Peau

Wow definitely smells like a second skin. Very musky. There is an initial peppery blast that fades down after the first 5 minutes. I own JHAG superdose, Cycle 001, Molecule 01. None of them come close to the musk used in this one. Out of all the ones listed, this one is the least subtle, in the manner that it is very noticeable after 1 spray. 2 sprays and you're set for the day. It does not take time to warm up on the skin like the others. Powerful stuff. Of all the ones I have, this one is the only one that has a sliver of animalic nature to it, just to give it a very realistic skin scent characteristic to it. Not bad breath or fecal dirty at all. Again, not an unbearable animalic based fragrance. For me, I give this a 5/5 for what it is trying to accomplish. If there is a subtle perfume that is pillowy creamy with a hint of semisweetness, this is it. It REALLY REALLY smells like a sexy natural scent. Very seductive. Id use it in the bedroom but I’d wager it’s worksafe. This isnt like a traditional perfume. Subtle but has lasting power. Projects elbow length but sillage is arms length. Lasts on me for 10+ hours. This is by far the most seductive perfume I have in my entire collection of 144 perfumes as of now. Architect's club is a close second. This house has not yet failed to amaze me. 100% unisex.

As someone who grew up in an Asian household, white pepper has a special place in my heart and I don’t find it much (ever?) in the fragrance community. I always loved the taste of white pepper. But it admittedly also made me think of a slightly stinky person kind of like with cumin. Not like full on BO, but just a little musty. Weirdly it’s that white pepper “stink” that makes Peau feel very human and intimate and probably the closest to a real skin scent that I can imagine. I hope that doesn’t give the wrong impression because I really love this fragrance. But it’s because of how close it gets to being skin-like, and not skin-enhancing or altering to the point where it’s weird or unfamiliar. I’m not a big fan of molecular scents generally (Another 13 goes from being tolerable to pissing me off) but this does have some similarities to Not a Perfume in the drydown, and it works for me. Anyway, when I smell this it really evokes a comforting, emotionally mature man haha. Like a man who isn’t worried about pretense and trying to be something he isn’t. I’m not saying it’s a traditionally masculine fragrance, but I just get manly vibes I get when I smell this.

This is such a fascinating blend of paradoxes: a warm, soft, delicate, musky amber with a chilly, prickly, salty, animalic bite—intimate yet aloof, melancholy yet sexy, clean yet feral. It’s the olfactory equivalent of Robyn’s “Dancing on My Own.” It’s exactly how I would want a perfume to express Hadrian’s longing for his drowned lover: I picture him lying in bed, where he can still smell Antinous’s, uh, residue on the sheets, while a cool breeze from an open window reminds him that his beloved will never return. When I wear this, I want to weep, and I want to jump someone’s bones—ideally, at the same time. A more accurate (and more pretentious) name for this fragrance might have been Glukupikron, as Anne Carson transliterates Sappho’s word γλυκύπικρον (“sweetbitter”) in Eros the Bittersweet: the sweetness of erotic desire gives way to the bitterness of loss. You could also call Peau, in cruder terms, the scent of post-nut clarity.

Somewhat animalic, like freshly washed armpits. Opens with a peppery herbal note that quickly transforms into straight up ambergris and freshly cut wood boards. Not the whole tree, no greenness, just heartwood and wood chips, and the light scent of white oak in a woodworking shop. Slight leather notes apparent after 4-5 hours. Does not change much after that initial opening note fades. Raw sexiness. Somewhat unisex, but leans masculine. Does not smell like a “perfume”. Lasts 8 hours+, with a moderate sillage that is very apparent at normal conversational distance. Whoever is next to you will want to get closer. UPDATE: This reminds me of Maison Violet Cycle 001. Cycle 001 is a cold-blooded lizard, while Peau is a warm-blooded furry beast. Peau is much more beautiful in my opinion, but both are very unique and interesting.

