St.Tropez

The Cote d'Azure's New Gem: La Réserve Ramatuelle

Filed under: Dining, Luxury Travel & Hotels

French boutique luxury hotel group La Réserve has just opened its third property, an elegant, intimate getaway in St. Tropez with never-ending views of the Mediterranean. The 23-room luxury hotel and 10,000-sq.-ft. spa, called La Réserve Ramatuelle, also offers 12 beautifully-appointed villas on the property that are available per night, week, or longer. The hotels seven rooms and 16 suites each have a private terrace or garden and feature natural materials in a soft palette of ocher, white, and sandy beige.

Chef Eric Canino oversees La Réserve Ramatuelle's eatery, Le Restaurant, which features a sophisticated menu with a fresh Mediterranean influence and an overall focus on health and well-being. The spa features an indoor pool with a jet lane, an outdoor pool and pool house, a steam bath, and a fitness center. Superior rooms start at €400 and suites from €1,500; villas range from €4,000 to €5,000 for one night or €15,000 to €30,000 (or about $40,000) for seven nights.

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$150,000 Perrier-Jou�t and Van Cleef & Arpels Casket

by Jared Paul Stern (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Jewelry, Spirits, Wine

The ultra-luxe Byblos hotel in St. Tropez is selling ten limited edition $150,000 wood and leather caskets containing an oversized bottle of Perrier-Jouët Belle Époque champagne and a Van Cleef & Arpels jewelry set. The casket, available from the hotel's exclusive club Les Caves du Roy and made to celebrate the Byblos' 41st anniversary, contains a Salmanazar of the vintage 1999 Belle Époque, which is 9 liters or the equivalent of 12 standard bottles. In addition to the Van Cleef & Arpels jewelry set, which is designed to resemble the Anemone, the flower that adorns the Belle Époque bottle, there are four hand-decorated champagne glasses in the casket.

[via Elite Choice]

Tags: Anemone, Byblos, Champagne, Les Caves du Roy, LesCavesDuRoy, perrier-jouet, Perrier-Jouet Belle Epoque, Perrier-jouetBelleEpoque, St. Tropez, St.Tropez, Van Cleef Arpels, VanCleefArpels

DiCaprio's Girlfriend Poses for Puffy's Perfume Ads

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Filed under: Cosmetics and Fragrance

Leonardo DiCaprio's gorgeous Israeli model girlfriend Bar Refaeli appears in the ad campaign for Sean Combs' modestly-named new fragrance, "I Am King." The pix (above) portray Puffy (or Diddy or whatever he's calling himself this week) tooling around in Saint-Tropez and Monaco on helicopters, yachts and so forth with Refaeli (left) and another model in typical mega-mogul fashion. New York magazine reports the new cologne will launch exclusively at Macy's in December with a global launch set for February, and a women's fragrance ("I Am Queen") to follow in 2009; global sales are expected to total $100 million in the first year alone.

Tags: Ad campaigns, AdCampaigns, bar refaeli, BarRefaeli, Leonardo DiCaprio, LeonardoDicaprio, Macys, Monaco, Sean Combs, SeanCombs, St. Tropez, St.Tropez, Supermodels