posh detergent and softener. What do you look forward to when you return? I love my bed. It's nothing special. I stay in luxurious hotels and homes all over the world but the feeling of my head sinking into my own pillow is bliss. I always have books on the bedside table and recently burnt the midnight oil reading Bad Boy, a biography of Yves Saint Laurent by Marie-Dominique Lelivre. Do you have a garden or any pets? I rescued a stray canary, christened Hippolyte, from the street. He had a great voice and we used to sing together. He lived in a magnificent pagoda-style wooden cage built by my grandfather. He died a couple of years ago and I was so sad I decided no more pets; the cage sits empty now. There's no garden. To compensate I splash out on orchids and fresh mimosa -- the perfume reminds me of my grandmother. Do you entertain? I gather my friends together and design a meal around ptissier Christian Tholoniat's semifreddo, a delicate chilled concoction of whipped cream and nougat sandwiched between layers of light sponge cake, the surface caramelised Spanish style with a red-hot iron. When I'm not drinking water I love to drink champagne -- for my dinners I build a faux wall in the kitchen using my favourite Claude Carr champagne. By the end of dinner all the bottles are empty and the wall falls down. The craziest bash was when I was named Chevalier des Arts