*AD CAELIA

Last Sunday ended in bliss. I found myself at L'Institut du Bon Marché, letting time slow down during the Signature Ad CAELIA treatment.

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I've known the brand Ad CAELIA since the beginning, back when founder Claire Andréewitch was shaping her vision of skincare that works with the body, not against it. A S-Beauty brand (Slow, Smart, Skin-respectful et Soul-aligned.) built for sensitive skin, for people who want clean formulas and need both gentleness and performance.

Seeing that vision translated into a treatment made immediate sense.

Rachel Hayon from My Skin Therapy welcomed me. If you know her work, you know her precision comes from years of training with France's top practitioners like Diane Servant (you can read her interview here). Nothing about her technique is decorative. She chooses Ad CAELIA for a simple reason: it lets her treat any skin safely while efficiently giving the skin a total glow. No essential oils, no irritants, no guesswork. When your hands work as deeply as hers do, you need products that won't trigger reactions you can't reverse.

The session didn't feel like a sequence of steps, more like someone reading your face and adjusting as they go. A double cleanse that actually prepares the skin. Heat and cold used with intention. Long sculpting gestures with the Ad Caelia beauty oil. Tools that release tension without forcing it. The familiar lymphatic brushes from Cecily Braden. She went where tension lives (for me, the forehead) and worked until the muscles finally let go.

At Le Bon Marché, the treatment happens on the Power Mat by CharlotteMuller®. You barely notice it during the session, but the effect appears after, a quiet shift in the nervous system. The kind of calm that doesn't come from slowing down, but from everything inside you briefly stopping its fight.

By the end, my skin looked radiant and toned. But the real difference was the feeling of space—the sense that my face wasn't carrying the day anymore. It reminded me why certain treatments stay with you: they change the rhythm, not just the surface. Ad CAELIA made even more sense after this hour.