in today's video a fragrance with salt
vinegar and chili peppers
sounds interesting or disgusting at the
very least this
peaked my interest in curiosity so today
we're going to be talking about the
newest 2020 release
from gucci gucci guilty pak fun you guys
want to check this out
stick around the video is up next
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welcome back to the frequency review i'm
max foreign today we're taking a look at
the newest 2020 release of gucci guilty
a flanker this one pac-fum 2020. now
gucci has been on
a roll lately with amazing releases as i
said to you guys and reviewed for you
guys on this channel
fragrances like gucci guilty ood which
was a great ooh generation we also
talked about gucci guilty absolute
which is a bomb of a vetiver and leather
fragrance great dark resonance
now let's see if they can continue this
path on this release right here 2020
par fung guys let's check it out
presentation is going to follow suit the
other gucci guilty fragrances the box
here is going to be this matte black
finish with
the silver appointment or the parfum and
the bottle itself is going to be this
matte finish black with
silver embellishments silver metal cap
and the sprayers are actually decent
not great does the job i picked mine up
at macy's you can find this at you know
your local
general stores or perhaps sephora also
has this line and the retail i think
it's available in three sizes which the
biggest one i think is 150 ml which i
don't know the price but i do know the
price of the 50 ml
or the 100 ml you're looking at 50 ml
for 90
or the 100 ml this is actually 90 ml
for 120 usd this is a woody spicy
composition i do not know who the
perfumer or the nose behind this
fragrance is perhaps it's another
alberto maria's composition
not sure though if you know please
comment down below so what do we get
from gucci guilty part from 2020 edition
this is my sim of the day
let me give myself a quick blast here on
my hand to remind myself of the
introduction
customary to the to the reviews here so
the fragrance opens up
nice not great it's going to have this
bitter floral kind of
undertone i believe due to a violet note
it also has again that vinegar and salt
that we talked about in the beginning
writing the composition the chili pepper
is nice but i wish it was
more up front and center i wish it was
like the star player of this composition
i wish this bottle was perhaps like a
red
matte finish with the silver
embellishments or gold embellishments i
think would be a cooler bottle and a
better composition again
let's leave that to the end but the
opening here is
not as inspiring as i would like it to
be
the chili peppers are going to be a
little bit in the background just
peeking their heads a little bit through
and again that floral bitter nuance
between the vinegar
the salty effect which is really
predominant here especially in the
beginning you get that salty vibe
it's and it's again a little bit bitter
to my taste i don't normally gravitate
towards
bitter or floral fragrances and this is
what i get
right from the get-go and again i have
the dry down on this hand the initial
blast again here that i just sprayed
besides all those components that i
talked about there's also a
shower gel presence here that's very
common to the gucci guilty line and it's
no different here you also get this
shower gel quote-unquote more mass
appealing kind of a vibe in this
fragrance as well that's going to ride
the composition
from the beginning all the way till the
end i have to say the heart of the scent
is actually my favorite part of this
transition of this composition the
beginning can be a little bit too floral
too bitter for me
the heart is actually really nice i get
a
middle that's going to be featuring a
very nice creamy and smooth
lavender that really rounds things up a
little bit more and calms that
bitterness that i talked about
quite a bit the pimento gets a little
bit more prominent now it's a little bit
spicier but not
not as spicy not quite as i would like
it to be
but it is a little bit better you get
that presence a little bit more the
saltiness now is again a little bit
toned down now
and that vinegar bitterness along with
that violet leaf is definitely a lot
subtle now at this point in the heart of
the composition the dry down is really
where things
fall apart for me things really really
fell apart things fell
flat a little bit from my taste that
shower gel
that's very particular and common to the
gucci guilty line is really up front and
center now
there's a little bit of a dry patchouli
combo with a sharp cedar note
which really doesn't do much what you
get mostly here is that common
you know shower gel feel that you get
with all the gucci guilty fragrances
aside from the ood
or the absolute uh which were the to me
the best ones over the last few years
when you when you look at everything
else they put together the adt the
pac-fun
they're all going to have that
commonality between them which is that
sweet
you know ambery shower gel kind of a
mass appealing
vibe that we get with all of them and
it's no different here so at the base of
the scent really things
don't turn out for the best the heart
had a lot of potential had the fragrance
gone into a direction that i wanted to
but it really went back into that
you know common direction that we know
the known shower gel vibe that we get
with this composition
so it fell flat for me not as inspiring
as i would like this fragrance to be
so all in all the dry down is going to
feature a little bit of a creamy
lavender with that shower gel and that
spiciness from the pimento
slash you know bitterness is a little
bit subdued now in the background a lot
more calmer but again uninspiring dry
down here shower gel
through and through three words that i
would use to summarize this composition
is the fragrance is bitter
it's floral and it's very aromatic
performance
this is an eau de perfume i don't know
if you can see here on on the on the
actual lighting here but there's a sheen
on my hand this is another perfume it's
quite concentrated
it will last quite a while on your skin
we're talking six to seven hours
however projection wise it's not going
to be a very strong like an adt would be
it projects nice for the first hour or
so
then it will remain close to your
immediate surrounding if you spray
your clothes if you spray you know your
garment people will definitely get
whiffs as you walk around as you move
