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
Sherri-Anne
May 16, 2021 at 2:26 pmI would give the bottle design 8/10
julie Jones
May 16, 2021 at 11:38 amI would give it a 7/10. Its very distinctive but not very practical to take away on holiday
JAMES HOLYLAND
May 16, 2021 at 11:02 am6/10
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CL Chin
May 16, 2021 at 10:34 amSuch a cool design! 10/10
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Sandra Siddall
May 16, 2021 at 10:20 amI absolutely love the bottle and I would give it a 10/10 @missyjojo96
Amanda Dunn
May 16, 2021 at 8:43 amThese look stunning! I’d love to share with my son 🙂
Stephen Woodbridge
May 16, 2021 at 8:06 amIt’s dazzling.
Louise Craney
May 16, 2021 at 7:51 amIts definitely a 10 out of 10 love it
Jill Taylor
May 16, 2021 at 6:36 amIt’s Bowie-tastic!
Catherine Thomas
May 16, 2021 at 5:07 amI am absolutely loving the Bad Boy lightning bolt fragrance it’s very striking and I would love to have this on show on my dressing table
Catherine Thomas
May 16, 2021 at 5:08 amMy twitter @Highalndgirl
emma howard
May 15, 2021 at 5:04 pmI love it – very striking!
Val Swift
May 15, 2021 at 4:57 pmI love it, I would give it a 10
Sarah Austin
May 15, 2021 at 4:21 pmI’d give it an 8, looks great but also looks like it might tip over! @_SarahDawes
Angie Jackson
May 15, 2021 at 12:26 pmI love the bottle it looks fab. I’ve had a sample of good girl and it’s gorgeous would love a bottle.
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Burcu
May 15, 2021 at 11:34 am10 out of 10. Very elegant and unique.
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Satvinder Billa
May 15, 2021 at 11:26 amLove the design and fragrance itself this is one of many from the fragrance house of Caroline herara that have been a hit! I just need a leather jacket to go with the bad boy fragrance ha! Other lines such as 212 are also excellent. The ergonomic design of the bad boy fragrance bottle is different and sets the scene to the opening notes of the scent and eventual dry down in that’s it’s special and you will get plenty of compliments.
VAGENA FOTEINI
May 15, 2021 at 8:13 pmLove it!!!! 10′ of course….
Thank you!❗♥️
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Helen Gelhard
May 15, 2021 at 11:17 amLove the bottle, needs to be out on display not hidden in a bathroom cabinet.
Ms Mair
May 15, 2021 at 10:22 am11 out of 10 – its amazing!
Fiona Mair
May 15, 2021 at 10:18 amDefinitely a 10! Unique and eye-catching. Thanks for such a fab competition :o)
Nathalie Thomson
May 15, 2021 at 9:55 amBold and sleek. I’d happily have these on my dresser x
Janet Kam
May 15, 2021 at 8:58 amLove it really stunning
Bianca Bonifacio
May 15, 2021 at 7:38 amHis and hers!! I love it.
Twitter – @melodyfayre
Karen Baines
May 15, 2021 at 12:32 ambottle is striking , eco friendly …. not too sure 8…. @tompob1106
Rajee Pandi
May 15, 2021 at 12:31 amLove the sexy bottle 10 @momsfocus
Andrea R Filary
May 14, 2021 at 9:36 pm@ammienem3 great names and designs