masnura – 2022-06-21:

4 out of 5

Coffee with vanilla syrup and booze-cherry tobacco in a cedar wood humidor.
Italian plums, the kind they dry for prunes, and wormwood dust underneath.
Another scent I’d find cloying on a man but delicious on a butch woman.
Lighter than Tom Ford’s Tobacco Vanille, but no less intriguing.

Irinaurievna5 – 2022-06-21:

3 out of 5

I tried Baque in search of my dream tobacco, and woof, yes, it does smell like Maker’s Mark. In my opinion, not in a good way. Baque reminds me of partying inside frat houses, days I don’t miss at all.
Looking at the votes and reviews makes me feel crazy. If anyone else got all booze and no tobacco, or a headache at first sniff, know you’re not alone.
Fortunately for Baque lovers, the sillage is berserk. Granted, I am not a light dabber. (If I love the way a perfume smells when it’s overpowering, then I really, truly love it.) But Baque lingered in my room for two days.

novomo – 2022-06-21:

4 out of 5

Wanted to love, but it didn’t work
I get a rich apricot fragrance with resin and tobacco,I think I get a little smokiness too
This is more fruity,mature and just did not fit my personality.
This is unisex in my opinion, but do not know this fragrance would be best for. Maybe a older women looking for something unique for tea time on a fall evening.
I recommend a sniff, it is unique and not for me

lexs274 – 2022-06-21:

5 out of 5

First impression it reminds me of serge lutens- Chene

Luda_Mereshko – 2022-06-21:

5 out of 5

More bitter “Kiste”
This is “Kiste” (their fragrance) with more tobacco on, beside adding ambergris to it. Also it has recognizable amount of artemisia.
The drydown shows the true color of ambergris, and atremisia with darkened tobacco apricot mix.
It’s quite dark yet apricoti. Very interesting since “Kiste” is one of my favorites. It’s good that they brought it back cause i read once that it was discontinued.
Edit (1 hour later) this goes “Kiste” identical after 6 minutes in although it begun kind of different.

Diestemsesoro – 2022-06-21:

4 out of 5

I was glad to obtain Baque via blind buy after it was reintroduced in 2017 and while it’s not up to the very high level of most the house’s perfumes, it’s still strong and leaves an impression.
I echo the reviewer who likened it to stewed fruits, as I repeatedly turn to this analogy. Genre-wise, it’s boozy and woody more so than fruity, though, and while I get hints of tobacco leaf, it feels wholly dominated by the apricot and vanilla that render the final product so sweet.
It’s slightly creamy and spicy as well but these are lesser descriptors.
Baque’s longevity is still excellent like most Slumberhouse fragrances but its projection is certainly slightly lower than most of the house’s other offerings.
Certainly this is one I’d recommend fans of Slumberhouse trying as there’s a thread in it that connects it Josh’s other creations, but for those new to the house, it does not represent its best, in my opinion. Still, a bottle I’m happy to hang onto and occasionally use.
7 out of 10

Nicolk – 2022-06-21:

4 out of 5

If youve ever smelled asian medicinal ginseng, this is how baque smells. When i dabbed this onto my skin for the first time, it immediately transported me back to my youth going shopping w my folks and being in the herbal medicines section of the asian market.
Im not saying it smells terrible, but i cant wear it because it just smells like medicinal ginseng to me and nothing else. Perhaps if youve never smelled that before youd enjoy baque.

sobol – 2022-06-21:

3 out of 5

Prior to looking at the reviews, I notioned this to be akin to a fruity version of Serge Lutens Arabie. Slumberhouse doesn’t lie. If the juice is brown, the vibe is brown; If the juice is green, the vibe is green and so on and so fourth. No exception here. The vibe is golden brown with both tobacco and apricot coxswaining the oriental ship past glaciers of vanillas. This opens with an energized note of apricot perky in its splendor sitting atop a very dark brown tobacco/amber base. I didn’t getting a ton of artemisia but the amount i did receive was very necessary for balancing as this creation is top heavy with sweetness. The smell is quite dark, as advertised. The cedar presence is very subtle and comes in towards the end. The union is realized as a faux dark, roasted malt thus the union is realized. A well balanced and tasty fragrance this is. Slumberhouse is sorta like the New England Patriots, you can always count on them to win and win big. Baque is another trophy for the Josh Lobb trophy case. Combat winter with this one!

САУРОН – 2022-06-21:

5 out of 5

Baque as short for to-BAC-co?

