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Good Girl Jasmine Absolute
Carolina Herrera Good Girl Jasmine Absolute Eau de Parfum takes the flower that was only ever part of the supporting cast in this line and pushes it to the front, which is the entire reason the version exists. Mandarin orange opens it, bright and a little candied, and a blackcurrant accord sits just behind, tart and faintly green, doing the useful work of stopping the first minute from heading straight for dessert. Then the jasmine arrives properly and does not hold back. It is rich and slightly heady, the kind of white flower that occupies a room rather than staying politely on the wrist, and bitter almond cuts across it with an edge somewhere between amaretto and a chemist's shop, which is precisely what keeps the flower from turning syrupy.
The base is where it becomes frankly indulgent. A toffee accord brings a cooked, buttery sweetness, and roasted tonka bean takes that darker, into something closer to sugar left too long in the pan, dry rather than syrupy and carrying a faint bitterness that stops the whole thing cloying. What you are left with on skin after a few hours is warm, sweet and quite dense. At eau de parfum strength it has the oil to see out an evening and it projects honestly, so two sprays will serve you better than four. Cooler weather suits it; in real heat the almond and the toffee can turn heavy and a little airless. It is made for women and it behaves like a going out scent rather than a desk one, which is worth knowing if you were hoping for the daytime member of the family.
Carolina Herrera is a New York fashion house carrying the name of its Venezuelan born founder, who showed her first collection in 1981. Perfume came seven years later, in 1988, under licence to the Spanish group Puig, and Puig went on to buy the clothing side of the business in 1995. In fragrance the house now rests on two franchises above all others, the 212 line that started in 1997 and Good Girl.
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