Gucci Pour Homme (1976)

I'm so excited I can barely contain myself. SO, I've been knocking myself out trying to find the HOLY GRAIL because seriously . . . with 199 specimens I'm out of shelf space. I just blind bought a vintage Chanel Egoiste and also it's flanker, Cologne Concentree for a steep but respectable price. I thought I may have hit the jackpot with these but, although they're very nice, they aren't the end all in men's perfumes. Well, I was surfing for cologne bargains just now and stumbled upon a little vintage-mementos site; quirkyfinds - there, in the clearance section, I see a tall, clear, 8 oz. bottle of Gucci Pour Homme 90° (Ninety Degree) EAU DE PARFUM by Gucci filled half-full with a dark amber liquid. So I get to searching and come right away to this page and see the picture which is only similar. The perfume I was looking for is in a tall, clear, square, rectangle bottle with a brass metal cap. On the front, near the top is the Gucci crest and below are the words: GUCCI In the center: eau de parfum Beneath that: The green, yellow and green horizontal stripes. (no center buckle) At the bottom: 8 FL OZ _____ 90° _____ ml 240 I have found no other information about this vintage but I think I struck the mother-lode with this and for only . . . $42.63 w/tax & shipping for 4 OZ! Gucci Pour Homme - 90 degree EDP (1976) My 200th bottle! I'll keep y'all updated. 1st update - 40 y.o. G.P.H. received and it hasn't soured one bit. At first splash it's a bit reminiscent of Aramis 900 and also Chanel #5. But quite puts them both to shame, it's that good. It's manly, masculine, classy and bold. For men only - Soy boys need not apply! 2nd update - it's a powerhouse of projection & longevity. It takes several hours to dry down to its sublime birthday suit. This is beautiful stuff. It may very well be the pinnacle, the zenith, the apex, the holy grail . . . you get the picture. 3rd update - This ambrosia is 4 oz. in an 8 oz. splash bottle so when you dab it on it's pretty much in your face when you've applied enough to start smelling it waft into your nostrils. I was pretty sure that I wanted more precise performance than a splash bottle gives so I thought about diluting it with 190 proof grain alcohol and maybe a dollop or two of Jojoba oil for good measure. So I started reading up on ways to do that and found several opinions, both here and at basenotes, which I thought were pretty lame for the most part. So I bought an 8 oz. perfume atomizer-bottle from Amazon (best price there) and I went with my initial thought. I said a prayer and then poured about a third of an oz (I eyeballed it) of the oil in. Then, with a funnel, I poured in approx. 2 oz. of the Everclear. Then I topped it all off with the 4 oz. of Gucci Pour Homme - 90 Degree EDP (1976) Voila, this is perfection! I can now spray fine mists, just as you'd expect, and this stuff is actually going into the dry-down much sooner. Oh, my wife just looked into the room and made eye contact with me, and with her forefinger, and a big smile, she made that Follow Me gesture. See ya'll later :)

Perfection. This is a true masterpiece created by Guy Robert and one the most iconic masculine chypres ever created. Gypsy Parfumista's articulate (and wonderfully enthusiastic) review captures what this scent is...for those of us lucky enough to have it, or to have even ever smelled this divine juice. One of my favorite classic male scents of all time. It is simply stunning & timeless. I am left, almost speechless...but remember that Gucci has always been a very high-end house of everything their logo is upon. This is exquisite, chic and very suave with its classic lines and composition. Desmondorama, I second your wish that this iconic and sensual fragrance somehow be reissued. But, sometimes it is better to let the days of yesteryear be forgotten by the new generation and only sought out by those really want to relive them or experience what existed in a bygone era. Alfarom, who I admire greatly on this forum, has it fully correct. You cannot compare this to anything created under Tom Ford. This is truly a 70's chypre with an awesome warm leather, musk, woody, amber and oakmoss base covered in lavender, sparkling citrus, and beautiful florals - green jasmine, earthy geranium, lush lavender and powdery iris in the heart. Spices are dashed upon everything...offering 'flavoring' and depth. It can be worn year-round although Spring, Fall and Summer evenings offer more strength and richness due to the warmth, I find it creates it own sunshine on cool, cloudy winter days. A scent that commands respect and will always be one I reach for on the day of a special occasion. No note or accord is dominant...it is the epitome of a balanced fragrance, so impeccably blended. Gucci Pour Homme Original holds a very dear place in my collection! If "liquid heaven" has a price tag - then it is on a bottle of Original Vintage Gucci Pour Homme. "There can never be too much elegance in your life"...what a marketing tagline and this came out when I was a very young child. I have finally discovered what the beauty and hype is all about - it only took me three plus decades to do so in my existence. 5/5 stars!! 10/10 and, anyone who does not know what an incredible chypre is, should try it and understand the art of perfumery that is captured in this glorious composition. One cannot 'quantify' beauty like this...it is olfactory bliss! A moment to share: I put a couple of dabs from a perfect 4oz/120ml squared flacon on the back of my hand just 5 minutes ago. I will put this poetically to evoke my sentiment: "To me, this is like coming home to my beautiful wife...and she kisses me the way she did like the first time we kissed, years ago." It is simply...stunning! For me, Gucci Pour Homme Original (1976) is a timeless, masterpiece of scent that will forever be relevant and captivating...

