Very Good Girl
Vanilla bourbon is what people remember about Carolina Herrera Very Good Girl Eau de Parfum 80ml, and the 80ml is the size to buy once you have worn it and know you want it to hand every day.
It starts tart. Redcurrant gives a sharp red fruit snap and lychee softens that almost immediately, sweet and faintly perfumed in a way that reads as tropical without going anywhere near the tropics. The middle is a straight flower pairing: rose, full and jammy here rather than cool and green, with lily behind it adding a clean, slightly waxy lift. Underneath, vanilla bourbon does the heavy work, dark and resinous rather than milky, and vetiver cuts into it with a dry, rooty, earthy bitterness that keeps the sweetness from getting out of hand. The argument between those two materials is the reason the fragrance holds attention for as long as it does.
Six materials, used plainly and in the open, with nothing buried. It projects properly for the first hour and then settles close to the skin, lasting a good eight hours on most people, which is what an eau de parfum at this strength ought to be doing for the money. Cold weather suits it best and evenings suit it better still, though plenty of people wear it to work with a lighter hand on the atomiser. At 80ml this is the full size bottle, the one that works out cheapest by the millilitre and the one that will not run dry in the middle of winter. Louise Turner, Quentin Bisch and Shyamala Maisondieu are credited with it, and the fragrance dates from 2021.
The label was started by the designer Carolina Herrera in New York, where her first collection appeared in 1981. Her fragrances have been licensed to Puig from 1988 onwards, and the fashion division passed to the same Spanish group in 1995.
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