Reviews of Gucci pour Homme (2003)
by Gucci

Gucci pour Homme opens with a pleasantly nose-tingling burst of ginger, but this doesn’t persist for more than ten or fifteen minutes. Unfortunately, what it leaves in its wake is a relatively pedestrian fresh, woody oriental composition that reminds me of an impoverished Heritage – or perhaps Armani Code. As an incense based oriental Gucci pour Homme is a Toyota Camry: it’ll get you where you’re going without a glitch, but driving the M5 of Avignon or L’Homme Sage (never mind Jubilation XXV’s Maserati,) is a lot more fun. Gucci pour Homme dries down to a bland, fuzzy vanilla, woods, and amber base that’s OK if you like that sort of thing, but it won’t get my award for originality. This one’s disappearing in my rear view.

Wood and leather are what I get from this. It's not a bad smell to me, but definitely not great. Unique in its experience but really, all to their own. This smell just didn't work for me.

There is something about this fragrance that is very odd.......and slightly offputting. I don't know if it affects anyone else this way, but it recalls a memory of something unpleasant , to me. Actually, there is an odd almost plasticy accord in there that every time I smell it reminds me of...........get this, burning plastic and vomit. I know that sounds foul and I don't know if its actually that scent or if maybe it reminds me of that special sawdust crap that janitors would put on the mess when a kid in school puked in class or somewhere in a building. You would think that with a scent that reminds me of puke, I would hate this fragrance, but I really don't. I just find it VERY unusual, and actually, I'm kinda drawn to it in a weird way.....I have the same strange attraction to Dirty English. I usually dislike musky scents with tobacco and leather, but for some reason I have this undeniable attraction to Dirty English.....the main difference between the two is that with Dirty English the attraction is enough to make me buy it, wear it, and smell my wrist over and over again. With Gucci I, its enough for me to put a drop on my arm when I'm at home alone, smell it a few times trying to figure it out, but then I spend 20 minutes trying to wash it off. I'll tell you one thing. If you do like this scent, then you're in luck, you can't wash this crap off with Lava Soap and a belt sander. It lasts forever, and you can't cover it up with other scents either, It shines right on through. So, this one is incredibly strange, actually quite intriguing to the point of being a conundrum, but I would never wear it.

Clearly what the world needs is another insight into Gucci pour Homme. Well, here's my go at it.

I really wanted to like this. Trust me, I really did. I like Tom Ford's work, I like other male Gucci scents, I even like the bottle. Hell, I LOVE the bottle. The juice just leaves me a little flat. It's not that it's a bad scent, I just don't especially care for the way it smells. It's wood, incense, and pencil shavings plus some pepper and leather in the dry down. Nothing there to hate except for the pencil shavings, which are far too prominent and drive me away. For my money, CDG's Kyoto gives me all the incense and wood I'll ever need.

Then again, I'm merely a college student. This isn't the kind of scent that can easily be pulled off by someone of my age. Perhaps when I'm older, I will discover this one's true beauty.

I really tried liking this one but not for me, it really smelled like pencil shavings at first after a while the strong woody opening calms down and it becomes much better. I wont say I hate it but I will almost never wear it so I give a neutral rating.

I like the pepper top, but the olibanum (that appears in the heart, not only in the base) makes it even better. I usualy am not a leather fan, but in this perfume it is great.

There is also a drawback, after about ten minutes it is hard to smell anything else but frankinsence, which makes it a bit boring and flat.

So thumbs up only because I am a huge olibanum/frankinsence fan.

This stuff reminds me of the cedar wood in gerbal & hamster cages. Nothing to great.

Pencil shavings, pencil shavings, pencil shavings… Hmmmm…

Personally, Gucci pour Homme reminds me of the smell of those classrooms in my old Roman Catholic secondary school (but minus the bad smells, generated by pubescent schoolboys). Do you remember the smell of inside one of those old wooden school desks (the ones with the hinged tops which, when raised, revealed a storage area for all your exercise books)? Well, that’s what immediately springs to mind whenever I smell this.

