Five O`Clock Au Gingembre Serge Lutens for women and men

The composition is perfect. Spicy and citrusy with a hint of Earl Grey. Very elegant, somewhat reminds me of the typical Christmas smells. The only problem is durability. Exactly, durability is the only thing I do not like. The fragrance after the first 15 minutes of intoxication somehow suspiciously fast disappears from my skin, leaving after a few hours only a ephemeral memories of ginger, cloves and tangerine, one can smell when they actually just put the nose directly to the wrist. It is a pity, a pity that I'm already addicted to it.

Yes, it is gorgeous but didn't last on my skin or my partners. After 1 hour it was completely gone.

I bought this for my husband around a year ago. He likes to wear it on "special occasions" and date-nights. Honestly, when this scent is on his skin, I can barely stop myself from drooling, and I can't keep my hands off of him! Five o'clock au gingembre is incredibly warm, sexual, and hypnotic. My husband's chemistry makes the fragrance tease with notes of dry, honeyed ginger and touches of pepper and amber. Then it tempts with spicy cacao, and it seals the deal with smoky woods and heady patchouli. I cannot resist this gorgeous fragrance. I've worn it myself a couple of times, but it doesn't have the same appeal worn on me. It smells nice, but somehow its more mysterious on my husband and we like it that way.

Le Grand Serge strikes again with FIVE O'CLOCK AU GINGEMBRE, more of an event than a perfume! This creation opens really beautifully with a wrist-sniffingly wonderful combination of woods and spices. I find the ginger rather low-key, relative to the prominence I was expecting, given the name. I definitely do not see any similarity whatsoever to the BBW Orange Ginger aromatherapy line, with which, I should add, I am very, very familiar.

I actually do not like ginger all that much as a perfume note, but in this composition it works very well with the woods, which are heavy enough to smooth the ginger out somewhat. My only regret about this wild Serge ride is that the drydown becomes somewhat gunky on my skin after a few hours. But the opening and the middle stages are really gorgeous, and I like the fact that this perfumes evolves quite a lot over its development trajectory. Never a boring moment chez Serge!

Don't slap me. But this smells very much like the Orange Ginger Aromatherapy stuff from Bath and Body Works. But the resemblance stops at the Orange and the Ginger scents. (But if you know that scent, this is in that neighborhood if you are considering buying "blind" as I did).

This goes deeper though. More natural, more herbal/earthy. The orange is deep and carries the whole thing, while the pert ginger dances and skips around. The sweet comes....but only to frame, not to submerge.

I agree with some that this is not Gourmand, at least on the open... but it settles close to there. Its as if the ingredients are all on the counter in their raw form, waiting to be mixed up in a batch to be baked later...

Nice. I have one bottle. Would I buy a 2nd? Perhaps not. Only because this is not a love thing, rather.... it is an "I REALLY like you but..." sorta thing. If I would spend my money, it will be on my true Loves!

I will enjoy and savor this very good friend to the end.

I was surprised. I thought 5:00 would be very gourmand, which i usually don't like, but it's really not. Ginger is quite prominent. Both spicy and refreshing at the same time. Lighter than some other Serge's. Usual great longevity. Drydown is warm and comforting. Not "brilliant" like feminite du bois or ambre sultan (a high bar, admittedly), but i enjoy it.

I was excepting something loud and overpowering ,it's from luten!!
This has nothing to do with offensive scent.
Very calm,bergamot is noticeable,it give it lightness but with tea,cinnamon,ginger this is vibrant , unlike all serge luten that i've tried that are pretty poppin!
In brief description lot of ginger ,little of bergamot ,some cinnamon and tea.
Suitable for fall and winter and i think can be worn to work easily because it's calm.
Also good for special occasion,versatile fragrance.
It's the less mature from the haul line.
Tested it on paper so don't know idea on longevity but it seems to be good with moderate projection.
A winner to me.

5 O'Clock is one of the few scents from which I've genuinely had the 'magnet' effect. It was slightly disturbing, as if I'd signed an unwise pact to make myself attractive to people with whom I couldn't possibly sustain a relationship – and possibly even with genuine candidates. The perfume is a sort of assurance of groundedness and sensuality, the scent of an uninhibited earthy sexy creature who excels at baking, has no guile, and owns a private key to the vault of pleasures. In all fairness, even though I would love this 'Chocolat'-style fantasy to be true, it is not exactly me.

