Guess Seductive
Guess (2010)

This was interestingly off-putting to me overall. Which is a weird thing to say, let me explain...

It has a bouncy, airy and perfume-y quality to it, yet feels overly synthetic and burnt. Again, weird, but there was a chemical sort of tone that sat sharply in my nose, which I didn't care for.

It's decidedly a jasmine dominant fragrance, with a fruit accord that usually would be pleasant, but didn't feel cohesive. Again, it truly just smelled like something had been heated to a burning point and added into the fray. The vanilla doesn't serve to soften this much either, it merely provides a sweet element.

When I back up away from the scent, it's more tolerable. But at close range, it's strange (and not weirdly wonderfully "strange").

It's as if it's trying to be a good perfume, it has all of the proper elements in place to become one, yet still fails at it.

I was expecting so much by a pear scent, so rare is to find pear in scents. But I was bitterly disappointed. The oversweet note musks everything resulting in a disgusting childish banal scent. Useless. There are so many similar or better.

Yummy fruity-oriental with a tasty (vanillic-orangy), syrupy and gummy substance (may be the effect emerging from the synthetic olibanum and fruits). Effectively similar to Lady Million. I get pear and an indiscernible fruity taste, being me unable to strictly discern the presence of blackcurrant. A touch of classic elegance is imparted by the initial changeful chord of bergamot, jasmine and orris but the vanillic Guess Seductive's adolescent soul of the aroma is too much plastic and stressed to be aroused out any kind of believable class and complexity. A touch of white powder at the end closes the round. Appealing probably to the young ladies at their olfactory inception.