Gingerbread

Cinnabon, Gingerbon: Gingerbread with a Thick Buttercream Icing... I wasn't sure what to expect from this, as I've never tested any of Demeter's scents before. Maybe I was expecting something more of a one-note-wonder, whatever that means, or more like a body spray, (I'm sorry Demeter I misjudged you), but I was impressed & pleasantly surprised - love at first sniff! There's a Cinnabon vibe here - like walking past a Cinnabon stall in a mall, but ginger is there underneath - I get the white icing which is like a thick buttercream icing, and there's a pleasant aura of vanilla that wafts around sprinkled with cinnamon, while up close on the skin I pick up the ginger which also comes out more over time. This leaves an oily sheen on the skin, and the performance is pretty good from the start, probably moderate or better, and I still pick it up subtly the next day on clothes. This is quite sweet, very gourmand, and would be good for anyone who wants a very sweet gingerbread heavy on the icing. It may or may not be enough ginger for a hard core ginger fan. Personally (although I prefer my gingerbread without icing) I would definitely wear this in fall & winter for fun & less serious occasions, but gourmand lovers could wear this year round. It's a love for me, Update 10/07/24: Sprayed this on again today after my initial review on Friday (3 days ago), but already the gingerbread is popping more than I experienced at the first test. Still get a thick buttercream-vanilla icing, but the gingerbread is starting to take centre stage, and it's very similar to Ginger Cookie Demeter plus icing. Love it!

literally ginger snaps in a bottle oh my goodness!! it’s so photorealistic i literally feel as though i just took a huge bite out of the chewiest gingerbread cookie straight from the oven with the aroma of ginger and molasses drifting into my nose and the sugar and spices dancing across my taste buds. gingerbread is one of my favourite scents ever and demeter did it sooo much justice. longevity is very short-lived—it completely disappears from my skin after two hours—but considering that this is something i’d only wear during the christmas season, i don’t mind reapplying it! so excited for december so i can wear this all month long!!

I absolutely LOVE this perfume. This is my go to winter perfume. It is literally Christmas in a bottle. It smells so festive and cosy and it sticks to your clothes which is great if you wear woolly jumpers and knitted scarfs like myself. The compliments I’ve received off of people whilst wearing this is unbelievable. I’ve been stopped in the street, people have come up to me on public transport and asked what I’m wearing! I will never not have a bottle of this on my shelf, it’s an absolute must have if you love warm, spicy and cosy perfumes. Perfect for Christmas months! GET IT!!!!

I was completely prepared for this to smell super artificial and cloyingly sweet, but was so pleasantly surprised. This is such an incredibly realistic, fresh out of the oven, gingerbread smell. If you sprayed this in your hair and hugged someone they would likely ask if you had been baking all day. Smells so warm, not overly sweet...this will absolutely be a holiday, fall and winter go to. The cinnamon is mild enough that it avoids falling into the fireball whiskey or chewing gum category, such a win.

Demeter Fragrances are just fun. This is exactly what it says, it's Gingerbread. It's surprisingly versatile: on one hand it's the Christmas market in a bottle, on the other, it wears beautifully in the summer. On the skin it develops a spicy oriental vibe, so you can use it when you don't want a heavy scent but just somewhing pleasant and cheerful. It's nice to take on your travels, and it lasts.

I’ve been on the search for a buttery, sweet cinnamon scent that doesn’t smell like apple pie, and this is delicious. I thought their cinnamon bun scent would be it, but that one is lacking the buttery note that I was craving. Gingerbread is perfection. Great for cozy fall days.

Really a perfect fall or warm scent; just the gingerbread realism Ive been searching for! HOWEVER, within 15 minutes the perfume's scent is absolutely gone/nonexistent. Which is just so upsetting! Esp for the price

Really good accurate gingerbread smell. (Maybe needs a bit of a wheat note or molasses note??? idk). Very weak longevity though.

Smells like cinnamon cookies. Yum.

