Goldfield & Banks · 2023 · Hamid Merati-Kashani

Ingenious Ginger

Premium$$$, 3 of 5
Goldfield & Banks asks about $195 for 100 ml
50 mlabout $138
100 mlabout $195

VersionEau de Parfum

Bright mandarin, bergamot and ginger flower over magnolia and neroli, resting on amber, Australian sandalwood and vanilla.

Goldfield & Banks says

You’ll smell Mandarin Brazil, Australian Ginger Flower Accord, Magnolia China, neroli, amber and Sandalwood Australia.

More from Goldfield & Banks’s description

It also mentions Bergamot Italy, Vanilla, Bergamot from Italy, Mandarin from Brazil, The sparkle of Ginger, Magnolia from China, Australian Sandalwood, Lemon Italy, Jasmine, Rose, Patchouli Indonesia, Musk and Cashmeran.

The house’s page

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The drawn Ingenious Ginger bottle

When you spray ittop notes

As it settlesheart notes

What staysdry-down notes

Ingenious Ginger’s scent picture, a draft: mandarin, ginger, magnolia, neroli, amber, sandalwood drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

When you spray ittop notes

Ingenious Ginger, when you spray it: Mandarin, Ginger, Bergamot, Lemon

As it settlesheart notes

Ingenious Ginger, as it settles: Magnolia, Neroli, Jasmine, Rose

What staysdry-down notes

Ingenious Ginger, what stays: Amber, Sandalwood, Vanilla, Patchouli, Musk, Cashmeran (cashmere wood), Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What Goldfield & Banks names

Mandarin BrazilAustralian Ginger Flower AccordMagnolia ChinaNeroliSandalwood AustraliaBergamot ItalyVanillaLemon ItalyJasmineRosePatchouli IndonesiaMuskCashmeran (cashmere wood)

What the label names

10 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

2 citrus1 herbs & lavender3 florals1 sweet1 spices1 powder1 green

Citrus2

LimoneneCitral

Herbs & lavender1

Linalool

Florals3

Geraniol (rose)CitronellolFarnesol

Sweet1

Coumarin (new-mown hay)

Spices1

Eugenol

Powder1

alpha-Isomethyl ionone (powder puff)

Green1

Methyl 2-octynoate
7 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell7

AlcoholWaterOctinoxate (a UV filter)Octisalate (a UV filter)Avobenzone (a UV filter)Yellow 5Red 33

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

HawaSwiss Arabian · shares mandarin, bitter orange (neroli, orange blossom, petitgrain), sandalwood, bergamot and 5 more$68 for 50 ml
Velvet OrchidTom Ford · shares mandarin, magnolia, bitter orange (neroli, orange blossom, petitgrain), sandalwood and 4 more$240 for 100 ml · about the same as Ingenious Ginger’s about $195
EmpressaPenhaligon's · shares mandarin, bitter orange (neroli, orange blossom, petitgrain), sandalwood, bergamot and 4 more$330 for 100 ml
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.