves it! She adds that usually Hermès scarves are keepsakes and family heirlooms that are passed down to the next generations, moms to daughters to granddaughters! How apropos for Sanem!

The perfect scarf for the perfect girl : "Un Week-End dans l'Espace" meaning "A Weekend in Space". It depicts a dreamer girl in space, like my Artemis, colorful and full of excitement, innocent and curious, and so so so pure!

She really loves the scarf and knowing her, she's never asked me how much it costs, she only cares that it's a gift from me! But her gifts for me have been invaluable, born of her heart and soul, to-die-for, priceless and timeless!

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Years ago, during my first visit to Paris, I stayed at a boutique hotel in a very old, historic building with a killer view of the Eiffel Tower! I love that hotel and a unique room in it... and I've always dreamt of returning there with my beloved. From the room, using a ladder, you can climb out of the window to the secret rooftop and voilà, there's the Eiffel Tower!

It is THE most romantic spot to stargaze, and per usual, I add Parisian cheese, bread and wine to our exotic experience! It's now a ritual for us whenever we visit Paris, we've made passionate, relatively quiet and creative love to each other on that rooftop!

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July 2021

For the past few months, she's been working on her parfüm with the buyers and it's been a great partnership. They've been able to bounce ideas, curate the fragrance and decided it's best to keep it as an 'atelier' label. Atelier means that it's made in a studio setting rather than a lab and everything is handmade, very much like how Sanem creates it. Moreover, hers will be a niche fragrance produced on a smaller scale of 100 bottles and sold by fragrance boutiques to fragrance collectors and connoisseurs, how apropos!

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Today is the launch and reveal party... and yet again, I'm kept in the dark about the details, just the way she does it and loves to surprise me! My girl... always trying to impress me and blowing my heart, mind, body and soul in the process!

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She's on stage doing her thing, wowing and dazzling everyone beyond compare... gushing about how she got started making parfüm, her process with the flowers and herbs and her passion behind the product she is going to introduce! I stand rapt in attention and awe of her presence, her passion, authenticity and absolute beauty!

Suddenly, she calls to me!

S: "Caan... où es tu mon amour?"
(Caan... where are you love?)

I'm surprised but I wave to her and she asks for a spotlight on me! Oh well... what's this?

S: "Mon Parfüm , ma Vie, mon Amour est inspiré et dédié à cet homme, mon Mari et mon âme Soeur!"
(My parfüm, my life, my love is inspired and dedicated to this man, my husband and soulmate!)

... I'm stunned silent ...

"Mesdames et Messieurs, de mon l'atelier..."
(Ladies and Gentlmen, from my Atelier...)

"Candy Florale"

.GOD!

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I'm having an out of body experience, literally floating, flattered, touched and in seventh heaven at her words! She's honored my obsession of her essence by naming her signature fragrance after me! What an honor she's bestowed upon me... !

I have no words to describe the emotions, feelings and riotous reactions in my body, mind, heart and soul!

Now, here and forever, this is my life, my love, my only and one, with my beloved Sanem!

Author's note: Parfüm, also known as extrait de parfum or pure perfume, has the highest fragrance concentration of all scents, last the longest at 6 to 8 hours and generally priced high of all the fragrance types!

PS : I can't write about Paris without talking about shopping... again travel is an holistic experience for me, sometimes for the wallet, and the soul ? ゚リハ

DR's True Story : October 2018

Can Divit is obsessed and raves on and on and on about "kokun", Sanem's parfüm! For months now, I've been wondering what this perfume could possibly smell like, to the point of testing a lot of perfumes & almost losing my sense of smell!

I had an Eureka! moment while walking through the duty-free area of Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam! The sales assistant was handing out perfume testers and one of them truly stunned me!

It is an exotic and wild floral fragrance, subtle and sweet! It makes an impact... and I've been told?that it's very pleasant when one is hugged and kissed! To me this is Sanem (or is it Can's?) parfum, it IS perfect and even the same color as her bottle!

And then I find out it's name... it's incidentally called "Candy Florale" by Prada!

For the record: I'm merely a consumer of the brands mentioned, no promotions, connections or kickbacks!

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