Get a Whiff of This
Le Labo Shop is a specialized concept store for the scientifically inclined, but this laboratory is more akin to Jonathan Adler than Dr. Frankenstein. The inventions and experiments of French-American scientist David Edwards (who also happens to be Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Harvard), bring science to street-level. The shop’s chicly plexiglassed design belies a warm and highly informed staff who gladly explain the ins-and-outs of their mad scientist’s latest brainchild.
Le Labo’s current invention is “Le Whif,” which Edwards developed with Thierry Marx, a double Michelin-starred chef at Relais-Château de Cordeillan Bages in Pauillac. Le Whif allows the pleasure of literally inhaling chocolate without the post-dessert guilt. As an alternative to the fondant au chocolat, and for the same caloric content as air, delicately inhale a puff of fine chocolate powder (choc/choc, choc/mint, etc.) onto the tongue. The chapstick-sized inhalers are available separately, or in mix and match flavour assortments. Recommended pairing with coffee (available on site plus a Whif for 3 Euros. Whif alone, 1,30E).>more