notes: swaths of cherry blossoms, a thin-rimmed porcelain cup of black tea infused with citrus, honey, and rose petals, a tempting display of pastel-colored macarons, crisp linen tablecloths

Afternoon tea at Maison Ladurée

The gold-rimmed saucers in shades of Ladurée green and palest pink, pastel rows of macarons, glittering chandeliers. It could only feel more Parisian if it were perched atop the Eiffel Tower. You carefully select a few impossibly perfect macarons (already making a mental list of which flavors you’ll purchase to take with you) and order the Marie Antoinette tea blend you’ve been dreaming of trying since you first read the description: “a delicious marriage of Chinese and Indian black teas combined with rose petals, citrus fruit and honey.”

While you wait for the delicacies to come, you sink into a velvet cushion to people-watch and admire your surroundings. Branches garlanded with dainty cherry blossoms seem to grow from the black and white marble floors, the pink flowers mirrored in the delicately crafted desserts and sumptuous cascades of pink roses. The tea cup placed silently on your table calls for your attention as the steam rises before you, the aroma blooming in its own kind of beauty, invisible but intoxicating. The macaron is all at once delicate and soft with a perfect and chewy almondy center.

Although you leave this enchanted establishment with some regret, the sunny avenue beckons, and you are, after all, carrying a small, pale green box whose light weight belies the bijou jewels within. You stroll up the Champs Elysées, and every time you see a branch bewreathed in candy-spun blossoms peeping out of a private garden, it feels like a little signal from the city that you’re in exactly the right place.

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