Gucci · 2010 · Aurélien Guichard

Guilty Pour Femme

Premium$$$, 3 of 5
Gucci asks $138 for 90 ml
90 ml$138

The houseFor women

VersionEau de Toilette

Mandarin and pink pepper over lilac, peach, raspberry and geranium, resting on patchouli and warm amber.

Gucci says

You’ll smell mandarin, Pink Pepper, lilac, peach, raspberry, Egyptian Geranium, patchouli and ambery.

The house’s page

The drawn Guilty Pour Femme bottle

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Guilty Pour Femme’s scent picture, a draft: mandarin, pink pepper, lilac, peach, raspberry, geranium drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Guilty Pour Femme, top notes: Mandarin, Pink pepper

Heartas it settles

Guilty Pour Femme, heart: Lilac, Peach, Raspberry, Geranium

Dry-downwhat stays

Guilty Pour Femme, dry-down: Patchouli, Amber, Galaxolide (musk), Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet), Vanillin (vanilla)

What’s inside it

What Gucci names

MandarinPink PepperLilacPeachRaspberryEgyptian GeraniumPatchouli

What the label names

26 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.

3 citrus4 herbs & lavender10 florals3 woods2 sweet2 spices1 musks1 powder

Citrus3

LimoneneCitralTerpinolene

Herbs & lavender4

PineneLinalyl acetateLinaloolTerpineol

Florals10

Geranium oilHydroxycitronellalHexyl cinnamal (aldehydes)CitronellolGeraniol (rose)Geranyl acetateAmyl salicylateRose ketonesBenzyl salicylateCinnamyl alcohol

Woods3

Patchouli oilIso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet)Vertofix

Sweet2

Vanillin (vanilla)Benzaldehyde

Spices2

beta-CaryophylleneIsoeugenol

Musks1

Galaxolide (musk)

Powder1

alpha-Isomethyl ionone (powder puff)
8 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell8

AlcoholWaterOctinoxate (a UV filter)Benzyl alcoholCi 14700Ci 60730Ci 19140Diethylamino hydroxybenzoyl hexyl benzoate, not in Ingredients yet

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

EmpressaPenhaligon's · shares mandarin, pink pepper, peach, geranium (rose geranium) and 1 more$290 for 100 ml · about twice Guilty Pour Femme’s $138
ManJimmy Choo · shares mandarin, pink pepper, geranium (rose geranium) and patchouli$120 for 100 ml
RomanceRalph Lauren · shares mandarin, pink pepper, geranium (rose geranium) and patchouli$140 for 100 ml · about the same as Guilty Pour Femme’s $138
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.