GucciGuilty Love Edition Eau de Parfum for Men

Most Helpful Positive Review

Interesting, long lasting

I've always kept the original Gucci Guilty ans D some flankers in my collection for as long as I can remember. While I don't wear the original as much as I once did when I was younger, I still reach for it every once in a while. That to say, this is quite different than the original. There is a sm...all amount of that original dna in the background, but this fragrance is overall it's own entity. I guess they were playing partly on the name recognition, but I think it would have served better to market a whole new fragrance instead. This one is a twist on vanilla with a little unique floral. It almost smells minty without the mint. Hard to describe, but that's the best way I can. It reminds me of a couple other more niche fragrances out there, one is an orange bottle with horses which is a relatively new release; the other is a black almost a filled in x shaped bottle with a leather base, out of new york. If you know you know. Take either of those, add some mint and almost black licorice esque quality without the pungentness of black licorice, you get this. Again, if you know these frags, once you smell this you'll understand those references. It does not smell like mint or licorice directly, but has qualities reminiscent of those two things blended with vanilla and I guess orange florals. It sits close to the skin after about an hour, but wears several hours thereafter. While i do get the almond accord in the opening, which is more almond almond, not cherry almond, it seems to be the fastest fleeting note to my nose. Overall a decent fragrance, but I feel it's its own thing versus another GG flanker.