Twilly d'Hermès Eau Ginger

HAHA oh man, you'll get a good laugh from this one. Ok, so I order 20+ samples trying to chase the discontinued Dior Pondichery, which has a similar profile which includes ginger, and that's how I arrived here at Hermes Twilly Ginger. At first opening, I knew it was something grand. I could smell it from inches away and it spoke to a memory that I couldn't place, but I was excited. It screamed 'the best spring day you've ever smelled' in a strong but well-formulated way. No alcohol, just a blast of sweet floral that smelled... expensive. Head turning. It's got... something, you know? Depth, sweetness, floral, hint of ginger... It's a strong deep smell that screamed at me. But I knew I had smelled it somewhere before and it was connected to a childhood memory. Spring cleaning. God, I hope not pine sol! Nope.... Hm. Today it hit me like a ton of bricks. Original Snuggle fabric softener from the 80's. Holy crap. People keep saying clean laundry? YUP. They're right. It's not the Blue Sparkle snuggle sheets of today- the original Snuggle from 1980's. I even used to have the Snuggle teddy bear. For spring cleaning we would open all the windows and doors and wash all the bedding/linens from the winter- the dryer would be going all day and the wind would push this sweet dryer sheet smell back into the house. Those are the only dryer sheets my mom would buy because she loved the smell. HAHA oh man, now that I know what it is I can't un-smell it, which isn't terrible but now doesn't make me think 'expensive perfume.' I will however happily spritz with more confidence- I do love that smell, and now that I've identified it I doubt many people will have an issue with it. I can't believe I bought it before placing the memory- ah well, it's still nice. Joke's on me haha. As for the rest- this surprisingly has a fantastic finish and drydown. Given the association to soap/fabric softener, this doesn't have that disappointing 'soapy' drydown. It eventually gets to a sweet creamy cedar with that hint of peony- and the longevity is massive. I do paper strip tests as part of a multi-step process to choose a fragrance so I have all the paper strips from my last batch of samples taped and labeled to my wall like the unibomber- and six days later this one holds well enough to distinguish- which puts it in the top 25% of samples in terms of longevity. For the curious, I also ordered the original Twilly without ginger, and it is different enough to not remind me of Snuggles- it has a greener/grassier drydown that isn't as sweet (though is still sweeter than most of my perfumes FWIW.) To the people who already bought it and are reading this, I hope I didn't ruin it for you. But there it is- 1980's Snuggle fabric softener sheets. I'm still going to wear the hell out of it though lol. ETA: I have no regrets- this is now my daily signature fragrance, and everyone keeps asking me what it is, and why it smells so familiar. I just tell them haha- I LOVE this more and more every day.

Hermés Twilly Eau Ginger Edp: 🗣Tbh, I Was Actually Shocked At How Good & Absolutely Beautiful This Twilly Fragrance Actually Is!! And Tbh I Actually Much Prefer This One To The Original Twilly Edp!! So Much So, That Im Only After Ordering Myself Another 50ml Bottle To Take With Me On Holiday To Spain, As I've Been Wearing This Fragrance For The First Time Today (Outside Temp Sitting At 24° And Feeling Extremely Clammy) And Yet This Perfume Has Kept Me Feeling So Clean & Shower Fresh All-Day Long!! Weather Like This, I Usually Reach For My Old Faithful Hot Weather Friend (Ô de Lancôme)!! For That Perfect Zingy Up-Lifting Freshness Blast!! This Fragrance Really Does Have A Kind Of CLASSIC-Grown Up Vibe To It, As If You Reached For A Fizzy Lemon Seltzer, With Some Freshly Cut Fine Ginger Added To Give It A Real Zing Factor!! This Is A Really Unique Fragrance, And Bet It Would Actually Feel Amazing Being Spritized Onto My Flesh/Skin Straight Outta The Refrigerator (A Tip I Use When On Holiday) And Don't See Why It Would'nt Work With This Little Beauty!! On First Spray, I get The Most Refreshing Lemony/Citrusy Blast Which Lasts Around 15-20 mins, Followed By A Unique Freshly Cut Rose-Peony/Floral Vibe, And Then The Zingy Ginger/Candied Ginger Comes Forward To Lift, n Liven & Really Freshen The Over All Fragrance Up!!, The Dry Down Then Adds Woody Cedar Into The Mix, "Not Too Woody Either I Must Add", But All So Well Balanced And Perfectly Blended It's Unreal!! But There Again It's A Hermés Fragrance, And They Don't Settle For Second Best Ever!! I Just Absolutely LOVE Everything About This Perfume, And Would'nt Change Anything About It!! Lasting Power Is Also Superb On My Skin Giving Me Around 13-14hrs Off Wear!! I Honestly Look Forward Till Wearing This Beauty And Getting To Know Her Even Better As The Long Summer Day's Start To Linger!! I Rate This Perfume As 10/10!! And Say Well Done Hermés Indeed!! A Great Twist On The Original Twilly Edp, & The Design Of The White Bowler Hat Cap!! Is Just ABSOLUTE PERFECTION!!! Giving The Already Classy Twilly Bottles A Little Bit Of A Difference To The Other's In The Range! Simply SUPERB!!!! 😍😘💕💖💖💓

