The Different Company
10 rue Ferdinand Duval Paris 75004
High-end niche perfume company created by Jean-Claude Ellena and his daughter Céline.FrenchTrotters
128 rue Vieille du Temple Paris 3rd
This beautiful store in the upper Marais is for devotees of timeless French chic, with a handpicked collection of exclusively French fashion brands—menswear, womenswear and a superb housewares collection. There are also books and hard-to-find European cosmetics brands.Musée Cernuschi
7 avenue Vélasquez Paris 8th Métro: Monceau or Villiers
A Paris city museum with an extraordinary collection of Asian art, in a former private mansion built around a colossal bronze Buddha. Closed Mon.Agnès b.
2-4, 6, & 19 rue du Jour, 1st 6 & 10-12 rue du Vieux Colombier, 6th 13 rue de Marseille, 10th
A quintessential Parisian fashion brand for men, women and children, including accessories and leather goods.Musée de la Monnaie
11 quai de Conti Paris 75006 Métro: Pont Neuf/Odéon.
The museum of the French national mint, with coins, medals, jewelry and sculptures.Musée National du Moyen Age–Musée Cluny
6 place Paul-Painlevé Paris 75005 Métro: Cluny-La Sorbonne.
A wonderful museum of medieval history and art, including the renowned Lady and the Unicorn tapestries, housed in a resplendent 15th-century residence built on top of immense early Roman baths.Cinquième Sens
18 rue Monttessuy Paris 75007
Custom-made perfumes can be created in this perfumers’ workshop formerly reserved only for professionals.Ra
14 rue de la Corderie Paris 3rd Métro: Temple
A fabulous concept boutique Paris’s Haut Marais where clothes are displayed on a curtained mini-stage, jewelry is in a stylized coffin and the mannequins seem ready to speak, as if right off a Jean Cocteau movie set. Some of the shop’s limited-edition pieces are closest in spirit to theatrical costumes, but there are plenty of outstanding everyday pieces, along with some fairly wacky headgear, handmade leather goods, a small vintage collection and a bookstore.Mémorial de la Shoah
17 rue Geoffroy l’Asnier Paris 75004 Métro: Saint Paul
A memorial and documentation center dedicated to the history of European Jews and the Holocaust, holding regular temporary exhibits. At the entrance is the Wall of Names, inscribed with the names of 76,000 deportees. Closed Sat.Galerie Oneiro
9 Rue du Perche, Paris 75003
Located in the heart of the Marais area in Paris, a few minutes on foot from the Picasso Museum, the contemporary art gallery Oneiro opened its doors in October 2014. The gallery supports international emerging artists, but also established ones, and promotes the different forms of artistic expressions: painting, drawing, photography, sculpture-installation and video.Huilerie Artisanale J. Leblanc
12 rue Jacob Paris 75006
The Paris shop of a family-run oil mill in southern Burgundy, which has been producing intensely aromatic flavoring oils since 1878. Favorites of many chefs, the oils include hazelnut, walnut, pistachio, pecan, almond, pine nut and grape seed as well as the more familiar olive, sunflower, sesame, peanut and corn and other oils.Maison de la Truffe
19 Place de la Madeleine Paris 75008
Has a superb tasting menu that offers tuber-based delicacies such as scallop carpaccio with Brumale truffles, and a shop for gourmet gifts including truffle-infused Armagnac.