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Girl of Now
Pistachio and almond milk in the same fragrance is the reason Elie Saab Girl of Now Eau de Parfum sold the way it did, and in 2017 almost nobody else was building a perfume on nuts.
Dominique Ropion and Sophie Labbé composed it. Pistachio leads, green and salted and slightly dusty, with pear adding juice and mandarin orange a bright citrus lift. Almond follows in the middle, soft and sweet rather than bitter, with orange blossom giving a clean white floral lightness and magnolia a lemony edge. Then the base does the real work: almond milk, creamy and faintly chalky, tonka bean warm and powdery, cashmeran dry and musky, and patchouli dark and soil like underneath to stop the whole thing turning into confectionery. This one lasts properly. Six hours is normal and it will survive a long evening, with strong projection in the first hour and a soft, creamy, skin close trail afterwards. It is a fragrance people comment on, so a light hand is the sensible approach.
It suits autumn and winter, works best from late afternoon onwards, and is aimed at younger women, though the nutty dryness gives it more range than its packaging suggests. It is also the reference point for everything in the line that followed, and worth smelling first for that reason alone. The nuts are the whole argument here, and either they work on you or they do not.
The house behind it was founded in Beirut in 1982 by Elie Saab, then eighteen years old, and is known for couture gowns and red carpet dressing. Its fragrances are licensed out, and Girl of Now has become the best known of those families by a good distance.
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