Arquiste
Historical scenes, restored as scent.
Arquiste was founded in New York in 2011 by Carlos Huber, a Mexico City–born architect and historic-preservation specialist who trained at Columbia before moving into perfumery. The name fuses architecture and history, and each release begins as a piece of restoration research — a specific date, place and gathering — rendered into scent. Huber composes alongside perfumers Rodrigo Flores-Roux and Yann Vasnier, treating the conventional pyramid of top, heart and base notes as ornament, structure and foundation. The catalogue includes scents tied to a 17th-century Spanish princess's wedding (Infanta en Flor), a 1969 Manhattan summer (Nanban) and similarly precise scenarios. Arquiste suits readers of perfume who like a long footnote with their bottle, and who want New York niche with a more scholarly cast than its fashion-led peers.
Releases
DNA over time
Each column is an era. Each colored band shows that family’s share of accord weight across every perfume the house released in that window. Bigger band = the house leaned harder on that family.
