Girl of Now Elie Saab 2017

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7.4 / 10 256 Ratings

Girl of Now is a perfume by Elie Saab for women and was released in 2017. The scent is sweet-gourmand. The longevity is above-average. It is being marketed by Shiseido Group / Beauté Prestige International.

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Perfumers

Dominique Ropion, Sophie Labbé, IFF (International Flavors & Fragrances)

Fragrance Notes

Top Notes	Pear, Mandarin orange, Roasted pistachio
Heart Notes	Orange blossom absolute, Magnolia, Almond
Base Notes	Patchouli, Tonka bean, Cashmeran, Almond milk

Ratings

Scent

7.4 (256 Ratings)

Longevity

8.0 (232 Ratings)

Sillage

7.7 (231 Ratings)

Bottle

8.2 (243 Ratings)

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Submitted by OPomone, last update on 22.10.2020.

Interesting Facts

The faces of the advertising campaign are models Ulrikke Høyer, Lineisy Montero and Gabby Westbrook.

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10/22/2020

7.5
Scent 8
Longevity 8
Sillage 2
Bottle

Connie

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Connie

Nice almond scent...

I smell almonds, mostly. What I like about the scent is the note of orange blossom. Orange blossom is always a guarantee that I can find a fragrance at least not bad.

Well, the almond dominates very much, which makes this fragrance actually very beautiful and creamy, but the other notes sink totally into the dominant almond scent, which on the other hand makes the fragrance very "mainstream", uncomplicated and almost a bit boring.

Totally beautiful fragrance without question, which is very well received by most people but very " simple"... It is immediately clear for every fragrance connoisseur that it is an Elie Saab fragrance, because this Elie Saab fragrance also has this distinctive chewing-gum-like note, like all Elie Saab fragrances...

I tend to get headaches from some scents, unfortunately it was also the case with these scents after 10 minutes... So if you are prone to headaches or migraines, you should be careful.

10/08/2020

9
Scent 9
Longevity 8
Sillage 7
Bottle

Chapoend

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Chapoend

Less helpful Review 1

Gourmand

The fragrance smells very delicious like a dessert.
Is a fragrance for the winter (it is especially good at Christmas). You can clearly smell the almond. Reminiscent of marzipan, but very well tolerated and not obtrusive.
The bottle is sweet, but nothing special.

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10/03/2020

JSpines
136 Reviews

JSpines

Elie Saab Girl of Now

Oh how I love this! I give myself proper credit for showing some restraint and waiting until the cool Autumn weather was here before opening my bottle and trying it out. I was a little nervous blind-buying it because I had already bought (and tried) Girl of Now Forever and it was a failure on my skin so I was hoping that this one wouldn't follow in it's flanker's foot steps.

I can breathe a sigh of relief! This is the perfect fragrance for cold weather. I can see myself wearing this one pretty regularly throughout the Fall and Winter months and even into early Spring.

For me, this fragrance is comfort in a bottle. It hugs me like a warm blanket. Completely enveloping but never overpowering on the senses. I can get away with two or three sprays and it doesn't choke me out. It's blended so beautifully that I find it difficult to pick out each individual note (I love fragrances like that!)

There is a deep, rich, boozy quality to this scent but the sweetness tempers it keeping the composition perfecty balanced. It's like drinking a rye and coke. The tonka bean, mandarin and cashmerian is what stands out on my skin most predominantly. This is not an orange blossom bomb on me like it is on so many others and the patchouli is on the lighter side. It's interesting how everyone's skin pulls something different to different degrees. That's the fun, exciting part about testing different fragrances, you never know what you may experience.

I adore this scent and it is destined to be one of my favourites. I will always have this in my collection!

09/04/2019

1
Scent 10
Longevity 8
Sillage

PBullFriend
301 Reviews

PBullFriend

Helpful Review

synthetic disappointment

I like the notes listed in this one, and the bottle is so cute. And I love marzipan and heliotrope notes. Sadly, when I actually sampled it, it made me think of the worst of industrial bathroom soaps. The only note listed that I'm not fond of is orange blossom, so naturally it's the orange blossom that punches me in the nose here. A sickening experience, and I'm jealous of the nice experiences other reviewers had.

03/21/2019

9
Scent 9
Longevity 8
Sillage 9
Bottle

MarieTheres

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MarieTheres

Top Review 26

Coffee and cake

Here in the old town there is a cute café hidden in one corner. It's called Café Mandelrose and the concept is quite nice. Furnished in the style of a Viennese coffee house, there is (almost) everything with almond and rose. In the morning at breakfast the cooked cheese is refined with rose petals, the homemade almond ice-cream is the hammer and only the rose tea... Hach!

Every time I spray Girl of Now, I feel like I'm in this coffee. The big red velvet armchair almost swallows me, the heavy wall clock ticks, it smells of fresh coffee, cake, flowers and almonds. My heart beats for almonds and everything you can conjure out of them. Girl of Now sniffs for me like an almond tart with crispy crust, under which pears and tangerine jam wait. In addition there is a delicious Latte Macchiato with almond milk or vanilla syrup - the fragrance experience is ready!

When sprayed on, the girl initially appears slightly alcoholic, but this note quickly fades away. Then it gets sweet, gourmandig and nice warm. I have kept the flowery bottle in turquoise and gold especially for the cold season and now, with the beginning of spring, it is as good as empty. Perfect timing!