Like the ad says: "There can NEVER be too much elegance in your life". THIS is just what the name implies GUCCI ("old school" Gucci, at that) FOR MAN! This smells like a man, and captures, so well, that European sense of quality and luxury that the brand has always signified. This scent, also, is the perfect example (at least for me) of a stunning male chypre. *Many thanks and reverent bows to Action for the gift of a full sample vial of this wonderful manscent!* You are still the High Priestess of Perfumes...and always will be! This opens beautifully with clean citruses combined artfully into warm greens and clean floral aromas, manly from whoa to go!! First it is clean and manly then, as it develops, it becomes wonderous with dry flowers like carnation and geranium and irises with the warmth of pepper and earthy woody notes...HEAVEN! Like most TRUE chypres, this takes a while to unfold all of its beauty. And, as it does, I am amazed that Gucci even thought they needed another fragrance besides this one. If this is "dated", you may call me an 'old fogey'! GPH is another disastrous loss at the hands of either the IFRA or those who sought to dilute everything within an inch of its life, while supposedly making things "more modern" and I simply cannot imagine why!?! God, words cannot do this justice, it just HAS to be smelled. There is nothing even remotely feminine (even the jasmine is "butch") or "unisex" about this scent. It is all man, all the time! Strong, but not brutal, and amazingly luxurious without smelling too "rich". The eventual drydown is perfumed paradise for this guy! Warm, like a favorite wool fisherman's sweater, it eventually gets covered with a beautiful soft leather note and sweet tonka, resins and musk. Oh, and the oakmoss here really shines! OAK moss, now, not tree moss or black moss or whatever else they are using these days...REAL honest to goodness Evernia prunastri, that grows on oaks and other deciduous and coniferous trees and has a woody and sharp slightly sweet smell you cannot mistake. Gucci Pour Homme makes me feel like I am dressed in a vintage Italian leather coat and loafers, hand woven sweater and bespoke twill pants; even when I am wearing bleached out ripped jeans and a tee shirt (like today). What I wouldn't give to own an original vintage bottle of this golden elixir... Sillage: very good Longevity: amazing Overall: 5/5 Chyprefect! It came to my attention when using the search feature on here to bring this page up that the 2005 version is "pour Homme" and this magnificent melange is "Pour Homme"...that P should be capitalised! Everything about this scent is upper case, upper echelon and upper crust! I bow humbly in the face of Greatness...

What I find absurd with the fragrance industry is the way they use the same fragrance in different items. I know more scents like this Gucci which are used in different items like wc fragrance or in face/body creams and lotions. What a pity! I first noticed this fragrance somewhere around 89-90 by a "Sebamed" soap free cleansing bar (light green color) which I bought because it was soap and alkaline free and etc. They still produce the same soap, but I don't know it smells the same. If I see it somewhere, I would like to give it a snif. I was crazy about the scent and I was thinking why they use such a nice fragrance on a soap, but don't make a fragrance of it. One or two year later by a chance I met with this "Gucci Pour Homme" in a drugstore. I couldn't believe my nose that this was the same fragrance. It was the only bottle and I bought it immediately. After that I have searched everywhere for a second bottle, but I was never able to find one. I still have the same bottle. Almost the 2/3 of it is used. I keep it in a cool dark place and it smells almost the same. Time to time I use it. I notice that the top notes are bit changed, but the middle and the base notes are still the same. After the top notes are gone it smells still fresh as before. I wonder if there is another fragrance which smells like this one. Iceberg which is mentioned above here is not the copy cat of it. The Iceberg here smells more like Borsalino and Enrico Coveri. Unfortunately I don't know the other two fragrances.

I have been wearing this fragrance since 1979. These days I nurse my last bottle since it is virtually irreplaceable. I will not pay the ridiculous prices asked for sealed box bottles of this or any of the other "Guccicorns". This is a great aromatic fougere and one of the best of its era. In its day, there was nothing remarkable about the ingredients in this scent, although these days, many of them are virtually unavailable. The net effect of the way the ingredients work together is to create a very French version of an Italian scent. As such, the fragrance opening is somewhat spicy with citrus notes as you'd expect in a fougere. The lavender is there, but it is faint. Later, before the oakmoss, slightly animalic leather and musk (unabashedly real musk) in the base notes arrive, there is an unusual camphorous note that is medicinal but soapy at the same time. I have always thought that this note might be a hint of natural oud. Perhaps it is just caused by the way that the various spices, geranium and patchouli work together. In any event, this note, transient as it is, has always been what made this fragrance better than the scores of other aromatic fougeres that came out in the mid-1970s through the early 1980s. All-in-all, this fragrance is masterfully structured and compounded. The fragrance is both a bit dirty and beautifully risque (the French part) and also a soapy, clean gentleman's scent with clean florals and sparkling citrus (the Italian part). I love it.