Oxbab – 2022-06-21:

3 out of 5

Baque is a gourmand fougere from Slumberhouse which promises fine and truly improper perfumes. Most of the offerings from this line are strange resinous beauties that are sensual, dark and often mysterious. Baque is no different. It is sort of Jeke combined with Kiste. The main note is apricot which is surrounded by cedar, vanilla, tobacco leaf, artemisia and ambergris. This is sort of a Sleepy Hollow Tim Burton kind of a fragrance to give you an idea of what you are in for. It is a sweet and mysterious smell with shades of dark hovering in the background. Very beautifully composed, this is yet another winner from this very unusual and eclectic line, which has become my favorite perfume house along with CDG.
Note: Baque has been discontinued and was recently made available as a limited edition of 44 bottles by the perfumer, now sold out. I was lucky enough to score one of these.
Update. 12/22/2017. Baque is now available as a regular non limited release again.

nipGueveEndup – 2022-06-21:

3 out of 5

Baque is back – Fumerie Parfumerie in Portland is selling, just FYI!

amanda_alben – 2022-06-21:

5 out of 5

Bring Back Baque!

Mecva685intitytek – 2022-06-21:

4 out of 5

If you desire a swap or sell your Baque even a sample
Maye swap for another Slumberhouse
I have Zahd, Vikt, Jeke, Rume, Norne or Ore and others.
PM me

bed12iv – 2022-06-21:

4 out of 5

Intense and penetrating, Slumberhouse Baque reminds me a lot of some of the dark oriental perfumes of the house of Serge Lutens. There’s the same dried fruit mixed with very concentrated woods and spices. Yes, this could easily be a Serge Lutens perfume! Do I like it?
Well, there is a sort of rankness to the opening minutes of this composition which makes it less appealing as a perfume which I would choose to don to go just about anywhere. Would people think that I need to bathe? is a question which comes to mind upon sniffing the big sillage of this potent elixir.
Probably Baque, like its likely inspirations from the house of Serge Lutens, is better suited for an occasional wear at home. To me, this is an event scent more than a creation which I would reach for in order to perfume myself. I appreciate the quality of the materials here, but in the end, Baque is not something that I really have any interest in smelling like.
I admit that this creation raises the interesting question: what is perfume? I am confident that Serge Lutens devotees would love this composition.

DEAD-POOL – 2022-06-21:

3 out of 5

Boozy, Smoky, Ashy.
The edge of rotting fruit at the beginning.
The middle of smoked dried fruit at the end.
Like looking down into deep dark lake of tobacco cured fig water.
This is Billie Holiday singing Strange Fruit,
This is Sarah Blasko singing Flame Tree from Little Fish
Broader and smoother than Jeke. Doesnt have the harsh ash dry wood of Jeke (the balsamic notes in Jeke keeps the love affair alive).
Baque just beautiful.
[Update 1]
The more the revisits, the more the love.
After a few hours, everything settles down and I get a soft buttery nutty hue. Smoke is very soft now. Just lovely. Agree that projection drops down somewhat.
Longevity is around 4 hours compared to
Jeke with approximately 18 hours
4.5/5
[Update 2]
I’m relagating Baque to the House of Unobtanium
Tried buying a bottle of Baque – waste of time – unfindable even via Slumberhouse. And no response from Slumberhouse when emailed multiple times.
Has Slumberhouse lost interest in Baque ?
Has Baque (like Mozart) fallen into the grave of Creative Commons ?
The hand written label indicates Baque was an early exercise.
But still the want goes on.
Open message to Josh
Bring back the love
Bring back Baque
I’d be willing to pay to get this happening again……

moncleraqvc – 2022-06-21:

4 out of 5

This goes on very strong, but settles quickly into a dense combination of ashy smoke that’s similar to Jeke, but with a more rich, amber based center to it. One reviewer noted that it smells like Maker’s Mark and, while it’s got that boozy thing that many Slumberhouse fragrances have, to me it’s got more of a blend of spicy raisins to it. I guess the closest comparison would be Ambre Sultan, but this is far more dirty / ashy. Longevity and sillage are jaw-dropping, of course. I put a tiny amount of it on around 7am and 12 hours later, it’s still radiating. In this sense, it’s like all of the Slumberhouse line in that around the 6 hour mark, it really settles into something else entirely — either that, or you have. Amazing.
Wearing this again today and just wanted to add a new observation. At times, the projection of this scent seems to drop way down, but once you start to move, the smoke aspect becomes very strong and even leaves a trail. Totally weird!