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Mandarin and pink pepper ignite with surprising vigour, the citrus sharp and almost saline against the pepper's dry spice. This isn't a sweet opening—it's peppery, almost medicinal, and entirely arrests expectations of what "Guilty" should smell like.
Lilac blooms with mineral cleanliness whilst peach and raspberry create a tart, jammy sweetness offset by geranium's green-peppery restraint. The powdery accords intensify here, creating an almost vintage, vaguely soapy haze that softens the fruit's natural acidity.
Amber warms the composition into something honeyed and resinous, yet patchouli's dusty, faintly bitter character prevents any slide into comfort-fragrance blandness. What remains is a powdery, subtly woody whisper—intimate, faintly retro, and considerably more interesting than its opening suggested.
Guilty Intense is a fragrance caught in delicious contradiction—it announces itself with citric brightness yet refuses to let go of powdery comfort. Aurélien Guichard has constructed something simultaneously floral and gourmand, where mandarin's sharp bergamot-adjacent sparkle immediately tangles with pink pepper's peppery bite, creating an almost savoury opening that prevents this from devolving into perfumery's typical floral sweetness trap.
What emerges is a lilac-led heart that's genuinely mineral and slightly soapy rather than the cloying purple florals one might expect. This lilac doesn't coddle—it's tempered by Egyptian geranium's green-leaning spice and a peach-raspberry duet that reads more as tart preserves than candy. The interplay between geranium's peppery facets and the stone fruit's slight tartness creates an almost jammy texture without veering into dessert territory. There's an unexpected savoury quality here, something almost herbal beneath the sweetness.
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