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Bad Boy
Clary sage is the quiet reason Carolina Herrera Bad Boy Eau de Toilette 100ml holds together, and the 100ml is the bottle to buy if the scent is already part of your routine.
Most people talk about the two ends of this fragrance. The opening is peppery and bright, bergamot with pink pepper and white pepper over it, one sweet and sparkling, the other dusty and dry. The close is warm and powdery, cocoa without sugar and tonka bean smoothing it over. What joins the two is clary sage, herbal and faintly bitter, with cedarwood beside it adding the smell of sharpened pencils. Without that middle the fragrance would be two unrelated halves, and with it the whole thing reads as deliberate.
At toilette strength this is a lighter proposition than the parfum version of the same name, and that suits a scent with this much pepper in it. Expect five or six hours, with real presence for the first hour and a close, warm trail afterwards.
Seven materials, two moods, and one of the easier men's fragrances to wear in any season because of the lightness. It is a young scent without being a juvenile one, and it has enough bitterness in the middle to keep it from being read as sweet by anyone standing next to you. The 100ml works out better by volume than the smaller bottle and is the obvious choice for daily use. Behind the formula sit Louise Turner and Quentin Bisch, the fragrance itself having arrived in 2019.
Carolina Herrera is a fashion name from New York. The designer, born in Venezuela, showed her opening collection in 1981, and since 1988 the perfumes have come from Puig in Spain, now owner of the clothing business as well.
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