For something more sensual and longer lasting, go for Rochas Lui instead.

Gucci pour Homme is a lazy scent, if you ask me. No projection to speak of and doesn't last at all. I've read that some find it understated. To me, Gucci pour Homme is just too safe and comfortable.

Wood, wood and more wood with some smoke and leather mixed in for good measure. Very manly but a bit dryer then I prefer. There is also that pencil shavings aspect. I find Black Mark by Jack Black to be a far better option for this type of fragrance.

It's elegant, but not luxurious. It's masculine, but not the most refined. It's actually rough. I can't feel any smoothness in it and that's a big minus, even for a very masculine fragrance. Overall not a bad choice, but if you want the state of the art go for Ungaro III or almost any Creed.

The better description I find for this one is that it smells like unwashed "penis" head (I can only compare with mine though..).

A while ago I was deciding between this and M7 but went with the later... and no regrets.

Next one, Kouros! (maybe Body Kouros)

Not bad. A little boring and brown smelling - similar to Lui by Rochas. I mean good enough, but not worth the money - it that simple. Get Third Man, Santos, Antateus - even Jacomo, those are way better. I would not buy this stuff again, too simple and boring, but not a waste - it is classy, just not a powerhouse.

Ive tried to adore this scent, but eventually gave my bottle away.
I "get" the fantastic woody/benzoin/incense-like accords but dont actually enjoy the total sum of these seperate components. To me it smells like a Byzantine Monestary nestled in deep cypress pines on the rocky slopes of Northern Greece. Albeit it inspires poetic visualisation in me, it's headiness does not inspire a purchase.

The opening smells like root beer (or another soda) to me. I like root beer but I don't want to wear it.

I like woody scents, but this one doesn't do it for me. Not a bad scent, I notice more things about it each time I try it, I just can't get past the root beer.

A lot of people say this is a "cedar" frag, I don't know why, I don't smell any in it, but if that's the case Jack Black Signature Black Mark is far better.

This is one of those fragrances that smells interesting conceptually but perhaps is not so convincing as a wearable fragrance. It's a spacial fragrance... that is, it reminds me more of a high end, unique room spray or candle but not necesarily for use on the skin of a human being. The list of notes creates a beautiful image but unfortunately the end result is not quite successful. I get a big helping of a cumin type note, and I get a lot of VERY light, soft woods, reminiscent of the combined scents of an unoccupied new office building or a large warehouse... perhaps a log cabin. I was very much intrigued by this artistically speaking but in the end I just wanted to wash it off. Sophisticated, minimalistic, more modern, more muted version of a classic gentleman's fragrance.

Basically, a scent which is ,made to puzzle, fascinate and intrigue. First, it begins like some synthetic( pinkie, oversexed, but at the same time androgynous, fairy, almost queer style) creation, just with a burst of sporty and fruity( and I mean by that a real big "queer as a bedbug"- style
"fruit"), but just as the expectations of any "true" perfume lover reach the utmost low point, surprise strikes again. Because the drydown is ( maybe only as strictly subjective experience) sooo different from the first impression, taking its wearer trough the high and lows, " do's" and
" don't-s", authetic high class and purest camp, style and kitsch of fragrance. A truly mulilayered and psychedelic trip trough paradise and inferno of the perfume world, both " retro" and deeply retrosexual, but also soo metrosexual and essentially 2003...It ends in a feeling which, far from evading the metrosexual, almost synthetic dominant note, childishly( or yothfully) evades into something far more... puristic and conservative. Truly, the drydown is remiding somewhere in between the ( unusually) cool, icy, almost intellectual of tobacco and leather found in Very Valentino and the compelling, both magnetic and elusivally untochable powdery, almost feminine drydown of Roma Uomo or Endymion( and the list might go on...). Strange, but bedazling combination and/ or unity of two gloriously mismatched,
inadvertend, interptretation
extremes. I wish-therefore only neutral rating- the perfume maker, maybe Tom Ford...- would have made up his mind, or maybe, to be more precise, this is where this scent's charm lies: controversial, overtly postmodern and idiosyncratic, daring yet partly usual and clean, unsurprising. The perfect recipe towards an almost- masterpiece...

my wife loves this. on herself or me. I have never seen her react to a fragrace like that.