This actually smells like a bread! Yes, like a spiced cake bread. It doesn't remind me of cookie, and honestly I don't get much of the sweet notes. Just a very smooth soft spicy warm bread essence. Spices being mainly soft ground clove and nutmeg. I find the cinnamon and ginger to be very thinly supporting. I do think I'm getting a bit of molasses though. Perhaps as it dries down you can sense that this bread is very lightly drizzled with a confectioner's glaze, or possibly even honey. There's something really nice and soft about this. It is not very sweet and the spices are muted. It is definitely more of a foodie scent over a sweet scent. Like I said, it actually smells like a bread to me. It is mostly a skin scent, but it is cozy and comforting. Warmth, cake bread, and spices. This review is for the cologne splash. This one smells really pleasant for about an hour, and then it becomes very close to the skin for a couple more hours. It's a shame :( You'll have to carry it with you and reapply frequently if you want the scent to last all day. And just a word of advice - with the splashes you are in for a pretty messy application - I'd go for the sprays next time around. - And for a quick comparison, Demeter Ginger Cookie is definitely spicier and sweeter; heavier on the ginger and the cinnamon.

There's sometimes an odd note I get with this that I might be able to just chalk up to the carrier oil (I have the rollerball). I still like it overall, I don't know if it's photorealistic but it's close enough and feels festive. Demeter's not known for longevity but I find Gingerbread lasts longer than many of my other rollerballs from them. I tried Jo Malone's Ginger Biscuit this year and was fairly disappointed. This is honestly spicier (I've heard past years of the Jo Malone were stronger to be fair).

This is a very pleasant, cinnamon-y scent that is a great choice for autumn and the upcoming holidays. It perfectly complemented the apple butter that has been simmering on the stove today. It does not appear to last very long, but it may be that the cooking smells have overpowered it. I don't know that it smells exactly like gingerbread -- it certainly evokes the *feeling* of gingerbread. This one is nice to wear around the house when you're putting up decorations or just want a cheerful holiday mood.

Sweeeeeet, cozy, and spicy—but not cloying for all its sugar. Actually smells like for real baked goods. Idk about gingerbread, though, maybe almost like a vanilla spice latte minus the coffee smell? Milky sweet vanilla spices. Actually that’s a very good, all encompassing description for this. MILKY sweet vanilla spices. And I really like it. Very linear, though. But I f you want complexity and development, maybe look elsewhere than Demeter Fragrances. 5/10

Really good gingery biscuit scent. Gently sweet. Good sillage, but only last a couple of hours, but I don't mind re-spraying so long as the sillage is good. Tbh the sillage is better on this than Jo Malone Ginger Biscuit, and it's more biscuity, without the faint lemony floral note of the JM perfume, but otherwise they are very similar.

too sweet and not enough of spices to resemble gingerbread. overall, if i leave the idea of gingerbreak and how it should evoke this smell,the scnet is overly sweetwith a hint of cinnamon and tiny ginger, but drawning so much in sugar:(.

demeter is definitely true to it's labels. this one is very high in spicy ginger and just enough sweet to not be mistaken for any other hard holiday spices. it's nice!

Christmas in a bottle. Sweet, spicy, ginger biscuit scented. Great for snowy days in December. Longevity is poor but these are colognes.

this is 1:1 black tea with milk and brown sugar. so good. not getting any gingerbread. its very milky

There is something really artificial and nauseating with Demeter fragrances. The only one that I can recommend is pistachio ice cream. That one is great! Demeter Gingerbread is tolerable but still has a bit of artificiality to it that makes it not appealing. I was want Jo Malone Ginger Biscuit and saw that this was recommended. It was a decent price, so I decided to try it. Layered with BBW Jolly Gingerbread Village, it is wearable. If you're wanting a gingerbread scent that won't turn your stomach, I would recommend Molinard Sucre Sugar. Sooooooo good! A budget pick would be BBW Jolly Gingerbread Village. Demeter gets a 2.5/5 from me.

I think there might be just a tad too much ginger in this scent for me, but I still like it. And I'm glad the cinnamon note doesn't overpower in this scent, it stays nicely in the mix! As this dries down and develops it smells more and more like a gingerbread cookie, very warm and sugary. I don't imagine I'll have any trouble finishing up this sample when the holidays roll around! They basically bottled the scent of a cozy day spent in the kitchen baking and decorating gingerbread men.

A pretty decent Christmas scented candle. The gourmand-ness is more powerful than the spice; this one is only good for layering with other gourmands. There's an initial buttered popcorn note that's kinda fun. I'd consider wearing this to a Christmas party, but that's about it.

