Good Girl

The house tiers five raw materials today; twelve are retained here. The gap goes back to 2016: the launch description, which retailers relay without changing it, named twelve, and the current page has shortened the list without denying anything.

What the house declares

The product page gives almond in the top, jasmine sambac and tuberose in the heart, roasted tonka bean and cocoa in the base. Coffee is not placed in a tier there but named with the almond as the sharp stroke of the opening.

The six raw materials that came from the launch

The 2016 description added bergamot and lemon beneath almond and coffee, orange blossom and iris beside the two white flowers, vanilla and praline beneath tonka bean and cocoa. Those six are kept.

What stays outside

The long list that American retailers serve extends the base with sandalwood, musk, amber, cashmere wood, cinnamon, patchouli and cedar, and slips a Bulgarian rose into the center. The house no longer carries them: they stay in prose.

A contrast the critics did not find

The announced opposition between white flowers and roasted beans makes the argument of the fragrance. Robin, at Now Smell This, finds only a trace of it: the coffee is missing to her, cocoa and almond pass as a watermark, and the base joins that of the mass-market orientals.

What the label declares

The list carries the series of regulated allergens — linalool, hydroxycitronellal, benzyl salicylate, coumarin, limonene, geraniol, citronellol, isoeugenol, hexyl cinnamal, citral — two ultraviolet filters and one colorant, EXT. Violet 2.