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Raku Les Bains Guerbois 2023

6.4 / 10 33 Ratings

A perfume by Les Bains Guerbois for women and men, released in 2023. The scent is synthetic-fresh. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Synthetic

Fresh

Green

Woody

Spicy

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Black pepper Lemon

Lemon

Heart Notes

Clary sage Fig

Fig

Base Notes

Ambroxan

Texas cedar

White musk

Perfumer

Jérôme Epinette

Ratings

Scent

6.433 Ratings

Longevity

6.421 Ratings

Sillage

5.921 Ratings

Bottle

7.625 Ratings

Value for money

6.013 Ratings

Submitted by Cheshirecat, last update on 08/25/2025.

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Reviews

3 in-depth fragrance descriptions

06/05/2025

4
Pricing 8
Bottle 3
Sillage 5
Longevity 6
Scent

Ebichuunee
98 Reviews

Ebichuunee

1

Steamed Sage

This one stays close to the skin, never too loud. It opens with sage but slowly turns smoky, like herbs steaming over hot coals. The smokiness is soft, not harsh or overpowering, which makes it easy to wear. I like it, but it didn’t knock me out. It’s interesting, just not a love. Performance is average, don’t expect a huge projection. Thanks i don't smell the dreadful ambroxan, but some might get disapointed.

I suppose that it's a good fragrance for days when you want something low-key but different. I suppose somehow i see it well on nice shirt, since it's more like a personal scent for when you're in an introspective mood. Worth trying if you like quiet, herbal smoky fragrances that don’t scream.

05/22/2025

ClaireV
969 Reviews

ClaireV

2

Clean Girl aesthetic

At first sniff, I wonder 'Who sprayed Baccarat Rouge 540 in here' because it's got that familiar, sugary Ambroxan brashness to it that makes my heart sink a bit. I can tolerate this accord, by the way, if I manage to convince myself that it's really black pepper that's causing this synthy blur. Thankfully, these molecules evaporate quickly, leaving behind the ghostly scent of magazine pages, the kind of industrially clean, plush air piped into corporate offices, and what I imagine space to smell like. After a while, it smells like walking into a lumberyard where cedar logs are being planked by a band saw, the air vibrating thickly with sawdust and hot metal-on-wood particles. Not my usual thing, but I see the appeal of something so plain, mineral, and radiant. It's 100% the Clean Girl aesthetic.

Two wears in and I have this pegged as one of those stripped down Iso E Super/wood/musk things like Another 13 or Glossier You. It is just featureless enough to allow people to project whatever they want to experience or feel onto it. Anonymous, androgynous, etc. I have no particular feeling about this genre but I recognize that it is meaningful to Gen Z (and it makes sense that a kind of perfume will resonate with one generation and go over the heads of others). The only thing I will note about this particular exemplar, though, is that the drydown is sour and bad tempered, an odd misstep in a template that seems like it should be easy to nail.

07/03/2025

Shepilein
49 Reviews

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Shepilein

2

Is that you?

I had fond memories of Raku - the first time I tried it was in a small boutique in Barcelona. Back then, I was immediately taken with it: fresh, green, soft, somehow clean and creamy at the same time. As many have written before: milky creaminess meets grassy woods. And yes, that's exactly what I smelled. Maybe it was the vacation mood, maybe it was the air in Barcelona - but I was thrilled. If pure milk flowed through streams, it would probably smell like this.

Now, at home and tested as a sample by Pafory, the picture is different.

The opening is okay: citrusy, green, slightly peppery. You immediately notice that there is a bit of molecular DNA here - musk, ambroxan, that typical clean softness. So far so good. Since I perceived the fragrance as linear at the time, I thought there was nothing more to come. In the drydown, I remembered it as a creamy skin scent.

But then something strange happens. The fragrance takes a turn halfway through - towards metallic, almost medicinal. Something between clary sage, cedarwood and a strangely medicinal, cold tone. Confused, sniffing my wrist, I suspect something bad. This note stands out, is subliminally present and lingers for quite a long time in the middle section. For me: absolutely disturbing.

Then I come to what this note reminds me of. The whole thing somehow reminds me of this DNA from Cloud by Ariana Grande. I ponder further and realize how an association spreads: Baccarat Rouge. I'm confused ... did I get the wrong bottling? Was the bottle filled differently before? This incredibly pithy note sticks behind the musk.
And that's annoying. Because it doesn't go together.

I remembered Raku as being much softer and more neutral - almost like an elegant everyday fragrance. Now I find it much more masculine, edgier and, unfortunately, more synthetic than it should be. The beautiful green freshness is really sabotaged by this strange undertone. The question remains: Is that Raku?