Also in all fairness, there is no better gingerbread scent, for a man or a woman: it's spray-on domestic god/dess. 5 O'Clock smells comforting and sexy; it induces people to trust you and even make you feel more expansive. IMO it's light years ahead of EL Sensuous, which I personally found a bit bland and vanilla-heavy. 5 O'Clock is an amazing ice-breaking scent when you lack confidence, and very pleasant for evening dates. If you don't abuse it, it will treat everyone like a perfect gentleman. And as I said, I've yet to find a finer gingerbread perfume, and I've tried many.

This started out nice, spicy sweet with ginger and cinnamon. Then a hint of chocolate. The patchouli, by now, is getting more intense. After this, it really kept smelling purely of patchouli and pepper. If those notes were toned down more, then maybe I would try to get a decant of this. Probably will test this again.

I love this on my husband. I know it says it's unisex, but after my wearing it for a day or two I really think it's more suited to men. On him I love, love, love it, on me it's meh.... The warm spicy scent of ginger rounded out with honey and amber makes for a very very snuggle your nose into his chest worthy scent. Stays close to him but I get subtle whiffs as he walks by. Perfect for his suit and tie days.

A mix of spices with a touch of honey and ginger. Delicious? Yes, but I would not buy it as a first SL fragrance. The house have a lot of fragrances better than this one (no, I'm not saying this one is bad, it isn't just as good as Chergui, for example)... lasts an eternity by the way...

I find this too masculine for a woman. Strong and not pleasant.

At first this is an amazing scent, I tried it out and in the first five minutes had to stop myself from ordering awhole bottle without a second thought! Beautiful woody, soft ginger with enough sweetness to round it out, just divine. In half an hour though, this dries down and all i can smell now is amber! I like amber but I want this to stay gingerbread-y!! (cries like a baby).
It stays close to the skin and is still a warm cosy type scent, but it will require further testing to see if I can make the first phase stay alot longer, otherwise I won't bother buying it.

Five O'Clock Au Gingembre is a beautiful spiced delight with ginger that lies on a floral and tea base.

True, this stays very close to the skin but it just adds to the warm, comforting effect.

The ginger and spice in this fragrance is not loud at all, but rather soft and radiant. More in tune with gingerlillies rather than spiced Christmas cookies.

A very wearable scent with quiet energy, I love it!

Finally!

A Luten's I love and am in big urge to add to my collection. This is simply delightful. I love cinnamon and I love spicy tea and this gives it all. I fell in love with L'artisans Tea for Two, but decided not to buy it because of the lack of staying power, but this Lutens. It this has it all - staying power, sillage, the icy cold freshness and delightful spices. I find this to be extremely feminine and sweet and I suggest this to everyone. Try this. This is lovely. And very sexy.

While I do not care for this, I will acknowledge it is a nice fragrance many others may like. This is more of an earl grey tea instead of just a black spiced tea - there is a little tea, but definitely lemon. the ginger scent is sharp and strong and carried throughout the whole time I wore this. I think the ginger aspect was my favorite part of this fragrance. What I didn't like was the amber - lots and lots of strong amber - and I absolutely cannot stand amber. I hadn't realized it had amber in it when I read the notes because I didn't know what "labdanum" was - but it is amber!

I'm not really sure about it. It seems to change over and over again, not being able (or wanting?) to settle on a specific note. Sometimes it's woody, sometimes it's tea and then woody again. I prefer to know what I'm smelling like at all times :)
It's not a bad perfume, actually it's good, but it has another major flaw: it stays waaay too close to the skin. I have to press my nose against my wrist to smell it. Too weak.

This is the only spicy oriental I can wear. The tea note gives it a freshness that keeps it from being too spicy to work with my skin chemistry. Definitely one to test if you don't think you can wear spicy oriental fragrances--you just might be surprised!

This is a very nice
Masculine Fragrance....
A fine gift idea for that special guy,
When you want to get him "a special something" for his Birthday or Christmas.
I like it ... but not enough zing!
so I thought ... hmmmmmm
let me re-try the sample I have ...

so last night I wore it to bed ...
ahhhhhhh! Rich, Molasses,Gingerbread
and Cloves....
it was there on my wrists and arms
when I woke up this morning ...

