Is it worth the $$$?: My French Country Home | Box No. 29 | Parisian Home Essentials | February 2024

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Hi everyone welcome to my channel my name is Noelle and I reviewed unbox subscription boxes here on my channel and today is the day where I open the most expensive box that I pay for here on the channel it is of course my French country home which is shipped all the

Way from France and it has all kinds of beautiful luxury items inside it is curated by Sharon santon and it is a whopping $285 per quarter yes indeedy I did find decide to go ahead and do an annual subscription which does save me a little bit of money but it was definitely a

Moment I definitely took pause when I laid over my $1,100 for the year but one of the things that is included in all of the boxes is an art piece by the featured artist for that year so I do like to complete full year so that I

Wind up with four pieces of art by the same artist so I’m very curious to see who our artist is and what the style will be for this this year this is my third year with my French country home where I’ve been a subscriber this box is

Not sent to me for a review however I do have an affiliate link which if you decide to become a subscriber I would definitely appreciate your support by using that link and they do have a petite box so I think that is definitely a great option if you’re looking for a

Little taste of France Taste of my French country home which is also a beautiful magazine and um that is a good way to get it and also support my channel so this is what it looks like it is a gorgeous magnetic closure box with a little ribbon tab they always do such

A beautiful job you can see that lovely ribbon on the inside it comes in a nice outer box and is shipped via DHL I will say I was a little bit upset with DHL because even though I requested a specific delivery date they delivered it

Early and so I actually had to have a friend come and pick it up off my doorstep so it didn’t get rained on while I was away but that’s a DHL issue but on top of this one they did actually also include one of the items inside

Because it is a a large book but we will talk about that later and they also included the my French country Home magazine so in one of my recent videos I was kind of lamenting the passing of a lot of beautiful glossy magazines this is a gorgeous one that you can add to

Your subscription I think it’s like $7 um maybe $7 per um issue but look at these gorgeous glossy pages of beautiful interior design and recipe it’s just a beautiful lifestyle magazine you can see how thick it is it’s not just a few pages it’s really lovely and if you had

These kind of stacked up on a bookshelf it would be very very classic um but I do think it is lovely and then they will ship it with your box every quarter so you save in the shipping I think that’s pretty cool actually so all right let’s

Go ahead and put that off to the side they’ll probably say something about it in the booklet this time around but let me go ahead and pull the tie oh goodness there’s quite a knot here in my satin ribbon this time around I didn’t pre-open it because I like to do

Everything with all of you so beautiful beautiful home decor fragrance um often there’s like um a nice delicious edible treat in there uh there’s always an antique item which I always think is another really cool feature of this box in addition to the featured artist and

Let’s see what it looks like so inside we have the magazine that they basically create it’s like a little mini magazine for every box and she does all of the photography herself so this is like a full spread of all of the items and then inside we have a whole page pretty much

For each of the items and a description there’s always a subscriber gift as well because you can get this box as a one-off they also have a lovely shop so if you’re interested in just buying individual items or items that complement the items or just other items

From some of the brands that are featured in the Box you can definitely do that and you can use my affiliate link if you do there is mention of my French country home home tours I would love to do that they have a Mother’s Day collection that they’re talking about

Here in the back but let’s go ahead and see what it is this I’m not sure if it says what box number it is box number 29 Vann so it says Parisian Home Essentials inspired by the extraordinary world of mar monu I I think that’s how you say

The name so it says follow us on a journey uh into the extraordinary world of mar mar Marin Mar m at artist celebrated for his Whimsical and inventive Creations that capture the essence of a colorful life in France from chic decor to practical Essentials each item has been handpicked to add a

Parisian touch to your home oh fun this is like kind of vintage looking but also very Whimsical and colorful so we start off with that book that was right on top so this is kind of like a touchstone we did this last year as well we had um beautiful items from

Jamie Beck or beautiful art pieces photographs from Jamie back and we got her book to start off so this is the lovely hard cover book with that nice beautiful gold foil font it says an essential in any Parisian home is a good coffee table book in this box we’ve

