Indigo Smoke

A rich and long-lasting blend inspired by ancient China's traditional smoking of tea leaves.

This unique fragrance evokes a scenic landscape of serpentine rivers, blue mountains, and incense-filled temples. Combining notes of lapsang souchong tea, mandarin orange, apricot, guaiac wood, incense, and pine tar, this scent is a complex and realistic representation of the Wuyi Mountains in Fujian.

The monks who tended to the tea and indigo plants in these mountains were forced to flee during an attack in 1646, and they preserved their crops by smoking them over pinewood fire. This practice ultimately resulted in the smoky lapsang souchong tea, with hints of fresh mountain air and incense, creating intoxicating plumes of indigo smoke.

Inspired by history and curated by Carlos Huber, a Mexican-born architect, restoration expert and fragrance designer, ARQUISTE® Parfumeur is a scent collection transporting you to evocative moments and historical sites.

Each scent restores a particular olfactive experience by using rare ingredients identified through meticulous research. Interpreted with master perfumers, this background translates stories, landscapes and architecture into top, heart, and base notes.

Using high quality, sustainable and responsibly sourced materials, the ARQUISTE® scent collection allows you to unlock personal revelations and experience history in a most intimate way. A scent is a time capsule. It can invoke our most intimate memories and dreams, and open doors to distant worlds.