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Gincense Avant-Garden Lab 2012

Version from 2012

6.4 / 10 41 Ratings

A perfume by Avant-Garden Lab for women and men, released in 2012. The scent is spicy-green. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Spicy

Green

Woody

Smoky

Resinous

Fragrance Notes

Ginger

Laurel

Spices

Frankincense

Marine notes

Exotic woods

Lily of the valley Musk

Musk

Violet leaf Jasmine

Jasmine

Perfumer

Oliver Valverde

Ratings

Scent

6.441 Ratings

Longevity

7.336 Ratings

Sillage

6.436 Ratings

Bottle

7.041 Ratings

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3 in-depth fragrance descriptions

02/17/2018

9Scent

Serafina
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Serafina

Very helpful Review 5

A lot of ginger and a bit of incense

Not a particularly imaginative title...but it says exactly what I smell here!

For a long time, I hovered around this fragrance....Tested in a niche perfumery in Berlin when I was there with two other perfumes. Somehow, I was fascinated by this combination of the two distinctive fragrance notes. But I had already spent money on two amber perfumes there. Therefore, my guilty conscience is limited, as I soon after jumped at a good deal online.

Yes, this perfume has an almost camphor-like freshness that makes it almost medicinal. Not everyone may like that...so one should know what they are getting into here. Nevertheless, I find the combination of the two notes, which I greatly appreciate, to be exceptionally successful. The ginger comes across as dominant over the (light) incense. It's hard to say what other spices are included, but I suspect that pepper is among them.

“Gincense” has a radiant yet cool freshness that I particularly appreciate in late winter when the gray and brown outside really gets on my nerves and I need something energizing for the day. Some may prefer such scents in the summer heat - a matter of taste. From my perspective, “Gincense” is a fresh-spicy and only slightly smoky, and absolutely unsweetened perfume. But I can understand that it is perceived rather divisively. I like it very much.

08/03/2017

6Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

Meggi
1018 Reviews

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Meggi

Top Review 18

Büsch’n viel gewollt

Decently green, spiced with white pepper, served on light wood - the opening of Gincense strikes me as quite CdG-like. The rapid appearance of a biting freshness reminiscent of camphor/Franzbranntwein hits the same note. Within half a minute, the freshness subsides, the green becomes more bitter, yet also warmer. Spice must help here. Simultaneously, the scent seems a bit metallic due to the remnants of essential oils.

The bitterness soon primarily comes from the spice corner: bay leaf, allspice - that direction. Possibly juniper. However, the name of the fragrance does not refer to the corresponding alcoholic drink, but to ginger. Aha. My favorite colleague identified this supposed ginger as "something orangey." She succeeded more than I did; I could only with difficulty have guessed at peppery mandarin; Synthetic gall, I hear you creeping?

Strange. “...heavy doses of ginger and frankincense oils and extracts - so the name gincense…” it says on the manufacturer's page. Hmm. If I hadn't received an original sample from the provider in my favorite store (Lubner in HH), I would have believed there was a mix-up.

For me, Gincense primarily becomes a bright, slightly piney wood scent instead. Alongside, I actually smell something salty, maritime, not unpleasant at all. The remaining freshness is likely lab-supported. Unfortunately, it's a bit flabby overall. Gincense only presents me with a backbone directly on the skin in the form of some bitter spices. The claimed incense might hide behind a trace of sourness, so the stuff would be more green than -incense. However, I only manage to concede a pinch more of it around noon. Before that, this gradually somewhat penetrating wood with maritime ambitions blocks my breakthrough.

In the afternoon, I catch a hint of sweetness, perhaps a fragment of lily of the valley opulence, to hold on to the descriptions once more? A green reincarnation in the early evening completes the confusion. Additionally, there is now clearly a kind of ISO-freshness that had already announced itself at the front (see above).

Conclusion: It seems to me that in the pursuit of uniqueness (“...oliver & co. have redefined a new perception of one of the most spiritual smells”) any consistency has been thrown overboard. I can see no line in the scent experience. Moreover, the woody contribution is at least for me far more pronounced than I would have expected.

I find both disappointing.

06/10/2012

1Scent 7.5Longevity 7.5Sillage

Medusa00
846 Reviews

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Medusa00

10

Green smoke the geese in May!

Actually, in the language of farmers and goose breeders, it’s said: Green sh*t the geese in May, but I didn’t want to express myself so inelegantly. Still, it’s true, because in May the geese swim around in the pond or on the lake, quacking and slurping duckweed and a lot of grass from the meadows. Occasionally, they get caught in a little bush fire and scorch their feathers.
Here, green smoke rises and a scorched goose with prosthetics appears. Prosthetics made of wood. In other words, a goose that poops green, smells like it, and has been knitted a jacket like the Christmas goose Auguste.
I must say, though, that Ginsense, although it has nothing to do with geese, smells wonderfully green and like a beautiful, clear lake shortly after application, but that only lasts for seconds and then I think of drowned frogs and frog legs, roasted by the French or storks, but they eat frogs whole.
Later, an interesting herbal note flickers back, and I have in my mind the eternal ginger tea from my aunt (with which she wants to live to be 120 years old).
Please, men, this scent is made for you. Take it, spray or slather it on, quack or let it be, live to be 100 years old! A man who smells like this should please walk 50m behind me!