Peau
Regular price $ 225.00Arquiste's Peau ("skin" in French) is a luxe unisex skin scent with an immersive blend of slightly salty spiced amber and woods with a swoon-worthy musk accord.
Inspired by the thousands of sculptures commissioned by the Roman emperor Hadrian to memorialize his lost lover, Aninoös, Arquiste founder Carlos Huber and perfumer Rodrigo Flores-Roux set out to capture both the physical and spiritual presence of the body, and to preserve the contours of physical love in our memory through scent.
Perfumer
Rodrigo Flores-Roux
Notes
ambergris accord, proprietary musk accord, clary sage, white pepper from India, coriander seed, sargassum, leather-like labdanum derivatives, okoume wood from Gabon, Ambermax
Shipping & Fulfillment
Ministry of Scent offers shipping to the United States through USPS Ground Advantage and UPS. We provide free shipping for USPS orders $75+.
| Order type | Order total | Shipping method | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sample-only & Sample Sets | N/A | USPS Ground Advantage* | $5 |
| Standard shipping | Under $75 | USPS Ground Advantage* or UPS Ground** | $10 |
| Free shipping | $75 and over | USPS Ground Advantage* or UPS Ground** | $0 |
| 3-day shipping | Any | UPS 3-Day Service | Variable |
* USPS delivery times may vary by destination. All orders ship from California.
** Carrier selection is based on destination.
Shipping Time & Schedule
We process and ship orders within 1–4 business days, excluding major holidays. Orders ship Monday through Saturday; we do not ship on Sundays, and Sundays are not included in our processing or delivery timelines.
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Signature Requirements
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Sample Orders
Samples are designed to help you evaluate scents you might want to later purchase as a full bottle. You may order one sample per fragrance, up to 15 total in a single order. Samples are non-refundable.
For sample orders, please check your packing slip for a special code that will allow you to redeem the price of samples and sample shipping when purchasing full bottles of the scents you sample ($10 off full bottles).
Complimentary Samples
We provide complimentary samples with $75+ full-bottle purchases. You may request up to 3 samples with any qualifying order. Please use the Order Note section on the Shopping Cart overlay to let us know which complimentary samples you would like. We'll try to provide the scents you've requested, but substitutions may occur if items are out of stock.
Returns
We do not accept returns of perfumes, simply because perfumes can't be resold once they've been opened and used. We encourage you to order samples before purchasing full bottles of perfume. And here's the good news — with every sample purchased, we'll send you a coupon code that allows you to redeem the cost of the sample and sample shipping if you buy a full bottle of the fragrance you tried (in other words, you get $10 off).
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Peau catches my heart, it has a opening of watery clay, damp and cool, it warms and opens to Clary Sage and okoume wood. I absolutely love it. I sometimes spray my neck before bed, so I can smell it on my sheets. This fragrance was made with me in mind. :)
Hauntingly beautiful. This is contemplative and enamoring and I’m so happy to have it in my collection, it’s really that special. To me, this feels like falling in love with a marble statue, hoping that their stone body will warm to real skin. It never does. It stays cold and frozen preserving their beauty, but at the cost of ever living. A tragedy that will never leave your mind. And it really doesn’t, this lasts well over 12 hours but never becomes dull or uninvited. I will cherish this!
Got it as a sample from one of my orders that I placed and I liked it so much I ended up getting a bigger bottle and it just smells phenomenal. I really love it.
Stunning, intoxicating, powdery musk. Simular to Fleur de Peau in my opinion. Definitely a vibe. I dig it.
This fragrance is like no other. The Labdanum and ambergris add that skin like note and it is so beautifully woven in. It smells like your lovers skin out of the shower. It’s fresh and a very clean scent, it smells like a blue sky.