{"id":115574,"date":"2014-09-03T13:17:57","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T17:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/?p=115574"},"modified":"2014-09-03T13:17:57","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T17:17:57","slug":"arquiste-the-architects-club-fragrance-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/2014\/09\/03\/arquiste-the-architects-club-fragrance-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Arquiste The Architects Club ~ fragrance review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Arquiste<\/p>\n

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Cocktail time,\u00a0March 1930, London: <\/strong> A group of architects gather for cocktails at Mayfair\u2019s smartest Art Deco smoking room. As they settle in the warm interior of dark woods, leather and velvet, London\u2019s bright young things burst in, frosted martinis in hand, surrounded by a cloud of laughter, white smoke and fine vanilla.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That’s\u00a0Arquiste<\/a>…talking about the inspiration for its latest perfume \u2014 The Architects Club.\u00a0The fragrance was developed by one of my favorite perfumers, Yann Vasnier<\/a>, who was guided in its creation by the imagined aromas of \u201cthe smoking room at Claridge’s in Mayfair\u201d circa 1930. After smelling The Architects Club, I had to tweak the PR:<\/p>\n

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After-School Pick-Up, September 2014, Seattle: <\/strong>A group of parents gather for lattes at Wallingford\u2019s smartest cup cake caf\u00e9. As they settle in the bright interior of turquoise-colored wood, retro white and black floor tiles, and chrome and vinyl seats, Seattle\u2019s confident, over-indulged toddlers burst in from the daycare center downstairs, book bags in hand, surrounded by a cloud of squeals, vanilla icing and baking cakes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Architects Club is a sheer, gourmand(ish) scent with good sillage and lasting power, and when I smelled it for the first time, I didn’t think of smoking clubs or cocktails but children<\/em>; it would be a good cologne (sweet, vanillic, light, clean) for youngsters.<\/p>\n

The Architects Club lists juniper berry oil, angelica root, lemon peel oil, bitter orange, pepperwood, guaiac wood, oak, vanilla absolute and amber as notes, but just a few of those notes stand out in this sheer woody-vanilla cologne. The Architects Club goes on smelling of sneeze-inducing alcohol and dry vanilla, mixing with a hint of orange (likewise dry, not juicy). There\u2019s also a green-cinnamon odor in the background (leafy in character, but a tad foody as well\u2026and very fleeting). See-though wood aromas (accent on guaiac) come to the fore quickly, meld with the vanilla (which is sweeter, and a tad heftier, in the base) and take you through to the finale, where a sweet\/fresh musk emerges.<\/p>\n

The Architects Club is a nice perfume, but it doesn’t hold my interest: I\u2019m not really a vanilla-perfume fan. But I can\u2019t imagine vanilla-perfume fanatics finding anything new in The Architects Club, either. Several perfumes came to mind the moment I smelled The Architects Club; none of them are identical to it but they share a light\/diffusive, semi-sweet vanilla-wood character:\u00a0Diptyque Eau Duelle<\/a>,\u00a0Le Labo Vanille 44<\/a>,\u00a0Atelier Cologne<\/a>\u00a0Vanille Insens\u00e9e<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Valentino<\/a>\u00a0Uomo<\/a> (the sheerest and least interesting of them all).<\/p>\n

The Architects Club is available in 100 ml\u00a0Eau de Parfum for $190; the pricing of this scent astounds me (but I\u2019d better get used to it\u2026seems the cost of perfume rises each month). For buying information, see the listing for Arquiste under Perfume Houses<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Note: top image<\/a>, flanking the perfume bottle, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p>\n

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Regime des Fleurs Fleur Eclair, Arquiste Almond Suede & Isabelle Larignon Milky Dragon ~ fragrance reviews<\/a><\/div>
Arquiste Venice Rococo & Frederic Malle Heaven Can Wait ~ fragrance reviews<\/a><\/div>
Arquiste Misfit ~ fragrance review<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n

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\"Arquiste<\/p>\n

\n

Cocktail time, March 1930, London: <\/strong> A group of architects gather for cocktails at Mayfair\u2019s smartest Art Deco smoking room. As they settle in the warm interior of dark woods, leather and velvet, London\u2019s bright young things burst in, frosted martinis in hand, surrounded by a cloud of laughter, white smoke and fine vanilla.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That’s Arquiste<\/a>…talking about the inspiration for its latest perfume \u2014 The Architects Club. The fragrance was developed by one of my favorite perfumers, Yann Vasnier<\/a>, who was guided in its creation by the imagined aromas of \u201cthe smoking room at Claridge’s in Mayfair\u201d circa 1930. After smelling The Architects Club, I had to tweak the PR…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2049,107,609],"class_list":{"0":"post-115574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-perfume-talk","7":"tag-arquiste","8":"tag-vanilla","9":"tag-yann-vasnier","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}