Philippine Daily Inquirer

SPRING BLOOMS AND PLANTS DISTILLED INTO MACARONS

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To celebrate Mother’s Day and spring, Claire Heitzler, head of Pastry Creation at Ladurée, was inspired by the scents and colors of garden flowers.

Ladurée is known for highlighti­ng the seasons’ sweet flavors that bring out the best of the ingredient­s, from flowers and fruits to cocoa beans—pastries with botanical air.

Inspired by efforts to respect the earth, such as the Slow Flower movement, Heitzler explores floral and sweet combinatio­ns such as Orange Blossom and Rose Petal.

Her unique new creations are available for a limited time in macarons and chocolates.

Macaron gift box

Designed as a bouquet, this macaron gift box has two floral flavors—Orange Blossom and Rose Petal—made with essences from the white flowers of Moroccan bitter orange trees and Damask roses.

Orange Blossom

Inspired by the orange groves in Morocco, this macaron bears the orange blossom’s fruity floral essence.

Rose Petal

The Rose Petal macaron has a floral aroma with subtle hints of vanilla. Between two pastel pink shells is a sweet creamy ganache with rose notes.

Ladurée Bouquet is a gift box of six macarons.

Heitzler’s inspiratio­n for this season’s Jardin gift box is the agricultur­al engineer Laurent Dreyfus-Schmidt and his small organic farm called Baume des Anges.

His “little mountain” sits 250 meters above the Rhône, just between France’s Dauphiné and Provençe regions, in an exceptiona­l biotope where wild orchids bloom and ocellated lizards scurry.

In Baume des Anges, DreyfusSch­midt grows around 30 aromatic species. In 2008, he developed a dry steam distiller that revolution­ized the world of plant essences. This exclusive process preserves the plants’ most fragile compounds—the head notes characteri­stic of fresh plants.

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Ladurée’s Mother’s Day collection

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