Included mam monu’s book extraordinary collections French Interiors flea markets and atellier ooh that sounds awesome so says he’s always collected objects imbued with a poetic soul that sparked the imagination in his travels across France he has met remarkable antique dealers and passionate amateurs here he takes us into the magical world

Of their extraordinary collections so you know what that look at the interior of the book that’s so beautiful but that means we are going to get some gorgeous images look at all these vintage doors oh my gosh it just like makes me want to design and decorate my own home look at

All of these collections that he’s found like scientific drawings just beautiful images it kind of has a really nice almost like matte texture to the pages so you’re not seeing a lot of glare here look at these beautiful images and just information about the different atellier here’s a painters Studio I’m going to

Have fun looking through that I’m excited about that I don’t actually have a coffee table these days but um I do like having beautiful French coffee table books in one day in my one day house I will look very sophisticated having all of those all right let me ooh

You guys I’m so excited there’s a lot of things by m Monte so let me show you we have lots of boxes with in our box for us to dive into today and I’m always a little bit worried about my timing just because I don’t know the order in which

Things are coming so this is from Mar m look at the beautiful packaging let’s hope that I get this right the first time through um because I’ll never be able to package it quite as nicely as they do over at my French country home so this is our first box from them for

2024 let’s see ooh this is so pretty I don’t know what it is what do you all think it is it’s a lovely box ah so it is a floral glass tumbler well packaged designed by my by Maran and handmade in France it can be used as a drinking

Glass or a Charming vase well since you guys know I’m very particular when it comes to drink wear we’ve been getting a lot of beautiful glasses and tumblers and different lifestyle and Home Decor boxes this season um I will probably use it as a base because I do like to have

Matching um this is stunning though and there was variation I think this is maybe like a gardinia look how pretty that is so it’s says add some Parisian Whimsy to your table or your display shelf wash by hand so that you don’t scratch this off but look it’s a nice

Thick glass it’s got some like bubbles in it really really pretty and then I’ll just show you it looks like there were three other options and these all have sort of like pink flowers on them so I love that I got the one that is just

White and green because I feel like that is really really versatile um of course it might be tempting to go onto the site and get a matching set or mismatch tumblers but that is a really nice way to start ooh this is exciting too this is another reason that I didn’t want my

Box sitting out in the elements just in case this is from meon pesave pesave pesave I don’t know so there are variations in this one as well in terms of the colors candles are present in any Parisian Home and these bougie are from meon pesave our current favorite light

Up your dinner table with these delicate Chic candles and enjoy their unique shape and ombre colors each box will have one of three sets other colors are available in our Boutique so the candles themselves are not ombre but the set is sort of and I love this like muted tone

That I got so there were three different color variations really really pretty are they ombre no they don’t actually change color but look how many you you get that’s quite a few they look very skinny like they’re probably going to burn rather quickly but let’s see I got

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 I believe 10 2 4 6 8 10 12 12 Bouie inside I would have loved any of the color variations this neutral set looks really appealing to me of course but this seems perfect this is the one that I got for

Spring lovely let me go ahead and move on to the next one the next page so far we’ve been doing very good because we’ve been in order oh goodness it looks like we have something else to go along with so let me see if I can find it so this

Goes along because this is also from a complement your fabulous new candles with this pair of stylish brass I have to figure out how to open it stylish brass candle holders I love that they gave us candle holders meticulously crafted in France by the finest Artisans elegant but discreet they allow you to

Position your candles to best Effect one set per box look they came in this nice little card and they’re very discreet as they said they’re very like low profile so look how simple they are I love that and the gold so you can Nestle that into

A wreath or a Garland or just have it be very modern on your table runner or just on a bookshelf I love them and they definitely have some weight to them and then you can keep them in this nice little box I think that is beautiful if

I have time at the end I’ll try to put one in there but I want to make sure that we have time for all of them one set per box beautiful you could get more of course and you could have like you know you could have light all of your

