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Palais Royal retail can look far too pleased with itself; Lemaire keeps the volume down and lets the arcades do the work. The brand’s boutique sits in a cloister facing the garden, around one hundred square metres of vaults, niches, stone and soft grey tones that make the clothes feel almost archaeological. Natural light enters from two open sides through translucent veils, keeping the room tied to the colonnade outside. It is a sharp fit for Lemaire’s everyday uniform: quiet tailoring, loose layers, leather goods and the kind of restraint that knows exactly what it is doing.

Perfume shopping on Rue Saint-Honoré can get very polished very quickly; Caron gives it a stranger kind of calm. The French perfume house, founded in 1904 by Ernest Daltroff, has turned its 2026 Saint-Honoré boutique into a stripped-back sensory room under artistic director Olivia de Rothschild. Casper Mueller Kneer Architects shaped the space with metal, concrete, repeated lines, diffuse reflections and bottles set at eye level, so scent feels less like counter service and more like direct encounter. At the centre, Atelier Blam’s reworked perfume fountain keeps Caron’s refill ritual in play with colder, sharper architecture around it.