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dron241088 – :
Super comforting, cozy, spicy scent, but also, super restrained. This is a fragrance for yourself. There’s no performance at all. On me, it is a skin scent the moment I spray on, and stays like that for few hours. Such a great warm fragrance, but its weakness is sort of a let down. Good blind buy. Too bad I need to reapply often to enjoy it.
HommenikeShox – :
Very nice spicy gourmand fragrance, not too sweet, not too heavy, not too light either. Tea, ginger, spices linger softly around me all day with just one spritz. And the dry down is heavenly and resembles that of L’Heure Bleue! I have worn this about 10 hours now and I suddenly got a strong LHB vibe coming out of nowhere. I guess it’s when the cocoa note reveals itself. Very soft cocoa powder. A fleeting moment; then the ginger comes back again. Anyhow, beautiful. All in all, this resembles Penhaligon’s Malabah a bit more, but Five o’clock.. is much better in my opinion.
Knyaz – :
A delicious deep spice compote that manages to be restorative and refreshing without being cloying. Warming and calming. Perfect for reading a great book on a rainy quiet afternoon. So glad I am experiencing it
Mecll908bedyWelty – :
I’m so fickle when it comes to this scent. I have wondered MANY times why I ever bought it. I think I just solved the mystery. I always try to wear it in the winter or fall thinking it is a warm scent – with little success. Just sprayed it on myself on a warm summer day & recaptured the green warm spice I first enjoyed.
Bleliaappebra – :
Cooling biscuits, tangy honey, chamomile tea, mellow ginger, drying flowers, and old books.
This is a interesting a dynamic fragrance that is one of the best complex, yet harmonious fragrances I have smelled.
I get 4 to 6 hours longevity and weak projection, but fair sillage.
This is my library fragrance and early spring and fall love.
Highly recommended and better that Tea for two in my opinion.
25 plus age minimum here
alexx_anna – :
This is the most realistic and natural ginger I’ve ever smelled in a fragrance. It makes L’Homme smell like scratch-and-sniff and Tabarome smell like a salt mine. This invokes long-lost memories of the pantry with all its mystery to a child’s mind. I love it.
victor0003 – :
Serge Lutens is one of my consistent respectable perfumers.
Artemiss below mostly sums this up for me.
I desperately wanted a left field Fresh Ginger smell and whilst interesting did not find this quite lives up to the usual for SL for me. I bought it on previous experience as a “what the heck” buy. Infact it smelled like it had a common base with most SL I’ve tried.
A bit of sweet lemon tea, honey, bit of spice on the dry down.
A Ginger and Fruit tea cake dialled down sums it up for me on the dry down with poor silage and longevity compared to anything at that price or as an EDP in my collection.
I have had Chergui, Jeaux de Peau. Fille en Aiguilles is easily one of my top all time scents – completely unique and still blows me away for its power and longevity/silage.
Sadly this is not one of them but it is good quality and it made an awesome gift to a colleague whom when it was shared around at work was met a lot of oohs and aahs (male and female) by EVERYONE and “can I spray some more” – its easy to forget that sometimes we are way too spoilt…
If anyone can suggest an uncomplicated scent with a prominent Fresh Ginger in it please contact me – Cheers
EDIT 4th June 2018
I tried it again at work and ginger tea fruit cake definitely sums it up (and my colleague agreed it was spot on) but I stand corrected – it had above average longevity and projection from 2pm until 8pm and even then after I washed – its just not an in your face scent – again respect earned my dear Serge Lutens!
cadenza – :
یه کار خاص، باحال و خوشبو که کمی کم جان است
جزو معدود سرج هایی که آقایون میتونم استفاده کنن
و جزو معدود سرجای به نسبت همه پسند و بی آزار
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Scent & Qualiy: 9/10
Longevity: 6/10
Sillage: 6/10
Creativity & Uniqueness: 8/10
Affordability: 6/10
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Overall: 7/10
somebody1231 – :
On tester: This smells like a really delicious cocktail along the lines of an Old Fashioned. Nothing fruity or sweet, just deliciously complex. I normally hate boozy scents, but this is really nice.
On skin: Dry cinnamon. Skin scent only. It’s nice I guess, but hardly worth $130+.
