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Bad Boy Gift Set
Wrapped presents are easier when the box does the work for you, and the Carolina Herrera Bad Boy Gift Set is one of the simplest men's gifts in the range for exactly that reason. What is inside it smells like two fragrances stitched together. The first half is dry and peppery: bergamot for lift, then pink pepper and white pepper at once, one bright and slightly sweet, the other sharp and dusty. Clary sage keeps that stretch herbal and a little bitter, and cedarwood holds the middle dry and splintery. The second half is the opposite. Cocoa arrives unsweetened and powdery, nothing like chocolate in a bar, and tonka bean smooths it into a soft, warm, faintly biscuit tin finish. Men who think they dislike sweetness in a fragrance tend to make an exception here, because the sweet part only shows up after half an hour of something quite severe.
It suits evenings and cold weather, and it is young in character without being juvenile with it. Most of the people wearing it are in their twenties and thirties, though nothing about the scent itself rules out anybody older who likes the sound of it. Seven materials, two clear halves, and no wasted motion between them. The turn comes at around the half hour mark, reliably enough that you can wait for it. As a gift it has the advantage of a bottle that gets recognised on sight, which matters more than it should when somebody opens a present in front of you. Louise Turner and Quentin Bisch are credited with the composition.
Behind it stands Carolina Herrera, the New York fashion house the Venezuelan born designer started after her 1981 debut. Scent production is a licensed business and has been Puig's since 1988.
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