Guidance 46

Sadly this joins the hall of shame for me. The overwhelming dusty patchouli was topped off with a pungent baby powder smell that I couldn't scrub away fast enough, or effectively enough. Yet to find an amouage fragrance that doesn't turn evil on me like this. Perhaps this might have been my last try.

Nothing particularly original groundbreaking. It’s essentially a mixture of crowd-pleasing notes like vanilla, sandalwood, gourmand notes. Smells like so many "celebrity" drugstore fragrances.

I cannot for the life of me understand why anyone would wear this. It's awful. An assault to the nose. The only notes I smell are extremely harsh. And nothing like the description. It smells incredibly masculine, but not on a good way. It's like a man in his 60's, stuck in 1970, broke a bottle of patchouli, doused with heavy musk and mixed with incense, all over his jeans and left it there, in hopes to attract the girl at the drive thru window. It's awful. To top it off, it will not come off. I have scrubbed and scrubbed and used a stainless steel bar and I cannot get it off my skin. I wish I could take it back and press rewind. This is one of my life's biggest regrets.

I’m not into this scent. I am not attracted to anything with amber, but I had to try because of the hype. This smells like amber with baby powder to me - maybe a juice concentrate with baby powder. It invoked the feeling of an exhausted mom dousing herself in perfume in lieu of a needed cleansing due to exhaustion. I do not smell glamour, urban decadence, or delicate beauty.

I received my sample today and I have to have a full bottle. I have the original Guidance that I absolutely adore and this will give a slightly different twist The sweetness that comes out as it dries down along with the woodiness just blew me away. This one is going to make someone want to be near you and will leave an impression that will make them want more!