Delectable Christmas Delights: L'Occitane's Pierre Hermé Collection

Fabulous French luxury brand L'Occitane is back this year with another delicious Christmas collection, this time a collaboration between L'Occitane founder Olivier Baussan and world renowned pastry chef Pierre Hermé.

After last year's gorgeous Christmas release by L'Occitane, the Arlésienne collection inspired by the Arlés region in France - which reminds me of Christmas every time I spray it - the innovative founder of L'Occitane Olivier Baussan has come up with the delicious goods again this year by collaborating with French pastry chef Pierre Hermé to create a mouth-watering set of perfumes just launched for Christmas based on the chef's world renowned pastries.

A Lovely L'Occitane Christmas

Since L'Occitane has been a go-to gift brand for me for so many years, I decided to compile a list of their all time best selling products as a Christmas Gift suggestion list for anyone in your life, young or old, male or female, that you think deserves a bit of a pampering this Christmas!

Whenever I am buying someone a gift and I want them to really feel pampered I go to L'Occitane first each time. I've been doing this for years. At one point I realised I had bought so much L'Occitane but rarely got to get it for myself so I started getting a little treat here and there and soon friends started gifting me with various products from the brand too.

It is such a great destination for a gift for men and women; the men's products are actually some of the nicest quality and most gorgeous smelling I've ever come across so it's definitely worth a visit when Christmas shopping this year; whether you're getting something for your mum, your husband or your best friend!

A Luxury Christmas Gift List with YSL, Lancôme, Giorgio Armani & Kiehl's

If you have a special someone in your life that you'd like to really pamper, here is a selection of the more luxurious, a tad more expensive but every so fancy, presents for you to peruse from YSl, Giorgio Armani, Kiehl's and Lancôme. I want it all Santa...

Christmas is a time for gift giving for the people you love so, if you have anyone in your life your want to give an extra fancy surprise to this Christmas, or you're looking for a luxury treat for yourself to use your Christmas bonus for something usually out of your price range, I've compiled a list of the biggest cosmetic treats around from YSL, Lancôme, Kiehl's and Giorgio Armani. If you're reading Santa, that Wild Edition Palette by YSL is something else!

Provincial Christmas Collection: L'Occitane Arlésienne

L'Occitane's Arlésienne limited edition collection contains the most beautiful products, perfect Christmas gifts for the favourite ladies in your life, but also marks the most gorgeous new scent by the brand that's quite hard to resist buying for yourself too!

L'Occitane don't do things by halves and the inspiration for this Arlésienne collection was a group of women from that Arles district in France who represent the essence of ethereal femininity and encompass the beauty of Provence. These iconic women also inspired designer Christian Lacroix to do an exhibition in tandem with the release of this collection, also inspired by the women of his home town, Arles, which you can read more about here.

Merry Urban Decaymas! Urban Decay's Black Magic & Shadow Box Christmas Gift Sets

If you're looking for a gift for any makeup lover in your life, you can't go wrong with Urban Decay and, whether it's for a Christmas present or a treat for yourself, these limited edition sets, Shadow Box and Black Magic, are wonderful collections in themselves but also a great way to try out the brand or find your favourite Urban Decay shadows and eyeliners all at once.

It's no secret I'm a huge fan of Urban Decay here on Penelope's Bed and Christmas came early for me when these two limited edition Christmas gift sets came through my door. In fact, the first time I ever got the opportunity to try out the brand was after getting one of their palettes for Christmas years ago. The best thing about these palettes is that there are so many types available to suit every taste; from the nude and natural selection in the world famous Naked Palettes which are at the top of my wish list along side the extremely different Electro Palette that was released earlier this year.