Gucci Guilty Eau de Parfum Intense Pour Femme

This is suuuuuper sexy. It’s dark, seductive and reminds me of a ‘boss’. A confident woman. I usually think I’m a sweet girl, but oh my gosh I am obsessed with this! My partner loved it on me too. It is feminine overall, but has a slight bit of masculinity or neutrality that men who like this could pull off something sweeter. It smells clean, fruity, summery/balmy and woody all at once! I haven’t smelled anything that ticks so many different boxes. It is a super strong fragrance so you definitely will get your moneys worth! For everyday I’d recommend just 2 sprays, but going out you can get away with more. After showering I could still smell this in my hair! It’s clean, woodsy, sweet and tropical with the yellow flowers. The fruitiness is reminiscent of a night flower/blueberry sort of fruitiness. I understand the similarity with this one and Tom ford black orchid. They are both amazing fragrances but I’m thinking if you want a little more femininity (it’s more fruity rather than truffley) then I would recommend this one. It is super sexy! The tropical flowers remind me of Soleil Blanc - they are not similar fragrances but that is also a multi dimensional fragrance that can be taken more seriously while being sensual just like this one. If you love Soleil Blanc I think you would like this too! This one has more of a dark berry fruity and Vetiver edge to it. I am sooooo in awe of this and have tried so many fragrances from niche to designer and honestly this one is one of my favourites! I didnt expect to like this one as much as I did. I had a tester of Gucci guilty that I’ve had for a couple of years when I began my perfume journey and I did enjoy it but wasn’t sure about a full bottle as some days I liked it more than others. The pink pepper is quite strong in the original and there was something about it (kind of powdery/retro but didn’t have the depth and dark sweetness that the intense does). I saw this one at the shops today and decided to spray it since I like Gucci guilty and still think it’s an addictive scent, but this is a little fruity, sweeter and darker. The tuberose adds to the maturity and I’ve always loved violet flowers. I agree it does lean ‘retro’ but retro is beautiful in a demographic full or Ariana cloud or cheap smelling dupes like that. You will stand out with sexiness with this one. I highly recommend you to try it because this one is quite difficult to fully explain in words since it’s so multi dimensional (but similar to black orchid would be a start)! It really is a beautiful one. 🕊

I was not a fan of this on first smell, but forgive me lord, because I was going through a sweet gourmand phase at the time. To be straight, it’s been a weird time in my life, and I’ve pretty suddenly been jolted from my life in a warm and sunny (but miserable) place to a much happier (and very rainy weather wise) existence, so I’ve been revisiting my collection trying to find some comfort in the chaos, and today on a whim I gave each wrist a spray of the Gucci, having been impressed with its longevity the other time I tried it but not having vibed with the woodsy-ness and violet, and oh my god, I’m so in love. I finally am picking up on the lychee and plum on the initial spray, and it smells so much more well balanced on me now than it did before (I have a theory that my happiness levels and more cool & humid climate have changed my body chemistry a bit). Previously I was overwhelmed by patchouli and vetiver, but now they mix with the violet to become a soft, yet prominent backdrop to carry forth the sweet fruit and juicy florals. Several hours later, it’s still going strong, which is fabulous because my skin absolutely eats up perfumes without a strong base/heart. It softens into a smoky vanilla, reminding me of OG Guerlain Shalimar with a less prominent citrus. If you’re a lover of (or ever loved in your past but maybe have since abandoned) Angel EDP, Chanel No. 5 or my beloved Shalimar, give this a shot! To anyone else recently living in either the NE or NW (or Canada!) or anywhere similar, especially if like me, you’ve been having a crap month and miss sunnier skies, this is the vibe, bonus points if you give this a spray while the morning is cool and gray, because the scent will soften and sweeten into a beautiful woodsy scent that hangs around your skin like the nice soft cashmere sweater you’ll inevitably have to ditch around 3pm.

I've been in a love affair with Gucci Guilty for almost 8 years now. I've worn the original EDT, the EDP, especially loved the original Intense, wore the Platinum flanker and loved them all. The only one I didn't love was Absolu, because I could smell no trace of what made the originals so characteristic which to me was the combination of lilac, pink pepper and patchouli. This version I actually ended up with by accident, I was trying to buy the original Intense, the one with the overdose of lilac and pink pepper. It's become really difficult to find and when i stumbled upon this i thought that they had just changed the bottle. So it was technically a blind buy. Somehow, despite this having neither lilac nor pink pepper, I immediately smelled something in it that still screamed "Gucci Guilty", and I think that's the patchouli. The way it's blended with the plum and ylang-ylang almost imitates the original, but where the original felt more floral and light, despite the pepper top, this feels solid, grounded, rounded out and with a sweeter body that gives it weight. On my skin this scent doesn't change at all, how it smells when I first spray it is how it smells 12 hours later. It's so unique. One other huge thing for me is that I hate vanilla fragrances. On my skin they never sit right but patchouli does. In this, the vanilla doesn't come through on my skin at all, it's all patchouli, plum, ylang-ylang goodness and that underlying Guilty DNA.

On my skin, it is a beastperformer, with 2 sprays and last about 9 hours, and that is what I am looking for, but I also need to love it! And I also love plum (dark rich and juicy plum!,) which I am getting with this, ylang sweets it up, but the vetiver pulls it to not become too sweet, I don't like gourmands! This is not for gourmand lovers or fruity lovers, this pulls unisex for me, it gives me Nomade vibes, they are not similar, this is more feminine...but if you like Nomade, I think you will also like this one! I will get this one, but not for now, i still have my decadence, which I use sparingly, it is sadly discountinued, that was absolutly my fave! After playing with it some time, I fell absolutely in love, and had to have it! 😁 Boy it last sooo long, on me...and it takes me to a journey..it is not linear..beginning you get the plum, mandora and litchi..mid comes ylang to play and vetiver, drydown the vanila comes to dance, vanila and ylang try to overbeat, but vetiver and patchouli don' t allow it! I don' have to bade in it, it is loud, and when you think that after a while it will not project, suddenly boom here she comes again to say I am here!

Update: I should be moving on to my spring florals and citruses but I can't pull myself away from Guilty EDP Intense Pour Femme. I love the way the patchouli mingles with the sweet tuberose. It is sweet but kept in check by the lychee and plum. Along with Chanel's Coromadel this has become my favorite patchouli fragrance. I am not a lover of patchouli but Guilty EDP Intense has me mesmerized. I'm guilty of loving this. I think this intense perfume is intended to be experienced as a unified fragrance rather than trying to disect individual fragrance notes. Having said that I do smell the fruit and the sweetness of the tuberose. My goodness this is a beautiful fragrance. There is a soft golden amber type note undulating beneath with an earthy patchouli. This is my first day of wearing it. I sampled it at the Gucci boutique and couldn't leave without purchasing a bottle. It is a sort of retroactive type fragrance because I feel like I have smelled this scent before, but I couldn't tell you when or where. Although I bought it in April, I think it will be better suited for the fall. My husband said it smells like rich people. Lol!