Gucci Guilty Absolute Pour Femme

Strong syrupy forest fruity smell at first ( assume that's the blackberry and pink pepper) then in about 30 min becomes a still sweet woody scent. More fruity sweet than woody, not bad but not the deep forest smell I was looking for. Edit: I finished my sample and kept thinking about it, so ended up getting a large bottle and now I love it. Mouth-wateringly juicy berries, fresh and woody, with very little sweetness. It is a very atmospheric scent. After wearing it for a few days I kept thinking it reminded me of something I used to wear and finally figured it out-Elle by YSL. And checking here, I am not the only one who has noticed it! They are both fruity perfumes and share pink pepper, rose and patchouli. I think the pink pepper and rose combo is identical in both, but GG Absolute is fresh, juicy fruity and YSL Elle is syrupy sweet fruity. Dry downs are completely different, but I feel like they can be flankers of the same perfume and they are both gorgeous scents. I will definitely be looking to get back up bottles of GG Absolute as it makes me feels like I am somewhere wild, out in the woods when I wear it. Totally get the "picking berries in the enchanted forest" comments now!

When I sprayed my sample card, I paused. The initial cologne blast was very reminiscent of opening accords I've found in men's designer releases (e.g. "Cool Water"). I double-checked the card, and indeed, it said "Pour Femme," but I still gave it the side-eye and wondered what kind of beast the "Pour Homme" must be like if this was the "Pour Femme." But the "men's cologne" accord didn't stay. After a couple minutes it evaporated and left behind... forest berries. Lush, juicy, unsweetened forest berries - in an alpine wood. I was shocked at how gorgeous it was, and this time checked the card again to see that it was a designer release and not a niche product. I eagerly sprayed the insides of my elbows (where I usually apply perfume) and this time skipped the "men's cologne" opening - because this performs better on skin than cards / fabric. Lasts about 6 hours, with the blackberries and cypress being the most prominent notes, followed by pink pepper. (And if something is going to be "woody" in a fragrance, I prefer coniferous accords to all the others, except maybe oud.)

Perfect execution of brash and bold--dare I say, just a little trashy (in the best possible way). And "trashy" is an aesthetic that usually manifests in heavily gendered ways but this seems to actively play with gender. It's got that synthetic woods fuckboi frag dna at the base but the rose/blackberry is SO jammy, thick, thorny, sexual. Instead of neutral androgyny, it evokes exuberantly crossdressing (in either direction). It smells like the color of the bottle. Very linear (again in the best possible way): a perfume that gives you everything it's got right off the bat for an explosive first impression. The patchouli gradually gets more prominent throughout the long wear but that's about it as far as evolution. A surprising comparison: when I first tried Marissa Zappas La Divina I was instantly reminded of this; the wood accord in the base is a dead ringer. But you'd never mistake one for the other; La Divina is going for silky elegance and while it's a beautiful perfume, personally I think GGAPF's partybitch approach just does more with these notes.

before i was obsessed with gourmands, i was obsessed with smoky, woody, incensey, dark perfumes. at the peak of my love for woody sexy orientals i smelt this perfume at an airport and i knew i had to have it and bought the smaller bottle right away. this is so beautiful, it's this dark, purple smelling (the bottle is absolutely spot on), berry, woody smell with a hint of rose. everytime i wear this, in my mind a picture is conjured up of taking a walk through a deep, dark and dense forest right after a spell of strong rainfall, the trees and the mud wet and lush and i am being pulled towards the centre of this dark, wet forest on a full moon starry night by the smell of this berry rose which is in full bloom and on the verge of rotting. this is beautiful, lasts fairly long, projects well, my favourite gucci perfume of all time hands down! i hope they never ever discontinue this the way YSL discontinued elle which was also a sexy, dark, purple, woody type scent. this is beautifuuuuuul. love love love

This is a unisex fragrance with very beautiful, juicy blackberry and high quality cypress. Fruity and woody, not complex but not done this well before in designer range either. It's like smelling a book that your lover just poured a glass of blackberry juice on by accident, if that makes sense. I figure out that it's a perfect-for-transitional-season fragrance. Oh boy, I didn't like this in autumn, the time of the year when I haven't let go of the summer fragrance mindset and there's something off about already wearing cypress scent 3 months before Christmas. But I love this in the end of winter and especially spring. The weather in February is cold enough to tame the heaviness of rose and wood, yet the fresh blackberry and cypress absolutely shine in the spring's light sunshine. But hey, if you can pull it off in autumn it's awesome! Otherwise, too weak in winter, too heavy in summer (where I live summer can get to 40*C, you would not want to wear any fragrance then to be honest).