Ortigia...from Sicily with love.

We are the the exclusive west of Scotland stockist of the beautiful range of fragrances and bath products from Ortigia - the luxury brand available from us at Pierrot et Coco in Glasgow, and from their own flagship store in London's Sloane Square.

We have a huge range for men and women in delightful scents such as Fico D'India, Ambra Nera, Corallo, Sandalo, Sicilian Lime, Melograno, Geranium, Lavender, Zagara in colognes, bath oils, hand and body creams, shaving gels, soaps and more.

The plants used as ingredients are all indigenous to this almost tropical region of Sicily, and some of our well-travelled customers are transported back to a holiday on the beautiful Mediterranean island when they see and smell the Ortigia range.




Many of our customers quickly chose their own favourite Ortigia scent to fall in love with, but for anyone not familiar with the fragrances, we've just received the most beautiful miniature products from Italy...little treats perfect for travelling or just sampling.



We have bath salts in fabulous packaging - envelopes with Ortigia's signature designs at £4 (and ideal for using a few times over as foot soak), 75ml shower gels for £5.50 (more than enough for a mini-break) and we have restocked the ever-popular boxed 40g soaps at £4. Treat yourself by picking some mini's in a favourite scent to take on holiday when you don't want to be weighed down by toiletries, or choose a selection of different products as a gift if you're unsure of the receipent's preference.

Mor Cosmetics

We are delighted to be the exclusive independent stockist in Scotland of the beautifully designed range of Mor Cosmetics from Australia. When we first saw Mor's advertising campaign called "Wonderlandia" the imagery alone sold the products to us, so it was especially good to know the fragrances within are as good as the boxes they come in. Celebrating their 10 year anniversary, Mor, which means Peacock in Hindi has a truly enticing range with triple milled soaps, body butters, lip glosses and balms, hand creams and body washes, perfume oils, elixirs and candles.



We spent a long time sampling the olfactory delights and settled on a wide selection which includes Marshmallow, Italian Blood Orange, Cucumber & Casaba, Lychee Flower, Indian Pomelo, Cassis Noir and Snow Gardenia. Perfect as gifts, we also have Mor's range of products in tins from £18 per set. The "Lip Delight" range are lip balms which come in pretty oval tins with aqua coloured sorbet being our favourite flavour.

It's the month for new arrivals...

We're trying to give the shop a spring makeover. Nothing too momentous, as we've only been open a few months, but every few days will see another change as new designers and brands are brought in and popular pieces restocked.

Our swan-necked lady on the centre table wears a rather magnificent necklace and earring by St Erasmus. He has designed for Givenchy, Matthew Williamson, Alexander McQueen, Erickson Beamon and his own label is jewellery perfection; Her arms, suspended from the ceiling wear a matching St Erasmus ring and three rings from French designers Les Nereides which are perfectly oversized solitary pearls with a Pierrot design.

New additions to the table include pumpkin shaped or huge gold glass decanters, beautiful glass plates with vintage imagery, miniature rabbit topped dishes to keep curls of butter for the most civilized soiree. A delightful Easter gift are our apothecary jars filled with triple milled French soaps in the shape of blue Robin's Eggs.




A brilliant jewellery range we have is "Know Your Onions" - all handmade in England by Jayne Simmonds who previously worked for Wedgwood and Royal Doulton and who has conceived a striking line of etched resin brooches and pendants which are reminiscent of scrimshaw whalebone.



Choose just one alphabet brooch for everyday wear, or choose several to spell something out..we have ampersands, exclamation marks and question marks too in case there's nothing profound you need to write across your lapel. These are an amazing buy as an extra little gift at only £6 each.

Newly arrived this morning, we have more of the vintage-style stationery range from San Francisco's Cavallini & Co. We'll have so many postcard tins, notebooks, sticky notes and labels with irresistibe designs we don't know where it's all going to go...

