does ginger really turn? - Zenzero review

"Good In The Bottle, Bad On The Skin" perfume award today goes to Zenzero. it smells lovely and creamy in the bottle, but the moment it gets to my skin i've suddenly walked back into the days of experimenting with the babysitter's dusty Charlie bottle, left in the sun a bit too long. what in the world is it about their white ginger note? the base of the perfume, their Vaniglia del Madagascar, is unassuming and nice on me. nothing extraordinary, but absolutely nothing offensive about it. add the ginger and suddenly WHOMP i'm in bad 70s drugstoreland. it's a pity, since i love the smell of ginger and use the herb raw in my cooking quite a bit. this is now the third time i've tried it - each time i want to send it away from me i feel guilty, because the notes make it sound like such a terrific perfume. but my skin is picky, in more ways than one, and it is emphatically refusing this scent.