Arabiva opened in 2021 in Souk Al-Mubarakiya, with one idea behind it: a perfume does not need a famous label on the box to be worth wearing. What it needs is a good blend, honest ingredients, and someone who cares how it smells six hours later.

So that is where we started — behind a counter in the souk, handing bottles to people and listening to what they said when they came back. What holds up in Kuwait’s heat. What is right for the office and what is right for a wedding. What a man wants in his diwaniya, and what a woman wants left on her abaya an hour after she has gone.

Word travelled the way it does in the souk: one bottle at a time. A second shop followed on Al-Gharbali Street inside Atyab Mall, then a third in Abu Halifa — and a workshop of our own in East Al-Ahmadi, where every bottle that carries our name is blended and filled.

• Arabiva Originals — our own compositions, made from scratch in our workshop: Sultan, Regal Oud, Sultana, Sensual Sweetness and Havana Tobacco.
• Inspired perfume oils — our own reading of fragrance profiles people already love, blended here in Kuwait. Our product, under our name — never sold as anyone else’s.
• Oud, musk and amber in the Gulf tradition, for those who want the classics done properly.
• Home fragrance — oils for burners and diffusers, so the scent carries through the whole house.

A perfume is hard to judge from a screen. Visit one of our three shops in Kuwait and try the whole collection on skin — or order online and we will deliver across Kuwait and the GCC.

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Any question at all: info@arabiva.com · +965 6550 6090