Reviews of Rush for Men (2000)
by Gucci

It is a pity that this one has been discontinued. As others have mentioned, this is a rather wood-heavy scent and comes across as a spicy oriental. The lavender and patchouli adds a herbal touch and the incense gives a slight powdery texture. I find this very enjoyable to wear.

I cannot believe to read all these negative reviews here: this fragrance is just perfection. So dry, yet so pleasant, incredibly sexy. I cannot count how many compliments I have received from wearing this. It is like the perfect aphrodisiac.

The most obvious note here is the cedarwood, which is nothing short of sublime. It is very very well-handled, and instead of balancing it with some flower or vanilla, they add even more wood layers on it, which makes the scent very ballsy. That is what I love about it, it goes all the way to the end with its woodsy/dry identity. The lavender, which I detect, is just there for fun, because it does not do anything for the fragrance other than the first spray of application.

I love this fragrance, so many good memories. Though, it is getting harder and harder to find it, I think it is being discontinued. gucci.com doesn't even list it anymore.. Such a loss if you ask me. It is hard to find a modern one note-type fragrance that smells sexy and young, yet light but complicated all at once, and to me that is what Rush has always been.

The bottle, which everybody hates, I absolutely love. It is a white block, very minimalistic, something that would come out from Japan if I didn't know it to be Gucci. It does look like a Apple computer gadget though: I'll give you that. I loved the advertising, and the feminine versions (Rush, Rush 2 for Woman) as well. They are seductive as this one, yet as well as any other Gucci release, became a little too popular for their own good.

One final note, the Rush series from Gucci were marketed towards a younger crowd when they first came out unlike Gucci pour Homme, or Gucci Eau de Parfum. Hence the plastic toy-like bottles, cheaper price tags, and bright colors. They were Gucci's answer to all the mindless and endless creations and releases from Emporio Armani. (Remember he/she, White he/she etc.) Marketed for a younger crowd, these scents attracted many young people to these brands who later became loyal customers after 5 or 6 years while getting a little older. That is why Rush doesn't feel as timeless as let's say Envy or pour Homme, because I suppose it was never meant to be.

Delightful clean wood and slight musk tones ideal summer scent.

Notes:

Top: Lavender, Cypress
Middle: Cedar, Incense, Okoume wood
Base: Patchouli, Sandal, Grey musk

Rush for men is a spicy-woods fragrance which can be considered the progenitor of the cedary pencil shavings-dry incense accord that has become so popular over the last decade. With its cassette tape, plasticky bottle showcasing an ipod-like minimalist design, the juice is similarly sparse and effective and at the same time a bit boring due to its now well worn Ellena-in-a-lumberjack guise tone.

Lacroix's Tumulte pour homme is probably Rush for mens closest knock off, and a very good (and cheap!) one at that. Rush opens with low-key lavender and herbal-woodsy cypress notes which almost immediately lead to the dry cedar-incense pencil shavings accord. The sandalwood and patchouli stay distant but provide a fuller body to the main accord. After the "shiver me timbers" plankwood heart, 4-5 hours later a light musky-woody base remains. By comparison, Tumulte pour hommes cedar-incense heart is more straightforward, slightly of a lower quality, and preceeded by (very minute) bay leaf and juniper notes but make no mistake from a distance they both smell similar.

Rush for men, now discontinued, fetches somewhat absurd prices on the net. With a cheaper option in Tumulte pour homme, and a modern successor in Gucci pour homme which does more with the cedar-incense theme, one may have to think twice before splashing out $80 for a 4" X 4" dental floss box. That said, Rush men deserves some kudos for initiating the era of hip lumberjacks ..

Rating: 7.5/10.0

“Can’t go wrong” woody fragrance in a terrific flacon.

It is very simple, well blended scent that is also extremely versatile. Notable cypress at the top soon makes room for this creamy cedar wood scent with hints of incense and amber.
I have always thought Rush for Men smells somewhat very grey in colour. And still I wouldn’t call it too boring….