(37/♂) Potent musk blended perfectly with salt-and-pepper ambergris and dry incense. Out of hundreds of fragrances I've tried, this one's on my top "couldn't be without" list. References to "Another 13" are due to the musk, but I think the comparisons end there. To me Peau is austere, dramatic, maybe a bit goth but not in a loud way Wearing it, I feel like I'm part of a story. Something important is going to happen to me, or for me to witness. It often gives me this feeling of grounded quietude and self-assuredness. I feel great wearing it, and I reserve it for when something ineffable inside me tells me that it's the correct time. For what it's worth, this is one of the few perfumes I've worn that compelled a complete stranger to follow a complement by pointedly asking me what I was wearing!

I adore this scent. It gives me very strong Juliette Has A Gun - Not A Perfume vibes, as well as Hermetica - Source 1. The musky warmth is alluring and I find this type of scent far sexier than the gourmand sweet scents that most people would describe as 'sexy'. This is such a mysterious and intriguing scent, and anyone wearing this would immediately turn my head and possibly have me following them down the aisles of a grocery store to catch another whiff. Upon immediate application the scent is quite sharp and astringent, but with a musky edge, but as it dries and settles into the skin it develops a powdery greenness. As that settles even deeper, a softly intimate dewy skin and spice smell starts to round out the experience. Totally a keeper!

Clean powdery second skin✨️ This needs to be in every masc's perfume closet👔 Oh my goodness I love how it has this simplicity of musk but including spice with the pepper, coriander and clary sage giving such originality of this fragrance❤️👌 Theres something quiet but striking with this perfume, feels something I'd wear in an indie or an eerie film☁️💣 There is minimal amber, but I would say this is a great layering fragrance since it doesn't cloy on the skin🙌You can definitely get away wearing it to work since it doesn't even strike forward as a fragrance- but more of a mystery sillage of musk😎🥸 I feel people would be wondering why you smell so good, and not realizing it's the perfume👀🫦 Zodiac Trio ⬆️Aquarius ☀️Capricor 🌜Aries

put this on my wrist before sleep, and didn’t get much of anything at first. as i laid in bed i realized i had become a gisant, arms crossed over my chest bathed in a faint church crypt-like smell (romantic), a mossy wet forgotten statue of someone long gone. the scent of wilted flowers lingers about and sweetens the mildewy air. this reminds me a bit of oriza legrand’s relique d’amour middle+ base notes, if it made your skin turn to stone. skin scent, as suggested by the name; very intimate. so much so that i could not tell what was me and what was the perfume in the opening. the biggest mystery is why the etiket SA pointed me to this when i asked if they had any non gourmand lactonics. i wonder if he is gargoyle.

I just can't get it out of my head- it's been almost a year now. I've tried to convince myself that I already own enough skin scents like this, yet none of them quite capture what Peau does. I even settled for a travel size, hoping it would be enough. It wasn't. Every spray still takes me back to that sweltering afternoon in Florence, when I unexpectedly found it in a tiny Italian perfume shop. Let's just say it works best in the summer, the hotter the heat wave the better, in colder weather it becomes completely uninteresting on me. But in summer! The subtle notes linger throughout the day, bringing a cooling freshness, and OMG the harmony of black pepper, musk, and amber is simply perfect.

Opening is an upbeat ambery scent. There’s something deeper here that makes it more interesting than similar fragrances, a grounding aromatic depth from the clary sage. Warming. A floral quality, too, but whispering in the background. Intimate. There’s a sense of nostalgia here, or loss, a looking back at something past and gorgeous. A simple humanness, lost in thought. Remembered warmth. A song of experience, a clarity. It’s melancholic, in a way. On the air, its effervescent, a high note; on the skin is where its depth is revealed, the sense of loss it carries. I’ve never encountered anything quite like this fragrance. Perfection.

Peau - Arquiste: It's light and warm and seductive and fresh. I love the musky amber combined with the spicy woodiness I find when it settles down a bit, it smells clean and luxurious. A wonderful unisex fragrance that I get 10-12+ hours of performance. Projection is moderate and I find it does trail a slight bit, not huge, but just enough to get noticed in closer quarters. It's fantastic, I love wearing it and I think I'm the best smelling person in my office by far. I bought a full bottle direct from Arquiste after wearing it once from a sample. A decadent fragrance that will never leave my collection.

