Peau

Arquiste's Peau ("skin" in French) is a luxe unisex skin scent with an immersive blend of slightly salty spiced amber and woods with a swoon-worthy musk accord.

Inspired by the thousands of sculptures commissioned by the Roman emperor Hadrian to memorialize his lost lover, Aninoös, Arquiste founder Carlos Huber and perfumer Rodrigo Flores-Roux set out to capture both the physical and spiritual presence of the body, and to preserve the contours of physical love in our memory through scent.

From Arquiste
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 idealized scent.

Perfumer
Rodrigo Flores-Roux

Notes
ambergris accord, proprietary musk accord, clary sage, white pepper from India, coriander seed, sargassum, leather-like labdanum derivatives, okoume wood from Gabon, Ambermax