Azzaro launched Wanted Girl in spring 2019, three years after Wanted for men. Four IFF perfumers, Fanny Bal, Jean-Christophe Hérault, Loc Dong and Dominique Ropion, composed this imaginary flower: pomegranate and ginger blossom in the top, datura and dulce de leche in the heart, Haitian vetiver and tonka bean in the base. Georgia Fowler is its face.
For Juliette Faliu, in Nez and on Auparfum, Wanted Girl replays the sweet, caramelized orange blossom of Lady Million; from the launch, Auparfum saw in it a gourmand archetype calibrated for the market.
Olfastory’s review
A blank shot
In October 2019, in the eighth issue of Nez, republished on Auparfum on April 5, 2020, Juliette Faliu judges that Wanted Girl does not stand out, any more than Wanted for men, which stayed faithful to the woody, ambery, oriental structure launched by 1 Million.
She finds in it the score of sweet, caramelized orange blossom, doused with gel musks and fabric softener, barely distinguished from Lady Million by a few tart red fruits and a hint of ginger, over a good dose of ambery woods.
The trigger-shaped bottle, echoing the cylinder of the masculine version, does not convince her any more: in terms of creativity, she concludes, the fragrance will remain a “damp squib.”
An archetype of the grand féminin
As early as May 6, 2019, the article by Jeanne Doré and Anne-Sophie Hojlo on Auparfum gives first impressions. The announced flowers can be sensed at the start, but their petals seem frozen in sugar by milky, vanilla notes, judged invasive and cloying.
Gourmand, fruity and powerful, the fragrance ticks, in their eyes, every box of the grand féminin shaped by the market: a gourmand oriental that takes itself for a floral, a variant of a single archetype that only changes its name and bottle.