Probably better in a scent locket than on skin for me
cthutq7730 – :
This opens spicy and masculine on my skin, akin to a vetiver-spike Spicebomb with a side of lemony tea. I really thought this was going straight to my husband, but as it dries down, the the sunnier tea and bergamot notes shine through the cinnamon and ginger.
It is not terribly long-lasting on me, nothing by SL is, for whatever reason, but it is cozy.
immeguile – :
I discovered this in a small perfume shop in Seattle, but I think Five O’Clock is a safe blind buy scent from the Luten’s house …. if you are a fan of spice, woods and ginger.
Perfectly unisex with decent longevity. It’s not a big compliment-getter but it is comforting.
I’m down to about a third of a bottle. I will miss Five O’Clock, but won’t replace it.
svt_2007 – :
(Review from a sample)
Five O’Clock Au Gingembre is a lovely and pleasant warm spicy perfume, with its star being tea, surrounded by quite a bit of ginger, for the whole journey. At the beginning I also smell bergamot, which fades after a little while and gets replaced by cinnamon and woods, with a tiny bit of honey. Maaybe some patchouli, but I found no trace of cacao. Strangely enough I smell also something flowery, but it may just be the tea.
On me this is a skin scent with moderate longevity, suitable for most seasons. It is really pretty, more feminine-leaning, and I think it can be worn for many occasions because it is basically a people-pleaser. It doesn’t have a wow factor for me, so I don’t think I’ll buy it, but if you want a comfy and polite tea scent, look no further!
alex18 – :
A solid and lovely offering from the house that has produced the most consistently likeable and unique niche perfumes. This one is a lovely gingery amber with a host of other eclectic woody gourmand notes including are tea, bergamot, cinnamon, cacao, honey, patchouli and pepper. The perfume is unisex (bit feminine leaning) with moderate sillage, projection and longevity. Not the best offering from this eclectic line but beautifully blended maintaining a very natural, delicate and realistic ginger and amber vibe that softly purrs on the skin. Enjoy!
Darkelf742 – :
Five O’Clock Au Gingembre isn’t my favourite by Serge Lutens, but that’s no surprise – dominant spicy accords just aren’t really my thing, and I agree with the reviewer below me: pleasant ginger tea with a hint of honey is exactly what this smells like. I don’t dislike it by any means, it’s a very comfortable scent, well-balanced and not too heavy. Almost as cosy as its lovely name, but sexy in a quiet way as well: really nice, actually. It’s just that it isn’t really “me”, and I would have liked it a whole lot more if the note pyramid would have been the other way around, and it would have smelled like honeyed tea with just a hint of spices instead. So not bad, but not for me.
matvei51 – :
Pleasant ginger tea with cinnamon and honey. Very feminine for a unisex perfume.
Alex-1st – :
Sometimes you just want simple daywear. Is that so hard to come across these days without gimmmicks and pretenious notes? 5 O’Clock Au Gingembre is as simple as it gets. Elegant, earthy, bright, clean, simple. A lot of Serge Lutens fans find this too simplistic and like to dive into the rich deep pools and live their elegiac which is fine. This fragrance is straight to the point which is where I will finally go with this review:
Upon uncapping, I immediately smelled liquorice and that turned me off in the beginning. I thought perhaps it won’t be bad to spray it on. On initial spray I felt metallic, like copper (perhaps that was selected to paint you a portrait of a kettlepot?). I was starting to think perhaps this is a mistake but as soon as I was about to regret it, a BIG aroma was lifted up. WHAT IS THIS? It was sweet, it was delicious. It was biscuit-like. It was…balsmam fir? My mind was picki, ng up a christmas tree sap (I guess because days ago, when I cut down a dead Balsam branch I remembered the sticky sap). Isn’t it funny how people think “Fille En Aiguilles smells like pines but never said the same for Au Gingembre (which I personally don’t smell pine with Fille on Aiguilles, I smelt plums and encens)? This fragrance is going places the notes are changing fast as my skin is it warms up to my body temperature. It went fro sap, to earthy. Cold, damp, mossy, I felt this warm steam like quality approach my nose. You know when you just poured a cup of tea and you get close to smell it and that steam from the cup is just tickling and warming up your nose? THAT FEELING. I can’t believe a fragrance can touch all senses of me. I then smell the tea. Ginger is absolutely present, but this was a very dry ginger. I picked up oolong, earl gray, ginko and an anise star floating in the cup. This was quite an exotic blend. This was in the lines of oriental. One can call this fragrance “green” but I would categorize it as a gourmand only because there is a very warm, delicious, cozy quality about this. When spraying, my mind went to Deborah Turbeville photographs.
