Raer Scents’ story
We make perfume from nature—wild, rare, and uncompromising. No synthetics. No shortcuts. Just time, plants, and process.
Raer is a modern natural perfume house based in Berlin, inspired by the clarity of Bauhaus design and the restless energy of the city itself.
Each fragrance is formulated, compounded, and blended by hand using the finest botanical materials on earth—ethically grown, sustainably sourced, and shaped with care.
How We Began
Raer was born from a simple frustration: that natural perfume too often meant soft, safe, or forgettable.
In 2017, our founder Ted Rohn went searching for a fragrance that felt bold, modern, and alive—but also truly natural. When he couldn’t find it, he made it.
That search became a collection of perfumes shaped by a deep understanding of the craft and a fascination with nature’s wildness and unpredictability. Each Raer Scent is made slowly, by hand, with a respect for process and a love of form.
What guides us
We believe natural perfume can be sensual, strange, subversive. We create without compromising on integrity, cost or quality.
We formulate, blend, and bottle every single perfume ourselves in small batches at our Berlin Atelier, just across the river from Mies van der Rohe’s Neue Nationalgalerie.
Inspired by the Bauhaus tradition, our creative process is slow but rigorous. We work in small batches, blending by hand using ancient perfumery techniques—methods that respect our rare plant extraction and allow them to reveal themselves into something very modern.
Our ingredients
We use only whole-plant ingredients—rare distillations, resins, and extractions that are no longer common in modern perfumery.. Some are grown just for us. All are among the finest botanical materials in the world.
We work directly with farmers and small producers around the world—people who care about the soil, the seasons, and the integrity of what they grow. Our business partner Cynthia Chua invested in a farm in the South of France, which has enabled us to work with farmers to plant our own organic ingredients. We also wild forage for some of our ingredients ourselves there.
This is perfume grounded in place, shaped by people, and made with patience.
Why we do it
This work isn’t fast. It isn’t scalable. But it’s deeply rewarding—and it leads to something we believe in:
Perfume with integrity. Perfume that lasts. Perfume with something to say.
We’re glad you’re here.
It’s an exciting time for us. And if you haven’t smelled Raer Scents yet—perhaps it’s time.