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Good Girl
This is the full size of the house's best known scent: Carolina Herrera Good Girl Eau de Parfum 80ml is what to buy when you already know it works on you.
It is built on contrast. Almond leads, dry and nutty with a bitter undertone that gives nothing away about where the fragrance is going. The white flowers follow and transform it: sambac jasmine warm, heady and a touch fleshy, tuberose creamy and thick with a rubbery coolness at its edge, and the two of them together are as assertive as anything on a department store counter. Then the base settles in, tonka bean sweet and powdery with a faint bitterness beneath, cocoa dry, dusty and unsweetened, and the result is sweet and bitter at once, which is the trick that keeps people wearing it for years.
Five materials in all, the work of Louise Turner and Quentin Bisch in 2016, with no filler anywhere in the structure.
At eau de parfum strength it is a serious proposition. Eight to ten hours is routine, the opening projects strongly, and two sprays is the right dose unless you intend to be the most noticeable person in the room. Spraying onto skin rather than hair or clothing gives the smoothest result. Eighty millilitres is a long term purchase for an evening fragrance, so it suits somebody who wears it regularly through autumn and winter rather than occasionally, and it is made for women, for nights out and for cold air.
Behind it stands a New York fashion house, established by a Venezuelan designer whose first collection was presented in 1981. The fragrance arm opened in 1988 under a Spanish licence to Puig, the owner of the clothing company since 1995.
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