Arquiste - Peau – Les Senteurs

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Arquiste Peau niche fragrance in a black perfume bottle with an award label from The Fragrance Foundation.
Arquiste Peau perfume bottle next to a classical figure bust and plants on a red and purple background.
Arquiste Peau perfume bottle on a black and white classical style table setting with a classical figure bust.
Arquiste Peau perfume bottle next to a classical figure bust and plants on a red and purple background.

Arquiste

Peau

Top Notes: Ambergris accord, Proprietary musk accord, Clary sage

Heart Notes: Indian white pepper, Coriander seed, Sargassum

Base Notes: Labdanum, Gabonese okoume wood, Ambermax

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The nape of the neck, the idealised scent of a lover and a lost embrace. PEAU is based on Roman Emperor Hadrian's memories of Antinoös, his lost lover. To evoke the contours of his idealised body, salty, peppery and musky notes blend in to evoke intimacy, life and the idealised memory of skin.
Finalist: Indie Fragrance of the Year 2022

AD 134, Villa Adriana, Tivoli, Italy.
Such was the love emperor Hadrian had for his favourite Antinoös, that he commissioned thousands of sculptures to memorialise him after his demise. Like the contours of a statue, the physical and spiritual presence of the body is likewise defined by a fragrant silhouette. Here is the emperor recalling his lover: the touch and smell of him, the warm redolence of skin, the soft musk at the nape of the neck. Paying tribute to the beloved, like Hadrian did Antinoös, this fragrance captures the memory of skin, conjuring intimacy and closeness, and living in our hearts and minds as an idealised scent.

Top Notes: Ambergris accord, Proprietary musk accord, Clary sage
Heart Notes: Indian white pepper, Coriander seed, Sargassum
Base Notes: Labdanum, Gabonese okoume wood, Ambermax

Arquiste
Arquiste

Inspired by history and curated by Carlos Huber, a Mexican-born architect, restoration expert and fragrance designer, ARQUISTE® Parfumeur is a scent collection transporting you to evocative moments and historical sites.

Each scent restores a particular olfactive experience by using rare ingredients identified through meticulous research. Interpreted with master perfumers, this background translates stories, landscapes and architecture into top, heart, and base notes.

Using high quality, sustainable and responsibly sourced materials, the ARQUISTE® scent collection allows you to unlock personal revelations and experience history in a most intimate way.

A scent is a time capsule. It can invoke our most intimate memories and dreams, and open doors to distant worlds.