As an excuse and to speak about niche, I own you a second test of 5 o clock au Gingembre.

Even if I am a poor Perfume Tester, here is what I can say :

I have test it yesterday on my skin.

And it was completely different than on paper.

After a classical “Bergamot” top pshiit .. (but quite pleasant). The perfume itself is divided in two disting notes.

The first one, is full of bitterness, it is composed by the “Ginger, pepper, Vetiver, cacao” Axis I assumed.

The second one is a sweet note “gourmande” .. “Honey, Patchoulli Cacao” that you can fell under the sharp one. (The base note is quite dry for a Lutens)

It is of course quite well done and you have the feeling to smell (and eat) a cake with some piece of Ginger.

After more or less one hour, what i will call the ginger note deseaper quite nicely, I think for me that was the best moment of the perfume when sweet heart is powerfull and you have still some pulse of Ginger.

I beleive that the problem for me was to accept both notes. The bitterness axis was quite unpleasant for me during the first 15 minutes but I can understand that some of you are crazy with it.

After reading other review on the perfume it can also depends of the skin. Some speak of very “clean and soft Ginger” which is not my opinion.

So indeed niche on this blog is what is very hard to find. Still confusing for Serge Lutens is also for sale in the better warehouses in Amsterdam.

By the way I have been in the Annick Goutal shop here in Prague and it is such a lovely place. They have all the AG fragrances and indeed that butterfly bottle is lovely, but I love their other bottles too.