Very Good Girl
Small bottles make better presents than people think, and Carolina Herrera Very Good Girl Eau de Parfum 30ml is a good example: enough of a well known fragrance to be generous, not so much that you are imposing a scent on somebody for the next three years. It is sweet and it is unapologetic about it. Redcurrant starts things tart, lychee turns that to juice almost at once, and then rose comes through deep and faintly jammy with lily giving a cool, clean lift above it. The last act belongs to vanilla bourbon, thick and dark, with vetiver underneath contributing the earthy bitterness that stops the sweetness going soft. That tension between the vanilla and the vetiver is the whole reason the fragrance works rather than cloys, and it is audible from the first spray to the last hour. Six materials is all it takes, and none of them is wasted.
Eau de parfum strength means the 30ml is not a lesser version of anything. It wears exactly as the bigger bottles do, strong at first and then close to the skin for hours, and it is the size that fits in a bag without being noticed. The formula is the work of Louise Turner, Quentin Bisch and Shyamala Maisondieu, and the fragrance appeared in 2021. Cold weather and evenings are where it belongs, and it is aimed at women. Nobody will accuse it of being subtle, at any size. If you are buying for someone who already owns a larger bottle, this is the one that goes travelling with them.
Carolina Herrera has been a New York fashion house since the Venezuelan born designer showed her first collection there in 1981, and the perfumes have been produced on licence by Puig since 1988.
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