Candles all at once if you’re being very dramatic for a dinner party but that’s nice cuz then you can just swap out your candles as they burn down so this is we have a nice self-care Bath and Body product these boxes are just so gorgeous

They just feel so elegant so this is Le the biame Bame so this is uh no Parisian home goes without a beautifully packaged hand soap oh my gosh I love these drawer boxes isn’t that just so beautiful says this bottle from viome will not only cleanse but also at a luxurious touch to

Your bathroom or powder room each box will include one of three cents so what’s really nice about this is it is a pump bottle so you can see it’s in here and there’s the little pump there so I have to see what my scent is they’re

Only showing one and I’m not sure this is so happy days Sid so I guess that is the scent but I don’t know what um Ha Happy Days necessarily smells like what the scent profile is maybe it will say on the website when I go to see what

Other options there were but let’s see I don’t think it actually says it just says that it is H I don’t know you guys let me know in the comments below there was another one the one that is shown here in the booklet it’s called veret so if you could have

Gotten or ver or one other one all right let’s see in each box we always include an unique antique piece that we purchased from antiqu I’m glessing what that’s what this is around France for this box we sourced antique Minard mardes Cutlery a Charming Edition to your dessert service traditionally

Used for serving pastries or sweet creams today they add a Charming touch to your table oh my gosh this is so sweet they actually tied it with a little satin black ribbon look at these this is so beautiful and this is where it’s always going to be different look

At how that is carved into that so it’s actually perforation that is so beautiful the engraving and look at those like fluted Fork so there’s always going to be different fa variations honestly sometimes I see the images look at all these different sets all these

Different sets so a lot of the times I look at the ones in the booklet and I’m like I wish I had gotten that one but this time around I honestly I love mine the most I think that is so stunning and beautiful with that kind of floral Fern

Or FR design and I love that they took the time to tie it up with this little ribbon as well what a cool little thing cuz you don’t have to use it for desserts you can use it for all kinds of serving things for your chaku all right

Let’s see what this is so a photo print by Mar m so you probably saw it when I was opening the booklet and I was very curious so it says we’re thrilled to be collaborating with mam Mugu this year as our resident artist I kind of like this

Trend of us giving the giving us the book from the artists so that we kind of get a Vibe kind of enter into their world and get an expectation of what we’ll receive but I’m curious to see if everything is going to really syn up because this is very modern and

Whimsical and some of the other stuff looks a little bit more vintage and antique so it says um each box contains a photo print from M for our box clients look at this this is so fun if you are one of our regular subscribers you will have a collection of four exclusive

Prints by m by the end of the year display these works of art in a frame or use them as cards and send them in the envelopes provided so designed by so it’s specially made for this box this one it’s not like a postcard it’s

Actually a card so if you choose to use it you can and then look at how bright and fun the matching envelope is I kind of love that it’s a square because they do suggest that at the end you could have them all framed um and it kind of

Lends itself to framing them as a quad might look really cool but now I’m just really hoping that all of the other prints like this seems very Spring right but now I’m just hoping that all of the other prints are the same style in terms of it being like a drawing that’s been

Filled in with like it looks like a like maybe a watercolor pen or maybe watercolor it it would be nice if they’re all in the same style or from the same series and maybe we just get different pops of color that could be very modern and cool this is very

Different from the past artist that they’ve had it’s a little less traditional a little less um French country home which actually really like this is the kind of thing that I would probably pick up from like a modern art and Museum uh book shop or gift shop

Which is always kind of fun it’s not necessarily I don’t know because I do have limited space in my house the kind of thing that I will put up but you never know if I collect all four which I am because I’ve now subscribed for the year it could look really cool and

Modern so let me know what you think I actually like this I prefer this to you know the photography that we’ve gotten or the more traditional paintings that we’ve gotten which were lovely and gorgeous but um this is actually my fourth year I realize now yes this is

