The Story
Why it exists.
The beginning
Guerrilla 2 is a fragrance built from notes that pull in opposite directions, fruity sweetness against warm spice, a floral heart that refuses to behave. Perfumer Nathalie Feisthauer constructed it with a specific intent: to reward the person who went looking. The name suggests an unconventional approach. The scent itself delivers that promise through its unusual construction, where competing elements don't resolve into easy harmony but instead maintain a productive tension throughout the wear. It's the kind of fragrance that asks something of you, that doesn't hand over its best qualities immediately but instead requires patience and attention to fully appreciate.
What makes Guerrilla 2 structurally unusual is the tuberose placement. Here, Feisthauer runs it alongside raspberry and paprika simultaneously, the sweetness, the warmth, and the white floral all occupying the same moment. It gives the heart an odd, almost dissonant quality that doesn't resolve cleanly into the drydown. The vetiver and cedar in the base don't soften it. They just wait. This is not an accident. It's the structural tension that keeps the fragrance from smelling like everything else in the fruity-spicy category.
The evolution
The opening hits fast. Pink pepper and ginger arrive clean and bright against the bergamot, the bergamot doesn't linger, it just opens the door and steps aside. Within twenty minutes, the raspberry surges. Not a candy raspberry. Something darker, closer to raspberry leaf or the jam that hasn't fully set. Then the paprika joins. The tuberose is already there, pushing through the sweetness like a hand through a curtain. The first hour is the fragrance's most volatile moment, sweet, spicy, slightly green, not quite resolved. The drydown takes over around hour two. The fruity notes recede, the musk anchors, and the vetiver and cedar build slowly into a warm woodiness that stays close to the skin. On fabric especially, there's a faint sweetness remaining, the ghost of the raspberry, the ghost of the warmth. On skin, it fades to a soft musk with a trace of cedar. Not a projection fragrance.
Cultural impact
Discontinued, Guerrilla 2 has become a fragrance collectors seek out, one of those scents people discover when they venture deeper into the CdG catalogue. It doesn't have the name recognition of Avignon or Wonderwood, but the raspberry-tuberose pairing is the reason those who know it keep a bottle. The Series 8 Guerrilla collection presented an alternative to conventional fragrance launches, scented objects that appeared outside typical retail channels, sold in places people had to seek out. That model suited Guerrilla 2 perfectly: a fragrance that rewards going looking for it.
