Spoil me

Being active is such a huge part of my life that I knew I had to start with sports stuff for this list. Please feel free to boast about your athletic achievements in your intro or in person but be forewarned that I am a lil’ competitive. (wink)

I’d love a SUP, I have the space necessary for a rigid one and I do abide by the mentality of buying once wherever possible. I generally get out 4-6x a year on a rented or borrowed board but I know I’d get out even more if I had more own board. I’m not too fussed on colour but I want one with a good grip mat throughout its length because my chickens like to SUP too.

For now I have pretty much everything else I want and need for sports related stuff but I always love a matchy matchy outfit for any of my sports.

Art

I love the arts and I usually have my eye on something that is on auction from Heffel, for sale at La Guilde on Sherbrooke, and various other art dealers in the city. There’s a blank space in front of my bed at home. It’s a large space that would be perfect for something that’s wide enough to fit the empty wall but something that is soothing and pretty. There’s also a few empty spots in a built-in I made for stone or glass pieces, ideally mirroring each other but not the same thing twice. The art world moves quickly so please ask if there’s something if gifting me something I will see everyday is of interest to you.

Current loves (might already be sold)

There is a stunning quill piece at La Guilde that while looking for it to link it, I felt a pang of sadness thinking it was gone and not on my walls. Looking at the piece feels like looking up at the night sky full of breathtaking stars; something about the piece feels like home somehow.

Watches

Jaeger Lecoultre Reverso - mono-face, rose gold, leather bracelet

It’s sleek, timeless, elegant, and can easily be worn with jeans and an ironed t-shirt or on a date with you to a fine restaurant with figure hugging dress. It’s the perfect watch for me, it’s a soft whisper in an elegant tone. I’ll cry if you give me a box with the JL logo on it, please have Kleenex on hand and don’t do this to me minutes before we are about to head out to a restaurant. 

I’d never say no to a watch I’d simply be keeping for the next generation : the Patek Philippe Ellipse. The ultra classic silver and blue strap combo is the very definition of timelessness.

Finding one of these in great condition second-hand would be just as exciting to me. You may absolutely deviate from this list but please consider that for my next automatic (or first manual) I’d like something very classic with a leather bracelet.

Bags

Delvaux Cool Box size : MM in Tan

I love that Delvaux has focused on quality and craftsmanship to carry its brand from the 1800s to today. It is a goal of mine to not be flashy but rather to be elegant and terre à terre. The Cool box has such a fun shape and I think that the tan colour would easily make it a bag I reach for today and for decades.

Valextra Brera Crossbody Medium Bag in Smokey Blue

An other lesser known luxury brand that has let quality speak for quite some time (this time since the 30s). I’ve had my eye on this brand for a while but I had yet to find a model I would be willing to drop money on, but the Brera is perfect! Top handles, good size, and the smokey blue is the same colour of as the first designer bag I bought myself! It was a very old Longchamp (with top handles). One of the all leather Longchamps with the silver toggle but it had seen better days already and then I dragged that bag around everywhere for a few years and then it was used beyond repair. I’m far more careful with things today and to have something that resembles my first love but that is far superior in quality and a more unique design would be wonderful.

While I avoid wearing perfume if you have not explicitly told me I can, I am at my most confident when my hair is freshly done and I’ve spritzed myself with the scent that matches my mood.

Parfums de Marly - Valaya

This floral and fruity fragrance is nothing like what I already have. It’s a breath of fresh air and is not at all childish in its fruity aromas. I get white flowers. white peach, bergamot, mandarine, musk, and vanilla.

Nishane

There’s a few that I love from this Istanbul-based perfume brand. Tuberoza is quite floral but does not lose sight of other notes that I like. This one is more summery while most of my collection and the perfumes listed here are more fall and wintery. There’s ylang ylang, orange and orange blossom, jasmine, vetiver, sandalwood, and amberwood. Mana has spicy, oriental, and leathery notes with saffron, black pepper, pachouli, oud, sandalwood, moss, and musk. It also has a beautiful bottle! Fredo is more leathery and woody with cardamom, oud, sandalwood, and suede. That last one would become my most boss perfume, and be perfect for the days when I’m feeling extra spicy.

Penhaligon’s - Bewitching Yasmin

I’ve been looking at the beautiful bottles of this brand for a while but I hadn’t quite found the scent I would want to smell all day until I found Bewitching Yasmin. It’s very feminine with jasmine and vanilla but with a bit of an edge thanks to the coffee.

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Perfume I’d LOVE to smell on you : Oud for Greatness by Initio. I will be absolutely feral if you show up wearing this perfume and you’ll get tons of compliments from others.

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Shopping for someone else and looking at my beautifully curated list? Molecule 1. I have some so don’t get this for me. I buy this perfume regularly to give as a gift as it suits absolutely everyone! My mom, cousin, Aliss Swan, my bestie… they all wear it and love it. The wearer cannot smell it but everyone else does and it smells completely different on everyone. You’re welcome.

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All are available at my favourite skincare and perfume store : Etiket

Feeling overwhelmed? Gift cards or donations are the way to go. I generally buy whatever my heart desires which means that everything that’s listed is above my threshold of what I could reasonably buy for myself on a random Tuesday because I felt like it.

SAQ GC. I’m into wine, any sized gift card will be greatly appreciated as well. I tend to go once a season and I’ll run up a bill of over 500. That said, if you are not a wine enthusiast don’t ever be shy to say “Hey CC, could you bring something from you cellar for tonight, my budget is X”. If you are a wine enthusiast, I trust your cellar is even larger than mine and has wonderful gems that I’ll be happy to enjoy with you.

VSP: is a consignment store in Toronto that has secondhand designer clothing. Secondhand designer rids me of the guilt of the fashion houses’ manufacturing ethics and I think it encourages local jobs as well as reduces environmental impact. I love this place and always make time to go to the store but I also always have something in my shopping cart that I’d love to check out. At time of writing there’s a green silk pullover and a floor length Zimmerman linen skirt that have caught my eye. Approx 700 for both with shipping.

Drawn and Quarterly, l’Euguelionne, Argo Bookstore. Please please please, no amazon GCs, it’s not my vibe, I’ll donate them to shelters. If you want the simplicity of an Amazon GC you can donate directly anywhere in my honour. You’ll take the tax break, and I’ll be very happy about it. If you want to encourage my bookishness the aforementioned bookstores put a serious dent in my wallet every time I drop in so I would love a gift card from any of them. I read 1-3 books a week and regularly donate my books to libraries.

I also very much love wool socks (Darn Tough from Vermont is my favourite) and in-season flowers are always well appreciated, especially tulips in the spring and amaryllis (the bulb) in the winter.

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full name at proton mail dot com for eGCs

I personally donate/volunteer with food security, housing, disaster relief, water security, safe boarder crossings, equality (gender, orientation, etc) but I happen to think that being an advocate for the arts, environment, healthcare, or medical research is equally valid and needed. Imagine the world we would live in if everyone chipped in just a little more to make the lives of others better?

Water First - indigenous-led org that aims to provide sustainable source of safe water to communities left behind by the Canadian government.

Stella - Montreal based, SW org that aims to support SWers and educate the public

Sea-Eye 4 - a refugee rescue ship. There are many refugee rescue ship operations, though unfortunately not enough. Feel free to chose one that is currently active and gives tax breaks to your tax jurisdiction.

If you want to donate where I volunteer, ask via email or in person for the websites.

Thank you for reading this far :)