Raku

Raku was a love at first sniff for me. I instantly upgraded to full bottle. Raku feels like a zen moment in a bottle. It kicks off with bright lemon and just a touch of black pepper—enough to make it interesting without being sharp. Then you get this soft, green fig with clary sage, not sweet at all, creamier and herbal, which balances the citrus so well. As it dries down, it turns into this clean, skin-like scent with cedar, ambroxan, and white musk. It’s smooth, a little sensual, and stays close to the skin—quiet, but it lingers in such an elegant way.

This is what Another 13 smelled like to me when I first got it, and now that I am anosmic to my own signature scent, Raku is what I see myself wearing till I grow anosmic to it <3 And the cycle continues. Beautiful skin scent. Intimate and creamy. More of the feeling you get after unearthing a freshly fired pot rather than the hours spent staring at the kiln. Edit: Currently wearing this more often in the cooler months. The pepper note is a blissfully warm layer during the autumn season. This is now my signature fall scent.

I don't find any association with raku. At opening I smell fresh lemon, cologne like. Immediately thereafter some faint cedar, and the lemon goes forgood. No figs, no musk. I suspect this fragrance is full of synthetic molecules that I can't smell. This fragrance is rather simple to my nose, and I can't find any interesting development. Too bad because I love fresh long-lasting crisp lemon colognes.

Such an unusual take on fig, not green at all, very woody, and heavy on ambroxan, which I generally don’t dislike. Very well blended, like many others from Les Bains Guerbois, it opens with an almost creamy citrus, that paired with the cedar wood gives that new furniture smell to the scent, the fig is lovely, only slightly sweet, perfect. This is one of my favourites from the brand.

On me smells like dusty fig mixed with woods. Something very Parisienne about it . It is very beautiful. Who wrote here that it doesn t last, his nose is broken or something. On me last all day and I can smell it very discreet the next day , even tho I took a shower. I had a perfume who reminds me a little bit of this one .Beau de Provence -Fragonard.