The longevity is moderate. Yes it is not a projectile as the rest of Serge Lutens’ lines, but when I took a seat next to a friend, they smelt it right away. This is an intimate fragrance and even when you are not going out in public, and plan to stay inside for the weekend, I would recommend to spray this and be lazy for the rest of the day. Clearly a unisex fragrance. A I had said above, “daywear”, however I am now thinking “afternoon to evening” as soon as it’s dusk, layer it with an amber.
Serge Lutens is a genius at creating imagery and visuals all around fragrance. That is truly hard to do these days.
KaBaScer – :
While I do love this fragrance, I find once you get into the middle notes, it brings out a little more of the sweetness from the ginger and honey combo. I do not get as much cinnamon. I find this would of been a better scent if they added some more spice. Even like a tobacco note or something along the lines of à TF Noir Anthracite vibe (for those who have smelt that one, you’ll know what I mean. Very earthy and not a hint of sweetness.)
Even with about 2 sprays from my sample, it has almost become cloying. Almost too sweet in my opinion. Certainly not an office setting fragrance at all. More suited for nights out in the fall or winter.
akademik30 – :
Tender, gentle, almost lulling ginger tea with a hint of lemon – for me it’s a gently spicier and less woody sister to Feminite du Bois. Definitely one of the quieter Lutens offerings at the spicy end of things: it doesn’t scream or shout, or caper about going “look at me I’m so outrageous!” – it just settles you in for a relaxing and calming frame of mind.
Despite all the talk about it being a gourmand – and yes, there certainly is plenty of cinnamon in there too – I find it’s refreshingly *not* full of foodiness. Even though the beginning is positively zingy with lemon/citrus, there aren’t many tangs of buttery/sugar/honeyed/caramel things, which would make it a full-on slice of ginger loaf cake. This is much more restrained than that, still warm and delicious but somehow much lighter on the virtual calories. You will definitely not smell as if you fell into a giant bucket of Christmas-spiced anything at Starbucks.
It’s hugely reassuring, classy, well-balanced and well-controlled, nothing to scare the horses here. The sillage is really, really discreet but longevity better than I was expecting – up to 5h, but not much more – and it plumps up again nicely with a respray.
Gibbon – :
This may be one of my favourite Lutens fragrances. I’ve tried it several times and never been able to work out why I like it so much. There’s two others I’d buy before this, but this is on the list.
Ginger can sometimes be a risky thing to use in fragrances, but I’d consider this brand exempt from that risk because the fans who love this line are those that would buy something like this – it’s not aimed at those who chiefly buy the big scents of the year. I’m guilty of doing that occasionally, so I can’t judge.
It opens not dissimilarly to a Andy Tauer fragrance and continues in that vein for quite some time. Once it dries down, the tea really becomes noticeable. While this isn’t necessarily a wrist nibbler, it’s not exactly lacking in a delicious quality either. Does it smell of the ginger bread I thought it would? Nah, but who cares… it smells like something I love and something I’d wear.
Kind of a 10/10, kind of a 7/10
Depends on the day you ask me, really.
stalker1941 – :
Gourmand but not too much, light enough to wear it in warmer months but still consistent and full of comfort, it literally blooms in rainy days. Five O’Clock is a happy autumn creature. Understated but never cold, it goes on giving you a friendly aura and, don’t know how, it manages to be even biscuit-crunchy-chocolatey-sexy. Can’t ask for more. I’m not fine with Lutens changes at all: the discontinuation of some beloved ones has put me off, I don’t like the new bottles, I dislike the new font too, I really don’t care for larger formats and obviously the new prices don’t appeal to me but I can see me invest in this scent, I know I will use it often and love it. Hope the repackaging won’t imply a change in its formula: I like my tea as it is (the Queen said).
Mesoh554Unlogrere – :
The one that has disappointed me most from the Serge Lutens’ perfumes I’ve tried so far.