I did not expect to like this perfume but I will forever be grateful to the lady at the perfume counter for steering me towards Hermes. I love freshie scents but truly high quality freshies are hard to come by. Enter Eau Ginger. This perfume is complex, yet simple. Spicy and warm, yet sweet and energizing. Full of youth but teeters on the edge of old timey. It is both floral and masculine all at once. A work of art. This is the scent I've been looking for. After the first spray, I immediately thought that it might be too youthful for me as a middle aged woman, however, it quickly develops into something more interesting. Straight off the bat, I can smell peony and perhaps a slight tuberose that dares to peak through oh so occasionally. And then comes the candied ginger. It is sweet and playful but the contrast with the peony gives way to maturity. The ginger smell never really arrives for me but the spiciness and warmth of ginger does. However, it is never too warm or heavy as the candied ginger and peony balances it out beautifully. And just when you think you have an idea of where the scent is going, the cedar makes a grand entrance and changes the game entirely. It is slightly masculine, earthy and fresh but in contrast with the ongoing peony and candied ginger it creates perfection. I would not put this down as a unisex scent because it is undeniably feminine and the balance here is truly incredible. Bravo to Christine Nagel. The dry-down on my skin is something out of this world. It is where all the ingredients come together in a soft and subtle unison. I had 3 compliments from strangers after the first spray at the store. At home, I was spending some time in my study, left the room and when I returned, I was met with the lingering scent of the most excuisite smell. Not overbearing but a subtle scent of class, luxury and mystery. I edited this review to add that I don't feel that this perfume belongs in the Twilly range, however, I suppose I could see why they would market it as such. This perfume is the daytime mischevious, enigmatic sister to the sultry, enigimatic night-time Barenia.

At rush hour the other day I stepped onto the metro and could distinctly smell ginger - clean crispy ginger- it was a very warm day and it smelled refreshing and intoxicating. I started to wrack my brain ...."Ginger?! Who, what? Where?" and the only thing I could come up with this. After work I raced to the store and sprayed this on a strip - "Yes! That is what I was smelling this morning!" I put the strip next to my computer and went about my life...A few hours later I get very strong wafts of a giant bar of finely milled white soap. Intense wafts....Amazing clean , crispy and sparkling. The next morning the perfume was still radiating soap. I ordered it immediately. I personally don't have enough soapy fragrances in my life. So my review - the ginger is fresh spicy at first blast - then it morphs a bit into a sparking ginger-ale on ice - a bit sweeter but still sparkling - as it dries down the ginger becomes more dry and spicy and the citrus, peony and musks meld together to create a stunning fresh soapy smell. This makes sense because peony, citruses a bit of spice and cedar and musks have been blended for like a century now to create what we think of as "giant bar of white soap." Because of the fattiness/sparkling aspect I get in this soapy smell I definitely think I am getting massive whiffs of aldehydes which are not indicated in the notes pyramid here but I definitely smell them...I think I might make it my signature scent - I don't think this is a warm weather only scent - I also think that the ginger may have more longevity in the winter versus the heat.

I've never had any of the Twilly scents, and I never sampled any. Based on the fact that I already have lots of tuberose in my collection, and I adore roses but I am not too keen on patchouli, I decided to blindly ordered this one. It arrived today, and it made me smile. The bottle looks so small but so adorable, the colours of the ribbon against the while cap makes me think of sunshine. Upon first spraying it I got the candy ginger. It is not a fresh zingy ginger, I was expecting it to resemble the Origins Ginger Essence, but it doesn't. That is is freshly shaved root, while this is crystallized ginger. Peony came after it, and the candy ginger melted into the floral scent. At this point, I was still loving my new perfume. And, not long after, the perfume turned fresh, as in fresh drying in the wind laundry, but thankfully I didn't experience the detergent others have mentioned. This is probably when the cedar kicked in. It's still very pleasant, but it lacks the energy it had in beginning. Silage is moderate, lasting power similar. I find this scent elegant for daytime, clean enough for work environments, playful without being juvenile, overall I think I would use it quite a bit. I have a quite large collection and it doesn't smell like anything else I own. I am a fan of Hermes in general, this was a pleasant surprise for me, so now I really want to try the other two in the series.