Maître Parfumeur et Gantier

 5 Rue des Capucines Paris 75001

The independent shop launched by perfumer Jean-François Laporte (who founded L’Artisan Parfumeur), reviving the 17th-century association of perfumes and gloves, now run by his former apprentice Jean-Paul Millet Lage. Wide selection of unusual fragrances for both men and women, and gloves.

Galerie Schmit

 396 rue St-Honoré, Paris 75001 Métro: Concorde

One of the top galleries in town, run by third-generation owner Manuel Schmit, offering museum-quality paintings by 19th- and 20th-century French masters, including Manet, Monet, Degas, Renoir, Matisse, Caillebotte, Boudin, Seurat, Signac, Sisley, Redon and Vuillard, along with Klee, Miró, Modigliani and Jongkind.

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.

Printemps

 64 blvd Haussmann Paris 75009

With three buildings—Mode, Beauté/Maison and Homme—Printemps offers 27 floors of high-end fashion and home decor, including an entire floor of luxury accessories and a huge selection of beauty products and rare perfumes. As well as a 10 percent discount for individual foreign shoppers (register at the Welcome Service, ground floor, Mode building), Printemps also offers a unique concierge service, at a fee for French clients but free for foreign passport holders. Almost anything within reason can be arranged, from a chauffeured car to visit Versailles to a table at a top restaurant or tickets to the Paris Opéra.

Musée des Arts décoratifs

 107 rue de Rivoli Paris 75001 Métro: Tuileries.

A fashion and fabric museum that is part of the semi-private museum group Les Arts Décoratifs, installed in a wing of the Louvre.

Colette

 213 rue Saint Honoré Paris 75001

The first concept boutique in Paris, still cooler-than-thou, offering an eclectic selection of books, jewelry, trinkets, gadgets, cosmetics, scented candles, designer accessories and clothing for men and women.

Galerie J. Kugel

 25 quai Anatole France Paris 75007 Métro: Assemblée Nationale

Museum-quality medieval to 19th-century antiques of all kinds, from furniture and sculpture to jewelry and scientific instruments, displayed in a spectacular 19th-century Left Bank mansion run by fifth-generation dealers Nicolas and Alexis Kugel.

Arty Dandy

 1 rue de Furstemberg Paris 75006 Métro: Mabillon

An impossibly chic gallery boutique that mixes fashion with art books, housewares, jewelry, small leather goods, sunglasses, perfumes and fine art. As in a gallery, the inventory changes constantly—clothing according to season and everything else according to whatever owner Axel Teinturier finds interesting and clever: eye-catching ornaments for the home, plush designer rugs, classic merino sweaters for men and ostrich-leather handbags for women.

Institut du Monde Arabe

 1 rue des Fossés-St-Bernard Place Mohammed Paris 75005 Métro: Cardinal Lemoine

A museum of Arab and Islamic arts, in a building designed by architect Jean Nouvel, with a permanent collection that extends from early archaeological artifacts to the 20th century. Regular temporary exhibits too. Closed Mon.

Bernard Steinitz

 77, rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré Paris 75008

Founded in 1968 by Bernard Steinitz, who now works together with his son Benjamin, one of the city’s best known galleries for top-level 17th- and 18th-century furniture and objets d’art, including exceptional carved wood panelling.

Renaud Pellegrino

 149 rue Saint-Honoré 75001

Known for exquisite clutch bags.