Home Flower Set "Summer Glow"

An autumn Saturday morning. You have just woken up; the house is still warm from sleep. The intercom rings. You open the door: two hand-tied kraft-paper parcels laid on the mat. The kettle clicks on. You go looking for a vase in the top cupboard — you find one, rinse it, fill it with water. The kraft rustles open on the counter, the stems sink under water, the first flower settles into place. Outside, the neighbourhood's first dogs are heading out for their walk, a great tit sings its two notes and then stops. Honey tea cools next to the shears. Nothing is planned for the day. You are preparing the room for a slow weekend, a little ahead of yourself.

The Summer Glow set brings together two bundles: peach lisianthus with crumpled petals folded into closed cups, and beige chrysanthemum in small tight crowns. The whole palette is the colour of the first spoonful of honey melting in the cup — honey, wax, pale oak.

In 2005, in Paris, under the arcades of Palais Royal, the house of Serge Lutens released "Miel de Bois": honey, beeswax, oak, guaiac wood. It is exactly the perfume of this scene — the kettle, the kraft paper on the counter, the half-drawn curtain, the first sip. This set is that perfume, only in flowers.

If one of the two varieties delivered that day doesn't meet my standard, I substitute it with another — the honey-beige palette and the luminous character of the set remain intact.

A pair of floral shears and two vase models (Vase Pure Form, Vase Elegant Silhouette) are offered separately if you want everything in one delivery. Bundles made to order, delivered in Paris at the time you book, Monday to Saturday.