your hands if you spray the back of your
hand
you're going to get notices it's not a
compliment beast i didn't get much
notices or compliments with this
particular fragrance you will smell nice
however number one i don't think this is
a compliment monster number two
i don't think this is uh pleasing enough
that within all the you know the
collection of gucci guilties i think
this is probably the one along with
absolute that are going to be harder
for people to like just because of those
bitter floral nuances that really ride
the composition
from beginning to end what this
fragrance reminds me of you may ask i
already said that it reminds me
especially the dry down of the original
edt or the parfum again in the dry down
the beginning and the heart you have
some original nuances which perhaps
could have been
a little bit tweaked a little bit you
know peaked and you know elevated to
give the fragrance a more
original take within this genre not a
bad aromatic scent but i think
not as original as i would expect and
again like i said in the beginning just
jokingly i thought maybe they would do
like a spicier fragrance
i'm thinking something like you know
pure chili from from mugler
maybe like a matte finish red bottle
with the
silver embellishment or shiny red or
shiny gold with the black would have
been great
um and a little more you know warmth to
the scent perhaps
some cinnamon perhaps some warmer woods
you know some spicy components would
have made this a great 20 20 release but
when it comes to my taste it definitely
falls flat and it's not something that
i'm going to be looking to
wear this uh in my rotation regularly
let's talk about settings occasions and
ages that are better
suited for this particular fragrance so
let's start with ages i think this is
good for anyone that appreciates a
floral
uh bitter aromatic kind of scent of
course it leans more toward masculine
again with that lavender note it's a
woody spicy definitely has
you know more spicy masculine undertones
but i think a lady can pull this off due
to that floral bitter undertone
if you do like those kind of nuances the
uniqueness here is going to be on that
salty vinegar the balsamic salty vinegar
that you get in the beginning but again
that goes away within
30 minutes of the composition making way
for that shower gel
very customary to this particular line
so anyone that likes this fragrance will
appreciate this
if you own other fragrances of this
collection perhaps this will be
redundant and i definitely think there's
a lot more
in the market that you can find that
will suit you better in this particular
aromatic you know genre spicy aromatic
genre having said that
uh when it comes to ages i think 25 and
up or at least
to my liking i think i i cannot see a
teenager or a young adult
rocking this fragrance i don't think
they're going to really enjoy this kind
of a take here this bitter floral is
going to turn some people away
but i think if you have a seasoned nose
if you want something a little bit too
if you want something a little bit
different not too different but you
wanted like
a different take on this gucci guilty
line you might like this one but i
cannot see this becoming a classic or
a crowd favor i think this is going to
you know quickly go
to discounters and you're gonna see this
at your local discounter
very soon occasions and seasons i think
this is an all year round scent it's
versatile enough that you can pull this
off at
any time any day you can dress this up
dress this down i can see this really
nice for an office scent although i
would gravitate towards more citrus
aromatic rather than a really spicy
aromatic
but i can see you you could definitely
pull that off perhaps evening if you're
going out to a date for romantic
settings i think this could do okay
but again there are a ton of other
greater options
when it comes to this particular scent
so to me it's definitely a pass compared
to everything i have everything i've
reviewed so far in 2020
it's definitely not the better releases
of this year so far
my final thoughts on gucci guilty part
from 2020 you probably know by now i'm
not
very impressed i didn't love the
frequency at all it's not a bad
scent per se but i was expecting a lot
more when we saw
how you know gucci has been doing great
with some of the later releases you know
the gucci
absolute the gucci guilty ood i thought
for sure they were going to continue
that roll of great releases this one
here definitely fell flat
i think they need to go back to the to
the drawing board and come up with other
creative
and more um daring kind of fragrances
that's
that's what we were expecting from them
especially i was expecting from them
with this release
going back to being safe mass appealing
with a little bit of tweaks here with
the balsamic vinegar and salty which was
a little bit
you know not mass appealing number one
and a little bit too
weird for my taste so definitely a pass
for me for everything that i reviewed so
far
my least favorite 20 20 release up to
this point uh but again that's my
opinion you might love this stuff do
check it out let me know in the comments
if you have checked this out
what are your thoughts on gucci guilty
from 2020 do you like it you love it you
hate it and then you give it a rate guys
sound off down in the comments let me
know what you guys think about this one
and compared to all the other gucci
guilties
which one is your favorite and why and
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at the time i'm shooting this but
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and check this one out one last thing
here gucci if you're listening if you
ever watch these videos which i doubt
you do but perhaps the creative director
of gucci is watching this
sometimes you know quick food for
thought here
please please please go back to the
originals that we loved so much
the original gucci peron for instance
was a great little fragrance
uh perhaps gucci peron one gucci pro 2
which is now discontinued
please go back to those beautiful
fragrances that we came to love
and perhaps if you're going to continue
with this particular line gucci guilty
give us a little bit more daring
fragrances a little bit you know
uh inspiring fragrances like you did
with gucci guilty absolute and gucci
guilty food
that's what we love that's what we
expect from you guys so again thanks so
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