144 Very Good Girl

No. 144 borrows the fruity-rose-vanilla structure that made Carolina Herrera's Very Good Girl a hit: red currant and lychee up top, a bold rose heart, vanilla and vetiver underneath. The opening is a genuinely close match - juicy, rosy, immediately recognisable as the same genre. The gap shows up after the first thirty minutes: the original's rose is deep and slightly boozy, backed by a rich tonka-vanilla base that projects for hours, while this version's rose reads thinner and sweeter, and the vanilla-vetiver base flattens into a generic sweet musk that sits close to the skin by the two-hour mark. It's a decent everyday fruity-floral for a low price, but it doesn't chase the original's glamour or staying power.