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
Christine Hobbs
May 18, 2021 at 3:19 am10/10 love the killer heels bottle design so classy and stylish!!
Michael O'Sullivan
May 18, 2021 at 3:04 am10/10 Iconic @manonfirenow
Kelly Jones
May 18, 2021 at 3:04 am8/10 for me – I think it’s pretty cool but would personally prefer siver accents to gold 🙂
@TheMehlos
Gillian Burchall
May 18, 2021 at 2:55 amLove the sleek innovative design, the depth of colour brings it to another level, it’s lighting the way in design and elegance for the man who knows what he wants. definitely 10/10
Susan B
May 18, 2021 at 2:45 amCool and different 9/10 @Erigerondaisy
susan leake
May 18, 2021 at 2:28 amsimply astounding 10/10 never seen anything like it for a bottle design. @housenextdoor
Rachael Sexey
May 18, 2021 at 2:21 am8/10 it’s stylish
HELEN CLAYTON
May 18, 2021 at 2:15 amA 9 for me-original and stylish! @hellywellytaf
Geoff Hibbert twitter @mrboggle
May 18, 2021 at 1:46 amStunning 10/10
Ross Leech
May 17, 2021 at 7:37 pm10/10 Bold and very eye-catching.
A.E. ADKINS
May 17, 2021 at 7:22 pm7 – LOOKS QUITE EASY TO KNOCK OVER & WE’RE SO ACCIDENT PRONE
Sheri Darby
May 17, 2021 at 5:41 pmBrilliant 10/10
Jan
May 17, 2021 at 5:12 pmIt’s unusual so 9/10
Sheila Maxwell
May 17, 2021 at 4:58 pm9/10
Kathryn Cox
May 17, 2021 at 4:57 pmUnique so a firm 10 / 10
Christine Driver
May 18, 2021 at 1:53 amStunning design similar to Good Girl 10 out of 10. Good Girl is definitely my favourite fragrance ever.
Helen newton
May 17, 2021 at 4:54 pm10/10 love it
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matt allison
May 17, 2021 at 4:18 pm10/10 @ginsterman
Diane Lauzon
May 17, 2021 at 4:47 pmThe lightning bolt is for the man who wants to make an impact….. Boom!! 10/10!
@TheRealDiBabe
Tess Robinson
May 17, 2021 at 5:04 pmAn 8
Victoria N
May 17, 2021 at 4:11 pm9/10 its very unique
Cynthia Richardson
May 17, 2021 at 4:07 pmI’d rate the Bad Boy lightening bolt fragrance bottle design a 10 on a scale of 1 to 10
@hofken
Donna Caldwell
May 17, 2021 at 4:04 pm9/10 it looks fabulous, very eye catching
Victoria
May 17, 2021 at 3:54 pm10/10 I think it’s super nifty!
Emma davison
May 17, 2021 at 3:48 pm7/10 it’s okay
Rachel B
May 17, 2021 at 2:25 pm10/10 love it! I have a lightning bolt tattoo to match!
Carolynn Woodland
May 17, 2021 at 1:42 pm10/10 ***** Really cool, so unusual.
@carwoo1
Michelle Ptak
May 17, 2021 at 1:36 pm10/10 Love it, so chic … great looking on your dressing table! Many thanks … @Michieptak