Are these stamps toast?
France has released a scratch-and-sniff stamp featuring a baguette, but bakers complain that the stamp doesn’t adequately capture the yeasty smell of freshly baked bread.
“You just rub the stamp like this with your fingernail,” postal worker Clarice Briend said. today“It smells like bread, baguettes.”
But Jeanne Barélet, manager of Léonie bakery in Paris, says it “smells like vanilla.”
Meanwhile, the bakery’s head baker, Harlem Gbodiaro, likened the aroma to a “sweet and fruity scent” but said he couldn’t pinpoint what it was.
In France, the baguette, printed on a $2.14 square stamp tied with a ribbon in the colors of the flag, “is the bread of our daily life, a symbol of our gastronomy and the jewel of our culture,” the postal service said. statement Earlier this year.
“A carrier of culture and custom, the baguette is deeply rooted in the daily life of the French people,” the postal service La Poste said.
“She embodies the ritual of going to her bakery, a locally-based business that attracts 12 million consumers every day. The 6 billion baguettes made each year confirm its iconic status in French culinary tradition. The baguette has transcended borders to become an international symbol.”
The Baguette stamps would be perfect to display at home as postcards to take part in the 2024 Paris Olympics.
But with throngs of tourists flocking to the City of Love ahead of the Olympics, getting your hands on one of only 594,000 stamps may be tough, even if they don’t smell the best.
