Fueguia 1833

Fueguia 1833 was founded in 2010 by Julian Bedel, an Argentine artist and musician based in Milan who named the house after the year Charles Darwin explored Tierra del Fuego. The conceit is cartographic: each fragrance maps a specific place or ecosystem in Latin America, drawn from botanical surveys, indigenous plant knowledge, and Bedel's own fieldwork across Argentina, Patagonia, and the Amazon basin. Production is deliberately small-batch and lavishly material — many compositions use raw or locally sourced ingredients that conventional perfumers would not source at scale. Bottles are hand-numbered and the house releases fragrances in irregular, almost editorial runs. The aesthetic is resolutely niche and expensive: Fueguia sits at the upper end of the ultra-niche bracket, with prices reflecting both the sourcing philosophy and deliberate scarcity. The wearer it attracts is someone interested in perfumery as cultural artifact — one who reads the story behind the liquid as seriously as they wear it.