Bettina Aykroyd’s Chinese Portrait

Bettina Aykroyd’s chinese Portrait ? You have landed onto this page… by pure curiosity. I understand you and I thank you for beeing there ! I felt like a dynamic, original and humourisitic biography. So, you will understand that although remaining professional, I do not consider myself seriouly.

Bettina Aykroyd’s chinese Portrait

Where does your family name come from ?

• Doesn’t it remind you of one of Agatha Christie’s novel ?
• I am fan of Roger Ackroyd’s murder
• Well yes, I have inherited it from an English father and a French mother
• I adore Yorkshire, but it is not surprising as I come from there
• I have red all the Brontë Sisters books and I devour the Yorkshire pudding with roastbeef and it’s mint sauce, on Sunday
• I love surfing between the two cultures !…

What are the main features of your personality ?

• I lay my nose everywhere !…
• I am curious of everything
• I love meeting and sharing with all types of passionate people
• I imagine my life in pink, orange and navy-blue
• I am persistent
• I do not let go any of my projects, even though I can leave them apart for a short instant, I always come back to them

What is your motto ?

•  In veritate victoria, my English family’s motto

What are your favourite countries ?

• France
• Great Britain
• Italy

What is your Madelaine de Proust ?

• I happen to have two… a French and English one !

Name your favorite music

• I appreciate baroque music
• Conductors fascinate me, in particular William Christie
• Of course, I listen to Mozart and Bach
• I am connected regularly onto Radio Classique
• I run onto the Cheri.fm musical rythms.

What are your favorite boutiques ?

• With no doubts, the Parisian and Londonian bookshops that I visit most frequently…
• I a Bon Marché addict in Paris
• I go religiously to Fortnum&Mason in London

Have you received Awards ?

• Yes and I am very proud
• I am a member of the Brotherhood of the lavender
• A wonderfull memory in the Louis Peyron, Lucien Ferrero and Max Gavarny’s company, both perfumers

Bettina Aykroyd’s chinese portrait of perfume and flavors

What was your first perfume ?

• I was mad about Eau Folle from Guy Laroche
• Then I immersed myself into Eau de Roche from Rochas, today named Eau from Rochas

What are the fragrances that you cannot go without ?

• The tuberose from the first Chloé creation was marvellous, I miss it
• Vamp from Honoré des Prés, created by Olivia Giacobetti is favorite tuberose
• Never without Musc Ravageur by Maurice Roussel, from the Frederic Malle Editions
• My lucky charm Guiding Water from Guillaume Flavigny from The Harmonist
• My cuddly fragrance Magnetic Woods by Guillaume Flavigny from The Harmonist

Onto what odour do you lay your nose on ?

• Honeysuckle, roses, lilac, but also cut grass and the laurel from my grandmother’s garden
• Lemon, verbena are truly joyful nuggets

What is your English Madeleine de Proust ?

• I am mad about spring flowers such as the wild hyacinths, the lilac, the wisteria
• The smell of chimney fires, the odour of the wood rock me

What are the unavoidable flavors for you ?

• I never say no to chocolate and to a Chestnut and meringue Montblanc from Angelina , in Paris
• The mince pies, the Christmas pudding the After-Eights
• I have a gift for pastry
• I am captivated by the chemistry and the alchemy of pastries and creams 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

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