Actually my fourth year with my French country home but it is only my third complete year because I started midyear my first year so I didn’t have a complete set of the art prints all right so I think we have one more item which is the gift for subscribers this is the

Thank you gift for subscribers by laam deom look at this beautiful box I love I love I love it says as a thank you to our quarterly and yearly subscribers I’m trying to I’m trying to see if it’s something that I can slide out I think

It is it says we’ve included two dried flower scented palettes handcrafted in a quaint atellier in beron these palettes offer a subtle fragrance whether nested in a dress or drawer to keep clothes delicately scented or displayed on a small tray in the bathroom they add a touch of sophistication and sweet Aroma

To any space so what a lovely like gift as well that’s why I’m kind of trying to save the gift packaging oh wow there is a lot of scent and you guys can kind of hear like I’ve got a little bit of a lingering post-travel cold but it says

Fab pulse oh let’s see so we get two of these oh they’re so sweet let me just just go ahead I’ll I’ll tear the tissue paper goodness I have to show you cuz they’re I tried not to I did secretly try not to tear the tissue paper but it

Still happened all right so these are beautiful they’re like little soaps almost so let me show you aren’t those pretty I love these um I got the more natural ones there was also ones with like more uh Rose Colored uh items or blue even dyed so look it’s kind of like soap

But look it’s three-dimensional hopefully you guys can see it’s how the flowers stick out and then you have this nice tie you could even put this on your rearview mirror and this bead this bead is not tight enough to necessarily do anything but you can put it like this so

You could use it as a sache like she suggested you could use it as a tray in your bathroom wow it really has a very strong scent floral scent um I’m not sure if that will stay that strong but they’re really pretty I’ve never actually seen something like this a flower scented

Palette so they are definitely complimentary but obviously not identical because they have real Botanicals on them and I love that I got these natural ones that are just like kind of a straw color on the white background so very very pretty but I’ll show you there’s a couple other images

So you could have gotten this striking blue or here there’s one with more rose petals I love that oh I didn’t actually see the unboxing so usually Sharon doesn’t unbox ing as well sometimes I’ll actually watch that a little bit ahead of time um if I’m posting soon after

Because I like to get her pronunciation on things but she does do unboxings on their own like YouTube channel uh essentially so discover a special unboxing with our curator Sharon there she is she always looks quintessentially French and sophisticated so let’s see and then this is a little bit more about

The magazine and how you can get it in the boxes and then of course there’s the boutique that they tell us about she does such a lovely job with all of the images so let me see if I can just recap all of the gorgeous things that we got

In this gorgeous box let me know what you guys think about the like more modern artist that they have chosen this time around so maybe we’ll even go kind of in backwards order so we got these lovely I I don’t know what you call them they’re not really sachets right they’re

Floral tiles but they are soft like they would scratch cuz they do feel like kind of like soap essentially is the texture of them we got our first print in a series of four or of course you could use it as a greeting card if you so

Choose we got our antique item which is what were these called again a Minard Cutlery for serving desserts or anything else that you would like for our Bath and Body item we got this lovely uh hand soap I think it’s a hand soap Yes hand soap which I’m wondering what my scent

Smells like I wonder if it’s sealed let’s see oh it’s actually really light which is kind of nice in contrast to those very um sharply scented not sharply but strongly scented tiles we got these I love these candle holders and that they included them along with the candles in

A variety of colors and there was some variation we got our lovely book that I’m going to enjoy perusing and then of course for me the Highlight I do love this glass even though it is not match and I might want to go ahead and get one

That matches just so I do have a set but I think it would be a beautiful little vase for spring and throughout the year because it is just simply white and green you guys let me know in the comments below what your favorite item was I honestly I was a little bit

Nervous like biting the bullet and going for a year but um I do really like this curation I thought it was quite lovely and it’s a lot of things that I will actually use um nothing that I have to feel like I need to store away forever

Things that I can enjoy using right now I hope you enjoyed this video and if you did please help me out with a thumbs up and I will see you all very very soon in my next unboxing