Guidance

UPDATE: Y’ALL 💀 I have NEVER experienced sillage or longevity like this!! Literally what is happening. Smell is just as good as I remembered, but ONE spray on my wrist was so overpowering I had to drive with my car windows down and desperately scrub my wrists with soap once I got to my destination. I then tried removing it with olive oil (discovered this hack after some frantic googling), and eventually just took a shower...and the next day I STILL SMELL IT. Going forward, I will be unscrewing the top and dabbing the little spray straw on my ANKLE. It’s a gorgeous fragrance (with no traces of piss or puss, you weirdos) but god help anyone who unwittingly does multiple sprays. Story time: I was serving drinks at at a huge house party, easily 60 people, and suddenly was overwhelmed by one of the best scents I’ve ever smelled in my life. It was warm and comforting and resinous, but also with hints of white floral and vanilla. I asked the people nearest to me who smelled so good, and they all seemed confused and even gave me the stink eye. “Maybe it’s the trees?” someone said. How dare they. THIS WAS NO DAMN TREE. This began my mission. As I moved through the party, the scent would waft towards me occasionally. I felt like a cartoon character following the aroma of a pie to a nearby windowsill. I knew my chances of finding the source was low, and began to comfort myself that maybe it was a combination of many smells, so that I wouldn’t be haunted for the rest of my days by this white whale of a perfume. After all, the host had lit incense, and the dozens of people around me were likely wearing fragrance. But then the smell got stronger! I was playing “hot and cold”, and suddenly I was burning up. Then, I FOUND HER. Chic in a simple black dress. “Excuse me, is it you who smells SO GOOD?” “...Probably ☺️” she said bashfully. “Oh man, you just made her whole night.” Said the man with her. I begged for what she was wearing, and she told me: Amouage, by Guidance!!! I took my break right then and there so I could buy the travel size online on the spot! The strange thing about this is that even though the silage was truly enormous, and I could smell it in a room long after she had left it, walking up to her and smelling it at point blank range was somehow not overwhelming? It’s just so WARM. Like some sort of honey body lotion. But also I imagine unless you want to monopolize the smell of an entire room, this is one you’re gonna want to spray into the air and walk through. My bottle hasn’t arrived yet, and of course I’m anxious that it won’t smell as good as I remembered, or worse, will react badly with my skin chemistry, but who cares. I found the name of the perfume that made me spend a full evening playing smell detective, and I’ll be forever grateful that my night turned out this way.

What has and hasn't been said... after listening to many podcasts regarding Guidance over on the Tube, I, like millions of others, wondered what this really smelt like.... when to wear it.... and more importantly.... what it FEELS like... After searching for Amouage "Beach Hut Man" and ending up buying it from Amouage directly, this month, Amouage very kindly slipped in a sample.of Guidance - 10 ml. Now I understand that this may sound completely ridiculous... but to me.. on my skin... it smells like the following perfumes were some how mixed together in a magical cauldron of wonder: Hermes: Un Jardin Sur La Nil Hermes: Jour (Absolute) Diptique: Rose 4711: Sunny Beach of Zanzibar Estee Lauder: Spellbound I only had to wear it for 1 hour to smell all of those perfumes cycling around my scent memories. No wonder Guidance is addictive because it some how manages to weave a very powerful, emotional trail of scent memories for near everyone. It's not supposed to be dry... but there is a beautiful arid quality that is kept in line by the delicate bed of roses - like a bowl of rose petals that were laid out in the late afternoon sun in the desert.... next to a freshly cut melon and cactus....and a small amount of incence whispering quietly in the distance.... it's curious...and it seriously does smell like Hermes Jour Absolute with Hermes Jardin Sur La Nile and a spritz of Diptyque Rose... on a bed of 4711 Sunny Beach of Zanibar. One half spritz from the 10ml sample is all you need. Its projection at a half a spritz is impressive and this was between my breasts. Would I wear this in Summer.... at night, outside, 24 degrees c, sultry... oh yessss.... but just a spritz between the thighs.... it's sexy as hell but in a very very classy way... it teases and intoxicates. I seriously think that a man could totally pull this scent off, I imagine it will go much deeper and more intoxicating on male skin, but in a very powerful, mesmerising and beautiful way... Now I need to take this for a spin in public...

