Gucci Flora : Gorgeous Gardenia
Eau de Parfum, Gucci (2021)

The first spray is a bit too strong for me and in some ways seems even chemically sweet, but I love how it smells on me once it dries down. I'd actually love to find a scent that smells exactly like the dry down of this one. It's a colder season fragrance for me as in the summer it seems a bit too much.

On my skin and my clothes, it stays for a long time, so I would say the longevity is great.

Well, if you like to smell chemicals as opposed to extracted oils from true sources, this would certainly fit your bill. NOT MINE!

First explosion - the pear blossom, never existed in perfumery. So we have some pear juice. Then the jasmine - also chemically based. Well, not awful, just not good. And of course the gardenia, which is always a combo of tuberose and jasmine to begin with, (in case you are new to scents, the gardenia oil does not smell like the gardenia flower).

So, yet again, an attempt to use chemicals to make you think you are having a lovely experience. YOU ARE NOT. You are deluded.

Ultimately a sweet, vile thing, deserving to be poured down the drain.

So

If you enjoy sweetened florals, I don’t think there’s anything to dislike about this fragrance. It’s not loud, and it’s a pretty easy to reach for scent, without worrying about offending anyone around you. I think the brown sugar lends a somewhat edgy vibe, and addictive too. When I was wearing this the other day, it hit me that in the dry down, this fragrance is so very similar to BDK Pas Ce Soir. They are different in the opening, but the scent that stays with you for most of its wear time, is like 95% similar to me. But this one isn’t quite as good on the performance scale. I’d say it sits relatively close to the skin, so low projection and sillage, and the longevity is 3-4 hrs before I couldn’t detect it anymore. I was shocked at how similar the two smell though.