Our Story
A strip of shoreline - scattered with the tide's residue: sea glass worn smooth by years of movement, a feather, the faint impression of something that passed through in the night. It lasts only a minute. Then the water reclaims it, and the moment is gone.
Archive Poème crafts clean, luxury fragrances inspired by these moments of the tide. These are the things that don't make it into photographs. They exist only in the body - in the way light hits the water at a particular angle, the mineral weight of salt air filling the lungs, the cool press of sand underfoot. They live in memory the way poetry lives on a page: not as documentation, but as feeling.
Archive Poème was built around a single conviction: that scent is the only art form that stores time.
Not as record. As experience.
The Origin
We began with a simple challenge - discovering scents with high end fragrances that were crafted with clean ingredients. With most clean perfume brands focusing on simple scents that mimic candles, not high end fragrances, we made it our mission to ensure you do not have to sacrifice luxury for safety.
The brand began with an obsession - not with perfume exactly, but with what perfume does that nothing else can. A song can carry you backward. A photograph can show you where you were. But a fragrance can make you feel where you were, viscerally, without warning, the way memory at its most honest actually works.
The name came from that tension. An archive implies preservation - careful, intentional, deliberate. A poème implies something that resists being pinned down, that lives in the space between words. Together, they describe exactly what we are after: the preserved feeling. The thing that stays with you long after the moment has passed.
We chose the coast as our grammar because coastal places are places of constant, beautiful erasure. The tide comes in. The tide goes out. What remains is always different, always rearranged, always somehow the same. This is how memory actually works. This informs how we craft our fragrances.
What is Clean fragrance?
We curate high end fragrances that are made with organic, non toxic, and vegan materials. Our products are formulated with bases of organic grape alcohol and jojoba oil, and our fragrances are completely free of:
Paraben Free
No endocrine disruptors
Carcinogen free
No phthalates or synthetic musks
Mutagen free
No Prop 65 ingredients
Acetone free
No synthetic color
BHA free
No BHT or acetonitrile
100% vegan
Cruelty free
Nature, the sea, and simple daily rituals inspire our work. We focus on honest materials, natural texture, and forms that feel timeless. Our goal is to design functions that bring quiet comfort and a sense of balance to any space.
1% of Sales to the ocean cleanup
Every purchase made with Archive Poème carries something forward. We donate 1% of all sales to ocean conservancy efforts - because the tides that inspire our work deserve to be protected. The coastlines, the salt air, the quiet pull of water at the shore: these aren't just the poetry behind our fragrances, they're living ecosystems worth preserving. It's a small gesture in the face of something vast, but we believe beauty carries responsibility. When you wear Archive Poème, you're not just holding a scent - you're part of keeping the source alive.
The Ocean Cleanup's work operates on two fronts: ocean cleanup systems targeting floating plastic, and river interception technologies - since rivers are the primary pathway plastic takes to reach the sea.Their goal is to remove 90% of floating ocean plastic by 2040.