Carolina Herrera continues an exploration of contemporary womanhood with the release of Good Girl Blush Eau de Parfum, a daring explosion of contrasts that forms a uniquely powdery expression of floral femininity.
The central tenet of the Good Girl personality is duality; an olfactory expression of a woman’s ability to be at once sensual and strong, instinctive and intelligent, romantic and empowered.
For this new edition, perfumer Quentin Bisch worked with his colleagues Shyamala Maisondieu and Christophe Raynaud finding instant visual inspiration in the iconic Good Girl stiletto bottle itself: ‘It instantly brought to mind the vanilla bean. The heel is the strength of the shoe, and I imagined the vanilla as the strength of the fragrance.’
Using differing extractions of the same ingredient was an ingenious way of delving further into the story of Good Girl. Not only did the perfumers create a sunny explosion of fragrance by contrasting ingredients with each other, but they also found a way of creating complementary notes within each ingredient. ‘We were already working with the gourmand side of vanilla in previous incarnations of Good Girl, so using an additional powdery extraction was the ideal way of articulating a blush,’ says Bisch. When it came to Ylang Ylang, ‘we had the luminosity of the flower petal itself, and by using with the deeper, more narcotic and sensual side of this alluring flower.
Good Girl Blush Eau de Parfum is available at Myer and David Jones.
