Arquiste · 2025
Tropical EDP
Longevity
Long-lasting5-8 hours
Projection
ModerateFills your personal space
Polarising
Mixed
fresh
uplifting
sunlit guava, ginger and bright florals
Scent Notes
Fresh / Green
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The full profile.
About This Perfume
Arquiste Tropical smells like sunlit guava, ginger and bright florals. It opens with white frangipani, Mexican guava and ginger, moves into champaca absolute, jasmine sambac and guava blossom and settles on goiabada, amber and mahogany. It reads unisex.
This eau de parfum is best in spring, summer and fall and is a daytime scent. It suits casual days. Released in 2025.
Wearers report that it lasts roughly a working morning or afternoon, and projects to about arm's length.
Is it right for you?
- Best for: anyone after something fresh and uplifting for casual days.
- Sample first if: you have not smelled it before; it is not an easy blind buy.
- Skip if: you dislike fruity fragrances.
Around $105.
Explore more: More from Arquiste · Fresh perfumes · Ginger perfumes · Amber perfumes
Concentration
EDP
Occasion
Casual
Projection
Moderate
Gender lean
Leans unisex
The verdict
Best for
Best for
- Casual
Arquiste is a New York niche perfume house founded by architect and historian Carlos Huber, whose defining conceit is that every fragrance is built from a specific moment in history, a date, a place, an event, reconstructed as scent. The 18 live pieces on Scendira average .92, are almost exclusively unisex (16 of 18), and split across Fresh (5), Floral (4), Leather (3), Gourmand (2). Prices span $40-$225 (average $109). Standout live pieces: A Grove by The Sea ($105,.15, salty green olives, cypress air, sunlit herbs), Indigo Smoke ($40,.09, smoky tea, apricot jam and cedar incense), El ($105,.07, green herbs and honeyed spice with leathery moss), L'Etrog ($125,.06, sunny lemon and citruses with jasmine) and L'Or de Louis ($45,.03, powdery jasmine honey with lightly smoky cedar woods). Buy Arquiste when the concept-history hook itself is part of what you want to wear.
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It smells like sunlit guava, ginger and bright florals. It opens with white frangipani, Mexican guava and ginger, moves into champaca absolute, jasmine sambac and guava blossom and settles on goiabada, amber and mahogany.
Wearers report that it lasts roughly a working morning or afternoon, and projects to about arm's length.
It is best in spring, summer and fall. It is a daytime scent. It suits casual days.
It reads unisex.
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