Carolina Herrera Good Girl & Bad Boy Fragrance Giveaway
Fashion label Carolina Herrera’s tagline may be “It feels so good to be bad”. They may want to edit it to say it also smells good to be bad. That’s because the brand has just launched a complementary men’s fragrance to its Good Girl franchise called Bad Boy. It’s a fresh spicy-ambery scent with notes of black and white pepper, bergamot, tonka bean, cocoa and amber wood. The fragrance was created by perfumers Quentin Bisch and Louise Turner, the pair behind the global smash Good Girl – a scent that has recently cracked the top 5 worldwide.
“We wanted to push the boundaries and create something new,” explains Carolina Herrera. “Most men’s fragrances today are fougeres. So we set out to reimagine it by pairing roasted tonka bean with clary sage. It is fresh yet still incredibly sexy.”
She says that when they were developing the Good Girl fragrance, the team tried over 600 different styles of shoes for the bottle shape. “We tried sneakers, ballerina flats, prostitute shoes…everything. Finally we came to the stiletto and we knew it was right for the project. For the men’s version, we asked ourselves, should we have a bottle shaped as a motorcycle helmet, boat, motorcycle, or a car? But we wanted something that was more symbolic.” Enter the lightening bolt. From the ancient Greeks to modern superhero films, the lightening bolt is iconic.
But making a lightening bolt fragrance bottle turned out to be a bigger challenge that first imagined. Most glass bottles are dropped and blown into a round shape. This bottle had to be dropped into a mold, turned upside down, then turned upside down again. More than 25% of the prototypes had to be recycled. It took months to perfect.
The Good Girl stiletto flacon took more than two years to create. It too was a technical challenge of mammoth proportions. It had to balance perfectly on the gold heel. Not surprisingly it was an immediate hit with fashionistas around the globe. The ambery-floral scent blended notes of almond, coffee, bergamot, tuberose, jasmine sambac, orris, orange blossom, Bulgarian rose, tonka bean, cacao, vanilla, praline, sandalwood, amber, musk, cinnamon and patchouli. It’s a complex blend of notes.
Initial response to Bad Boy has been very strong. The fragrance is already ranking in the top 20 in the United States and in the top 10 in the U.K. with more countries launching this spring. It looks like Carolina Herrera has another hit on her hands.
THE GIVEAWAY: I gave away a Carolina Herrera Good Girl & Bad Boy fragrance duo to one lucky ready. To enter, I asked readers to tell me in a blog post comment below how they’d rate the Bad Boy lightening bolt fragrance bottle design on a scale of 1 to 10. Franca from Canada told us and we drew her name from all entries. Congrats Franca!
Carolina Herrera Bad Boy is available in Canada at select Shoppers Drug Mart and Hudson’s Bay stores.
738 Comments
Vivi B.
April 27, 2021 at 2:56 pmI love the way it looks! It’s so unique-looking. I give it a 10/10! @xmasbabe2b
Dana Miller
April 27, 2021 at 1:40 pmWhat an eyecatching, classy duo! I rate the lightning bolt bottle a 10!
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Mary T
April 27, 2021 at 12:35 pmI rate it a 10 for originality and degree of difficulty to make. It also looks cool!
Chari Pérez
April 27, 2021 at 10:54 am10/10 Love It!!
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Donna S
April 27, 2021 at 9:54 amThe design definitely rates a 10. It is unique. @dawnalees
Bonnie Humphrey
April 27, 2021 at 7:40 amHave not seen products from Herrera in a long time…should be 10/10
Aleksandra Nearing
April 27, 2021 at 7:27 amI’d give it a 10! It looks and sounds fabulous!
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Virginia Xydea
April 27, 2021 at 2:26 amRate 10/10 ,,, it is amazing ,,,,I love the packaging ,,, ♥️♥️♥️
Onyinye Elochukwu
April 27, 2021 at 1:13 am10/10 for sure. I love it.
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Ruth Adams- Santerre
April 27, 2021 at 12:50 pmMy first impression of the Carolina Herrern “Bad Boy” fragrance bottle was that it was an Exquisite bottle made for a dominant man. The fragrance is delicious and I feel that the entire set of the Good Girl / Bad Boy is sensational. I would rate the Bad Boy a 10, it’s perfection!! 💙 User name @AdamsSanterre
Jennifer C.
April 27, 2021 at 12:39 amThe fragrance sounds wonderful. I would rate it 8/10.
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Christine Kwiat
April 27, 2021 at 12:30 amThey have come such a long way in the delicate and beautiful design for fragrance bottles. At the tender age of 5, I would organize all my Mom’s Avon bottles and imagine the shapes and designs I would make if I could. Very fun memories!
Cristina A
April 26, 2021 at 10:50 pmVery nice bottle design 9/10, pairs so well with the stiletto!
Amy D
April 26, 2021 at 10:13 pm8/10 sleek and unique design. twitter @amyzada
Carole Dube
April 26, 2021 at 10:11 pm10/10 Loving not only the bottle but the fragrance. Amazing duo @mistycarole
Nolan Smith
April 26, 2021 at 10:01 pm8/10. I like the colour and it is definitely unique for a cologne bottle, but it doesn’t really look like a lightning bolt. @ewokns18
Jibralta Merrill
April 26, 2021 at 7:16 pmIt’s not about the bottles for me, it’s about the amazingly complex scent in GOOD GIRL, all the more reason I’d like to try BAD BOY too! @PeconicLady
Heather Ritz
April 26, 2021 at 6:27 pm10/10
Angela Crump
April 26, 2021 at 5:55 pmI rate it as a 10 love the idea and imagine the smell is amazing. Good luck all and thx Dave, you rock! Angelathatwit
G T
April 26, 2021 at 4:52 pm10/10 The aerodynamics involved is a winner.
Cathy L Brown
April 26, 2021 at 3:24 pm10/10 I love that the bottle is unique. @dow003
Susan Charnholm
April 26, 2021 at 1:38 pm10 I love it!
Amanda K Price
April 26, 2021 at 11:55 am10/10 The bottle design is unique. I would love to win both fragrances! Thank you for this amazing giveaway!
@amandadalton05
RICHARD TURNER
April 26, 2021 at 11:53 amI think it resembles Gatorade too much. The bolt need more zigs and zags. @beamtownrich
RICHARD TURNER
April 26, 2021 at 11:54 am4 out of 10
Sandi McG
April 26, 2021 at 11:21 amI would give the bottle design a 10/10…i love both the bottles!!
Morgan Pyle
April 26, 2021 at 10:52 amI love it! 10/10! Perfect statement piece as well to have out! @morgan_pyle