Gucci Guilty Pour Homme Cologne Eau de Toilette 50ml

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I’m a Gucci clothes fan-well, who isn’t? They are one of the most creative, fun, long lasting reinventive (if that’s a word) Houses out there. Gucci Guilty has been around a long time, but for some reason, this scent missed my notice. But-I have organized my little sample bottles, well over 100, and put them in a place I can read off a list and go straight to one I want to try immediately. Today it’s Guilty. I learned alot. Patchouli leaves--wow. Heliotrope--luxe.... doll. Violet--not all the same. Juniper Berries--where the big boys screw it up but not this one. I initially added this during the summer months and it was just a "like" for me. In fall, I'm re-evaluating and rotating in some fragrances specifically for fall vibes. Because I lean so hard into Bergamot and citrus notes, it's harder for me to find heavier, fall-like scents I like on my body. I also HATE vanilla and dislike most powdery and ozonic notes on my skin as they dry down. My girlfriend loves this fragrance from the opening notes right through to the drydown, she believes it's works with my natural chemistry very well and smells "amazing" after a day at work which can only be a positive. I get a reasonable amount of compliments when wearing this at the office or in social situations and have been asked twice by other female commuters when in close proximity to them on the train what fragrance I was wearing. So anyway, it's not bad, but it isn't at all sensual, golden or anything close. It smells like light powdery greens and purple. This might be the most incongruous scent&bottle combo I've ever experienced.

This is simply a compliment-getter. The ultimate dumb-reach in the fact that you will smell generic, and very pleasing, however, no one will be able to tell exactly what you're wearing. My other dumb-reach is ADG Profumo, but this is slowly taking over. As time goes by,a bit creamy woody accord with dominant cedar comes into the game with a wisper of patchouli and with a hint of amber. I don't think this smells generic. Bleu De Chanel has become the Generic smelling cologne for me because there are so many that smell like it, Jimmy Choo, Acqua Essenziale, Sauvage etc. This one doesn't smell like Bleu De Chanel, so cross that "generic" description off the list. It smells really good, like almost fruity, but sexy. I have a yuuuge collection and I don't have anything that smells as close to this as all the previously mentioned one's smell to Bleu De Chanel. Seriously, this is a unique fragrance, unless you are comparing it to Gucci Guilty Intense which is supposed to smell like it. This stuff smells good, maybe familiar, but it is original. So, I bought this because I had a sample of it a while ago, and loved it. I know this has a lot of hate, but it's really not so bad. However....How..Ever..I found something that smells EXACTLY like this, and it is a 4 dollar body spray in like a 5 oz plastic bottle, and having smelled that seems to have turned me off to Gucci Guilty. Naturally, anyone over-familiar with fragrance crafting would think that this is a take on a gin essence—and with that—that this was intended to be marketed to the British. Smashing. Can't say it entirely has that feel though.At the time it had been two consecutive days and I had worn nothing but Gucci Guilty Cologne trying to understand it, but also enjoying it. Performance is quite strong for a cologne even an edt but stable. It is clean and soft, like fabric softener and baby-powder in the air but contrasted by the facets of creaminess, fizziness and the sparkle of shaving cream like an ultra-modern fougère. The scent profile humors me. It is humbling expressing humility by displaying an infant-like cleanliness but then it is rounded and matured by a cleanliness that is also of a grown man clean shaven. I have stopped wearing it to understand it because not understanding it is why I love it. Gucci Guilty Cologne is Olfactory art. It is a statement. But at the start of the new decade, a change of management happened and suddenly they decided to discontinue most of their offerings. Although it's normal for any brand to pull the plug on some of their outdated products, Gucci's approach was brutal, to say the least! It was like they consciously and actively tried to find what fragrances the community love the most and discontinued them! its like it cant do anything right. if i spray on my skin, it disappears within hours. if i spray my clothes, it smells like someone sprayed himself with axe. It starts out with a nondescript, acidic, distant, sharp but pleasant citrus note. It finishes off with a nose-tingling breeze of woody-amber molecules (ambrocenide, norlimbanol perhaps). Through the duration of the fragrance, there is a very mild and lovely aquatic presence, perhaps calone or cascalone. Normally calone disgusts me, but here it works so well!! I cannot detect the white musk... I could perhaps be anosmic to it, or it's just carefully hidden, or very transparent.

