Guilty Homme
The Gucci Guilty Homme Eau de Toilette Gift Set is one of the easier fragrance presents to get right, because the scent inside has been a steady seller for years and most men who like it already know they do.
It is a lavender fragrance before it is anything else. Lavender opens it clean and herbal, with that slightly camphorous, barbershop cool quality, and it is used fresh rather than sweetened. With no middle to speak of, the scent hands straight over from the herb to the base, which is why it reads as simple even to people who do not analyse what they wear.
The base is what makes it a modern scent rather than a traditional one. Cedarwood gives a dry, pencil shaving kind of wood, patchouli adds earth and a faint mustiness, and vanilla sweetens the whole thing just enough to turn the herbal opening comfortable. That last material is the reason it works as well in winter as in summer, and the reason it has stayed on shelves while similar launches have come and gone. Jacques Huclier is the perfumer.
As an eau de toilette it is moderate rather than forceful: six hours or so, with the first two the strongest, which suits an office or a dinner better than a long night. Presented as a set, it is a safe present for a man you do not know intimately, for a first fragrance gift, or for someone whose bottle you have seen running low. Nothing about it is challenging, and in a gift that is a feature rather than a failing.
Gucci itself was founded in Florence in 1921 by Guccio Gucci, trading in luggage and bags at the start, and expanding into equestrian accessories, loafers and clothing as the name grew. It is a Kering company, and its fragrances are developed under licence elsewhere.
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