Very Good Girl
At 30ml, Carolina Herrera Very Good Girl Eau de Parfum 30ml is the low risk way into a fragrance that divides people, and it is small enough to live in a coat pocket or a handbag rather than on a shelf at home. What divides them is the sweetness. Redcurrant and lychee set up an opening that is tart for about a minute and then turns juicy, and from there the fragrance never really goes dry. Rose and lily hold the middle, the rose deep and slightly jammy, the lily cooler and cleaner beside it, and the pair of them keep things recognisably floral while the base builds underneath. Vanilla bourbon dominates that base, thick and dark, with vetiver providing the only genuinely earthy, bitter counterweight in the composition. If you like perfume sweet with something sharp running through it, this works. If you do not, the small bottle means you have lost very little finding out.
Concentration is eau de parfum, so even at this size it is not a watered version of the scent. It is simply less of it, and the wear is the same: strong for the first hour, close to the skin and long lasting afterwards. Two sprays will do what four would in a lighter formula. Evenings, cold weather and anywhere you would rather be noticed than blend into the furniture. It is also the obvious choice as a first bottle for a teenager or as a second one kept in a bag for after work. Louise Turner, Quentin Bisch and Shyamala Maisondieu are the three perfumers on a fragrance that first appeared in 2021.
The house is the New York label Carolina Herrera, set up by the designer whose debut was seen there in 1981. Puig, its Spanish licensee for scent, has owned the clothing side since 1995.
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