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I bought Goda For Her after it followed me around the internet for weeks. The pitch is a pheromone perfume that makes people notice you, which sounded like marketing until I had worn it for a couple of months. So here is what two months of near-daily wear actually got me.

What it scored

• Scent: 5 out of 5
• Longevity: 5 out of 5
• The compliments: 5 out of 5
• Application and ease of use: 4 out of 5
• Value for the size: 3 out of 5

Total: 22 out of 25

The scent

This is the part that sold me. It is a floral amber, bright at the top with jasmine and a little blackcurrant and pink pepper, and then it warms down into something soft and creamy over the first hour. The middle is where it gets good, a rounder floral of peony and rose, before it settles into a base the brand describes as panna cotta and amber. That creamy, almost dessert-like finish is what I keep catching on myself later in the day. It does not sit on top of my skin the way a lot of perfumes do. It sinks in and turns into something that smells like me on a good day rather than a perfume I am wearing. It leans grown-up rather than sweet, which I prefer, and it never tipped into the loud cloud you can smell from across a room.

A couple of people have asked if it was a designer scent. It costs $39 for the bottle, so I let them keep guessing.

Longevity

This surprised me more than anything. I would put it on in the morning and still catch it on my collar at dinner. Not loud by then, but there. The label says up to 12 hours and the formula is oil based rather than the usual alcohol spray, and on my skin that held up better than most things I have worn. The oil base is probably why it lingers instead of flashing off in the first hour the way alcohol-heavy perfumes do. Cheaper perfumes I have used were gone by lunch. This one stayed into the evening without a reapply.

Two or three drops on the wrists and neck did a full day. You do not need to drench yourself, and you should not.

The compliments

This is the whole reason the perfume exists, so it is the part I watched most closely. I went in a skeptic. I cannot tell you anything is being switched on in anyone’s brain, and I would not trust a review that claimed it could prove that. What I can tell you is what happened. People started saying things. A coworker stopped me to ask what I had on. My husband noticed the first night before I had said a word. A friend asked where it was from after she caught it on me.

It was not constant and nobody chased me down the street. But it happened often enough across two months that I stopped chalking it up to chance. Whether that is the pheromones or just a warm scent that suits me, I cannot separate the two, and I am not going to pretend I can. The practical result was more compliments than I usually get, and for this kind of perfume that is the only test that matters.

What I did not expect was how well it worked across different settings. I wore it to work, to dinners, and on a couple of plain weekend days, and it never felt out of place. The brand pitches it as one scent for everything from the office to a night out, and that part held up for me. It read as appropriate at a work lunch and still felt like something for the evening, which is more than I can say for the sweeter perfumes I own that only suit one occasion.

Application and ease of use

The bottle is a dropper rather than a spray, which took me a wear or two to get used to. You squeeze the lid, put a few drops on your wrists, neck, and behind the ears, and rub it in. The brand suggests focusing on pulse points and the places you tend to sweat, since the warmth is what carries the scent, and that did seem to make it last longer on me than when I first dabbed it on randomly. Once I had the routine it was easy, but if you are expecting a normal atomiser spray, this is not that, and the first morning felt fiddly.

It is also potent straight from the bottle, so the learning curve is mostly about using less than you think. I overdid it the first day. One drop per pulse point is plenty, and you build from there. Knock it for a slight learning curve, but once you find your amount it is genuinely simple. It is the kind of thing I now put on without thinking, before a dinner out or a day when I want to feel a bit more pulled together.

Value for the size

Here is my one real reservation. The bottle is 0.5 fl oz, which is 15 ml, and that is small. At $39 it is not cheap for that size, and when it arrived I did a double take at how little it was. What softens it is that the dropper means you use very little each time, so it lasts longer than the size suggests. A 15 ml bottle of something you spray three times a day would vanish, but a few drops makes it stretch, and mine lasted comfortably through the two months with plenty left. There are also buy-more-get-more deals on the site if you already know you like it, which bring the effective price down per bottle. Still, the upfront price against the size is the thing most likely to give a first-time buyer pause, and it gave me pause too. That is why this is the category I scored lowest. I would rather have seen a slightly larger bottle at the same price, even knowing how little I actually use.

Pros and cons

What I liked:

• A warm floral amber that smells more expensive than it is
• Genuinely long wear on skin, well past most perfumes I have used
• The compliments are real, whatever is behind them
• A little goes a long way, so the small bottle stretches
• 100% vegan and cruelty-free, if that matters to you

What gave me pause:

• The 15 ml bottle is small for $39
• The dropper takes a wear or two to get used to
• Potent at first, so you have to learn your amount

The verdict

So, does it actually get you compliments? For me, yes. The scent is lovely, it lasts, and over two months it got me noticed in a way my usual perfume never did. The bottle is small and the dropper is an adjustment, but neither changed how often I reached for it.

Would I buy it again? I have. If you want a warm, grown-up scent that lasts all day and gets you a few more compliments than usual, and you are fine with a small bottle you use sparingly, this is an easy recommendation. If you want a big bottle for a low price, the size-to-cost will bother you, and that is worth knowing first. For most people who want to smell genuinely good and stand out a little more, it is worth a try. It is vegan and cruelty-free as well, which sealed it for me. You can find Goda For Her pheromone perfume on the brand’s own site.