Les Savons Saint Victor is located near the Old Port, close to St. Victor Abbey. This is a small, new-style fragrance shop that sells colorful perfumes, fragrances, and soaps. The most special thing is to see the process the owner uses to make soap. The fresh soap, shaped like rice cake, is squeezed out of the machine, cut into rectangles, and then carved with patterns.

The owner's craftsmanship was passed down from grandma, so there are both colorful perfumes and very old-fashioned soap cubes. It is recommended to buy a €3.99 cube soap: La Corvette contains 72% olive oil. The dark green cube soap is engraved in old-fashioned font, very beautiful.

Maison Empereur is a nearly 200-year-old Marseille grocery store, where you can buy a vintage 4 box match set (€7.6), a practical Burt's bees anti-mosquito cream, and an impressive French hot water bag ( €5)! In addition, there are also French scarves, soaps, and postcards suitable as gifts.

If you are a hardware enthusiast, you can also buy a French retro hardware set that is even more iconic than the Swiss Army Knife; at the furniture shop you can also find innovative and beautiful furniture and kitchen supplies; families with children can also find candies and well priced toys.

La Maison du Pastis is a small shop near the Old Port. It is like a mini liqueur and absinthe museum. It covers almost all world varieties, besides 75 different liqueurs and absinthe, there are a variety of interesting dinner plates, refrigerator stickers, bottle openers, wine glasses, and spoons, etc., like a small shop built around the liqueur.

At the small shop you can buy the most famous liqueur brands such as Ricard and 51. You can also try the owner's own house blends, which are stored in 5 barrels. Those are the five flavors developed by the owner himself. In addition, even if you don't buy, you can taste different liqueurs for free. There are also some small bottles suitable for purchase as gifts.

Trois Fenetres is a specialty designer store in the old town of Panier. On the first floor, you can buy designer clothes, jewelry, hand-made T-shirts, and photo-effect refrigerator stickers. The interior is full of forest style decor, great for popping in when visiting the old town of Panier.

The basement of the store is like a natural cellar, with a primitive and raw atmosphere. Some artworks and representative workers by designers are on display here. In addition to clothing and accessories, handmade soft-soled shoes are also popular.

Lefada may be the most interesting store in Marseille. In fact, the shop is actually an old-fashioned fishing boat in the Old Port. The owner has a colorful soap stall set up along the coastline. Onboard is a sign: “Lefada”. Here you can buy authentic Marseille soap, which has 100% natural ingredients and contains the unique olive oil of southern France.

The owner of the shop claims to be the soap prince of Marseille. Even if you don’t buy anything, swing by and chat with him. He will regale you with the history, production process, and different benefits of Marseille soap. The price of the soap here is very affordable, €2 a piece, colorful and very suitable as gifts.

As a symbol of the Provence region in the world, the exquisite saint statuettes (also known as the Les Santons) is a special Marseille gift. In the vicinity of the Old Port, a boutique shop (Saton Marcel Carbonel) sells statues of saints. It is like walking into a small museum with a variety of hand-made glazed saints (Les Santons).

The colorful clay figurines in the store are made of plaster, wax, or fiberglass. Various religious stories are displayed on the cabinets. The traditional usage was to decorate the Christmas manger. Now it is a local specialty craft that can be used at home as decoration.