Jess Wood OTP

📷 1 Some cities make you feel small. Paris makes you feel cinematic. This €15 Seine river cruise honestly might be the best Eiffel Tower view in the city.
📍 Eiffel Tower

📷 2 Every corner looked romanticized already, but the Musée d’Art Moderne might secretly have one of the best Eiffel Tower views in Paris.
📍 Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris

📷 3 & 4 Late night dinners, extra fries, espresso, and one more cocktail because nobody had anywhere better to be. Bambini is worth it for the vibe alone.
📍 Bambini

📷 5, 6, 7 & 8 Seeing Van Gogh brush strokes in person and wandering through Musée d’Orsay reminded me why people say Paris changes you. If you only do one museum, make it this one.
📍 Musée d’Orsay

📷 9 One of the best things you can do in Paris is wander along the Seine with absolutely no plan.
📍 Seine River

📷 10 The buildings here refuse to be casual.
📍 Louvre Museum

📷 11 Mamiche absolutely lived up to the pastry hype.
📍 Mamiche

📷 12 Carette hot chocolate is touristy for a reason and honestly I’d still go back tomorrow.
📍 Carette

📷 13 Le Marais genuinely feels like the neighborhood version of a Pinterest board.
📍 Le Marais

📷 14 If you love vintage, plan an entire morning for the flea markets because you’ll lose track of time fast. 😅
📍 Marché aux Puces de Saint-Ouen

📷 15 Upstairs and through an armoire lives one of the coolest hidden spots in Paris. Felt like being inside someone’s impossibly chic apartment.
📍 Derrière

📷 16 & 17 Tiny candlelit speakeasy hidden through the back of a taco shop kitchen. Paris is ridiculous in the best way.
📍 Candelaria

📷 18 I think part of becoming an adult is genuinely enjoying getting lost in a museum.
📍 Musée d’Orsay

📷 19 Surviving on espresso, delusion, and group chats.
📍 Le Marais

📷 20 📍 le duh.
A little taste of Paris… I think that’s why people return here so often. It’s not really about the Eiffel Tower or the croissants or even the beauty of it all.

It’s the feeling.
Paris makes ordinary moments feel important again.

📷 1 — We were over an hour late for our Louvre entry time just to find out nobody actually cared. Very healing experience for a chronically punctual girl.
📍 Musée du Louvre

📷 2 — One of the best dinners of my life. Bone marrow, escargot, rabbit, bœuf au poivre, dirty martinis, and the kind of Paris night you wish you could bottle.
📍 La Renommée

📷 3 — Tiny Mona Lisa. Huge audacity.
📍 Louvre

📷 4 — Stopped me dead in my tracks.
📍 Winged Victory of Samothrace

📷 5 — Two girls romanticizing an ordinary Tuesday in Paris.
📍 Louvre mirror selfie

📷 6 — The Louvre ceilings deserve their own passport stamp honestly.

📷 7 — Every window in Paris feels like a painting.

📷 8 — Tuileries light hits different at golden hour.
📍 Jardin des Tuileries

📷 9 — Red wine, steak frites, pasta we absolutely did not need but ordered anyway.

📷 10 — Paris after dark feels like stepping inside someone else’s dream.

📷 11 — Mirror selfies in dimly lit Paris bars > therapy.

📷 12 — Monogrammed my Guerlain lipstick because I’d like someone to find it in a vintage handbag 40 years from now and wonder who she was.
📍 Maison Guerlain

📷 13 — If heaven had pathways, I think they’d look like this.
📍 Jardin des Tuileries

📷 14 — Paris really said “even the fountains need to be cinematic.”
📍 Fontaine des Fleuves

📷 15 — Somewhere between the Louvre and a new personality trait.

📷 16 — The Palais Royal columns still eat every single time.
📍 Colonnes de Buren

📷 17 — Café Sant Ambroeus and a tiny little afternoon reset.

📷 18 — Boat days on the Seine with girls who make every city feel softer.

📷 19 — Riverside book stalls and the exact kind of romance I hoped Paris would have.

📷 20 — Every direction pointed somewhere iconic and somehow we still got lost. Paris magic.

Pt.1 - A little taste of Paris … here are a few things that made this week feel cinematic, indulgent, emotional & somehow slower than real life.

📸1 & 2 Paris apartment mornings in a beret pretending I’m mysterious when really I’m just deciding where to get espresso and butter next.

📸3 Golden hour over Montmartre rooftops … the kind of view that makes you suddenly understand why artists ruined their lives over this city.

📸4 The iconic Métro signs on nearly every corner somehow made even getting lost feel romantic.

📸5 & 6 Late nights chasing photobooths and blurry windows that looked like scenes from an old French film. Paris feels best when it’s slightly out of focus.

📸7 Hot chocolate at Carette so thick it could legally qualify as pudding, giant pastries, rain on the terrace, and no reason to rush anywhere.

📸8 Love locks and handwritten promises overlooking the city … proof that Paris survives almost entirely on romance and delusion.

📸9 Walked into a bakery “just to look” and immediately lost all self-control. The pistachio pastries never stood a chance.

📸10 Tiny cafés, natural wine, crooked chairs, and men smoking ci******es like it’s still 1974.

📸11 Morning walks with espresso in hand pretending I lived there long enough to have somewhere important to be.

📸12 Vintage jewelry, French ci******es, soft cheese, photobooth strips, and tiny treasures scattered across marble tables … the kind of souvenirs that actually feel like memories instead of purchases.

📸13 Peonies brighter than reality itself because apparently even the flowers in Paris are dramatic.

📸14 Vintage markets full of beautiful nonsense and objects with more character than most people online. 📍Puces d’Aligre

📸15 & 16 Escargot, red wine, fries stolen off each other’s plates … every meal felt like an event instead of just food.

📸17 The Chez Janou table that somehow turned lunch into a three hour affair.

📸18 & 19 Long lunches, loud laughs, melted chocolate mousse, and the type of friendship that somehow makes every city feel even prettier.

📸20 The Paris effect: scooters, cobblestone streets, and photobooth strips shoved into our bags like evidence we were actually here.