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Bake Akro 2023

7.8 / 10 334 Ratings

A popular perfume by Akro for women and men, released in 2023. The scent is sweet-citrusy. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Sweet

Citrus

Gourmand

Creamy

Fruity

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Lemon zest

Heart Notes

Cream

Praliné

Base Notes

Brown sugar Vanilla

Vanilla

Perfumer

Olivier Cresp

Ratings

Scent

7.8334 Ratings

Longevity

7.1254 Ratings

Sillage

6.8254 Ratings

Bottle

7.0238 Ratings

Value for money

6.9211 Ratings

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Reviews

39 in-depth fragrance descriptions

02/18/2025

Byrehoe
213 Reviews

Byrehoe

Helpful Review 3

pucker up

Icy, lemony confectionery. I also get a somewhat lactonic, fro-yo-y note in the opening. Bake is so sour it’s sweet, a lemon chiffon with cream cheese frosting. On the sugar spectrum, I put Bake somewhere between Unknown Pleasures’s (Kerosene) lemonade-syrup Earl grey and Choux Choux’s (Liis) powdered sugar cloud. On the lemon spectrum, I think Bake is by far the truest lemon meringue. (For a more temperate, less-linear lemon cake, Byredo's Glizzy Water might check the box... if you’re willing to overlook its whispery performance). That said, Choux Choux still takes the cake for me – and I say this as someone who usually prefers citrus to sugar. There’s something about the lemon in Bake (and Unknown Pleasures) that strays into Lysol territory for me. Definitely more pre-packaged than homemade. Three spritzes of Bake about the collar lasted me six hours, which was a treat for the first hour and high-pitched chemicals the remainder.

Mental Snapshot: Eating an enormous lemon tart in a chilly, fluorescent-lit break room. The cake is almost bioluminescent, glowing with Yellow No. 5. Ordinarily you wouldn’t stomach more than a few bites of this, but today you’ve forgotten your lunch.

tl;dr: when life gives you lemons???

06/07/2023

8Scent 2Longevity 5Sillage

Meadhbh
26 Reviews

Meadhbh

Helpful Review 2

Yummy lemon cupcake

This was a very successful blind buy for me. I first fell in love with Citrus Gourmands when I tried the sadly discontinued Riviera Postcard by And Other Stories. When I saw that Bake had been released, I honestly couldn't wait to sample before I bought, so I purchased the 30ml straight away.

This smells exactly like it's supposed to - a yummy lemon cupcake. The lemon top notes are, however, unfortunately fleeting, although the praline drydown does last a really long time. This is a gorgeous summery gourmand!

08/05/2023

10Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

Scentgorlie
15 Reviews

Scentgorlie

5

Good Luck Prying This From Me

This is a really nice lemon option for me as someone who is being introduced to it in a fragrance. Under the lemon trees from Replica was too dish soap cleaner for my taste, and so I got scared of anything too lemon forward. All that changed with Bake.

This has a strong lemon opening, but it’s grounded and balanced with a more gourmand type of sweetness. I realize I really need that grounded effect (the only way I know how to describe it) to like an otherwise “light” or “super sweet” scent. The lemon in here really pretty and refreshing, and lingers throughout the wear to help lift the rest of the notes. This is cozy and sweet, wearing in perfect harmony. It’s an addictive, sophisticated lemon cupcake and I can’t stop smelling my arms when I wear this for the life of me.

07/13/2023

8Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Landshark321
775 Reviews

Landshark321

3

Sweet, lemon vanilla cake, well done

Sampling the most recent release from Akro, Bake, inspired by a scent of a bake shop involving lemon, vanilla, praline, brown sugar, rum, and Chantilly cream, a creamy vanilla lemon cake of sorts. It has a good mix of the sweet and tart aspects, being sugary but not overwhelmingly so. It’s definitely a gourmand for gourmand lovers, though, quite sweet, a little cake-ish, and a little sugary, with a healthy lemon note that nonetheless does not take over items of tartness of general citrus character. The whole fragrance feels well conceived and patiently balanced.

This reminds me of a couple of other similar gourmand scents, like Kerosene Unknown Pleasures and Xerjoff Lira, though all three are distinct in their own ways, as there is a bit more caramel in the other two, a bit more vanilla in Bake.

In the US, Akro fragrances are sold via the house website as well as Luckyscent, and the current brand pricing is $180 for 100ml, in EDP concentration, still under the $2/ml for niche that I find to be quite reasonable in the evolving market. This is probably my favorite of the line, along with the coffee-led Awake.

8 out of 10

11/03/2025

5.5Scent 5Longevity 5Sillage

chezhann
18 Reviews

chezhann

Helpful Review 1

had your cake, but you ate it too quickly :(

Super sweet lemon cupcake with lots of frosting. I actually like how sour the lemon is. It's not like mouth-puckeringly Warheads acidic, but it does have a noticeable lemonade-like tang to it. If you're not a fan of sour, do not worry, as the fragrance itself is very sweet and sugary, all marshmallow and cream and vanilla after the first hour.

Mild performance. It lasted me a whole of five hours, and the lemon cupcake was only prominent for the first hour. So honestly it kind of reminds me of "you can't have your cake and eat it too" -- you have one hour of nice lemon cake, but then unfortunately you ate it, too, so all you're left with is the frosting for the rest of the four hours.

Not too strong projection either, just enough for you to smell good but not enough that you feel claustrophobic or stifled. About as much projection as a body spray. I think Lush Super Milk (same lemon cupcake scent) lasted longer.

It's quite a linear fragrance (lemon cupcake, then just...generic vanilla cupcake), about as complex as a Maison Margiela Replica. Idk it's good while it lasts.

Updated on 11/03/2025

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