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
Keshia Esgate
May 14, 2021 at 6:07 pmNot overstruck on the lightning bottle, 5/10.
Love the shoe bottle
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Karen Usher
May 14, 2021 at 5:27 pm10, the bottle is unique!
Isabell Baird
May 14, 2021 at 2:07 amLove the design. Very ’30’s with a jazzed up look to bring it up to date. The perfume is amazing
Carolyn ellston
May 13, 2021 at 8:09 pmI rather like it. I’d give it a 8 / 10
Keith Hunt
May 13, 2021 at 5:03 pmLooks good with this 1930s design
Amy Bondoc
May 13, 2021 at 3:23 pmnnot too ken so 5/10 for the bottle design! love the scent though @franksy84
Ann Carline
May 13, 2021 at 2:36 pm9/10 love the design
Debbie Timms
May 13, 2021 at 2:23 pmI’d rate it as a 9/10, chic & classy! x
Tamara Jackson
May 13, 2021 at 10:12 amI’d rate the design a 9, it’s sleek and classy
Sonia Williams
May 13, 2021 at 7:06 am9/10
Richard Field
May 13, 2021 at 5:59 am2 out of 10…..asking to be knocked off the shelf. @richardfield157
Petra Beck
May 13, 2021 at 3:05 am5/10 – I must be the only one not impressed by it, lol. Yes, it does go with the Good Girl design in terms of general shape and colour, but it is too abstract (compared to the stiletto shoe) and for me a “lightning bolt” cannot possibly be black. sorry.
Patricia Mohl
May 12, 2021 at 8:59 pmIts a 10 @PAFM1964
Eend
May 12, 2021 at 8:44 pmIt looks more like a Lady Gaga style boot than a lightning bolt to me…
olga
May 12, 2021 at 1:12 pm10 for the bottle designs 8 for the product! @kerel2
lydia
May 12, 2021 at 12:08 pm@mrs_meep I’d say 6 out of 10 as it looks like I’d knock it over when I clean
Omid Bakhshi
May 11, 2021 at 8:15 pm7/10 looks great but doesn’t feel right in my hand
Tunde Toth
May 11, 2021 at 8:13 pm8/10 high quality but not eco-friendly @TundeToth1
Maritess S
May 11, 2021 at 5:24 pmI would rate it 10 for packaging. @skultechm0m
Sophie Dolan
May 11, 2021 at 2:54 pmThe bottle designs are very STRIKING! i love them, 10/10
Casandra LaMonaca
May 11, 2021 at 11:41 amThat bottle is a 10 🔥 @CassieLaMonaca
Jonela
May 15, 2021 at 1:23 am10/10👏
Leslie Mortimer
May 11, 2021 at 10:53 amLove the bottle designs!
Lorraine Folbigg
May 11, 2021 at 9:23 amVery striking!
An Hunter
May 11, 2021 at 8:26 amI would give the bottle design a 7.
Sharon
May 11, 2021 at 5:45 am9/10