I personaly have come to the conclusion that this stuff smells like roofing tar.

very nice package and bottle.not my kind of perfume but nevertheless ok.spicy,woody,warm.well composed,very tom ford,very gucci-so, if you are one of these gucci boys and into the whole gucci mania you may like it....
anyway-a good perfume is something else to me......

Way too peppery. Perhaps you get use to it after a while. I was hoping for better.

Opinions of course are relative, but I just don't get it when it comes to the popularity of this scent. The opening reminds me of a doused campfire that has been burning pine tree braches for the past six hours. Drydown is the same. It certainly does have longevity, I give it that. Maybe someday I will like it more. Maybe I have just spent too much time camping.

This is one of the top must smell fragrances on my list. I have yet to run across it at the various shops I frequent. I think 212 has too much incense in it. It is not as pronounced in Envy. As of now, I dont think incense will be a note I will look for in fragrances. Nevertheless, I must smell this one. Looking at its pyramid, the notes in it seem interesting. Only one way to be sure.

The opening reminds me of walking into Notre Dame in Paris for the first time. Then it evolves to the taste and essence of the air inside "Smoky Mary's" in New York. "Smoky Mary's" is the nickname of St. Mary the Virgin Anglican Church in NYC where the incense on Sundays is so thick during the reading of the Gospel that people all around are coughing and rubbing their eyes in the pews as the unconcerned acolyte powerfully swings away with his turible. It evolves to something oriental and spicier, perhaps a Russian Orthodox Cathedral full of iconography. And it ends at Westmister Cathedral with a street person sitting in a back pew contentedly eating a small coffee cake while the sounds of Palestrina waft up into the black ceiling and mingle with the angels hiding there. Nice, but as much as I appreciate houses of worship, it is not the image I go for with mens' scents unless I am wearing a cassock. Goes well with organ music on the hi-fi. Fascinating in a way.

Joe

Thumb Amendment. This stuff is just too woody. I recently went to Home Depot while wearing this, and was actually purchased by a construction worker who mistook me for a piece of plywood. If I wanted to smell like nothing but wood, I'd date Bob Vila.

I couldn't believe the reviews that this could be as woody as everyone said, so I went and sampled it. Yep, it is the woodiest fragrance I've ever smelled too. I absolutely love Gucci's Envy, but I'm not sure what they were thinking here. I applaud them for being so bold as to not release the same old "fresh" or "clean" modern-type fragrance, but wow, does this ever smell EXACTLY like the pencil shavings in your little crank pencil sharpener in grade school. It's a wonderfully nostalgic aroma, but it just doesn't work for me as what I want to smell like on a date or in a business meeting. For some people, this may be great, but for most, go get Gucci's Envy instead.

Woody to the extreme. Along with Rush, PH confirms my suspicion that Gucci's fragrance team is in fact a gang of Lumberjacks in a pine forest. Not that this is bad, its just not my thing.

I have read all the reviews about it smelling like pencil shavings, and I noticed that, too, but I don't that's a bad thing. This seems like a classy fragrance (or have I been fooled by the name?), although the drydown of musk and vanilla has too much vanilla in it for my taste. Either way, it's spicy and woody, and that's good. I would prefer it without the vanilla, but with cinnamon instead: now THAT would be masculine! --Allen-at-home

Well, If you want to smell like a mix of pencil shavings with catholic church incense, go for it... This perfume could easily be worn by those Hare Krishna guys that sells incense all day...
The ginger note and then the drydown reminds me a lot of Fendi Uomo, although I think Fendi is far more spicy (and bad smelling). If you're thinking of trying Fendi,try this one first and if you like it your apt to try the second...
I like strong and manly 80's style scents, but this one is too spicy for me. It's not a bad fragrance at all, maybe It's just acquired taste, who knows?

Nice spicy-woody-leathery fragrance but
there are many others like this.