Gingembre Rouge Wellbeing Fragrant Water Gift Set
Not everything in a fragrance shop is meant to be worn for twelve hours, and the Roger and Gallet Gingembre Rouge Wellbeing Fragrant Water Gift Set is a case in point. What is inside is a short composition of three materials. Ginger is the one the name promises and the one you notice, warm and dry with a faint citric bite and none of the burn of the raw root. Pink pepper sits above it, prickling and papery, giving the first few minutes a lift. Benzoin sits below, soft and resinous with a quiet sweetness that stops the ginger standing alone and bare.
The fragrant water format is deliberately light. It is used generously, over the whole body rather than on pulse points, and it behaves like a cologne in that respect: an hour or two of presence, then a clean warmth on the skin. Nobody should buy it expecting the staying power of a parfum, and nobody who understands what it is would want that from it. It is closer in spirit to a splash of cologne after a shave than to a fragrance chosen for an evening out.
As a gift it suits the person who likes to feel looked after rather than dressed up. It also works for anyone who finds most fragrance too sweet, since there is nothing floral or sugared anywhere in this one. Cold weather is where it is most welcome, because warmth is the whole effect, though nothing about it rules out the summer.
The company is Parisian and dates from 1862, started by two men related by marriage who had acquired the 1806 Farina house and the cologne it sold. Roger and Gallet has been a soap maker quite as much as a perfumer across its whole history, and body and bath preparations have been in the range since the 1950s.
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