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Ginger Lily is a clean and fresh unisex fragrance of ginger lily and bitter orange increased with spices and placed on a warm amber base. It was developed by Charna Ethier in 2009.
Top notes: ginger, black pepper, bitter orange and mango. Heart: ginger orchid, May rose, ylang-ylang and styrax. Base: white cognac, amber, vetiver and copaiba.
It is available as 30 ml EDP.
Top Notes
Middle Notes
Base Notes
About a year ago, Providence Perfume made news in the perfume blogosphere as one of the "outlaw" perfumers that were ignoring IFRA regulations. If you're not familiar with these regs, they outright ban certain perfume ingredients known to cause skin rashes in a miniscule percentage of the population. Never mind that a warning label suffices when it comes to food items or household products that contain potential allergens; if you're a perfume lover, you're screwed.
Providence and other natural perfumers decided to treat the IFRA as the rubbish that it is, and Ginger Lily is one of their offerings that I was fortunate enough to sample via Fragrantica. Ginger Lily is a complex, boozy oriental floral that opens with burst of piquant ginger, pepper and clove that is balanced against the freshness of bitter orange and some lush mango. The top notes are so big and bold that they filled the whole house when I was testing GL. The spices are then rounded and softened by the floral heart, and finished with a flourish of warm cognac and amber. A must-try for lovers of ginger-centric perfumes.
Hot fiery dragon's breath that opens with black pepper, sharp, fresh ginger and a hint of clove and bitter orange peel--very strong, natural and masculine to start.
The ferocity recoils a little as the flowers soften the composition, but the spicy heat remains: ylang-ylang and rose are subtly discernable as the main player is always ginger. Cognac delivers an enigmatic swirl of inebriation into the spiraling tendrils of hot smoke.
As Ginger Lily continues to evolve, the mango's fleshy character makes way without too much of its inherent scent. Copahu (copaiba balsam) isn't overly present either but definitely extends the peppery notes and adds richness along with styrax.
Ambery dryness to finish like hot embers glowing in a dragon's lair.
I'm sure I'll definitely love it, I'm crazy about ginger and cinnamon. Great notes, I hadn't seen ginger in the tops before and cognac is in the base which guarantees its longevity. It must be wonderful and I think because of capahu balm and amber also it must be a looooooong lasting perfume! I'm waiting here for it!!!
My middle eastern taste comes along gently with this group - Oriental Spicy.
But something that I'm a bit doubtful is the presence of mango and rose. I can bear one of them but both of them my bother me. I'm not sure I must find it then judge it. It seems so well-blended. But, where is lily? its title is Ginger lily...
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