Welcome to Dear Alice, a lifestyle approach to interior design.

At Alice Lane, we believe that you should have spaces in your home that you love and fit your lifestyle.

This can be difficult to achieve and that's why we created something for you.

It's our home furnishing design service.

We have a team of skilled designers who will work with your budget, help you space plan and curate each space down to the very last layer to transform your home.

The most amazing part is the service is complimentary. That's free people.

Our designers are available nationwide and they'll work with you in store in home virtually or over the phone.

For more details and information, email us at designrequest at Alice Lane Home.com or call us at 800-423-7757 or you can click on the link in our show notes.

Hello everyone and welcome to Dear Alice. We have a very special guest.

Hello, you hear that lovely voice coming in. We have a very special guest today.

We've got Remy Mechadaki and he is the founder of Lola James Harper.

That is our favorite scent line at Alice Lane.

It came to be that we actually had one of our employees over in Paris and they were shopping for Candle and she didn't know what to get.

So I'll just get dip teak and the shop owner said, oh don't get dip teak, you can get that anywhere.

You have to come smell Lola James Harper and so she went about smelling them and it was hard to know which one to get.

But she brought one home and brought it to work one day and said, you guys, I don't know how we could ever sell this in the United States but it's being sold in France and you've got to smell this.

So we all fell in love with it and so we sought about how to air freight these here so that we could sell them Alice Lane and we've been doing it now for almost three years.

So it's a thrill to get to have founder of Lola James Harper here to talk about the romance, the poetry that goes into making this incredible scent line and it's way deeper than that.

Your history goes back how far was it as far as 2002?

I Lola James Harper was really launched at Colette in Paris in 2013 but Lola James Harper is just gathering two decades of travels of people we've met of songs were recorded or sense of places we love.

So it's been two decades even more that I traveled with my wife, my son and my daughter and we just go around the world and when we find an inspiring place, I just write on my notebook what the scent are of that place and try to convey it in a candle.

And I've been gathering all those sense and while traveling recording music with different singers, different women artists or men artists, but there are lots of women artists in Lola James Harper and taking picture of those places so I was doing that because at that same time I was working for other brands as our director so I came back with some ideas for sand some ideas for pictures some songs or sounds and one day I just realized that all that archive all those.

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