The Raven Alkemia 2015

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7.6 / 10 17 Ratings

A popular perfume by Alkemia for women and men, released in 2015. The scent is green-woody. It is still in production.

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Main accords

Spicy

Leathery

Green

Woody

Earthy

Fragrance Notes

Black caraway

Drawing ink

Violet leaf

Black pepper Leather

Leather

Black amber

Black cardamom

Black iris Ebony

Ebony

Ratings

Scent

7.617 Ratings

Longevity

7.414 Ratings

Sillage

6.315 Ratings

Bottle

5.19 Ratings

Submitted by ExUser, last update on 08/22/2025.

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3 in-depth fragrance descriptions

08/22/2025

7
Pricing 5
Sillage 7
Longevity 7.5
Scent

itscoraline
114 Reviews

itscoraline

1

Baby Goths in the Moonlight

Opens with a startling blend of caraway and coriander, so strong I feel like I’ve shoved my nose in a spice drawer.

After that first punch passes, a little clean leather and iris emerge, and eventually it mellows into an amber-musky skin scent.

It’s interesting that this fragrance and Book of Shadows are so frequently compared, because they are entirely different to my nose.

The Raven is iris wrapped in a spiced new leather jacket. Book of Shadows is old crumbling pages covered in metal-tinged ink and bound in worn leather.

The Raven is goth-lite under an eclipse. Book of Shadows is an archaeologist pawing through old archives.

The Raven writes dramatic poetry with a feather quill. Book of Shadows is looking for the lost Ark.

Projection is mild after that first spice hit fades, and longevity is moderate. Completely unisex, live out your baby goth dreams.

02/14/2023

Miss13Scent
104 Reviews

Miss13Scent

3

Nevermore

f you are looking for a black leather jacket type of leather scent…this is it. It smells like a black leather on a cold night in a moonlit garden full of night blooming flowers. There is an old fashioned fountain pen leaking in the inner pocket. The wearer has been trying their hand at Poe inspired lines of verse. The purple floral notes are not too intense and I would say they lean masculine anyway. This is one of my top two favorite leather scents.

05/04/2024

5
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 7.5
Scent

Serenissima
729 Reviews

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Serenissima

Very helpful Review 11

under the spell of the scent eclipse

After reading Floyd's thoughts on a fragrance, my own usually feel very small and insignificant.
So it must be a special kind of masochism that I keep sharing them here, despite their publication.
And especially with Alkemia's "The Raven", also still touched by the somewhat oppressive shadow of Edgar Allan Poe, it is probably the mystery of the complex darkness of this scent-weave that makes me write after all.
But perhaps it is also the glimmer of light that I sense over the course of the fragrance that gives me courage and makes me follow the darkness: Deeply embedded, it seems to be calling to me!

Are these shadowy figures in the scented darkness of this writing room now wearing the leather-reinforced armor of the men of war or the simple monk's robes of the scribe or even the scientist?
The faint glow of the few candles at the desks makes it impossible to tell.

Thick wafts of dark aromatic leather drift through the low vault, gather under its ceiling and slowly become spicier.
Because the scent of caraway, pepper and cardamom - all black and full-bodied - marries with it: very interesting and yet also very strange! A little more of this would be too much for my sensitive airways.

A breath of air disperses the now amber smoke in the room, the special, slightly metallic scent of ink trembles and drifts quietly away: A door has been opened!
A being, a figure of light, its pale face glowing mysteriously under a mass of ebony-black hair, enters the room and the atmosphere changes.
The previously almost masculine dark fragrance takes on feminine, slightly green and floral notes with woody nuances:
Dark powdery iris and light violet-related aroma accents touch the senses softly, as if with delicate fingers, relaxing them as if they were being freed from the shackles of the previous intense darkness of the fragrance.
The tension eases: The strength and power of "The Raven" become more bearable for me.
At the same time, the sillage and persistence are only average, and yet the minor notes are so intense that I feel almost relieved at this change in the fragrance's progression.

For me, "The Raven" is not a perfume, not a fragrance - it is rather a densely interwoven, mysterious story that is told and which each of us probably experiences and interprets differently.

So it's not a fragrance for "I can recommend!"
(But when have I ever recommended anything?)
A fragrance to experience, but not an "experience fragrance", not a "fragrance event".
However, an interesting detour into a very special world of fragrances.

"The Raven" by Alkemia is like a book that I have read once, but will put on the shelf afterwards: The memory of it will come back with the regular/rather irregular dusting, but we won't live together!
It doesn't have to be; not every encounter has to end with love, but with respect!
And the creators of "The Raven", a special work of fragrance art, have my deep respect.