Bad Boy Elixir
Leather and iris together are what set Carolina Herrera Bad Boy Elixir Eau de Parfum apart from the rest of the line, and they take it somewhere considerably more adult.
Sage opens the composition, dry and herbal with a bitter green edge, and lavender comes in alongside, handled cool and clean rather than sweet. It is a restrained beginning for a fragrance in this family. The middle is the interesting part. The leather accord is smooth and dark, a polished hide smell rather than a rough one, and iris sits against it with that cold, powdery, slightly rooty quality it alone has, something between face powder and damp earth. The two make the scent feel expensive. Cedarwood and frankincense close it, the cedarwood dry and splintery, the frankincense peppery and resinous with a thread of smoke, so the finish is sober and a little austere. Six materials and no sweetness to speak of, which is a deliberate contrast with the better known versions of Bad Boy. At this strength it is long lasting and close to the skin after the opening, nine hours is realistic, and two sprays is the right dose. It is a cold weather fragrance and an evening one, and it suits men who want something with a formal, slightly severe edge.
If you find the rest of the range too sugary, this is the one in it worth your time. If the dessert like end of Bad Boy is what drew you to the name in the first place, this will come as a shock.
Carolina Herrera, who was born in Venezuela, set up her fashion house in New York and showed her first collection in 1981. The perfumes have been licensed to Spain's Puig since 1988, and Puig took over the clothing company in 1995.
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