Wow, so what to say about this one? Well, I do love it, not just a like for me. The issue is, I like it because of what it intended on doing. Which is old world Italian clean charm. What does that mean.. Well, my grandfather used to wear certain fragrances that had a very medicinal minty fresh vibe, like a "gin & tonic", which makes sense with the Juniper berries, bergamot, mandarin and cypress found here. So, as I'm wearing it, I get that mental image of my grandfather dressed up conducting business and just being a commanding presence. With that said- as my collection becomes more solidified and less experimental It's hard to find a place for this in my rotation- it's almost like a special reach fragrance if I have a crush on someone at work and I want to replace the uplifting elegant Bleu De Chanel EDP in the Spring until the co-worker takes the bait or turns me down lol. I will say that there is some kind of creaminess about this scent that totally turns me off. It's most notable in the first 5 minutes. it's like a juniper/sandalwood mixture which triggers a nauseating response for me. Again, it doesn't last long - but it's definitely there. the only real scenario where i can use this is at the gym. and even there, its just so f***ing boring.

Edit: 2 years later, I bought a bottle. On my skin, it's way more juniper/cypress forward than florals. In the base, it's a musky wood acccord, the violet and heliotrope, while noticeable, are more toned-down compared to the paper strip test. The longevity and projection are both good, as I get 6 to 8 hours, and just maintain a bubble around me that isn't too far reaching, but enough to reach those you walk by. Again, more than acceptable, as no one wants to be the person that you meet the fragrance before you meet the person. Creativity at its best, surprising both from Morillas (a perfumer that used to be more focused on commercial success than creativity in the last 15-20 years), as well as from Gucci (who recently got out of a 10-year creative desert with Gucci Guilty Absolute.... inspired, if not copied from Terenzi's Ursa, but that's a different discussion...) This scent is remarkably successful in attaining two goals: First off, it has a certain bulk to the fragrance cloud as well as a bright aspect. Also the Violet is so nice and the Heliotrope is like a really satisfying confection or pastry. I think the Heliotrope adds the "bulk". I was reading a magazine and caught a whiff of something incredible. It was a test strip for Gucci Guilty. I got tons of patchouli, incense, and jasmine from the test strip. I was loving it, excited to find something that smelled like my bath routine-- Neutrogena rain bath, a layer of nag champa lotion, followed with jasmine body oil and a dab of Matchabelli Skin Musk (oil). Most perfumes I own are more vintage in their profiles so I was pumped to find a perfume that wouldn't be redundant AND hit some great notes for me.

The juice is the prettiest, softest green-- that ever made the scene. The glass bottle is so heavy and tapered for the hand. Yep. It just feels good. Nice ritual. It's taken multiple wears but I can finally smell this more clearly, and best of all, for more than just an hour or two. it smells like cheap cologne. i would not be surprised if anyone told me it was axe. but hey, axe smells kinda good and masculine, and so does this.GG的前味不同凡響。 在幾款人們常說的 紫丁香花香水: ARDEN 5th Avenue, LANVIN Eclat d'Arpège 和 GUCCI Guilty，我發覺 GG最為誘人，A5A 過於一般而 LEdA過於人工。 那不同凡響，馥郁 與 精美的前味，就像陳年的紫丁香花酒，只是維持一個小時。 隨著停留在肌膚上，我幾乎感覺不到後味，只有一絲 香草+白麝香 淡淡的味道不吸引人。

Performance is hard to guage. Projection is good and lasts on the skin (the base notes) for a good few hours. The bottle is crafted of cold metal and heavy glass, making an impression of masculinity and luxury. Paired with the feminine edition, all splendid and golden, cabochon grey male bottle seems very elegant and alluring. The middle of the bottle is decorated with a metallic Gucci sign, transparent to reveal the fragrant fluid.OCCASIONS: Formal events, outdoor gatherings, gym, office, business, casual, holidays, vacations, romantic, dating. This is an office-friendly fragrance. I do not get any incense or scratchy chemical notes like I do from BdC or AdG Profumo. This is way more smooth and much more pleasing to me.