FRAGRANCE | Ginger Perfume by Lush is a different take on ginger

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In my experience with fragrances thus far, ginger is often used to add a fresh and spicy zing to a composition. Ginger is both fresh and warm at the same time. From Dior Homme Sport, to Un Jardin Après La Mousson by Hermès, or Fils de Dieu du Riz et des Agrumes by ELDO, ginger's own brand of spicy sharpness is distinct that you can easily tell it apart from pepper or saffron. But when I first sprayed Lush's Ginger, boy, was I surprised! 

In this perfume, Lush introduced a facet of ginger that's not commonly highlighted. While it's still recognizably ginger, it's also characteristically rooty, with a very pronounced earthiness as if it were covered in soil. The opening is very bitter, green, and marked by this rooty and earthy ginger I just mentioned—and strongly so. I know this description won't sound appealing to some people but if it's any relief, the scent is rounded by sweetish florals. I get hints of ylang-ylang and rose, to be exact. 

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A powdery nuance appears several minutes later, after which the rooty accord and earthiness slowly make way for the florals. Although the bitter greenness stays, the scent actually turns out more floral than ginger at some point. Nevertheless, the ginger never lets up and after about an hour, the florals soften a bit and the earthiness is much more noticeable once more, albeit with a little less bitterness. 

The fragrance starts out on the strong side and gradually eases into moderate territory. The scent itself lasts several hours, wrapping you in an earthy-floral scent bubble throughout. Even though I'm digging it, I don't think Lush's Ginger is a scent that everyone would want to wear. The rhizome's rooty and earthy character—which, by the way, calls to mind a similar trait in Geoffrey Beene's Grey Flannel and in a local find from years ago, Eight Wolves Cologne by Sparrow—makes Ginger classically masculine. However, the florals also pull the scent into the feminine corner, so it's practically unisex as a result. All in all, worth a try if you're into earthy and floral scents.

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