Gucci Guilty Eau Pour Homme
The opening is a burst of crisp citrus—lemon and bergamot—that feels almost deliberate in its brightness, like stepping into morning light after a night out.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Citrus75
- Iris55
- Fresh50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Orris
- Orange Blossom
- Patchouli
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is a burst of crisp citrus—lemon and bergamot—that feels almost deliberate in its brightness, like stepping into morning light after a night out. It's clean but not innocent, the kind of freshness that suggests intentional contrast.
As it settles, the orris and orange blossom emerge with a soft, almost soapy elegance. There's a smoothness here that veers toward the polished rather than the raw, giving the scent a groomed, composed quality. The floral heart never dominates; it simply refines what the citrus started.
The base of patchouli and musk grounds everything in a gentle earthiness, though it remains fairly transparent throughout. This is Gucci Guilty stripped of its heavier impulses—a lighter, more easygoing version suited to warmer days or those who prefer their scents whispered rather than announced. It wears like expensive casual: effortless but entirely intentional.
Scent twins
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