I was eager to try it because of the ginger and cinnamon notes, but they are very bland, well behaved.
The longevity is scarce too: I couldn’t smell it anymore after 10 minutes.
Can’t talk about sillage, as for me it has almost none.
Of course it’s not a “bad perfume” at all, it’s very discreet and polite. It’s just not my thing.
velial.mii – :
Arabian Knight’s review and description is spot on so anything I can add is merely subjective based on a sample very generously gifted to me by a perfumista who knows I like Dior’s Dolce Vita (vintage and reformulated both). I can see why she thought I might like it. It is perfectly pleasant but Serge’s scent is far subtler, sitting close to the skin instead of wafting sillage trails; more foody/gourmand and free of florals. It is understated whereas Dolce Vita is blousey and loud. It is chai and ginger tea made fleeting cologne.
I’m delighted to have had the chance to experience it, but I won’t ever want to wear it.
blek33 – :
Five O`Clock Au Gingembre is a cozy oriental with a subtle sweet & chocolaty twist. The first impression is a just-out-of-pot ginger lemon tea, through there’s something eastern and mystique as well. Progressing to the mid notes, once again Gingembre feels like a dialed down version of Amouage’s Fate, tenderly spicy in an intriguingly comforting way.
Imagery: Following a ginger beige cat, you accidentally encountered a spice shop at the end of the alley. The owner smiled and murmured a greeting in his own tone, but somehow, you understand what he said.
Inoffensive projection with decent longitivtiy. This is one of the comforting and savoury spice scent. One mild problem is that, being on the more masculine side, ladies at daytime should consider matching apparel, like French cuff shirt and beige trench instead of printed dress or pencil skirt.
8/10，for its atmospheric ease.
serjmsa – :
‘5 o Clock Gingembre’ has a zesty opening, with a notable bite to the bergamot, pepper and ginger. It’s warm, bright and tingly in an invigorating ‘mens cologne’ type way. The cinnamon melds with something vaguely vanillic, giving it a sweetness that stops just shy of bubble gum or Cola. However, not too long afterwards, it changes again and suddenly I’m smelling dry incense and a soft, papery powder, haunted by that sweet, tingly spice.
It stays like this, hovering close to the skin for an hour or so before fading away.
A delicate fragrance, transparent and softly spoken, with a clean, composed character, neither masculine nor feminine.
The closest match to this I would say is ‘Tea for Two’ by Atelier, if you discount its weird smoked-plastic accord. ‘5 O’Clock’ is fresher and the tea note less literal, so it’s much more pleasant to wear and may even be a good option for summer. If you like chai spice scents, this one is a must.
seymur456 – :
Subtle without being boring, distinctive but won’t frighten the horses.
Soft tea and baking spices. A great anytime fragrance, but especially for work where it won’t offend any colleagues because of it softness and moderate sillage. Warmth makes it more of a fall than summer scent. I can’t concur with those who say it’s sexy and exotic; however, my partner disagrees with me…
almolleda – :
I bought this for my husband but have started wearing it too as it’s perfectly unisex. For me this is a winter walk through pine trees rather than tea and gingerbread. In fact, I don’t get any gourmand or foody vibes from this perfume at all- it’s fresh and aromatic, just like being in the woods on a sunny cold day. It’s perfect for winter or the holidays.
Anerpinnyjing – :
A great semi gourmand oriental spicy with a twisted modern appeal. Opens up with a blast of black pepper, cinnamon and citruses which is quite refreshing. The powdery dry ginger comes up backed a medicinal but classic patchouli note and the acidic tarriness of black tea. A bit of pininess is added by some woodsy accords alongwith a touch of dry incensy amber. This is a hit or miss fragrance. You love it or hate it. Definitely for mature noses and can be worn in all weathers. Decent performance with a soft projection. This is not a compliment getter. Its a self comforting scent. Great job Serge Lutens.
nedra80 – :
Spicy, sensual, a little sweaty, and sooo sexy. Yes, please.
I especially enjoy the way the notes evoke tobacco and humous. This is a spicy oriental, but it has nothing to do with Opium (gag) or Cinnabar. It’s actually quite soft and easy to wear.
iax380Negeltzex – :
This is one of my favorite perfumes, or maybe my favorite so far. It has a warm and sensual scent.