Highly recommended. This is very nice casual scent with great, subtle sillage.


Three Gucci scents for men released inside few years time (Envy, Rush, Pour Homme) makes a very stylish trio.

Woodsy Spicy and musky? Not too sure but was powerful and long lasting. Easy does it pilgrim.

To put it in simple layman's words,this smells like a spicy lemon pickle
very very indian

As with other Gucci offerings, Rush is a fairly unique entity.... there are some similarities with Azzaro Visit, but I find Rush much more wearable.

Basically Rush is a light woods fragrance, balanced with slight powder and very light floral/lavender. It's essentially linear. The woodsy notes feel slightly burnt, like smelling a chimney fire from a couple blocks away.

The white 8-track cassette box is neat - nothing groundbreaking - but I don't find it as unbearable as others.

Now that Rush is discontinued some retailers are jacking up the price, which is ludicrous given that they probably have plenty of stock. Spend a little time researching and you'll find it for suggested retail....

I bought a small sample bottle of this back in fall and always reached for it before everything else in my rotation. Now I'm out and even though its listed as in production, its really hard to get. The irony of this cologne to me was that I found it not to smell overly woodsy, but more sweet and clean on me. Very simple even. Gucci always has great looking bottles, this one is not one of them. Not that I care what a bottle looks like but its just a shame this scent is so hard to find now. Very good, give it a try.

Slightly woody and spicy and ordinary. With a name like rush I was expecting to POP but it just lays there on the skin. I tried this at a discount perfume shop and the man sprayed it on my arm (at my request) and immediately said, "Strong, eh?". This is not strong at all. Only after reading the scent notes pyramid do I get the cedar and the incense notes which really smell like allspice and a but of licorice. I suppose my skin is extra dry because it didn't last as long as other people's experiences with Gucci Rush.

The bottle is just... wrong. I get a clear image of the color red when I sniff this. A slightly oblique glass rectangle tinted orange-red with clear juice would be perfect, not a stark white rounded plastic rectangle.

Spicy, warm and woody fragrance. Not bad, quite ordinary; not much else to say. For a middle-class single man, as trendy as tasteless.

Well, shoot me if you don't agree but I find some similarities to Trump for men , if only in their fresh-without-resorting-to-musk notes theme. I can't really get Visit out of this one but that's probably just me!

This for me is a sexy perfume. It smells of the sweetest sweat on a man once it starts working with his body chemistry (provided his body chemistry works with the scent). In my opinion this is a masculine scent for a man who has strength, sex appeal and a bit of attitude. On a metro, weedy or girly guy it doesnt seem to work.

I was bought this as a xmas present a couple of years back & enjoyed it very much. Has quite a jagged opening, very dry and wooden smelling. Downside is that it doesn't last very long at all on me, and also seems quite hard to find now - is it out of production?

Gucci Rush is indeed a very nice scent. There is a fleeting resemblance to Azzaro Visit for 30 seconds and I don't think this smell has anything similar to Visit—it would be unjust to claim that two fragrances are similar... reminds me of Gucci pour Homme most of the time, yet I vastly prefer Gucci pH. Rush is thick in character with a smoky incense and rich woods. It has a lot of irresistible charisma, and completely unique fragrance which really does't reminds me anything else. It is the benchmark for Gucci fragrances. The cyber-shot bottle is comfortable to travel which is perfect for putting to pocket! Y2k symbol scents.

After trying the classic Gucci Pour Homme for men I decided to see what else Gucci had to offer and gave this one a go. I was very disappointed. It overpowers you with a woody/leaves autumn smell that I couldn't get off my clothes. You have been warned.

A definite must-have for the connoisseur of Visit and Gucci PH in that Rush shares that same distinct woodiness with both scents. It's not as dry as Visit, no, nor as distinctly cedar-y as Gucci PH, but it's still woody all the way. There's a soft musk note that develops into the drydown to soften things up, and the much discussed incense note for just a touch ("just a touch" being the key phrase here) of sweetness.

