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Bad Boy Cobalt
Carolina Herrera Bad Boy Cobalt contains truffle, which is as unusual in perfumery as it sounds and is the reason this one is worth smelling.
Lavender and pink pepper open it, dry and sharp, a conventional enough start for a men's fragrance.
Plum and geranium form the heart and begin to change the direction. Plum is dark and slightly winey rather than fresh, and geranium adds a green metallic edge that keeps it from going sweet.
The base is the point. Truffle is earthy, damp and faintly savoury, a fungal, forest-floor quality rather than a woody one, and setting it against vetiver, cedarwood and oakwood produces something genuinely damp and subterranean. It is a strange thing to find in a mainstream designer fragrance and it works.
How Bad Boy Cobalt wears
It lasts a long time and projects moderately, holding through an evening without filling a room. Autumn and winter suit it best.
Carolina Herrera Bad Boy Cobalt Eau de Parfum, created by Domitille Michalon Bertier in 2022 for Carolina Herrera, the New York house founded in 1980.
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