I am really bad to find each note in a fragrance, but it is like a good red wine. I know a good fragrance when I smell one.
I don’t smell ginger, but I actually can smell a warm, deep tea scent. This mixed with some warm herbs. The lady who sold it to me said it is not sweet and can be worn in summer. I think, however, it has a somewhat sweet scent, but in a good way. I normally don’t like too sweet perfumes. And I could easily wear this all year round.
It wakens something inside me on the sensual side. I can’t wait to hug women now – give them a nice warm and tight hug:)
It has good longevity.
I definitely recommend it!
Update 23/2-17:
I can smell the ginger, however, it’s not fresh ginger. It is more like ground dried ginger, and it is not a dominant force – it lures in the background. The ginger scent comes more evident in the drydowns.
VOLMASS – :
There’s ginger in here? If so, it’s subtle on my skin. This is a labdanum-forward composition with resinous woodsy elements. Five O’Clock Au Gingembre exudes a similar aura as:
1) Miller Harris La Fumee Classic- (sandalwood, labdanum, spices) mixed with
2) Diptyque Bejoin Boheme – lacquered wood on a grand piano (styrax, benzoin, sandalwood, patchouli)
3) Zoologist’s Bat
4) Agreed with below reviewer who named TF Plum Japonais
Very warm & woodsy likeable scent that wears close for a Lutens, precisely in my comfort zone. While linear, it sounds like Gingembre manifests itself very differently on different people. For me, there’s no gourmand elements here. If it wasn’t in the name, I wouldn’t have pinpointed ginger, out of the mix of spices.
koman67 – :
At first I thought it would be like gingerbread. Instead it’s like fresh cut ginger and citrus. It smells a little hi like a Christmas tree. When it dries down its incensey and a lot like Plum Japonais. I don’t love it or hate it. The notes are just kinda there.
Kysok – :
This went on with a blast of citrus. Looks like not many can smell that. It’s there. Then it got a little sweet then a dry ginger spice not like gingerbread. Like smelling powdered ginger. Then in the dry down it turns into almost incense. I think it is the amber, pepper and honey. Just lovely. Very much a skin scent where you run your nose along your arm. Blind buy and glad I did.
Wjroenne – :
This is the 2nd time I’ve tried SL Gingembre and now it’s finally made an impression. Well, enough to warrant an opinion. I definitely get a good dose of ginger then the cinnamon and tea like everyone else. It is borderline gourmand. It’s not sweet enough to have turned the ginger into sticky ginger cake if that makes sense.
A lightly sweetened chai with a ginger heavy masala. I could easily imagine some buffalo milk in there.
I get the comment about the addition of Arabie to the mix. That lovely spicy mix starts to come to the fore after 30 minutes. The perfect unisex lightly sweetened and spiced ginger/wood fragrance. Moderate silage and moderate longevity.
boyrex – :
I’m almost certain I caught a whiff of vetiver in the palais label (not the SL label).
романс23 – :
Five o’clock au Gingembre feels like Lutens’ Arabie mixed with lemon and ginger on my skin. More lemon than ginger even, and the hesperidic accord persists till the drydown . I find the contradiction of the warm with the tart notes interesting, with the composition balancing the scales a bit towards the masculine side. The tea note is somewhat obscured by all the lemony spicy heaviness, and the transparency I was anticipating is lacking for my taste.
Very true to its name; gave me the impression of a Lutens without even knowing what I was sampling. Overall not a tea-centric perfume, but nice on occasion
Аглая_Мишон – :
Resinous potpourri, not heavy on ginger nor is this gourmand or bearing any resemblance to gingerbread. Like the smell of shops at Christmas, if that is your thing.
данилиус – :
It is similar in its ginger-pumpkin autumn spice feeling to Noel au Balcon, without the honey that makes Noel very stuffy and heavy on my skin, whatever the weather. Five O´Clock is therefore lighter and more unisex.
oym071Diobtetty – :
A warm but almost cologne-like fragrance; food-y without being nauseatingly sweet. It’s an apparent contradiction; a light oriental, the sweetness of the spices balanced by bright citrus. A salty, dry oriental. Also, it smells like Christmas. It’s a lovely, wearable fragrance with an interesting edge. I can see myself wearing this, especially around the holidays. 😀
kgx823bedyWelty – :
To me this isn’t a traditional 5 o’clock tea in England – where is the milk that is so loved by the English people in their tea?
