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Blu Mare
- Stock: In Stock
- Weight: 170.00g
- SKU: AR-SIG-BLUMARE
Signature Collection · 04
Salt air, cold citrus, and a cypress standing over the water.
The Tuscan coast at eleven in the morning — grapefruit peel, sea spray on warm stone, and green wood holding the whole thing upright.
ID card
The Nokhetha
"Best thing about the sea is the smell."
| Species | Retired shark |
|---|---|
| Mood | Suspiciously cheerful |
| Favourite note | Grapefruit |
The numbers
Nokhetha is what Kuwait calls the captain of a ship, and this one has clearly retired early. Cap on, aviators down, grinning at nothing in particular. He has seen the whole sea and decided the best part of it was the smell.
How it moves on skin
First spray
Bergamot, lemon, grapefruit, a crack of pink pepper
15 minutes
Cypress and a real marine accord underneath
3 hours
Oakmoss, dry and green
Next morning
Ambergris, mineral and faintly salty
The Tale of the Nokhetha
He was the most feared thing in that water for eleven years, and he quit over a smell.
01
A nokhetha is a ship's captain. He was not one — he simply followed the pearling boats out every season until the crews started calling him that, half as a joke and half because nobody wanted to say the other word out loud.
02
The morning it happened, he had come up behind a boat at first light the way he always did. But the wind that morning was coming off the land, not the water, and it carried something he had never caught before: cut citrus from someone's breakfast, wet stone on the harbour wall, and cypress from the trees above the old town.
03
He surfaced. Nobody on the boat noticed, which he thought was rude. He hung there in the cold clean water with his nose in the air like an idiot, and understood — with total clarity and no warning at all — that he had spent eleven years chasing the least interesting thing the sea had to offer.
04
He turned around. He has not worked since.
You will find him on the rocks most mornings, cap on, facing land, waiting for the wind to turn.
The pyramid
Top
Bergamot · Lemon · Grapefruit · Pink Pepper
Heart
Cypress · Sea Notes · Marine Accord
Base
Oakmoss · Ambergris · Clean Musk
How to wear it
- Summer
- Daytime
- Travel & sea
- Office
- Unisex
The Details
Size
50 ml
Concentration
Extrait de Parfum
Family
Unisex
Longevity
8 – 12 hours
Sillage
Strong, close to the skin
Packaging
Black flacon + white & copper cylinder box
Cold water in a black bottle.
An Arabiva Signature Collection fragrance, defined by its own scent character and considered details.
