Good Girl Carolina Herrera perfume – a fragrance for women 2016

I hear and read quite a few reviews crapping all over this fragrance. They call it trashy and cheap. I wonder how much they are being influence by the bottle. I do agree that the bottle looks cheap and a bit trashy, but fun trashy. Girls night out trashy, when you are owning it, trashy. Lots of us had that phase or at least of couple of those nights in our life, in moderation it was fun, just like this fragrance. Who doesn’t want to let out their inner vixen once in a while. Good Girl is not a fragrance I want to wear everyday, but for a night out or a sexy date night, it’s a great choice.

The opening is bright, tart citrus and sweet white florals, mostly tuberose. Once it start to settle on the skin the coffee add a bit of dark bitterness that balances some of the sweetness of the florals and the base notes that are starting to develop. I like the nuttiness of the almond here, though it is pretty subtle and blends into the praline in the base. Once it dries on the skin it is warm, dark, resinous and a little sweet and spicy, OK more than a little sweet. You do have to enjoy a sweet fragrance with this one. I love how benzoin works with my chemistry, so that is likely a big reason I really enjoy this fragrance. On me, it is the dominant note once it fully dries down.

Good Girl has pretty powerful performance. It lasts forever and projects quite far. If you aren’t careful with application it can easily be obnoxious and overwhelming. Two to four sprays is all I need for it to last 12+ hours and project well beyond arms reach. With overspraying it is easily room filling. When I first got a sample of this I made the mistake of wearing this on a hot humid summer day. Do not recommend! While it still smelled lovely, it didn’t turn sour and unpleasant, it was so suffocating and overwhelming. Definitely too much of a good thing. I tried it again in the fall and enjoyed it enough to add a full bottle to my collection. Since then I have worn it most for cold weather nights, but everyonce in I while I wear it during the day when the mood strikes me.

While I find Good Girl a sultry, super feminine fragrance there is something about the dry down that makes me think it could also be super sexy on a man. I need to get myself a sample of Bad Boy to see if it is the masculine version to me.

I said earlier the bottle looks kinda cheap, but I don’t think it feels cheap. The bottle feels well made and of good quality. The atomizer is perfect for this fragrance, it delivers a fine mist puff that gives a lovely light application. I love the dark, midnight blue colour. It really represents the fragrance well. Also, while the number of special edition bottles is ridiculous, a lot of them are really cute, especially those glittery ones.