Strangely enough, this fragrance takes me to our countryside house in Russia where I spent all my summers growing up. It’s 5pm on a summer weekend, and I just came out of our Russian sauna (banya) and sat down in the kitchen to drink some black tea with ginger jam that my grandma made. I’m looking out of the kitchen window while drinking my tea and I can see a beautiful sunset over the wheat field, that’s so still as there is no trace of wind, but I can just smell the wood fires that are being lit in the neighbourhood. I’m so relaxed, warm, calm and happy.
Thank you Serge Lutens for bringing back these wonderful memories with this beautiful fragrance.
WaLtLemiLerXS – :
An amazing scent with ginger and tea! Perfect for the fall and rainy days. Leaves you and those that can smell you with a warm feeling
jcy171intitytek – :
You rock rhythmically, a prisoner to the fury of the midnight sea. Your sole comfort in this madness is a chunk of your once beloved vessel – lost to the rage of an unforgiving sea. Night turns to day and day to night….on and on you drift in the endless nothingness. Somewhere in the unrelenting maze of the troublesome sea, you catch moments of reprieve from the wood you cling so desperately to – it unfolds in numerous facets with the smell of scorched oak and cedar, the gentle cinnamon char pouring from its cracked surface. Its majestic scent reminds you of the wonders you had seen whilst a wanderer on its bow. All was lost when your greed guided you to a forgotten cove where nothing but ruin waited instead of the wondrous treasure countless fools had promised. Now you suffer in your folly. You realize that the world has ceased in its rocking…you open your eyes to see an emerald sun rising to greet you. Its bergamot rays jump the sea’s waves to gently kiss your sea-worn face – you follow the rays shooting across the shore to an intimidating cliffside towering over you. You catch the glimmer of gold in the depths of one of the higher caves – it calls for your touch. A foreign fruit glimmers in the corner of your eye – you take a massive bite and drink in its honeyed juices, stumbling over the ecstasy of its nourishing essence. Your strength returns and you are pulled toward the mysteries above, so you climb the treacherous mountain in search of yet another foolish possession. The sun lights the way as a thick wind lifts you toward your desire. Many moments pass before you pull yourself into the cave – a lone chest resides within, a dull beat echoes gently throughout the cave. The chest’s gold hinges catch the rays of the sun and dance along the walls of the cave and ignite the water the trickles slowly underfoot. You dust off the ancient wood, the scent of cacao and ancient tea scents the air in plumes, you slowly pry open your prize…in it resides a beating heart. Your mind recalls the musings of the sea as it whispered for you to seek the heart of your long-lost lover…you have found it at last. If only she would accept it once more…
Day 87 – As the Sun Rises
Listening to: The Weeknd – Prisoner
Notes: This was my first Serge Lutens and it was what ultimately set me up to buy 8 of his fumes…that’s the most niche (or otherwise) from any brand I own! I hold the SL brand in high regard…one of few niche companies that I feel is worth the money. That aside, this fume opens in a stunning swirl of juicy bergamot and sweet cinnamon…comforting and nearly mouthwatering as it is quite foody! These top notes quickly fades to present an elaborately spice-saturated oak note that is quite dry and it is a tad smoky from the tea and ginger powder. The scent enters a sort of standoff between a smoked wood and a dusty honey and amber…and it is lovely! The only facet left to enjoy is a soft and woody vanilla that appears after the smoke fades…and that is the story the scent has to tell! Reading reviews points to a lot of variation on duration – I can say I get a consistent, yet reserved, 8 hours out of this fume. It is perfect for anyone who enjoys a sweet and centering woodscent and doesn’t want their presence to scream their arrival. Despite its “flaws”, it’s still a treasure to me!
qpj509Unlogrere – :
When I wore this the word that came to mind was… Invigorating. Pleasant smell, its fresh, a little herbal, a little sweet. Its got a lot of things going for it. I was expecting it to be more of a tea fragrance based on some of the reviews, but wearing this, tea never really was the first thing that came to my mind. There, but again really nothing that stood out. I didnt find it as foody as some others to. I guess in general nothing really stood out to me in particular about this other than just how well… invigorating and pleasant it smelled. Nice mix of a little of everything I guess.
