Olfactory Restoration
Award-winning fragrance architecture committed to creativity and sustainability.
Time-traveling scents
Experience history in the most vivid, intimate way
Illustrations from La Guirlande de Julie, 1641.
Research & development
Meticulous historical research and responsible ingredient sourcing reflect our commitment to authenticity, material quality and ethics. We carefully select precious natural and synthetic fragrance ingredients from sustainable, conflict-free sources. These raw ingredients are chosen as construction materials to create the base, structure and ornament of a scent, recreating exceptional fragrant experiences on your skin.
Created by Carlos Huber
Born in Mexico City, trained in Europe, Carlos is a New York-based architect, historic preservationist and award-winning fragrance developer. After graduate studies, he apprenticed under perfumer Rodrigo Flores-Roux before founding ARQUISTE.
History, bottled.
And experienced directly on your skin.
Using high quality, sustainable and responsibly sourced materials, ARQUISTE® translates stories, landscapes and architecture into top, heart, and base notes, allowing you to experience history in a most intimate way.
Historic Preservation
A scent is a time capsule. It can invoke our most intimate memories and dreams, and open doors to distant worlds.
Parfumeur
ARQUISTE
Olfactive Innovation
Kari Molvar, Vanity Fair.
A whiff of scent can take you back in time—very far back, if your nose is buried in one of Arquiste’s “time capsule” fragrances.
Justin Fenner, Robb Report.
A Grove By the Sea is everywhere—it is beloved by the social media fragrance aficionados, and its power goes beyond olfaction. It stays with you, in your memories, like your favorite seaside vacation.
Michael Stefanov, InsideHook
When Arquiste drops a new fragrance, there’s about a 10/10 chance it’s going to be beautifully composed and interesting — and Tropical is no exception.
Daniel Capello, Galerie Magazine.
Forget what you think you know about patchouli. At least that’s what Carlos Huber wants you to do when dabbing on Misfit... True to its name, Misfit is an amber-woody concoction of sensuality that defies convention and flirts with the outer edges of nonconformity.
Eaux de Parfum
Vivid, evocative formulas that highlight the best and rarest sustainable raw materials. transporting you to another place in time.