So ... I rethought it out ...
I might just buy this for myself .....
as a comfort fragrance.....

but to receive it as a gift ...
I'd still say a very content
...."Yes, Let's Rendez-vous at 5pm!"

jej,smells like an old french lady :) but I like pepper-notes,they are unusual for me

This starts out as an assertive, spicy scent with lots of cinnamon and ginger. It’s a dry spice, not at all sweet, like powdered ginger rather than fresh, along with aromatic dry woods and just a hint of soapiness at some points. After about an hour, the scent dries down into a wonderful aromatic cedar. If you’re looking for sugary cake to go with your tea, this isn’t it, but it might be the freshly laundered linens on the table, some spicy biscotti, and the burning fire in the fireplace, at least until the guy wearing the cheap drugstore cologne walks in.

The beginning and middle of this scent are a real treat, but the end is a disappointment because it gradually evolves into something that smells like a generic “men’s cologne”. I smelled exactly the same evolution in Bond’s Andy Warhol Silver Factory, so they must both have a cedar that eventually reveals itself as a generic “men’s” scent. Too bad, because I was liking this one a lot for the first few hours.

I am confused about this. But like some said before, this turns out too much dry and it is not enough feminine like I was thinking in the first hour. Maybe too much peppery-ginger to be a woman only fragrance. This one is ok but not that good for a Lutens.


7/10

What a wonderful experience! The first whiff is pure pleasure: sweet, not boring, not vanilla-y. Then the woodiness appears and it settles into a very comforting veil. Perfect for winter and cozy evenings at home. One of my favorites.

Very nice cinnamon ginger opening, and warm spicy woody base. Would be very sexy on a man, but since my husband is not very into fragrances, I chose to continue buying him the much less expensive BLV pour homme. And for me, I'd like to smell more feminine.

I quite liked the ginger top notes, but very quickly it turned into a very dry, dusty, woody effect, like Incense at triple the price, and very much a masculine fragrance. Might work quite well on a man who didn't want citrus or musk notes, but I doubt if it would wean my husband off his Aramis

Eating rich, molasses gingerbread and sipping black, Earl Grey tea, spiced with ginger, next to a warm fire in a creaky, lovely old estate. It's slightly damp and drafty in the house and every once in a while, the wind blows through the house, stiring up the scent of hard woods and velvet brocade, long forgotten photos, books and textiles; lost memories and hidden mysteries. Maybe tonight, while your host and hostess is sleeping, you'll do some adventurous exploring of the nooks and crannies of the place...

I think the spice is tempered nicely by the sweetness. The amber, pepper and cinnamon are somewhat counteracted by cacao and honey. It's the kind of fragrance you wear in winter with a cozy sweater. But oh my, the price!!!

Also, this reminds me of Vanilla Fields, although there isn't vanilla listed here.

This fragrance is very, very spicy. If, like me, you are looking for something with as much sugar as spice, this will only be another disappointment.

Five O'Clock starts out with a lot of ginger and, as my boyfriend pointed out, is reminiscent of Chanel Egoiste (the harder-to-find original, not the easy-to-find flanker). As it wears on, the ginger becomes more pronounced, the honey is more apparent, and things start to sweeten up just a bit.

When the top notes fade and the scent settles down, it reminds me a lot of Estee Lauder Sensuous, perhaps with a heavier dose of ginger. It's sillage is far better than Sensuous and it's a bit wetter where Sensuous' woodiness lends a dryer tone, but overall, they are very similar to my nose. If you enjoy this scent and are looking for a more affordable version, Estee Lauder has it.

I enjoy eating the ginger root, but I find it a bit too sharp in perfume when it's not sweetened enough for my tastes. I was looking for something that was more ginger-BREAD than ginger root (like the confectionary note in Angel and Gourmand Coquin), and this fell short of my expectations. If you're a ginger lover, however, I'm sure you'll appreciate this one because it is, in fact, very nicely done.

This went onto my skin as lovely oriental woods with hot ginger top notes, just gorgeous and warm. Dry-down started to shift to too much dusty/powdery wood that went up my nose, all sharp edges and very perfume-y in nature. This would be gorgeous on some, but I ended up with a wristful of perfumey sharp wood with a hint of tragically lovely ginger reminding me of the great opening that was and making the dry down that much more chemical and sad.

A rich, hypnotizing scent. Reminded me of another Lutens - Fumerie Turque.Same sweet tobacco leaf aroma,and the combination of ingredients give a hint of prunes.I like Five O`Clock even better! The ginger note is very strong, and I love honey and cocoa in the base.Very exotic and sexy - makes me think of Brazil.And I`ll say it again - very, very sexy.

This is my favourite from Serge Lutens. It's like sipping some spicy black tea. I could spend all day smelling it.
Five o'clock reminds me of Opium pour Homme, but lighter.