Avon Perfect Nonsense Ginger Blaze: Hay, Meet Ginger!

The Avon Perfect Nonsense range dances playfully to the tune of scent collisions that aren’t supposed to work but do. I’ve already reviewed Perfect Nonsense Choco Tuberose and Perfect Nonsense Peppery Peaches. Today, I am reviewing what may well be my favourite of the four Avon Perfect Nonsense perfumes. Ginger Blaze is not only a beautiful fragrance, but it would also pass as a decent professional wrestling name should I ever pack in the day job.

Ginger Blaze features several of my favourite notes. Petit Grain is the oil from the twigs of an orange tree, and is known for its sharp, citrussy astringency. When used alongside lavender and lemon, as it is here, it becomes beautifully light and zingy. This is where the ginger steps in and adds a high soprano note of warmth above the citrus and flowers. This bit lasts a few hours, and when it starts to fade, (just a little) it is anchored closer to skin by cedarwood, patchouli and hay. If you’ve smelled hay in real life, you might not fancy this much. However, in perfume world, hay smells beautifully dry and grassy, like vetiver, but with the freshness of cut grass rather than dried. It has an earthiness to it that adds the perfect foil to the spicy, light ginger.

I can see that lemon, ginger and hay might sound like a Lemsip in a farmyard, but nothing could be further from that. Ginger Blaze reminds me of a beautiful, now discontinued fragrance by Yves Rocher. It was called Petit Grain, Lavender and Orange Flower and it smelled of exactly those things. It was so beautiful that I am still hoarding the last few inches in a dark, dark drawer.

Ginger Blaze reminds me of that, with a sparkle of spicy ginger, like warming confetti, completing the festive picture that this enjoyable and versatile fragrance paints. Although it’s not listed anywhere, there is a very sniffable skin musk left behind when the party notes have gone to bed. Ginger Blaze, you are beautiful. Perfumer Christian Alori, I have a crush on you for making this.

Where to buy it

You can buy Avon Perfect Nonsense Ginger Blaze from the Avon UK website. The current price is just £13 for 50ml of eau de parfum strength. The Perfect Nonsense range is a limited edition, so if you like them, stock up.

Disclosure

I was sent the full Perfect Nonsense collection by the Avon team with no strings attached. My opinion, and my choice to review it, remain my own.