Baptême du Feu Serge Lutens 2016

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7.3 / 10 250 Ratings

A perfume by Serge Lutens for women and men, released in 2016. The scent is spicy-fruity. It is being marketed by Shiseido Group / Beauté Prestige International.
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Main accords

Spicy

Fruity

Sweet

Animal

Woody

Fragrance Notes

Candied orange Clove

Clove

Cinnamon

Perfumers

Christopher Sheldrake, Serge Lutens

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Ratings

Scent

7.3250 Ratings

Longevity

7.7216 Ratings

Sillage

7.3218 Ratings

Bottle

8.0203 Ratings

Value for money

7.073 Ratings

Submitted by OPomone, last update on 07/29/2025.

Interesting Facts

The fragrance is part of the Collection Noire collection.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

Madness Eau de Parfum

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Tobacco Mandarin

Reviews

10 in-depth fragrance descriptions

01/16/2020

CuirCuir
35 Reviews

CuirCuir

5

Weird but wearable

Bapteme du Feu is another recent release from the quirky category. The name means "Baptism by fire" and the scent is supposed to represent a village fair. You get a weird combination of the smell of gunfire, gingerbread, candied orange and some spices. Overall feel BdF gives is cold spicy, with metallic notes (gun shooting?) lingering on. The concept is original but I don't see this getting much attention except for hardcore lutens aficionados...

01/25/2017

8
Bottle 8
Sillage 7
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Mrsg37
32 Reviews

Mrsg37

Helpful Review 2

Lovely

I had a sample of this and tested it completely expecting it to be a " meh" going off the earlier reviews. Boy was I wrong! This starts out on me as a very jammy orange that calms down and gives way to a Moreish gingerbread, but never disappears totally.
Woody notes creep into the mix and it switches from harshness to loveliness constantly creating the most addictive aroma. Its silage and longevity are both great and I just find it such a mysterious, intoxicating scent and from so few ingredients! Who knew?!

01/20/2022

9
Pricing 6
Bottle 9
Sillage 10
Longevity 9
Scent

Era81
1 Review

Era81

Helpful Review 2

Lovely makeup scent

First of all, I have to mention I HATE gingerbread in the real life and in scents also...but, here I don't sniff gingerbread.
..not a crumb thanks God :). What I feel is a well blended spicy resinous start, then the most adorable makeup scent I ever felt ( not counting the Lipstick rose of course :)). The head notes fade so fast(faster than I would like), after the first 30 minutes the fragrance changes into the make-up scent. The sillage is unbelievable and the longevity also! I have to mention the colour of the liquid...ahhhh....I fell in love that colour at first sight.

05/07/2021

8
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 9
Scent

Virginia93
19 Reviews

Virginia93

Helpful Review 2

So strange yet so good

This perfume is so strange, my first impression was "WHAT'S THIS?!", but the more I sniff it, the more I like it.
Probably I wouldn't wear it to go out but it's fascinating...I can smell the smoky effect / burnt wood, like during winter's evenings when you go out and smell that odor coming from chimneys, I love the smell of burnt. I can feel the gingerbread and especially the tangerine, actually this last reminds me a little bit of that product to wash dishes or to clean public toilets, but it's not disturbing, it's a particular mix. Got myself a 10ml decant!

08/23/2024

8
Pricing 8
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 9
Scent

Matteofuma
22 Reviews

Matteofuma

3

Mindblowing

The smell of an overdose of joy at a Christmas party. Gingerbread biscuits and fireplace. Christmas carols and twinkinling lights.
And then, if you focus, pure darkness. It hides something subtly sinister and eerie, just like finding out that this party is held by zombies.

It’s cozy with its warm and spicy cinnamon and then it gets metallic, powdery, smoky and animalic at the same time.

Nothing smells like this.
A true gem in the most recent Serge Lutens’ outcomes.

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