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
anna nguyen
April 22, 2021 at 1:43 pma 10 for sure. love the high heel shoe design. so unique, twitter @poetriot
Canida Williams
April 22, 2021 at 1:39 pmOn a scale I would rate it a 10. It compliments the stiletto so very well. @imstandinstill
Barbara Pacific
April 22, 2021 at 1:37 pmI would rate the Bad Boy design a 10, so unique and fresh! I love love the high heel my dream one day is to get the PINK! twitter name is @Barb133218
Eleni Vgenopoulou
April 22, 2021 at 1:36 pmAbsolutely 10 /10 @1975eleni
I love them!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Saj
April 22, 2021 at 1:30 pmThis is my dream perfume fingers crossed and it ends one day after my birthday as well a girl can hope 🥰 I’d rate it a 10/10 the packaging looks so unique and classy twitter – scatteredmind06
Vivian D
April 22, 2021 at 1:30 pmLove it!! I would rate this a 10/10.
@VivianDionne
Cindy Bowling
April 22, 2021 at 1:27 pmI would rate a definite 10. @cbowlingtn
Georgia
April 22, 2021 at 1:20 pm10/10 Design is so original. @SpleenDeCouture
Katarina Gratton
April 22, 2021 at 1:15 pmIt’s definitely “striking” 10/10 @katgratton
Olivia Margaret Clow
April 22, 2021 at 1:24 pm10 /10 plus a beautful bottle. Oliviaclow3 on twitter
Phern Spencer
April 22, 2021 at 1:14 pmI would rate the Bad Boy lightening bolt as 10/10, for it’s fun and unique design. The both fragrances are stunning and smell absolutely amazing!!!! Would definitely love to win this fragrance duo. Thank you for the wonderful giveaway opportunity Dave.
@choftk30
Irene
April 22, 2021 at 1:06 pm10 I love the design @dannysamie
Karen
April 22, 2021 at 12:51 pm9/10
@papercoral
Joanna Hernandez
April 22, 2021 at 12:46 pmI love this design, definitely a 10! My husband and I have Moschino toy boy and toy 2, would be awesome to have another set of matching couples fragrance. @ijoanna1
Shirley Boyle
April 22, 2021 at 12:40 pmThe bottle is amazing 10/10
@scootiebobo
Mitra
April 22, 2021 at 12:37 pmWow!!! From what I read these guys put a lot of hard work into these two beautiful perfume, from the notes to the bottles!!! Good job!!! I rate this beautiful pairs 10!!! I really like the shape of both bottles it’s unique! The blends of the notes are beautiful too!! As jasmine is one of my favourite notes!! I would love to try this beautiful creation!!!Good luck everyone including myself!!!! Thanks Dave for this opportunity!!@Iam_meera81
LInda L
April 22, 2021 at 12:31 pmThe lightening bolt bottle design is excitingly shocking. 10/10 @linmarlett
Megan Wilson
April 22, 2021 at 12:17 pmDefinitely rate a 10! @StrongScorpio
Tammy Pereira
April 22, 2021 at 12:15 pmClassic beauty. Definitely a 10 out of 10. I’m a good girl who needs a bad boy. Lol @ILoveLayDeeBugs
Vicki Love
April 22, 2021 at 12:14 pmThe Bad Boy lightening design is a definite 10. To me the lightening bolt symbolizes quick and bright
Lori Dunphy
April 22, 2021 at 12:14 pmI rate it a ten. I love the design of both GoodGirl and BadBoy and would love to share with my husband. @DunphyLori
He thinks it would be more apt if I got a BadGirl and he got a GoodBoy lol 😍😍😍
Katerina Kyrgianni
April 22, 2021 at 12:06 pmDefinitely 10 /10 @katkyrg
Melinda
April 22, 2021 at 11:56 amI rate it a 10
@jolenegirl111
Georgia Phillips
April 22, 2021 at 11:51 am10/10 @geo__96x
Coline T.
April 22, 2021 at 11:51 amStunning and unique: 10! Nice to see something completely different 🙂
@colinetouil
Atifa Hamir
April 22, 2021 at 11:46 amI love the design of the Bad Boy bottle! I would give it a 9 out of 10 – I love the electric feel and showy quality of it and can see it making a nice accent piece on a dresser. The hint of gold is very on trend. I can’t wait to be able to smell it! @atifahamir