Good Girl Gone Bad

Mark Behnke, ÇaFleureBon, October 2012

Mark Behnke, on ÇaFleureBon, named Good Girl Gone Bad his favorite of the collection’s first three perfumes in October 2012. In his view, Alberto Morillas takes well-bred flowers and lets their bad side out, with jasmine leading the way.

Tuberose and narcissus, he writes, pull jasmine out of her schoolgirl pinafore; the osmanthus turns more to leather than to apricot, and a restrained skin accord of musk and vetiver shows at last how far these flowers go astray.

Patty White, Perfume Posse, October 2012

For Patty White, on Perfume Posse in October 2012, the girl in the name is not going bad: she went over long ago. She describes narcotic white flowers and a light violet and plum over a woody, velvety base of amber, vetiver, and musk.

Replying to her readers, she speaks of an adult, knowing sensuality rather than a sexual perfume, with no vulgarity. The deep fruit notes, in her eyes, bring Good Girl Gone Bad closer to a unisex perfume.

Sherapop, Parfumo, 2013

Sherapop, on Parfumo in 2013, finds nothing of the temptress the house promises. She smells only a clean, innocuous perfume, vaguely woody, vaguely floral, and vaguely fresh, and concludes that the girl’s only vice is lying.