La Haute Croissanterie Fruit Kiss: A Limited-Edition Croissant Collection for Summer 

Paris, May 5, 2026 – The croissant is having a moment.

Not just any moment, but a fruit-infused moment. Sofitel, the luxury hospitality brand under Accor, has just unveiled its second limited-edition collection of La Haute Croissanterie: Fruit Kiss.

This pastry upgrade is a deliberate reimagining of the iconic French croissant for the summer season, where sun-kissed flavors and delicate textures take center stage.

Sofitel is a pioneer of French luxury hospitality, known for blending local culture with the brand’s signature “French Zest.” The Fruit Kiss collection is a masterclass in seasonal indulgence, featuring ten buttery croissants filled with peak-market fruits.

Each creation is designed to be a “gesture of affection,” a “delightful treat to share,” and a “sensory escape” that celebrates the fleeting beauty of summer’s bounty. The collection is available for just three months, making it a true limited-edition experience.

The technical precision behind these croissants is staggering. The announcement highlights that each creation is crafted by Sofitel’s pastry chefs, who treat every plate as an edible still life. The flavors aren’t just layered; they’re orchestrated.

Take the Raspberry Kiss, for example. It features fresh raspberries crowned with gold leaf and basil leaves, a deliberate editorial choice that balances tartness, herbal notes, and luxury.

The Lemon Kiss, meanwhile, is a study in restraint—lemon cream and whipped ricotta, letting the ingredients speak for themselves.

The Cherry Kiss honors the fruit’s brief season with a rich compote and a clean crunch, a creation that doesn’t try to outlast the moment; it simply celebrates it.

Guests can indulge in:

• Raspberry Kiss : The raspberries arrive first, ripe, vivid, entirely themselves. Then basil, folded into the jam while still warm, leaves an herbal trace that reads as both unexpected and completely right. Greek yogurt holds the balance, tangy and cool. A flower of fresh raspberries crowns the creation, finished with gold leaf and three small basil leaves.
• Lemon Kiss: A lemon cream, vivid, precise and uncompromising fills the croissant. Above it, whipped ricotta, airy and fresh, turns the richness of the pastry into something weightless. What reads as simplicity is, in fact, a deliberate editorial choice: the confidence to let two ingredients carry the entire experience.
• Cherry Kiss: A few weeks a year. No more. The cherry’s season is brief by nature, and that brevity is precisely what gives it its force. Here, a rich, glossy compote, deepened by ripeness, is held inside golden pastry that gives way with a clean, satisfying crunch. A creation that does not try to outlast the season. It simply honours it, completely.
• Mango Kiss: At the peak of ripeness, laid with deliberate generosity over buttery laminated pastry, the mango here is not a flavor. Borage flowers, the final gesture of a pastry chef who treats every plate as a composition. An edible still life. The kind that disappears before you’ve fully decided to let it.
• Passion Fruit Kiss: Passion Fruit Kiss bursts in bright, tart, and insistent, crashing through the croissant’s golden layers with the vivid energy of a summer morning. What follows is the unexpected: a chantilly infused with fresh vanilla and coriander, herbal and disarming, landing soft where everything else is vivid.
• Red Apple Kiss: Slow-cooked with vanilla until luminous and tender and deliberately lightened. This is the French zest in its most refined expression: not the invention of something new, but the transformation of something known into something felt for the very first time.
• Coconut Kiss: In a collection that celebrates intensity and boldness, the coconut brings a luminous, almost meditative freshness. Candied coconut and hand-shaped curls add an artisanal touch that speaks to the care of a Sofitel pastry chef. A moment of tenderness, suspended in the morning light.
• Peach Kiss: A Sofitel pastry chef knows there is a precise moment when a peach is exactly as it should be. This croissant is built around that moment and around the discipline required to find it. Poached until velvety and luminous, the fruit rests inside buttery laminated layers with a breath of orange blossom.
• Apricot Kiss: The apricot carries the heat of the season in its skin and this creation does nothing to temper it. A vivid gel, bright and tangy, leads. A vanilla and almond chantilly of extraordinary delicacy follows, dissolving almost on contact. A dried apricot slice rests on top, like a final punctuation mark.
• Fig Kiss: Figs at the height of their season, slow-cooked until dark and yielding. A mascarpone touch, barely sweetened and impossibly light, follows. Then cinnamon, a sliver of fresh fig, and a touch of gold leaf. 

Is this just a fancy pastry trend, or is it something deeper? Anne-Cecile Degenne, Corporate Executive Chef of Sofitel and Sofitel Legend, framed the collection as a celebration of “freshness, lightness, and indulgence.”

• The Collection: Ten fruit-infused croissants, each with a distinct flavor profile and textural contrast.
• The Philosophy: Clean, natural flavors balanced with the golden crunch of a perfectly laminated croissant.
• The Locations: Available at Sofitel properties worldwide, including Sofitel Legend Casco Viejo Panama City and Sofitel Paris Le Scribe Opera.

It’s a deliberate pivot away from the heavy, butter-laden pastries of winter toward something more delicate and seasonal. The announcement also highlights the brand’s commitment to “French Zest,” a philosophy that elevates the simple act of eating into a moment of pure delight.

Ultimately, the Fruit Kiss collection is a reminder that luxury isn’t just about gold leaf and marble floors. It’s about the care put into every detail, from the slow-cooked peach to the precise moment when a fig is at its peak. If you’re lucky enough to be in a Sofitel this summer, don’t just grab a croissant—savor the artistry.