TRULYjoyful

I absolutely love this, my new favorite ginger fragrance and the liveliest dance between ginger and orange (peel). But the longevity is quite poor.

What a shame that it's gone in minutes.

HOLY CREAMSICLE, BATMAN! This smells just like those frozen orange Popsicles of my youth. There is a slight creaminess, but definitely not a full on gourmand smell. Its a sort of cool creamy, not a warm vanilla creamy. (Much like a Popsicle/ice cream!) Its like childhood summers in a perfume. Its a very fun fragrance, but I would not wear this to work, as I feel its too young. Great weekend perfume though. Wear it to your next bbq! You'll smell good enough to eat. I don't get the sour dry down that others have reported. For me this gets more ginger-y with time but the citrus also remains. However, the longevity is not great (on me anyway). I adore this fragrance, but don't feel that it was worth the full retail price as I need to keep reapplying.

No Joy. Truly Tragic IMHO - because it's a gorgeous, wonderful, zingy-peppery-gingery-orange smell with all the iced-lolly appeal of Atelier's Mandarine Glaciale - that shiver of real cool and zest cutting through the heat - but it lasts for ... maybe up to 45 minutes at an absolute maximum. One of the shortest-lived things I've ever sprayed, leaving no trace whatsoever behind once it's burned off the skin within less than an hour. Leaves me feeling cheated and resentful. (yeah, even more than usual.) Bah humbug!

Oh, yeah.....unabashedly citrus. I suspect that similar fragrances do exist. So I don't know if this is unique enough to warrant my getting a bottle, especially if its longevity is scant. However, it is very, very delightful, uplifting and happy-making. You may want to buy it if you are a collector of citrus and don't mind that it doesn't last at all. .