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Bad Boy
Cocoa is the reason people either keep Carolina Herrera Bad Boy Eau de Toilette 50ml or pass it on, and at this size you can find out which camp you are in without much outlay. The first ten minutes give no hint of it. Bergamot opens clean and sharp, then pink pepper and white pepper arrive together, the pink fizzing and slightly sweet, the white dry and rasping, and clary sage runs behind them with a bitter herbal edge. Cedarwood keeps that stretch upright and dry. Then, somewhere around the half hour, the cocoa surfaces. It is unsweetened and powdery, closer to the inside of a cocoa tin than to anything in a wrapper, and tonka bean rounds it out with a soft, faintly toasted warmth. The fragrance you finish the evening with is not the one you sprayed.
Eau de toilette strength keeps it manageable. Five or six hours is usual, the pepper gone within one of those, and it does not shout across a room after the first thirty minutes. The 50ml is the practical size: enough to wear regularly, small enough to replace with something else if the base turns out not to be for you. Seven materials and a single hinge between them, which is a simple structure for a fragrance that gets talked about as though it were complicated. It suits men in cold weather and after dark, and it is at its best on someone in their twenties or thirties. Louise Turner and Quentin Bisch built it, and it appeared in 2019.
The house is New York fashion with a Venezuelan born designer at its origin: Carolina Herrera, who showed clothes from 1981 and lent her name to scent from 1988, the bottles being made by a licensee rather than in house.
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