Dont feel compelled to own it by any means, but I guess if I had a disposable income I might. Worth tying I think.
Bumamurgy – :
It starts off with a little Citrus, a lot of Tea & Ginger, with honey & amber adding the sweetness.
The Pepper & Cinnamon are extremely mild & only caters to the Ginger.
The Woods & Cacao are also very mild, & they cater to the Patchouli giving this fragrance a little bit of UMPF! without ever making a statement as a bold fragrance.
Five O`Clock Au Gingembre lasted on my skin 20 plus hours but became a skin scent almost 30 minutes after my initial spray.
After a respray 45 minutes ago, & as i now smell my wrist, i get a very very mild nuance of the opening notes of Spicebomb…Maybe thats the Gingerbread reviewers are talking about.
Lastly, On my clothes i got better performance….Longevity is still going & its now been 30 hours. Silage was moderate & People smelled me when i walked past them but were not wowed by the fragrance.
If you are a Tea lover its a great frag to own…But not if you already own Tea For Two, Gucci Pour Home II, or Hanae Mori HiM
artemchik73 – :
Another very sweet fragrance from this house. This is a cute rendition of a spicy scent. Almost fresh in its vibe, it remains pretty the same for a while but then all of a sudden you get the most glorious dry down! Just the right balance of sweet, spicy and freshness. Wow, what a delight! I’m going to have to continue testing this one!
alferac – :
ginger all the way, with moderate sillage, one fourth of the bottle for a real performance..disappointing !
the gone bottle won’t be replaced!
No9ket – :
Sweet,fresh and gentle. Remember the English afternoon tea, it’s raining outside and gets Cold weather may be good in the Christmas holiday periods… the beginning is fresh and spicy thanks to tea. Slowly evolves becoming almost gourmand, as it comes into play and ginger well it pronounced cinnamon that sweetens perfume. The sillage on me is moderate, good longevity. Serge Lutens has created quite a versatile fragrance, not complex but satisfying. Very English,i like!
Sillage: 7./10
Longevity: 7.5/10
Scent: 8.5/10
Overall: 8./10
janineengberg – :
Five O’clock Au Gingembre was released in 2008 and its name means “Five O’clock with ginger”. This time, Serge Lutens comes out of Morocco and goes to England, where the tradition of the afternoon tea (17h) is known worldwide, since 1662, and gained strength from the 19th Century. The tradition was taken by the Portuguese Princess Catarina de Bragrança, but the ritual became more known thanks to the Duchess of Bedford, Anna Maria Russell.
Serge sets his inspiration by saying: “Tea at Buckingham Palace. Centered on candied ginger, this fragrance is a ritual ceremony. It caters to the quicksilver in us, to our imagination dressed in white gloves”.
In its composition, Five O’clock Au Gingembre carries notes of bergamot, candied ginger, honey, patchouli, pepper, cinnamon and bitter cocoa, plus tea accord.
On the skin, the result is divine! The honey comes, since the beginning, with its sweetness, covering the citric nuances of the bergamot, which is an essential part in any good Earl Grey tea. It’s the same feeling of using honey instead of sugars to sweeten tea or other hot beverage. The ginger is spicier than citrus and is present from the beginning to the end, sometimes burnt, others sweet, like that ginger used in recipes for gingerbread. The cinnamon also walks through all the evolutionary phases and seems to get denser, as time goes on, as if it were the tea getting cold on the table. On my skin the patchouli presented more sweety than earthy nuances and the cocoa gives the final touch, as if it were sprinkled on top of the drink.
Five O’clock Au Gingembre is a perfect oriental scent, which remains comfortable and stable for hours, exuding magnificently. It’s unisex, but I think its fragrance combines even more with men.
In my opinion, is one of the best perfumes of the house of Lutens, besides being one of the most versatile and adaptable within the whole line. Some people complain about the lasting, but I can’t complain about it.
It is five o’clock and we have fresh cookies, honey, ginger, cinnamon and cocoa. Please, sit down. The tea is served.
al-ex-an-dr – :
Tea time fragrance. Totally smells of delici