It doesn't smell like gingerbred cookie, more like gingerbread pudding (more milky, less spicy) or like a cinnamon cookie, like someone alse mentioned. I can't detect any other spices other than cinnamon, and it's not a very prominent note, it's like cinnamon in a cookie.

Realistic, slightly burned gingerbread cookie. Literal gourmand but on my skin it’s like 3,2,1 aaaand it’s gone. Still fun for the holiday season. I will finish it, wouldn’t repurchase though. This would be a banging candle 🫚

Warm, buttery, slightly milky gingerbread. Simple. Good for cold weather.

To be fair I dislike this one mostly because it really does not smell like gingerbread. There's ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg. It smells just fine, very spicy, but it does not have the yummy gingerbread cookie scent I was hoping for. Overall it was just a warm spicy scent that leaned more towards the nutmeg/ginger end than cinnamon/clove.

Just gross!! Personally, I would never choose a fragrance with ginger notes, but unfortunately, this was my free gift with purchase from the Demeter website. I think it smells like rotten coconuts.

Very milky, nutty, buttery? .. this is too much.. no very gingerbread smell.

really gross. candle sweet and dry down is an intolerable hit-you-over-the-head artificial powdery, like super super old lipstick. I guess i should have known better when trying to buy a gingerbread scented perfume!

This is the time of year when I crave the warm, spicy scent of gingerbread cookies baking in the oven. Demeter's version is not exactly this smell, and at least for me, it is not as spicy as I expected or would have liked. It is still warm and somewhat spicy (cinnamon perhaps most detectable, though not really ginger), as promised in the description. It resembles gingerbread most closely in the very first moments, and it is when I like it best. Then, it quickly--too quickly--quiets down to a softer, sweet, and more vague vanilla-like base. It is a fun fragrance to try, and I won't complain given the price tag. I don't think I'll use it a lot on my skin, but I'll probably use it more often as a room spray.

I feel that this one is sweeter than Demeter's Ginger Cookie, so if you're looking for a sweet ginger bakery scent this one is probably closer. However Cookie has more lasting power and is stronger, and has a nice wheat note. This one is very muted and doesn't last as long, so if you're debating the two I would go with the Cookie. Unless the level of sweetness is important -- if you like them very sweet Gingerbread is probably the better choice. It has a very nice holiday spice quality.

Warm, buttery gingerbread, just minutes out of the oven. I can almost taste the salted butter. Sometimes I just want a quick blast of something sweet and simple. It lasts a fleeting 20-30 minutes maximum on my skin, a happy blast of spice and sugar when I need a boost. Reminiscent of holiday baking, I feel like wrapping myself in a blanket and enjoying a hot cup of tea with Gingerbread.

Such a fun and realistic gingerbread cookie scent! I was really craving a fall/winter spicy food scent, and this has completely scratched that itch. It's really balanced with the sweetness, ginger, and cinnamon. This does not have the nauseating fake butteriness I get from so many cookie/cake scents. Love it!

Snickerdoodle cookies straight from the oven! Too sweet and buttery to be gingerbread, but close enough. Snickerdoodles were my favorite cookie to bake growing up as a kid, straight from an old orange Betty Crocker cookbook. Nice, fun throwback to those memories.

The gingerbread impression lasts but a moment but as a whole it's not bad. At first I get a bit too much of everything, mostly ginger and vanilla. After a while it dries down to a subtle and pretty wearable spicy-sweet scent. It lasts about 9 hours on my skin.

Realistic gingerbread, spicy and warming, lasting power is around 4-5 hours. I was hunting Jo Malone one, but really no sense - Demeter covers the gingerbread topic in best possible way for me.

True to its concept, this fragrance captures the comforting aroma of fresh-baked gingerbread. Pleasant and nostalgic, though performance is modest and the scent doesn’t evolve much.

Hmm, it's nice, but your gingerbread must smell like Boots No7 face creams, there's something very unfoody creamy smelling in here and barely discernible ginger.

I mean, this smells EXACTLY like a gingerbread cookie. They NAILED it. 20 year younger me would have swooned over this.

Lots of butter and spice, very cake-y. This is not my favorite gingerbread scent, but it does represent it fairly well.

Very very biscuity..... so smells like it should!

Demeter never disappoints with its execution.