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Carolina Herrera Bad Boy Le Parfum Eau De Parfum 50Ml

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Bad Boy Le Parfum is a nightlife and casual sort of fragrance. It’ll be a fit for most men up to their mid-30s and for those who just like something outside the norm. Not a scent for the office or for school, the hemp/cannabis note is much too potent, to really venture there. On my skin, this Carolina Herrera fragrance hits the 8-9 hour mark, without too much issue. At the end, it isn’t super powerful but it’s there. It does die out before it hits that double digit hour frame. Very good, just short of great. Bad Boy Le Parfum is at the upper end of the moderate range, in terms of its sillage. It has the ability to project itself pretty far with normal application. However, it does settle itself down into something much more manageable. It’s actually a pretty standard fragrance, during this phase, and very familiar. I do like the vetiver and geranium combination, cold and fresh. Fairly intriguing scent, but doesn’t blow me away. The opening act of Bad Boy Le Parfum is the grapefruit and pepper note sitting underneath, a somewhat smoky cannabis. To me, it doesn’t smell exactly like a blunt or anything, but very reminiscent of the plant itself, maybe slightly cured.

Once the fragrance has lingered a few minutes on the skin, the base notes that emerge in Bad Boy Le Parfum unveil a final surprise and declaration of intent. This comes as no surprise, since the pertinence of an Eau de Parfum lies in its initial impression, but also in the way the formula evolves once it’s on the skin. Here, this progression leads to a leather accord, adhering to the body much like a talisman. Since there’s no way of distilling or extracting the natural aroma of raw leather, it’s reinterpreted using an olfactory illusion, with the added result that there are no two leather accords that are alike. Enter the mastery of perfumers Bruno Jovanovic, Fanny Bal, and Nicolas Beaulieu, who managed to develop a cheeky and sexy leather accord that joins forces with vetiver, the characteristic yet unpredictable woody note of classic men’s perfumery. Vetiver here fulfills a dual purpose. It makes the fragrance very wearable, and gives men an opportunity to inject a dose of definitive character to their style, all whilst retaining an exotic and hedonistic sense of travel. At the house of Carolina Herrera, vetiver is a reference to the Caribbean vistas of locations such as Haiti or Santo Domingo." — PUIG / Carolina Herrera press releaseFollowing the success of Bad Boy, this new release is a departure from traditional formulas, inaugurating a new olfactory universe that’s based on the dual nature of the modern man. Strong and sensitive, powerful and compassionate, heroic and vulnerable: the Bad Boy man is not easily labelled. He breaks rules only to create his own, and he emphatically expresses and defends his convictions. He’s a rebel with a cause who knows that defiance and provocation are not incompatible with empathy." On my skin, that note isn’t overwhelming, and it smells more like what you’d associate with weed when you apply it to clothing. Le Parfum is fresh, green, with an aromatic spiciness coming through.

This is where it stands for much of the wear. Then, the final stage is vetiver and leather. Vetiver at the base is the strongest on me, in the final few hours. That, leather, and geranium. The cannabis is around somewhat, but has pretty much evaporated. This is how the past and future are fused with the reinvention of the Carolina Herrera man, the good-natured bad boy here embodied by an exercise in technical distinction." Seasonally, this one is pretty darn versatile. Le Parfum sits in that sweet spot, where it can smell great in the cold weather, but also hold up well enough in the warmer climates. I’d avoid spraying this in the dead of summer, outside of nighttime, that is.

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