Arquiste

Arquiste Peau Eau de Parfum

$196⁰⁰ NZD

Size

30ml 1ml Sample

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 idealized memory of skin.

AD 134, Villa Adriana, Tivoli, Italy. Such was the love emperor Hadrian had for his favorite Antinoös, that he commissioned thousands of sculptures to memorialize 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. Developed with Rodrigo Flores-Roux

Notes

White Pepper Musk Ambergris Woody Notes Coriander Clary Sage Amber Labdanum

Wear profile

Longevity

Intensity

Best for Day · Evening

Season Autumn · Winter

Details

Family	Woody Amber
Country	United States
Perfumer	Rodrigo Flores-Roux
Year	2021
Concentration	Eau de Parfum

Description

Fragrance Family:
Woods

Notes:
Ambergris Accord, Musk Accord, Clary Sage, Indian White Pepper, Coriander Seed, Sargassum, Leather-Like Labdanum Derivatives, Okoume Wood from Gabon, Ambermax

Concentration:
Eau de Parfum

Occasion:
For those seeking not simply a skin scent, but another skin, built from amber materials. Sensual and discreet, softly musky and warm, unexpected. A fragrance that wears like an embrace.

Awards:
The Fragrance Foundation 2022 Awards Finalist

Made in the USA

Editor's Notes

In this ambroxan-centric fragrance, this often wrongly assessed material is given pride of place: essential to the salty, skin-like impression - furthered with the soft animalic heat and tang of white pepper, the musky freshness of clary sage, and the saline kiss of sargassum seaweed. Peau is built as if to evoke skin-on-skin, a charged hug. It is no gentle ‘milky’ skin scent, but crucially heat and warmth off the body. It is possible to detect a coolness working over its blushing surface, as it increasingly grows leathery touched with musks, with a powerful and solid core of Ambermax - a strong, cedary amber note.

An excellent alternative to Le Labo’s Another 13.