Good Girl Perfume Review: Does The Gimmicky Bottle Live Up To Hype?
The fashion world best knows Venezuelan-American fashion designer Carolina Herrera for her styling of several first ladies, including Michelle Obama, Laura Bush, Melania Trump, and Jacqueline Onassis. In the 1980s, a Spanish fragrance company named Puig licensed Herrera’s name and began creating fragrances.
Over the years, Herrera’s name has backed a variety of perfumes, but her 2016 launch of Good Girl cemented Herrera as a producer of one of the best perfumes for women. For Herrera, Good Girl perfume was her most significant success in nearly two decades.
Carolina Herrera’s Good Girl perfume is one of the top perfumes for women, at least according to our rankings.
Carolina Herrera’s Good Girl Review – Basics
Good Girl is considered more of an evening wear fragrance. So you might think dinner and drinks, overlooking a skyline, or some other sophisticated experience.
But in reality, Good Girl serves as a “going out” aroma no matter what “going out” means to you.
When launched, Good Girl immediately breached top-selling perfume lists worldwide. It surged as a popular women’s perfume near immediately. Good Girl did $200 million in sales in year one alone. That’s exceptional, impressive stuff.
Good Girl’s packaging is part of its enigmatic lure. The elongated bottle, which depicts a woman’s stiletto, appeals to the eye.
It’s a fun play, but not so fun it feels flippant. That said, some people do find this packaging to be a bit too quirky and gimmicky. I’m indifferent to the idea.
What Does Carolina Herrera’s Good Girl Smell Like?
You will catch sweet vanilla alongside base notes of must, wood. The official notes are jasmine, tuberose, cacao, almond, coffee, and tonka bean. I’ve never smelled a tonka bean, so I’m not entirely sure what that means.
The initial olfactory impact indeed erupts with sweetness. This is a sweet smell upfront and throughout. Some people pick up on a hint of chocolate, although I never caught that. But rarely do I pick up on some of the more miniscule aromatic additions. I often think in a lot of cases, they just put those in so the description pops more. But what do I know?
Good Girl is energetic, alive, and feels fun and playful. That’s all by design and intention. It works. It certainly injects energy into a night out with your friends or lover alike.
How Long Does Good Girl Last?
When it comes to top perfumes for women, we typically consider a mark of at least 7 hours to be “good.” However, in the case of Good Girl, it wildly exceeds this standard, lasting around ten glorious hours.
Given we do consider Good Girl more of a cocktail hour experience and less of a corporate affair, you might not reap these benefits. In other words, applying it first thing in the morning may not be in the cards.
But hey, you do you. It’s all subjective.
How To Get Good Girl Samples
You’re in luck, we have them in stock! These Good Girl samples are some of our most popular. By snagging a Good Girl sample, you can try it out before committing to the larger, full-bottle purchase.
Good Girl Marketing – Karlie Kloss
Good Girl leverages the supermodel prowess of Karlie Kloss in its marketing campaigns. The ads convey the idea of Good Girl perfume bringing bliss and feminism-confidence into a world of chaos. Kloss assuredly walks through a traffic accident to get to her waiting man.
My only issue is, why didn’t she make sure the people in the cab were OK? But, I digress; this Good Girl review isn’t about logic in marketing plays. It’s about a top-of-the-line fragrance.
The idea captured in the marketing is that girls can live as both naughty and good.
Final Thoughts
Carolina Herrera’s Good Girl embodies the energetic, take-control woman who sometimes carries a small chip on her shoulder. She gets what she wants. This fragrance works better for evening hours and less for work hours. The Stiletto bottle sometimes feels forced, but overall, this is a solid perfume experience.