Wednesday, 1 April 2026

GIRL by Pharrell Williams (with Comme des garçons)


Brand: Pharrell Williams
Perfume: Girl
Concentration: edp
Notes: top - neroli, lavender, white pepper
           middle - iris, styrax, violet
           base - patchouli, sandalwood, cedar
Ingredients: Alcohol Denat. (79% vol.), Fragrance (Parfum), Water (Aqua), Ethylhexyl Methoxycinnamate (Octyl Methoxycinnamate), Limonene, Butylphenyl Methylpropional, Coumarin, Alpha-Isomethyl Ionone, Benzyl Salicylate, Ethylhexyl Salicylate (Octyl Salicylate), Butyl Methoxydibenzoylmethane, Linalool, Geraniol, Amyl Cinnamal, Citronellol, Citral
Information on the packaging: Made in France by Comme des garçons parfum S.A., 16 Place Vendôme, 75001, Paris
Brand owner (now): ---
Made in France.

 What mostly intrigues me about Girl is what feels like a starchy element. It makes me think of that time when I took a bite of a crunchy green apple and my mouth filled with a floury juice, slightly astringent. I never experienced that type of apple before so I was taken aback. Having said that, I enjoy to smell this here.

The fragrance exudes to me the idea of a sunny, yet cold day of spring. It has a particular freshness and I cannot but link it to a vegetable facet, to a parsnip-like odour more precisely.

After some hours, the perfume warms up a little bit and now I imagine how a very diluted vetiver wants to come to the surface. The scent does not evolve that much and is mostly linear.

Girl has a cute "perfumy" side but the sweetness stays quite low which makes the fragrance unisex.

The overall sensation is that I am wearing an abstract creation, alive nonetheless, serene, and fresh in the way a starched shirt can be.

Girl could be considered a simple scent, however, is composed in such a way that I want to smell it over and over again.

It has absolutely nothing in common with a celebrity fragrance and, the fact that it was made in partnership with Comme des garçons, it truly shows.

My verdict: 9 out of 10.

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