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Gucci Première Gucci 2012 Eau de Parfum

6.1 / 10 175 Ratings

A perfume by Gucci for women, released in 2012. The scent is floral-woody. It was last marketed by Procter & Gamble / Metropolitan Cosmetics.
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Main accords

Floral

Woody

Sweet

Fresh

Fruity

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Bergamot

Orange blossom

Heart Notes

Musk

White blossoms

Base Notes

Woods

Leather

Perfumer

Frida Giannini

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Ratings

Scent

6.1175 Ratings

Longevity

5.8127 Ratings

Sillage

5.2129 Ratings

Bottle

7.5141 Ratings

Value for money

6.725 Ratings

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Reviews

19 in-depth fragrance descriptions

09/10/2012

5Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

Gold
726 Reviews

Gold

Top Review 6

Première is not a Première

Just another generic floriental in a posh, golden bottle.
Honestly, I find it more and more difficult to tell these fragrances apart.
Is it Guess? Or Armani? Lady One Million Eau de toilette or Eau de Parfum? Or the latest Gucci like in this case? This said, it is a totally average, fairly unobtrusive scent - nothing to here to justify the name "PREMIERE". It is neither sexy nor vuluptous. I can't find any leather in it and the woody base is totally unpleasant and synthetic in a bad way. Judging from the poor quality of the ingredients used, this one should be avoided, you could be wearing something much more original for the same price.

08/18/2012

4Scent

AromaX
33 Reviews

AromaX

Very helpful Review 6

Sweet raspberry jam instead of champagne with white flowers and leather

I'd say - try it on your skin before you buy and don't let the advertising to tempt you. To my nose it doesn't smell anything what is claimed. No champagne, no white flowers, no leather. At least not as I know them through my own experience. I smell a very big purple raspberry "fruit" cooked into a jam with a lot of sweet white musk (somehow the image similar to what I get from The Body Shop Raspberry line). It's very dense and sticky and suffocating to me. But definitely give it a try it if you like the modern fruity-musky tendency (I smell it a lot in Celebrity scents). In that genre it's pretty good - rounded, has a good volume and free from unpleasant aberrations. But only if you like fruity jams.

09/22/2017

3Scent

ScentFan
336 Reviews

ScentFan

Helpful Review 4

Far Sob

As far a cry (or should I say sob) from Gucci No. 1 as a perfume can get. This gasp-inducing, misery smells nothing like it's warm-sounding notes. Bergamot and Orange blossom? No way. Woods, Leather? Nope. More like sweetish berries in cream of gasoline.

04/07/2018

QuercusAlbus
72 Reviews

QuercusAlbus

2

Break on Through to the Other Side

I have been revisiting many fragrances recently that I have neglected for a long time. I am finding the exercise wonderfully successful - more so than I dared hope! I think I have been ^very^ constructively coached in the meantime. And with this particular one it is not even a case of finding much new in it, but more of ^refinding^ what I perceived in the first place.

I found something a little curious about this when I first tried it. I noticed that the reviews here are not very favourable to it. But I like the °tune° that this fragrance playeth! I'm not sure that I can argue that it is a ^great^ composition, but it ^does^ have a tune that I happen to like rather a lot.

I find the fruity sweetness of it buffered - which is to say, held back from becoming cloying - by a very subtle tobaccoleafy sort of note. And certainly °sort of°, as I find that I ^begin^ to perceive a tobaccoleafy note - but then it is not ^quite^ that, but something really quite unique to this fragrance, and that teases me a great deal, and in a very pleasant way, with my wondering how to define it!

Perhaps it is the note that is listed here as 'woods', or the 'leather' one. Or maybe this rather curious note÷accord÷quality has been °rendered° into notes-list-speak by these idiomata as mere conveniences, as I agree with a previous reviewer that it does not have anything that shows ^patently^ as wood or leather; but it ^does^ have that curious quasi-tobaccoleaf °quality° that I have been here describing.

... a few hours later ...
To be perfectly honest, I am sympathising more with the reviewers who are somewhat scathing of this, on the basis of having actually been wearing it all this time since I last put anything here. I mean ... it's a bit sort of, well, dead! It really isn't a very °sanguine° perfume, this one. It's, sort of, a bit of a °flat beer° sort of thing, IYKWIM. Feel like saying to to it "come on! get up! ^do^ something!". I think the people who have been scathing of it probably well-know what I am talking about. Yet, at the same time, I'm not retracting what I said in favour of it. I don't know whether it ^could have^ been made better in the respect just cited without compromising the interesting & positively distinguishing qualities described above: maybe it ^has to be^ a bit °unsanguine° in order to have those qualities - I don't know. But it has it's uses. I can quite easily forsee occasions when I'll use it quite happily.

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In connection with what I said about having rehabilitated or reinstated fragrances I have long-neglected, I would like to raise the following point - not so much to sidetrack duscussion about fragrances into discussion about mysticism, but to get worked-out between us what can be done when we find that we have fragrances that we now despise and scourge ourselves for having °wasted° minlet on.

There's an item of ancient wisdom that can be found in various places - ancient Chinese, Freemasonic, all kinds of mysticism - to the effect that when you learn ^anything^ - anything ^at all^ - you go through essentially three phases: first the initial joy & enthusiasm; then the grind, as the disciplines become irksome; then the consolidation of those disciplines, and a return to the original joy - but a joy this time °exalted° by the change in oneself imparted by the installation of a body of learning in oneself. 'Breaking through to the other side', I think one could call it. And I think it is so, whether it's a skill one has learned, appreciation of an artform (including a perfume) or whatever.

When I first started using fragrances I was wowed by all fragrances; then I learned to become critical, and had crisis after crisis as I °learned° disappointment; now, I think I am °breaking through to the other side°, and I am getting back to something like being wowed by all of them - something like, but actually better!

09/02/2012

7Scent 2.5Longevity 2.5Sillage

Turandot
840 Reviews

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Turandot

Top Review 25

Can they really do that??

The name of the new Gucci perfume doesn't really show much imagination. I'm curious to see if Chanel will just accept this.

So here it is, the scent that Gucci hopes will boost their Christmas sales this year. The pyramid reads quite modestly, and since Gucci fragrances have never really excited me, at least the newer ones, my expectations weren't too high.

I was pleasantly surprised by the top note - which seems to develop in the wrong order, because the first thing I notice with astonishment is the leather. A fine wild leather note that made me curious for more. But - no such luck - the leather note fades away within a few minutes, leaving behind a generic and interchangeable scent from the remaining notes that we know all too well. The orange blossom holds back more graciously than, for example, in Elie Saab or Burberry Body, and since there are no fruity notes to further emphasize the mediocrity, a very delicate, floral-woody perfume remains, which is discreet in both sillage and longevity. That's a pity, because I actually quite like the base, where the fine leathery note reappears.

The bottle with the stirrup is already familiar to us from Gucci fragrances, and the golden, or rather gilded, presentation suggests something precious. Now, Gucci Premiere will surely play its role in the Christmas business, but I would doubt whether Gucci really needed this scent. In any case, Gucci Premiere is not extraordinary.

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