Carolina Herrera
Bad Boy
The masculine counterpart of Good Girl, Carolina Herrera's Bad Boy sets a pepper and a sage against a gourmand cocoa and tonka bean. A modern spicy woody in a lightning-bolt bottle.
Main accords
Pyramid & evolution
Unofficial sources Data drawn from unofficial sources, not from the house: this pyramid (like the year and gender shown) may contain discrepancies.
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Opening First minutes
Pepper · Bergamot
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Heart ~30 min to 2 h
Clary sage · Cedar
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Base Several hours
Cocoa · Tonka bean · Amber
What its composition says
- 2 materials on top, 2 in the heart, 3 in the base: the three stages are of comparable size.
- Cocoa: its rarest material, which only 47 of the 1,980 perfumes analysed in the catalogue contain — about one in 42.
- Bergamot: conversely, one of the most widely used materials in the catalogue — 43% of the analysed perfumes contain it.
- Gourmand, spicy, aromatic, woody, citrus and amber: 6 registers of raw materials share its palette, with gourmand supplying 2 of 7.
Frequencies measured on the Olfact catalogue only.
Scent profile
Estimates derived from the composition — not measured.
Wear time
Good
7 to 9 h estimated on skin
Projection
Generous
fills a room
Ideal seasons
Time of day
Made for cool to cold weather — below 15 °C (59 °F).
Ideal occasions
- Dates & seduction Its warm, sensual facets play the card of closeness.
- Evenings & nights out A present trail that holds its own when the light drops.
Avoid if…
- you shun warm, opulent trails, especially in summer.
If Bad Boy by Carolina Herrera seduces, it is through its enveloping warmth: a sensual trail that settles in and that you want to find on yourself again.
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