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A Grove by the Sea Arquiste 2024

8.1 / 10 70 Ratings

A new perfume by Arquiste for women and men, released in 2024. The scent is green-fresh. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Green

Fresh

Spicy

Woody

Aquatic

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Fig leaf

Black olive

Fleur de sel

Croatian clementine

Heart Notes

Olive oil

Rosemary

Thyme

Fig

Base Notes

Mediterranean cypress

Stone pine needle

Fir balsam

Red clay

Perfumer

Rodrigo Flores-Roux

Ratings

Scent

8.170 Ratings

Longevity

7.352 Ratings

Sillage

6.952 Ratings

Bottle

8.252 Ratings

Value for money

6.639 Ratings

Submitted by Franfan20, last update on 09/06/2025.

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Reviews

9 in-depth fragrance descriptions

04/22/2025

ScoobaSteve
9 Reviews

ScoobaSteve

2

It really does smell like a grove by the sea

This is a photo-realistic scent that truly smells like a vegetable and herb garden on a bluff overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. A slightly sweet green fig, a slightly briny green olive, a bundle of freshly cut savory herbs, and a distant saltiness of the ocean. It's quite remarkable how I'm able to pick all these out so clearly. It's unisex and smells quite nice

05/27/2025

Astralmonad
60 Reviews

Astralmonad

1

Italian salad in the kitchen... then Abercrombie cologne?

This is a very photorealistic and transportive scent that does remind me very strongly of a Mediterranean olive grove by the sea. For the greater part of the fragrance's lifetime I pick up mainly on salty, mineralic, aromatic, and green notes from the olive, rosemary, and cypress. However, in the late drydown maybe 3-5 hours later the blue, atmospheric Abercrombie cologne that many others are talking about becomes detectible!
Up until this point, this is a beautiful scent that I'm glad I've got to try. I'm very grateful Scentbird started shipping again to the UK so I can try Arquiste decants affordably, but I'm not sure I'd upgrade to a full bottle to go around smelling like a summer salad I'd eat with focaccia bread before shopping at Abercrombie.

11/26/2024

6
Pricing 9
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 9
Scent

Aristipo
57 Reviews

Aristipo

2

A Mesoamerican vision of the Mediterranean

I have to say that it’d been a while since a perfume made me pause like this.

My grandparents came on boats to Central America from the Mediterranean, and I’ve always felt instinctively and inexorably bound to that geography, its climate, its physical milieu, its soil and everything that comes out of it: from the oranges of Valencia and the olives of Salonika, to the figs and dates of the Levant, and the wine from the grapes that grow around the entire basin, from Jerez to Yafo.

Rodrigo Flores-Roux, whose work for his own house, Xinú, I found to be lovely but not enough to splurge on a bottle, has created with Carlos Huber something (to me) memorable here: a uniquely Mesoamerican vision of the Mediterranean.

I love that it’s bracingly fresh without a citrus note in sight. It’s resinous and old-school terpenic. I distinctly get black olives and olive oil, a delicious novelty to me in a fragrance. What follows is an evocation of sea salt and fig leafs and thyme and pine needles and cypress and fir balsam and earthy red clay and bright sunlight under a cloudless blue sky. Oh my! I ordered a full bottle after going through my decant. Just great.

04/06/2025

4
Pricing 9
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 4
Scent

GDawg
43 Reviews

GDawg

1

High hopes dashed on the mediterranean cliffs . . .

Boy, when I saw the note combinations for this one, I was excited. Then I saw that it won some sort of olfactory award. This was looking good to be a regular spring/summer scent for me. When the decant arrived, I put it on AND . . . I smelled like a dirty, sweaty kitchen from an Italian restaurant after a long night of service. The olive was totally overpowering, and not in a good way. Maybe it was a fluke and just the way it combined with my personal skin scent, but I unfortunately can't recommend this one. The olive is STRONG. It was not fresh, nor light, nor like being near the sea, etc. etc.

02/03/2025

9
Bottle 8
Scent

Telekinec
494 Reviews

Telekinec

1

Mediterranean / Adriatic work of olfactive art

I can picture myself standing at the edge of a cliff overlooking the Mediterranean sea. She's sparkling under the glow of the warm sun. Wind is gently caressing my face, carrying the scent of a grove of fig and a grove of olive behind me. I've never been nowhere close to the Adriatic sea, but this is what I picture when I inhale this fragrance. It's soothing and refreshing. A true work of art!

I'll be honest, although it's an olfactive piece of art, it ain't for me. I'm still glad I got to sample it and I think most aquatic, fresh, and herbal fragrances should be looking at this one when trying to reach for perfection. It clearly tells a story, sticks close to realistic notes and masterful blending. The beginning is aquatic and slightly salty with a green fig leaf. There's a faint tingle of sparkling clementine that adds a beautiful citrusy bright sweetness and a hint of black olive that further enhances that Mediterranean atmosphere. The middle is more green and herbal, while still maintaining that freshness and that aquatic, light feeling. Rosemary and thyme are the strongest notes and add a spiciness to the scent. Drydown becomes more powdery (red clay?) with woodiness and the green aspect shifting more towards trees found in the wood.

The herbal notes on my skin are magnified and cross over to masculine territory which is a no for me. Red clay gives a powderiness to the drydown which also adds to the reason why it won't be making it in my collection. This is the type of fragrance that I find beautiful in the air or on someone else, but I wouldn't wear it on my skin.

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