Gucci · 2018 · Alberto Morillas

Guilty Absolute Pour Femme

Premium$$$, 3 of 5

The houseFor women

VersionEau de Parfum

Juicy blackberry and bergamot with Bulgarian rose, over patchouli, cypress and warm amber woods.

Gucci says

You’ll smell blackberry, goldenWood, Bulgarian rose and patchouli.

More from Gucci’s description

It also mentions Bergamot, Cypress, Woods, Amber and Ambergris.

The house’s page

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Guilty Absolute Pour Femme’s scent picture, a draft: blackberry, woody notes, rose, patchouli, bergamot, cypress drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Guilty Absolute Pour Femme, top notes: Bergamot, Cypress

Heartas it settles

Guilty Absolute Pour Femme, heart: Blackberry, Rose

Dry-downwhat stays

Guilty Absolute Pour Femme, dry-down: Woody notes, Patchouli, Amber, Ambergris, Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What the label names

12 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

2 citrus1 herbs & lavender6 florals1 sweet1 spices1 powder

9 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell9

AlcoholWaterOctinoxate (a UV filter)BHT (keeps it fresh)Ext. violet 2Red 33Yellow 6Red 4Diethylamino hydroxybenzoyl hexyl benzoate, not in Ingredients yet

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Eau CapitaleDiptyque · shares rose, patchouli, bergamot and ambergris$260 for 75 ml
ZephirineLiberty London (LBTY.) · shares rose, patchouli, bergamot and cypress$297 for 100 ml
Club de Nuit Intense ManArmaf · shares rose, patchouli, bergamot and ambergris$50 for 105 ml · about a quarter of Guilty Absolute Pour Femme’s $190
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.