Le Labo reviews and discussion

4.5

92% of reviewers would recommend to a friend

Reviews mention

  • Distinctive, complex fragrance profiles
  • Powerful, enduring scent longevity
  • Iconic, compliment‑magnet hero scents
  • Chic, personalized packaging experience
  • Inconsistent longevity across scents
  • Occasionally overpowering scent intensity
  • Sooty, fast‑burning candle performance
  • Underwhelming, thin bodycare moisturization

Le Labo delivers distinctive, long‑lasting fragrances that draw frequent compliments, according to reviews, yet opinions split on wearability and strength—some scents project for days while others fade quickly or feel overpowering. Reviews praise Santal 33, Another 13, Rose 31, Thé Noir 29, Matcha 26, and potent candles, plus personalized labels and refillable bottles; weaknesses include very steep pricing, occasional batch inconsistency and broken sample sprayers, some bodycare underperforming, and candles that soot or burn too fast.

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353 reviews and posts

  • Le Labo is such a luxurious fragrance journey and they have a scent for everyone. The stores are beautiful and minimal just like the fragrance bottles but the scents are anything but. They've lasted very well on me and, besides Santal 33, I think these are unique scents that not everybody will have. They are very pricey but are expected for luxury fragrance. I love that they will refill a bottle once you've finished it for a discounted price. I also love their city exclusives. It's fun knowing that a perfume can only be found in one store in one city in the world (except for September where they are available in all stores).

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    Nothing!

  • best perfume ever. the number of compliments i get on this is truly enough to boost my self esteem. i also am a huge fan of their discovery sets to determine what new scents i want to make part of my life. also love spraying their lavender and orange ones on my sheets before bed for good vibes.

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    a smidge expensive and it sucks that you can only replace the same perfume in the same bottle.

  • I was once told at a wedding that wearing Santal 33 made me "smell like every stylish gay man in NYC" and I was enormously flattered. Love the brand, packacking and scents. Have used '33 and '29. Stores are always fun to shop in and making the bottles on the spot with a name label is a nice touch. I initially discovered Santal 33 at an LA hotel and then was gifted a bottle (since buying a second) and always get complimented on it.

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    I did get one bottle in a store that seemed a lot less concentrated than the other bottles, but it was a one-off. It's definitely not cheap. It's also a pretty popular (read: non-unique) scent if you opt for Santal 33. But that doesn't have to be a bad thing.

  • The smell of Santal 33 was so unique and pleasant. I went to Nordstrom to try their fragrances and really liked the santal 33. They also let you try free samples which helped me choose.

  • I have fallen in love with the Hinoki body cream! The moisture it replenishes in the winter is incredible and the smell is warm, clean and gender neutral. I get a lot of compliments throughout the day - the fragrance sticks around in a subtle way.

  • I’ve been a loyal user of Le Labo products, whether it’s their perfumes, room sprays, lotions, body washes, or hand creams. I absolutely love their Santal 33 scent and have been using it for the past five years. The natural, woody aroma captivates me, and I’ll continue to choose products from Le Labo.

  • High quality but simple luxury fragrance

  • I wish they’d bring the refill service to saudi stores, but I am head over heels for all the scents. Santal in particular brings about feelings of ambition because it’s a scent I wore to my first job out of college and during my times in California. Matcha and Another 13 have come to be favorites too, the former being THE skin but better scent.

  • Le Labo's scents are unique and layered, evoking emotions with every spritz. Recently, my sister mentioned she's been eyeing a bottle for her birthday. Considering how selective she is with her fragrances, this speaks volumes about Le Labo's allure.

  • I my Lord , sooo good smell of parfumerie 🥹😍 very happy with my purchase 🥺❤️

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  • The santal scent is to die for and recognizable immediately, I always know when someone is wearing it. It lasts all day and the scent is perfectly strong. Very expensive is my only complaint.

  • Do their scents smell lovely. Yes absolutely. Is it extremely well hyped (like Jlo loves their candles, look it up). Oh yes. But for that price there is no way this is reasonable for most people. They are going for the high end market. Their packaging is very minimalistic, trying to be elegant, but it is almost boring. If you can afford their products to gift someone, honestly I’d get them a nice experience instead.

  • i purchased a set of le labo candles (cade 26 and santal 26) after visiting their williamsburg location and falling in love with these two scents. i was really excited to light these but unfortunately the burn quality was horrible. the candles produced a lot of soot despite me trimming the wick prior to each use. i ended up having to purchase a candle warmer to get through both candles. 10/10 for scent, 0/10 for burn unfortunately.

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    change the wick/container for the candles pls

  • Le Labo is the kind of store that give the "hip seal of approval" to a neighborhood in any given cosmopolitan city. Their products are luxuriously personalized in a way that you can have the little bottle of your personalized fragrance visible and people will automatically know what kind of person you are. My husband loves his personally designed fragrance and I plan on giving him gift cards to refill it in every celebratory occasion for the foreseeable future

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    It's ridiculously expensive.

  • I love Le Labo scents like all the other girls in LA, but I could never get myself to commit to the bottle (considering the quantity + the price point). I've purchased the sample sets a couple of times I think they're like $40, come with 5-6 small viles of their most popular fragrances. They've lasted me soo long. A little goes a long way with these guys. I've given the fragrances that don't speak to me to friends and it's always a fun small gift moment.

  • Love this product. Memorable, distinctive packaging. Awesome range of scents. A little pricey, but worth it.

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    Some of the scents can be a little strong.

  • I bought my mom LYS 41 for her birthday, which is the best gift I have ever given her. She is obsessed with the perfume with gardenia forward notes. She even went with me to their storefront to buy a larger bottle after she used it all up.

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    A fun option to customize the labels makes it great for gifting.

  • Nothing beats original Santal 33 though many others have tried to dupe it. It just fits me and smells like home. The in store experience at the downtown Detroit locatiOn was so pleasant when I visited. A luxe classic.