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Arquiste Infanta en flor ~ fragrance review

Posted by Angela on 16 January 2017 10 Comments

The infanta Maria Theresa aged 14

On June 7, 1660, as part of the plan to end the Franco-Prussian Spanish war, the Spanish royal family gave infanta Maria Theresa of Spain to France as Louis XIV’s bride. The hand-off happened on joint territory, the Isle of Pheasants in the Bidasao river between France and Spain.

Nearly 350 years later, Arquiste’s founder and creative director Carlos Huber stood on the banks of the Bidasao and imagined the whole royal procession. In 2009, he began researching the meeting at the Isle of Pheasants and uncovered a wealth of aromas: iris from hair pomade; rice powder scented with orange flower; leather gloves; and, of course, the countryside’s arid herbal breeze.

He wrote a brief based on his research and handed it to perfumers Rodrigo Flores-Roux and Yann Vasnier…

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El Palacio en la piel

Posted by Robin on 28 December 2016 Leave a Comment

Models Sean O’Pry and Antonina Vasylchenko for the Arquiste Esencia de El Palacio fragrances. Then below the jump, Carlos Huber of Arquiste and perfumer Rodrigo Flores-Roux talk about the fragrances. Both videos are in Spanish with no subtitles (but the first does not rely on language anyway).

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Arquiste Esencia de El Palacio ~ new fragrances

Posted by Robin on 28 December 2016 5 Comments

Sean O'Pry for Arquiste Esencia de El Palacio

Arquiste has launched Esencia de El Palacio, a new trio of unisex fragrances for the Mexican upscale department chain El Palacio de Hierro. Azahares, Magnolios and Vetiveres are meant as an ‘olfactory portrait of the past, present and future’ of Mexico; all three were developed by perfumer Rodrigo Flores-Roux…

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Arquiste Ella ~ fragrance review

Posted by Jessica on 29 September 2016 14 Comments

Arquiste Ella brand image

Following Kevin’s review of Arquiste Él, I’m here to report on its feminine counterpart, Ella. Like Él, Ella was inspired by Acapulco in the 1970s and was developed by perfumer Rodrigo Flores-Roux. It was designed to evoke “a sultry night of disco, plunging necklines and champagne-soaked skin” followed by a rendezvous on a “golden beach, under a silvery moon,” with notes of cannonball tree flower (curupita), angelica root, carrot seed, rose, jasmine, cardamom, buckwheat honey, amber, patchouli, civet, vetiver, cigarette smoke accord and “chypre accord.”

I’ve never been anywhere near Acapulco, and I don’t think I’ve ever worn a “plunging neckline,” but I do have some very early memories of the 1970s (in New Jersey and New York, anyway). And Ella brought me right back to those days: it reminds me of the fragrances that women — glamorous grown-ups! — were wearing before the mid-80s arrived and everyone began dousing themselves in Poison and Giorgio…

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Arquiste El ~ fragrance review

Posted by Kevin on 28 September 2016 24 Comments

Arquiste Él brand image

Arquiste Él’s1 backstory is based in 1970’s Acapulco, at Armando’s Le Club:

Nighttime at Acapulco’s sultriest disco. Revelry on the dance floor. In the heat of the moment, he smiles coyly and motions to the beach outside, hinting at a midnight swim. He unbuttons his shirt, flashing bronzed skin and the scent of his cologne, a virile muskiness loaded with patchouli, oak moss and elegant woody notes. A masculine impression of a day under the sun, intensified by the thrill of the night.

If a guy started undressing in a club after motioning to the beach…it would give me pause…

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