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
Jennifer F
May 11, 2021 at 4:27 am7/10 – For me, the Lightning Bolt design isn’t all that fancy compared to the Good Girl design. Thanks Dave.
Doreen Lamoureux
May 10, 2021 at 4:59 pmOh my. I give a 10 rate for the Bad Boy lightening bolt fragrance bottle design. That is super outstanding.
Elaine a Alexander
May 10, 2021 at 1:56 pmDefinitely 10 out of 10 for design alone, the scent and imagination comes into also as an added bonus
VANDA
May 10, 2021 at 9:40 amI would give it a 10/10
Jodie Green
May 10, 2021 at 6:04 amdefinitely 10/10 they design is just WOW
@jodieh1131
Rebecca Deselle
May 10, 2021 at 2:04 amI rate it as 10+++⚡️⚡️⚡️! I love the design and the fragrance is just as amazing! My favorite brand of all!
Melissa Darrow
May 9, 2021 at 10:32 pm10/10. It is gorgeous and deserves to be visible and enjoyed!
Twitter is @melissadarrow
Elizabeth Rose
May 9, 2021 at 2:37 pm10/10 its fantastic
Jonela
May 10, 2021 at 12:04 amI would give 10/10 amazing
Deborah Lamerton
May 9, 2021 at 7:58 am10 loving the design of the bottles, very modern
Gloria
May 9, 2021 at 1:55 am10
Latoya
May 8, 2021 at 10:57 pm10 @laklove7
Patsy
May 8, 2021 at 10:56 pm10! They are fantastic! I’d display them as art 🙂 Thanks!
Lyn Robinson
May 8, 2021 at 1:17 pmDefinitely 10/10
Melanie Riley
May 8, 2021 at 12:52 pmI love both the bottles. 10/10 from me! 😍
@melriley123
Carol W.
May 8, 2021 at 9:11 amI’d give it 9/10, only because I give Good Girl 10/10.
Donna Cruickshank
May 8, 2021 at 6:31 amAlways love a Bad Boy 💕 10/10
Elizabeth Harbert
May 8, 2021 at 4:57 amI Love the lightening bolt so I’m going to go with a 9! It’s so unique yet it’s sturdy & not too gaudy. @makeupjunki87
Emma Walton
May 8, 2021 at 4:40 amI would give it a 7/10
Debbie Beattie
May 8, 2021 at 1:13 amI really like both bottles and I’d give it a 10/10
Sandy Weinstein
May 7, 2021 at 3:35 pm@evietressa a big 10! love the bottles, great collector items.
Tina
May 7, 2021 at 11:15 am10/10
JayCee
May 7, 2021 at 2:03 pmI adore the Bad Boy bottle design as much as I love a bad boy in real life! 😂💕 10/10 from me
Anna Roszak-Robinson
May 7, 2021 at 10:30 am10/10 🖤
I love the look of the bottles, they’d be a show piece on my vanity
@robinson4206
Holly
May 7, 2021 at 3:10 amI love the bad boy bottle just as much as the good girl bottle. Took me a while to figure out how it was stood up right, its a real optical illusion and great match to the good girl. Plus i love lightning!!
Jibralta Merrill
May 6, 2021 at 9:13 pmI don’t care for the BAD BOY bottle, but your description of the scent inside makes me want to wear it! So, it’s a 1 for BAD BOY bottle. The GOOD GIRL bottle is truly amazing, it’s a 10! I know a lot of people love the bottles their perfumes come in, it’s not important to me (unless it’s difficult for a small hand to spray), what’s inside the bottle and how it smells with my body chemistry is what counts. I’d definitely wear GOOD GIRL & BAD BOY, I might even wear them both at once and create a third scent! LOL! Great prize, Dave! @PeconicLady
Margaret Mccaffery
May 6, 2021 at 6:07 pmI like it, but it’s not as nice as good girl 8/10