As featured on The 2025 Esquire Grooming Awards
A latex and leather 'oud-style' scent. A perfumer’s take on neon-soaked nightlife, the leather scene and raw, nocturnal behavior. With notes of latex, neoprene leather, black shoe shine, hydrocarboresin and styrax.
All about this fragrance
Vibe check
This is a close-range scent for late hours and dim rooms, where its animalic leather and smoky resin can unfold without apology. It suits a confident, intimate setting with a charged, underground feel rather than a polished public entrance.
How to wear
Best worn in cool weather or after dark, with a light hand: one to three sprays are enough to let the leather, incense and animalic notes project clearly. On skin it reads dense and tactile; in air it turns smokier and more atmospheric, especially in humidity.
Who it’s for
For wearers who like leather fragrances with depth, smoke and a distinctly animalic edge. It will appeal to those drawn to dark, sensual compositions, niche oud-style structures and scents that feel urban, raw and a little transgressive.
Release year
2025
The nose
Rodrigo Flores-Roux is known for polished, textural compositions that balance clarity with sensuality, often giving niche fragrances a vivid sense of place and material. His work for Arquiste tends to be especially narrative-driven, and Nocturnality shows that instinct at its most shadowy: leather, latex, incense and animalic facets built into a nocturnal, almost cinematic accord. A longtime collaborator with Arquiste founder Carlos Huber, Flores-Roux has helped shape some of the house’s most conceptually precise releases. In Nocturnality, his style leans into contrast rather than prettiness, turning a nightlife brief into something tactile, smoky and unsettlingly elegant.
Collaborators
Carlos Huber shaped Arquiste’s historically grounded concept and guided the fragrance’s narrative brief, translating the 1996 New York nightlife story into a scent built around leather, latex and nocturnal animalic accords.
Arquiste’s story
Arquiste builds fragrances as carefully researched time capsules, using history, place and atmosphere as the starting point. The house favors genderless compositions with a strong sense of narrative, translating cultural memory into polished, wearable scent.
Nocturnality’s concept
Nocturnality is framed as a walk through downtown New York in October 1996, where a young perfumer absorbs the city after dark: humid air, leather, smoke, sweat, neon and abandon. The result is a latex-and-leather composition with an oud-style darkness and a distinctly urban, nocturnal edge.
Extra info
The fragrance was featured on The 2025 Esquire Grooming Awards. Its concept is built around October 1996 in downtown New York, and Arquiste describes it as a latex and leather oud-style scent.
As featured on The 2025 Esquire Grooming Awards
A latex and leather 'oud-style' scent. A perfumer’s take on neon-soaked nightlife, the leather scene and raw, nocturnal behavior. With notes of latex, neoprene leather, black shoe shine, hydrocarboresin and styrax.
All about this fragrance
Vibe check
This is a close-range scent for late hours and dim rooms, where its animalic leather and smoky resin can unfold without apology. It suits a confident, intimate setting with a charged, underground feel rather than a polished public entrance.
How to wear
Best worn in cool weather or after dark, with a light hand: one to three sprays are enough to let the leather, incense and animalic notes project clearly. On skin it reads dense and tactile; in air it turns smokier and more atmospheric, especially in humidity.
Who it’s for
For wearers who like leather fragrances with depth, smoke and a distinctly animalic edge. It will appeal to those drawn to dark, sensual compositions, niche oud-style structures and scents that feel urban, raw and a little transgressive.
Release year
2025
The nose
Rodrigo Flores-Roux is known for polished, textural compositions that balance clarity with sensuality, often giving niche fragrances a vivid sense of place and material. His work for Arquiste tends to be especially narrative-driven, and Nocturnality shows that instinct at its most shadowy: leather, latex, incense and animalic facets built into a nocturnal, almost cinematic accord. A longtime collaborator with Arquiste founder Carlos Huber, Flores-Roux has helped shape some of the house’s most conceptually precise releases. In Nocturnality, his style leans into contrast rather than prettiness, turning a nightlife brief into something tactile, smoky and unsettlingly elegant.
Collaborators
Carlos Huber shaped Arquiste’s historically grounded concept and guided the fragrance’s narrative brief, translating the 1996 New York nightlife story into a scent built around leather, latex and nocturnal animalic accords.
Arquiste’s story
Arquiste builds fragrances as carefully researched time capsules, using history, place and atmosphere as the starting point. The house favors genderless compositions with a strong sense of narrative, translating cultural memory into polished, wearable scent.
Nocturnality’s concept
Nocturnality is framed as a walk through downtown New York in October 1996, where a young perfumer absorbs the city after dark: humid air, leather, smoke, sweat, neon and abandon. The result is a latex-and-leather composition with an oud-style darkness and a distinctly urban, nocturnal edge.
Extra info
The fragrance was featured on The 2025 Esquire Grooming Awards. Its concept is built around October 1996 in downtown New York, and Arquiste describes it as a latex and leather oud-style scent.