Am I losing my mind/touch with fragrance reality? I can't for the life of me understand how this compares to Gucci Guilty absolute. Slight disclaimer... I only sprayed this on a strip, in a shop, and sniffed for a maximum of 12 seconds, so I'm not really qualified to even pen this review or talk comparisons but GGA is such a bold and Iconic fragrance that it would be immediately apparent right? Surely? Perhaps I'm losing my touch but I didn't get that at all, I guess these are both made by Morillas so...could be....could be? I mean this guy (Plein) is a world beating ARSE of massive proportions. Makes Jezza & his brand look like the height of olfactory integrity compared to this SHITE!!! Both German (I think at least?) both posers, and both with Alberto at the helm. Interesting. Must be a type. I mean Phil... mate? Wandering about in gaudy, designer label crap with your own name plastered all over it, private jets and fancy cars, scantily clad ladies and those money gun things are for ABSOLUTE WANKERS! And don't be all like ohhh Houdini you're just a sad, INCEL... hater, or a bloated snob, full of your own importance...Both of those characterisations are somewhat accurate but...still...I don't like your tone. I get it, That's his Schick and what passes for cool and that you've made a success of your life these days, but fuck me! Anyway... I found the fragrance offensive and that's odd because I'll go along with it being like the Gucci (a fragrance I like) if I must, so it must be all the other stuff that is (nose) blinding me to it's apparent brilliance and edgy, raw leatheriness and such. I smelled a kind of spicy, amalgam of modern dreck, complex and fruity topped but heavy and lumpy, semi gourmand patchoulish perhaps?, vaguely spicy....maybe? Strength not being indicative of depth, certainly not a great deal of emotion. It's Nu Money good. To be fair...if I wear it on skin and it does all this AAAAAND has a touch of that outrageous, leather accord from Gucci Guilty Absolute, then I might....just might...actually be interested in that! I know!!!!! I complicated. It's not the smell see that's putting me off, I find the branding so hateful, it's clouding my judgement and unfairly tainting what might be quite an interesting juice and I'm giving it a lot of leeway in saying that. Could it be the absolutely preposterous bottle, a credit card for bling worshipping, fucking idiots? Could it be Plein himself? or the ridiculous ad campaign I remember seeing for this, more viral than the Covid pandemic this thing came out during? I don't know. I think it's all of the above.