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PARIS -- Luxury is in the air and beauty retailers have taken note. Over the past couple of months, they've opened some niche beauty concepts here, including the following.
L'APPARTEMENT 217
Billed as Paris' first organic spa, L'Appartement 217 is tucked away on the fourth floor of a Right Bank apartment building. The 2,220-square-foot space, including seven treatment cabins, is the embodiment of organic meets high tech.
Each of its rooms is color-themed and designed by a feng shui expert. L'Appartement 217 offers a full range of treatments, including one-hour facials using Dr. Hauschka products for 57 euros, or $68 at current exchange rates, and a laser technique, called Aramis, created by France's Quantel Medical. That costs 180 euros, or $216. For use, as well, is a lyashi dome -- a ceramic chamber using heat to eliminate a body's toxins and an average of 530 calories in half an hour. The technique, first developed in Japan in...