My Strange Journey with Amouage Guidance At first, I disliked it. It felt too strong, too heavy, too “Arabic” for my taste. I sprayed it on my wrist at the store — and somehow, the scent clung to my watch and came to my bedroom, even the air around me for weeks. It followed me with a strange sourness, like pickles, something I couldn’t get away from. I wanted it gone. Then came the unexpected: it was gifted to me. I was disappointed — “Why this one?” I thought. Still, I felt I had to give it a proper chance. That night, I sprayed it on again. Not because I wanted to love it, but because I couldn’t stop thinking about it. And then... I couldn’t sleep. I didn’t know how I felt. It was there, surrounding me, pulling me into some kind of invisible tension. Like a presence in the room. It kept me awake — not out of pleasure, but out of fascination. The next day, I was ready to give it away. But something inside me whispered: “Try again.” And that’s when it happened. The perfume that once confused me became a love affair. It didn’t ask to be liked—it demanded to be experienced. It opened with a rich, hypnotic cloud—powdery, spicy, smoky—wrapping itself around me like velvet. Then it softened. It melted into beauty—warmth, tenderness, whispers of vanilla, osmanthus, rose, and soft pear. I sighed out loud. It felt like falling into something I never saw coming. And the most magical part? It never stays the same. It keeps shifting, evolving, surprising me. Just when I think I’ve figured it out, it shows me something new. Even after hours, I still catch its trace—subtle, soft, addictive. Now I’m in love. Completely. My husband can’t stop sniffing me. I think he’s fallen under its spell too. Amouage Guidance wasn’t love at first sight. It was something deeper: a slow, mesmerizing, unforgettable love affair. And once it chose me... I was never the same.

Guidance is truly something else. When I bought a sample about a year ago, if was purely out of curiosity. For this same curiosity I usually end up testing most hyped fragrances even when the pyramid does not fit my personal preferences, only to be like "meh" every time. I definitely would not have expected to end up considering Guidance a masterpiece, but I do. The first spritz was confusing: too intense, too much going on. Too much "in your face". It creates a dense cloud in the air. Is it floral? Yes but which flowers? Woody...yes. gourmand, very nutty definitely. But she is also "carnal" when smelled up close. Wearing it on skin made me realize it has an addictive quality. Like if drying down it melted with my skin and made it exude pherormones. It is a sweet, floral gourmand frangrance, but it smells extremely sultry and it makes me feel a bit...dirty, without having any resemblance to body odor. This fragrance does not really feel like me, I am not that woman (unfortunately), it wears me. But from to time... I crave it. And I must say, people around me people that don't elucubrate this much over a fragrance, seem to love it when I occasionally wear it. You may love it, you may hate it...but no one who has given her time to show her colors can deny that Guidance is a remarkable fragrance with its own personality As for performance: it is poweful. Incredible sillage. One spritz is enough, three is too much. I also tested the 46 version and I personally prefer the original. The 46 lacks much of that "carnal" aspect that makes the fragrance so adictive. Also the og is already so powerful in terms of longevity ans sillage, that it makes no sense to choose the 46 for this reason. Infinity + 100 is still infinity...

I hated this the first time I smelled it. After hearing about it from influencers I ordered a sample of this and 46. I tried this one first. I sprayed it in the air and thought ewww. Then tried my wrist. It smelled like cumin or some sort of spice mixed with BO. I waited a while to see if it changed and then washed it off thinking the influencers are lying because no way anyone could like this. This stuff can cast a spell I found out. A few days later I was brushing my teeth and I kept getting whiffs of something sweet, fruity and delicious smelling. After I finished brushing I started hunting for where the smell came from. I thought it was some new lotions I bought. I sniffed them and no not from those bottles. Then laying off to the side was a little perfume spray sample. I sniffed and yes that was it. I looked at at the label and it said Guidance. I was blown away. No way could it be! I ended up spraying it on and it was a beautiful, sweet, creamy, slightly fruity fragrance that in dry down became more rosy, clean and slightly soapy. I couldn't stop smelling myself. Its addicting. I wore it for days straight and then decided I had to buy it. I want to wear it all the time. Even after trying new perfumes, I just want to wear either this or 46. I love them both. Interestingly 46 was a love at first sniff and I convinced myself that they are different enough to have both in my collection.