We have a few more designs of their finest giftwrap, perfect as wall art :





And the range we're most excited about is the luxurious Mor Cosmetics from Australia. This will be with us this week - we were sold just by the packaging, but thankfully, each scent is just as good as the box it comes in and we struggled to narrow this collection down so we decided to go for almost every fragrance they make. They have delicious names such as Cassis Noir, Italian Blood Orange or Indian Pomelo...and beautiful box sets and tins perfect as Mother's Day gifts. Lots of photos of this range coming very soon!

Happy it's March!

While the weather is definitely changeable, we're very happy it's March. Spring is on its way and with it comes some new additions to our stock.

We're hanging onto the bulk of the new things for a few more days so it can all be displayed just right as we want it to have the best impact.

However, one delivery is hanging on the wall already, and although it's only just March we believe these are an excellent alternative to an Easter egg for children.

These cut-out-and-make animal sets are really fabulous. Designed by Madeleine Rogers under the "Mibo" brand in Brighton they're a great way of spending some time with the children over the Easter holidays and will look brilliant on a shelf in their bedroom afterwards. They first caught my eye in Elle Deco which featured the set of Christmas creatures.



Choose from the Rabbits or Chicks for a lovely springtime treat for children ages 6 and over, although we know many adults who would be happy to while away a Sunday afternoon with this project...

Other sets include such charming creatures as "Fru Fox" and Wallace the sleepy eyed owl...

Each set of 3 is £6 and each set of 4 animals is £7.







Another wonderful idea from Mibo are the Fox and Lion tea towels...use them in the kitchen or cut out, sew and stuff to make your own little animal.




Great rainy-day projects, but let's not hope for too many of those ;)

Calling all future Prima Ballerinas!

Perfect as a gift for a ballerina in the making or a little girl who loves to dress-up.

We have the prettiest tutus packaged in a stripy, circusy 'Pierrot et Coco' box to fit ages 1-5 in the most gorgeous shades of sapphire blue, apple green, cerise pink, powder pink, sunshine yellow, chocolate brown and aqua.

Only £25 and sure to make any little girl squeal with delight! We don't have space to display them all, so please ask if you would like to see any colours we don't have out. One little girl left the shop today wearing hers with stripy tights and mac - three year olds never let the rain stop them from doing what they want!

Lip Tease

We've been thoroughly impressed by the good taste of our customers over the last few days. Depsite many other shops being filled with all things pink, furry and heart shaped, the fine ladies and men who have shopped with us have made impeccable choices for their other halves for Valentine's Day and the gifts will seem well considered and hopefully very well received.

For any men hoping to catch a last minute gift before seeing their loved one this evening, we have a perfect choice which is stylish, practical and will make the right impression.

The Reiko Kaneko fine bone china cup and saucer set or delicate mug comes with a platinum "lip stain" so if you're not intending to offer anything else in platinum this Feb 14th at least you're still giving something pretty luxurious!

We are the exclusive Scottish stockist of these beautiful pieces, shortlisted for the Elle Deco UK design of the year.


No need to worry about the gift wrap either, we will of course package this up in a our special white box-bag which she will be almost as thrilled to receive as the contents themselves...and for anyone buying the Reiko Kaneko today we'll also pop in a free white chocolate matching lollipop as even the most chic like a sweet treat.


Reiko Kaneko platinum "Lip Tease" cup and saucer £30 and mug £15

This is...

We're happy to have the range of M.Sasek books back again after they sold out before Christmas.

Although intended as destination books for children, we know many adults who are happy to have these on their bookshelf because they perfectly capture the 50's/60's in a charming way.

Written and illustrated by Miroslav Sasek in the late 50's, these hardback books are a delight to read and use as a guide book with a child. The illustrations are good enough to frame and and the text is playful and witty.

We have "This is London", "This is Paris", "This is Edinburgh", "This is Great Britain", "This is New York" and "This is the Way to the Moon".

All the images below are from my favourite - "This is Paris", showing a Parisian bus stop, letter box, the Sacre Coeur with a nun and a street artist.