Can't say I recall a time that a fragrance has brought literal tears to my eyes until now! Peau is such a somber, melancholic musk that truly feels like touching and breathing in an ancient marble statue. Something is so cozy and enveloping about it while at the same time being removed, ghostly, almost transparent. The sage and ambergris combo is so nice- I also get a bit of starchiness similar to Diptyque L'Eau Paper- like a ricey orris. There is absolutely no sweetness to this fragrance- but it still feels like it has so many layers througout the wear. 10/10 Flores-Roux creation!

so i really like this i got a bottle after having a sample, can’t stop wearing it is like escentric 01 , peppery musky a bit powdery, soft but dense stays with me for a long time. don’t care about the story behind it but the bottle is cute. the thing that confuse me is that, there’s a small leaflet inside the box with all fragrances descriptions and some of the notes for Peau are different from those on fragrantica and their website. the list: clary sage, cepes absolute, aldehydes, narcissus absolute, “nape of the neck “ accord 🤡, tonka bean absolute, cedar wood, musk.

This smells very much in the vein of JHAG Not a Perfume, particularly the Superdose version. In the dry down, they're nearly identical, but there's something about Peau that has a bit more depth and character. It begins with a musky, peppery ambergris and morphs then into something a little more powdery. The powder doesn't hang around for too long and it's not very overwhelming as I tend to think powdery scents can be. This is a beautiful musky, fuzzy, cozy, clean scent. Dry. A little peppery and cold. Smells like a ghost might smell after passing you in the hallway.

For me, this is perfectly warm without being too sweet— it's "cozy," but not in a bath-and-body-works-pristine-cashmere-sweater way— it smells like being hugged from behind while standing in the kitchen on a cool winter evening. I get a bit of that ISO-E super synthetic woodiness in the drydown, but I personally like it. I really love this scent. It's a very natural-feeling musk/amber that is the epitome of the "your skin but better" scent genre to me. It definitely leans masculine, but is not distinctly male.

With the help of musk, sage, subtle amber notes and ambroxan, an ambergris accord is developed that focuses primarily on the warm skin notes of natural ambergris. All the other facets of the complex fragrance spectrum can also be experienced (a touch of maritime freshness, woody, fruity, animalic accents), but they remain in the background. On the surface, the fragrance oscillates between the cool minerality of talcum powder and warm, pulsating skin - beautifully inspired, wonderfully realised.

I really love this perfume. It smells exactly like you would expect based on the notes listed. It mostly reminds me of NAP and Molecule 01, but with added very subtle sweetness from herbs and sage. I like the saliva comparison someone made below, but then again, NAP also heavily reminds me of saliva, so that’s not unique to Peau. I’m not entirely sure about the skin-evoking claim, but I see why it might remind you of a young lover.

I love this scent profile. To me — the scent is salty, slightly aquatic. Very much a second-skin fragrance. The longevity is impressive, but projection is minimal. For this reason, I find this more of a daytime scent. I find it very unisex and could easily be layered with a more feminine or masculine fragrance to help neutralize. If you like musky, powdery, woody smells you’ll adore this.

LOVE this, it's an incredible take on the profile. Yes, many other releases do the "ambroxan bomb plus some other stuff" DNA, but this feels so much more nuanced and cozy. So much more alive than similar ambroxan frags like Not a Perfume, which always tend to lean a little artificial for me However my partner did say I smelled "like a very clean aquarium store, but in a good way" so

My partner really liked this scent on me. We both tend to gravitate toward perfumes that have clary sage. I think that’s what gives it that mouth watering sweetness and cool trail. It seems like it would project well if I spritz 15 times. I already have Pull & Bear Potion, so I’m not sure whether I should get it or not. I think it’s more similar to that than NAP.