# Gucci — Guilty Pour Homme Eau de Toilette

> Guilty Pour Homme EDT is a defining early-2010s designer fougere: sweet lemon, clean lavender, orange blossom, and polished woody ambroxan in an easy, crowd-pleasing form.

## Essence
Guilty Pour Homme EDT is a defining early-2010s designer fougere: sweet lemon, clean lavender, orange blossom, and polished woody ambroxan in an easy, crowd-pleasing form.
## Scent Profile
The opening is bright and familiar, built from lemon, lavender, and a light sweet-musky effect. It is more candied and laundry-clean than naturalistic. Orange blossom and neroli soften the floral center without changing the clean overall profile.
Patchouli, cedar, Iso E Super, and ambroxan provide the drydown. The base is crisp, woody, and softly musky, placing the fragrance squarely in the modern designer fresh-fougere tradition.
## Performance
Performance is soft and can be batch-variable. Many experience four to six hours of wear with projection that becomes close to the skin within the first couple of hours. It is best treated as an easy reapplication scent rather than an all-day powerhouse.
## Wearing Context
This is a versatile daytime choice for spring and summer, office environments, casual plans, and dates. Its youthful, clean profile is widely accessible and works year-round when a low-risk scent is wanted.
## Comparisons & DNA
Chanel Allure Homme Sport is the closest common comparison, sharing its clean citrus-woody role. Bleu de Chanel and Dior Sauvage provide the wider reference frame for the decade's designer-fresh market. Within Gucci, Guilty Black is greener, the 2020 EDP is a savory rose variation, and Guilty Absolute is a leather-wood departure.
## Reception
The fragrance is commercially loved for smelling clean, pleasant, and easy. More critical wearers find it generic, but the larger objection is performance: many wish the lemon-and-lavender opening lasted longer.
## Versions & Reformulation
The EDT launched in 2011. A later metallic-bottle relaunch expanded the marketing note list, but the brand described the scent as unchanged. Reports of weaker later performance exist, although a full reformulation is not confirmed.
## Acquisition Notes
It is widely available and usually inexpensive in the designer market. This is an easy scent to test, but performance-sensitive buyers may prefer a decant before buying a larger bottle.
## Notable Facts & Lore
- Jacques Huclier created the 2011 EDT.
- Frank Miller directed the original campaign at Cinecittà Studios.
- Chris Evans and Evan Rachel Wood starred in the campaign.
- It remains a nostalgic first cologne for many early-2010s wearers.