It's one I like very much, yes, but not one that I'm "rushing" out to buy.

After the scuttlebutt I had heard, I was expecting to not like this. I didn’t meet my own expectations. I really enjoy the simplicity, beauty, and directness of Rush. The first couple of seconds of the fragrance are confused, but it quickly settles down to an excellent coniferous note with a touch of lavender. I’m so glad that the lavender is kept subtle, to use more would have been a mistake, I believe. Anyway, the opening and middle are extremely woody in character with a judicious touch of incense and patchouli: very clean coniferous and other woodnotes unmuddied by herbs. I love it even though there is a touch of synthetic ‘aftertaste’ to it. Gucci Rush stays quite linear and continues on basically unchanged for an incredible length of time. I find that this is a very pleasant, a very comforting fragrance, and I enjoy it immensely—the perfect fireplace fragrance.
Gucci Rush has been accused of lacking depth, and all I can say is, ‘Well, of course it does! It’s a Gucci, isn’t it?’ Gucci consistently creates wonderful smelling, long-lasting, wearable scents, and that seems to be entirely what Gucci is aiming at. They do not attempt to create a mystique with their scents or tell a story or impress the connoisseur with complexity layered upon unwearably heady accords. They make wonderfully smelling, long-lasting, wearable scents and I don’t see a problem with that. Sometimes a cigar is just a good smoke.

I don't find this to be sharp or bitter in the least. It's certainly very woody, but I get a soft powdery background. It isn't bad or unpleasant, but it definitely lacks depth. Rush lasts no longer than 3 hours on me though, which really surprised me because woods normally stay around forever. I see no reason to get this when jems like Gucci PH and Visit are around.

I agree with MonkeyManMatt. This one is discrete, warm, woody ambience. Not extreemly strong sillage - but not bad at all. Theres definitely something with the smell - maybe the incense that definitely does it for me.
benb

So good! The opening is such a brash and impolite blast of dry cedar that I can see why people have the initial adverse reaction. If one just waits a few minutes it all sorts itself out beautifully into a milky warm glow with lovely balance. Really one of the great drydowns I've ever experienced.

This is the first scent I bought, the one that led me into this hobby. Sevaral years later, my nose has developed considerably but my affection for this hasn't diminished one bit.

This fragrance is waaaaayyyyy too woody smelling. So woody that you cant smell anything else. I tested a bottle of this stuff and was really disappointed. Kind of like a bunch of pureed wood and cinnamon mixed together. You have to spray and spray and spray to get any kind of long lasting fragrance out of this one. Envy for Men by Gucci is one of the greatest colognes ever made and then they come up with this weird stuff? It does smell faintly of decay, but smells mostly dirty and piney. I think a Chevron station smells better. Just go ahead and avoid this one, it's not really worth trying. I hate the bottle also. This is one of the WORST scents EVER!!! Yeck!!!

On me, this one kicks out some serious patchouli and incense. For some reason I feel younger when I wear it, even though I associate patchouli with hippies (old) and incense with Benedictine monks (even older). Somehow, this just works with my skin. I can see how it wouldn't be for everyone - it is woodsy, dry, and reeking of incense - but I found that I could wear it day or night, so long as the occasion was casual. It's not sophisticated or complex, it's not as classy as Gucci Pour Homme, and it does smell synthetic, but like the Diesel fragrances, I think you need to wear it with a mind tuned toward fun, not taking it too seriously or expecting it to be what it is not.

I am totally in love with that one. To me it is very masculine yet elegant

Horrible - bitter, sour, and one-dimensional. Wood upon wood upon wood and all of it synthetic smelling.

Too much wood for me... Gucci pour homme without the incense note. Similar to Kyoto, Avignon etc.
I'm no lumberjack and I can't see any class or sex appeal in this stuff. Why in hell would anyone want to smell like pure wood?
Thumbs really down!

