Carolina Herrera · 2025

Very Good Girl Elixir

Premium$$$, 3 of 5
Carolina Herrera asks $137 for 50 ml
50 ml$137

The houseFor women

VersionEau de Parfum

Black cherry and bitter almond over red rose and tuberose, sinking into warm vanilla and dark cocoa.

Carolina Herrera says

You’ll smell Black Cherry, almond, rose, tuberose, vanilla and cocoa.

More from Carolina Herrera’s description

It also mentions Bitter almond, Rose water, Warm vanilla, Dark cocoa, Red rose and Radiant vanilla.

The house’s page

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The drawn Very Good Girl Elixir bottle

When you spray ittop notes

As it settlesheart notes

What staysdry-down notes

Very Good Girl Elixir’s scent picture, a draft: cherry, almond, rose, tuberose, vanilla, cacao drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

When you spray ittop notes

Very Good Girl Elixir, when you spray it: Cherry, Almond, Limonene (orange peel)

As it settlesheart notes

Very Good Girl Elixir, as it settles: Rose, Tuberose

What staysdry-down notes

Very Good Girl Elixir, what stays: Vanilla, Cacao, Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What Carolina Herrera names

Black CherryAlmondRoseTuberoseVanillaCocoa

What the label names

9 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

2 citrus1 herbs & lavender2 florals1 sweet1 spices2 powder

Citrus2

Limonene (orange peel)Citral

Herbs & lavender1

Linalool

Florals2

Hexyl cinnamal (aldehydes)Geraniol (rose)

Sweet1

Coumarin (new-mown hay)

Spices1

Isoeugenol

Powder2

alpha-Isomethyl ionone (powder puff)Anise alcohol
10 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell10

AlcoholWaterAvobenzone (a UV filter)Benzyl benzoateA light stabiliserRed 4Benzyl alcoholExt. violet 2Red 33Yellow 5

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

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