Gucci Guilty Eau de Parfum
The pink pepper and bergamot open with a bright, prickly clarity that feels simultaneously clean and spiced, like fresh laundry left on a sunny windowsill with herbs drying nearby.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Violet
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Violet
- Rose
- Amber
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readThe pink pepper and bergamot open with a bright, prickly clarity that feels simultaneously clean and spiced, like fresh laundry left on a sunny windowsill with herbs drying nearby. The bergamot provides citrus without sweetness, while the pepper adds dimension rather than heat.
As it settles, violet and rose emerge in a muted, almost powdery register—floral but grounded, never shrill. The violet lends a soft, slightly metallic coolness that keeps the rose from turning too pretty or romantic. This phase feels intimate, like smelling someone's neck rather than a bouquet.
The base is where Guilty Eau de Parfum finds its identity: warm amber and earthy patchouli create a smooth, skin-like finish that's unmistakably contemporary. It's sensual without being overtly seductive, falling somewhere between a polished daily wear and evening out fragrance. Best suited to those who want modern warmth without gourmand sweetness or sharp edges.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
