Where to Reset and Relax During Paris Fashion Week

When it comes to pampering in Paris, options have historically been limited to hotel spas or nail joints with inexperienced technicians. At the new Free Persephone day spa, an American expat, Lauren Creecy, fills the void. Her career in fragrance development for international luxury brands informed the foundation for the space (which caters to groups of friends looking to book appointments together) and its products (her own line of five fragrances). Treatments run from facials and body massages to manicures and pedicures, and a cozy tea salon offers Bontemps Pâtisserie sablé cookies and artisanal teas. Creecy says that Free Persephone's feel-good interiors were inspired by springtime - just the boost Parisians need this time of year.