I think the durability is really great, on my coat I can still smell GoN even after days, tonka bean and almond leave a wonderfully sweet veil on the clothes. Fans of Dior Poison Girl EdT or YSL Cinéma should definitely try this fragrance - you might like it!

3 Replies

02/24/2019

Cumulnimbus
77 Reviews

Cumulnimbus

Nutty a bit too sweet

I'm not usually very fond of this house's offers, but this one is very good for those of us who love nutty notes. Good performance, sweet almond easy going perfume. I still love L'erbolario's Mandorla better for its super realistic slightly bitter green almond fruit from the tree beginning

01/21/2019

6.5
Scent 8
Longevity 6
Sillage 9
Bottle

Chanelle
1 Review

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Chanelle

Top Review 18

I was born yesterday.

Girl of now - I liked the flacon, the name didn't sound quite so stupid, the faded scents are all Nellycatcher. What about the scent, I wondered. I wanted to know for sure: Is this the Gourmand to end all Gourmands? Did Elie Saab reinvent the wheel?
No, he just skilfully remixed. But today this is normal in the mainstream sector. (and not only there!)

Even the top note of the fragrance that I generously sprayed seemed super familiar to me...I had only recently rung it, hadn't I? After some thought, it occurred to me: Black opium. Which I found so meaningless that I didn't even want to think of a statement about it.
After some time there came a new turn, but still sufficiently familiar to me: Alien showed up. Although GON did not perform quite as violently as the true alien, but somewhat more easily, but I clearly smelled extraterrestrial life.
Now it was fruity. Pear, pure, sweet and juicy, bedded on a sea of cashmere. Unfortunately I can't remember where I smelled it before, but I know this combo.
Never and at no time could I smell the almond I loved, the fine tonka bean or my beautiful orange blossom absolute.
That's what the mix of Black Alien plus X thinks.

Only I can't enjoy him because I'm obviously yesterday's.

3 Replies

01/14/2019

7.5
Scent 7
Longevity 7
Sillage 7
Bottle

Beere

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Beere

Very helpful Review 13

Marzipan now

Girl of now!... Today's girl.
Ha! That's right! I am a girl or a young woman and I live today, so this must be made according to the name for me. Also the fragrance pyramid reads very appealing for me. Since I got a bottle for around 30,-, I ordered blind without testing it first, after all I am a girl of today.... And not yesterday!
The bottle is really girlishly cute and should remind of a flower seen from above. Well, it's nice to be a girl today. I sprayed something on my wrist and first waved it in the air, so that the first alcohol disappeared directly into the air and not into my nose, which a modern girl doesn't like.
I smelled.... jooaa he is a little heavy and immediately very sweet. I find en quite gourmandig and sweet and notice little of the fruit notes but rather still something of the mandarin. After a few minutes, I'm sure. Yeah, for me, one of today's girls, he smells like marzipan. Sweet, creamy marzipan. Only in the background does something flowery appear softly and quietly.
In that case, girls today smell so?
But I don't always want to smell like marzipan. Maybe at Christmas and when it is very cold, this scent gives warmth. It's beautiful and wearable, but for me there are better sweet and gourmand scents.
Still quite nice and portable.

2 Replies

06/12/2018

6
Scent 7
Longevity 6
Sillage 6
Bottle

Jazzy76
320 Reviews

Jazzy76

Only for gorgeous

Maybe I'm too old fashioned , maybe i'm too against the mainstream, but it seems to me that certain fragrances of nowadays come out not from a perfume laboratory , but from "The great baker" or "Master chef"!
I tested a few hours ago Girl of now and i must say that the pistachio and Almond notes are too strong.
It must be a fragrance, not a sicilian cassata! The patchouli base is good, warm and pleasant, but all is too, too sweet.
Me too I like many oriental-gourmand fragrances, but only if the ingredients are well combined and the sugary notes aren't too intoxicating.
I'm sorry because i'm a fan of Elie Saab fragrances, but this one isn't my cup of tea!

10/22/2017

Anthology
18 Reviews

Anthology

Very helpful Review 4

almond-minty

I don’t see a girl from nowadays here. It is not like all other perfumes. It has a different approach. It is almond-minty and refreshing.
The opening is fruity and zesty with some traces of pistachios. Then, in a few minutes, the composition becomes refreshing and minty. Maybe the mixture of orange blossom and almond, the notes listed, result in a minty smell. I feel a minty odour with a touch of ginger. Like a cold shower in a hot summer day. The almond is there undoubtedly but it stays somewhere behind and appears from time to time to touch this sparkling composition with a sweet magic wand.it is very interesting how the perfume evolves on the skin.
Then, after a while, the almond takes control of the smell. It comes in front. The smells change between them. Now I feel almond as the main smell while the minty odour goes somewhere backwards. This almond note stays until the end and becomes more and more sweet with a creamy facet.
The base is warm and sensual with tonka-patchouli-almond mixture.
Girl of Now is not a wow composition but it is bold in its own way. It does not respect the market requirements. It goes along with other perfumes but I think it will find the right girls for it.
Anyway, the bottle seems to be made today for today’s girls.
If you are a fan of Elie Saab perfumes and you like almond note in a composition, this is a try for you.