Ahh the smell of sawing down christmas trees before dawn on a winters morning. Brazen beyong belief. Turin never mentions this scent without calling it "reckless" its a great word. Ballsy, ballsy stuff.

I love dry woody fragrances, so that means this is a beauty in my eyes - I'll go against the grain and say that it is by far and away my favourite Gucci. It makes me want to be a carpenter. The name's a little Euro-tacky though.

It took this mistake to get gucci Ph to be created the right way. Smells like a cedar chest, nothing else

Mysteriously woodsy with a hint of spice...Rush is a fantastic scent...built somewhat along the same lines as YSL Rive Gauche for men, but not quite as bold...it is a scent for those who like something different, while it seems to be the least appreciated of all of the Gucci scents for men, it is deffinately not the worst, and quite possibly the best, perfect for those long summer afternoons that just melt away into romantic evenings on the town...Rush is as comfortable in LA as it is in NY, subtle, and liked by all, it must be experianced to be fully understood...

An extremely woody fragrance, feels as if the fragrance is one big block of cedar. However this is not negative, the pure simplicity of the woody-smoky blend makes me feel like a hippy lumberjack. Great for cold and wet Winter weather.

Not a fan of this one. I bought Gucci Rush men when I was somehow brainwashed by Tom Ford. I LIVED for Gucci!! I did not like the women's version, but still I immediately bought Rush men unsniffed. The scent has lots of pine, cedar, and patchouli to me. That's it. Maybe it was my skin, but I smelled like a hippie's expensive cedar closet. Looking back, this probably was perfectly suited to my uber-sexed up Gucci, Gucci, Gucci wardrobe and look. Now I find Rush men to be just too much for me-- like some guy in the 70's forgot he hid his stash in the hamster cage.

Way too dry for me... Smells too strong.

On me the clear woods and light musks melds with my own skin and smells warm, but never sweet, which is unusual on me. I underdtand this doesn't work for everyone, but it's one of my staples. I have used up several bottles allready.

Masculine scent that dries down very pleasantly.
If Gucci would change their cheap plastic container, one that never stays glued together, their ratings and sales would surely head North.

I really like the refined woodiness of Rush, but was disappointed at how short lived it was on me. I mentioned this many times on the Basenotes Forum. Until the day I had to retract it.
This happened after I put some Rush on before spending an entire day at the beach, where I frequently went into the water. Many hours after getting home, I had a shower before going to bed. Much to my amazement, I walked out of the shower smelling of Gucci Rush.
So it's not short lasting, but instead seems to have a fairly variable output on me. The only other scent I've come across that shares this characteristic is Alfredo Domingues' Vetiver.
Gucci sure know how to make a woody scent, the only scent I know that is woodier than Rush, is Gucci Pour Homme.
Renato

It is a very simple scent...Sandalwood,Cedarwood and Incense harmonising very quietly...That's good enough for me...

Horrible for a Gucci fragrance, shame on them for making this! The wood smell is incredibly overpowering even with just one spritz. It's like liquified cedar in a bottle. Yuck. Gucci really ought to consider disco'ing this one. A thousand miles from Envy or Pour Homme. MAJOR thumbs down.

Don't at all understand all criticism towards this fragrance. Ok if you look for a scent that's gonna reek all day, this shouldn't be your first choice. However if you appreciate a discrete warm, woody ambience, go for Rush!

Rush is too woodsy that when I smell it, it reminds me of a hamster cage. I had to spray literally "gobs" of it on for it to be slightly noticeable. What a disgrace to GUCCI.

At first smell, I thought it to be too woody, too much cedar..but as it dries down, it took on a completely different scent. It's quite appealing! I've received many compliments as well. One of the first fragrances that gets better after your body's chemistry blends with it! Very different..not your mainstream run of the mill scent