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
Regina Chappell
April 22, 2021 at 5:05 pmDefinitely a 10+ @Gina_C
Maria
April 22, 2021 at 5:00 pm10/10 it looks so cool!
@maria411
Dawn Bradley
April 22, 2021 at 4:53 pmI love how unique this bottle is! @itssoeasy2me
Franca
April 22, 2021 at 4:42 pmI rate it a 10. It holds up nicely beside it’s counterpart!
@lanzichick
Chelsea amanda
April 22, 2021 at 4:30 pmI’d rate it a 10!
It matches the good girl perfectly ⚡️
@ p0larbearsrawr
Nina
April 22, 2021 at 4:22 pm10/10 I’ve always wanted to try this perfume
Steven Cook
April 22, 2021 at 4:05 pmI right the Lightning Bolt and absolute 10. I survived a lightning strike. I thing the bottle is incredible. I find art glass manufacturing fascinating, thanks for sharing the story of how it was made. @Diobletio
Steven Cook
April 22, 2021 at 4:05 pmrate*
Rebecca Smith
April 22, 2021 at 3:50 pmI give it a perfect 10! I love the design because it’s so unique!
@2012Beckysmith
Maria Pavlidou
April 22, 2021 at 3:40 pm10, I loved it, I believe that it fits harmoniously with the women’s perfume !!!
The bad boy with good girl!!!
@PPauvlidou
Natalie
April 22, 2021 at 3:38 pmI would rate it 10/10! @yarbr012
Marg Sloan
April 22, 2021 at 3:25 pmVery intrigued to try the women’s purfume and my husband to try the male version
Mary W
April 22, 2021 at 3:21 pmA real accomplishment of design ingenuity ! 10/10 @cowladydeland
Jo-Anne Pfoh
April 22, 2021 at 3:15 pman 11 our of 10 so classy @jopfoh
Rozeena Karim
April 22, 2021 at 5:59 pmI rated it 10 plus.. it’s beautiful, unique and have that bad boy vibes. Black and gold always sexy and elegant at the same time.. its like a guy in his tuxedos 🖤🖤💛 thanks for a chance.. the notes sounds amazing. @RozeenaKarim
Heather Swanson
April 22, 2021 at 3:10 pm10+
Christina
April 22, 2021 at 3:08 pmI would rate it a 10/10
Virginia E
April 22, 2021 at 3:03 pmBeautiful designs
Definitely give them a 10 out of 10.
I would share with my son.
Sheerie Franks
April 22, 2021 at 2:58 pmSuch a great design ⚡️ 10/10 ……. once out there, there will be no mistaking the fragrance brand! 😍 love love love it!
@SheerieF
Sharon Low
April 22, 2021 at 2:39 pmI would rate it a 10. @SharonLow5
Karen Hanley
April 22, 2021 at 2:31 pmReally different a 10. ⚡⚡⚡⚡🔥
@KirRoyalKaz62 💖💖💖💙💙💙
Mary C Capps
April 22, 2021 at 2:27 pmI’d give the Bad Boy lightening bolt fragrance bottle design an 8 out of 10, but only because our cats would love to rub against it and knock it down!
@ferness42
Meekyung
April 22, 2021 at 2:20 pm10/10
Sarah Robinson
April 22, 2021 at 2:13 pmI rate it a 10+++++
These bottles would look sooooo good on my dresser
Doreen Caputo
April 22, 2021 at 2:58 pmGorgeous!! 10 out of 10!
Heather T
April 22, 2021 at 2:13 pmI love it! A very unique so cool definitely rated 10 design! Good Girls like Bad Boys! @HeatNo #win
Thea lennox
April 22, 2021 at 2:04 pmDefinitely 10/10 @matrixalive
Nancy Hall
April 22, 2021 at 1:57 pm10!!!! Mmmm…bergamot & spice. @Photini1967