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Merobelk – :
Snickerdoodle cookies straight from the oven! Too sweet and buttery to be gingerbread, but close enough. Snickerdoodles were my favorite cookie to bake growing up as a kid, straight from an old orange Betty Crocker cookbook. Nice, fun throwback to those memories.
cranesnow – :
Hmm, it’s nice, but your gingerbread must smell like Boots No7 face creams, there’s something very unfoody creamy smelling in here and barely discernible ginger.
CuJIuKoH – :
Warm, buttery gingerbread, just minutes out of the oven. I can almost taste the salted butter. Sometimes I just want a quick blast of something sweet and simple. It lasts a fleeting 20-30 minutes maximum on my skin, a happy blast of spice and sugar when I need a boost. Reminiscent of holiday baking, I feel like wrapping myself in a blanket and enjoying a hot cup of tea with Gingerbread.
zevs6623 – :
A mouthwatering confection! Out of the recent batch of 2 dozen Demeter samples, this is the favorite gourmand. It’s the dead of summer, yet has me thinking of the holidays.
Love that it’s not a sugar-bomb, which quite frankly, makes you hungrier. Here’s a trick that works on the keto diet. When going zero-carb, all you’ll ever think about, is food. You can ‘trick the mind’ with fruit & spice-scented frags, as long as they lack the sugar-note. If it *smells sweet*, they’ll backfire. I’m on a mission to try most of Demeter’s Scent Library, to pick ones that work. So far, ‘Between the Sheets’ and ‘Lychee’ are the go-to appetite suppressants.
Back to Gingerbread: It’s delightfully linear, so what you see is what you get. There’s no funky dry down or shocking transformations mid-way. Need to get a bottle of this.
girl2009 – :
Just gross!! Personally, I would never choose a fragrance with ginger notes, but unfortunately, this was my free gift with purchase from the Demeter website. I think it smells like rotten coconuts.
vovan12733 – :
Christmas in a bottle.
Sweet, spicy, ginger biscuit scented.
Great for snowy days in December. Longevity is poor but these are colognes.
vh73 – :
I feel that this one is sweeter than Demeter’s Ginger Cookie, so if you’re looking for a sweet ginger bakery scent this one is probably closer. However Cookie has more lasting power and is stronger, and has a nice wheat note. This one is very muted and doesn’t last as long, so if you’re debating the two I would go with the Cookie. Unless the level of sweetness is important — if you like them very sweet Gingerbread is probably the better choice. It has a very nice holiday spice quality.
gusena7777 – :
This actually smells like a bread! Yes, like a spiced cake bread. It doesn’t remind me of cookie, and honestly I don’t get much of the sweet notes. Just a very smooth soft spicy warm bread essence. Spices being mainly soft ground clove and nutmeg. I find the cinnamon and ginger to be very thinly supporting. I do think I’m getting a bit of molasses though. Perhaps as it dries down you can sense that this bread is very lightly drizzled with a confectioner’s glaze, or possibly even honey. There’s something really nice and soft about this. It is not very sweet and the spices are muted. It is definitely more of a foodie scent over a sweet scent. Like I said, it actually smells like a bread to me. It is mostly a skin scent, but it is cozy and comforting. Warmth, cake bread, and spices.
This review is for the cologne splash. This one smells really pleasant for about an hour, and then it becomes very close to the skin for a couple more hours. It’s a shame 🙁 You’ll have to carry it with you and reapply frequently if you want the scent to last all day. And just a word of advice – with the splashes you are in for a pretty messy application – I’d go for the sprays next time around. – And for a quick comparison, Demeter Ginger Cookie is definitely spicier and sweeter; heavier on the ginger and the cinnamon.
hj12 – :
This is the time of year when I crave the warm, spicy scent of gingerbread cookies baking in the oven. Demeter’s version is not exactly this smell, and at least for me, it is not as spicy as I expected or would have liked. It is still warm and somewhat spicy (cinnamon perhaps most detectable, though not really ginger), as promised in the description. It resembles gingerbread most closely in the very first moments, and it is when I like it best. Then, it quickly–too quickly–quiets down to a softer, sweet, and more vague vanilla-like base.
It is a fun fragrance to try, and I won’t complain given the price tag. I don’t think I’ll use it a lot on my skin, but I’ll probably use it more often as a room spray.
aptyp64rus – :
The gingerbread impression lasts but a moment but as a whole it’s not bad.
At first I get a bit too much of everything, mostly ginger and vanilla. After a while it dries down to a subtle and pretty wearable spicy-sweet scent.
It lasts about 9 hours on my skin.
tarasxolia – :
To be fair I dislike this one mostly because it really does not smell like gingerbread. There’s ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg. It smells just fine, very spicy, but it does not have the yummy gingerbread cookie scent I was hoping for. Overall it was just a warm spicy scent that leaned more towards the nutmeg/ginger end than cinnamon/clove.
jenianik – :
demeter is definitely true to it’s labels. this one is very high in spicy ginger and just enough sweet to not be mistaken for any other hard holiday spices. it’s nice!
Averre – :
smells like icing w/ some spicyness,sweetness,and vanilla.Smells like a warm gingerbread man that just came out of the oven.I would wear this at a cold winter night of christmas or christmas eve.