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Bad Boy Cobalt Gift Set
A truffle accord is not something you see often on a shelf of men's fragrance, and it is the whole argument for the Carolina Herrera Bad Boy Cobalt Gift Set. Start at the bottom of it, because that is where the interest lies. The truffle accord is earthy, savoury and slightly sweet all at once, a strange and rather good thing to find in the base of a mainstream scent, and vetiver sits with it adding dry roots and a bitter green edge. Above that, geranium brings its sharp, metallic greenness and black plum gives a dark, winey fruit sweetness that stops the base reading as purely dirty. The opening is the most conventional part: pink pepper, bright and prickly, with lavender behind it, clean and faintly camphorous.
Six materials, and the composition is a good deal stranger than its own marketing suggests it will be. It is darker and more savoury than the fragrance it takes its name from, so if you know that bottle and found it too sweet for you, this is the one to try instead. As a present it works for a man who already pays attention to what he wears and would rather not smell like everybody else. Evenings and cold weather suit it best, and it holds up for a long night out without needing a second application. Domitille Michalon Bertier composed it. The set comes boxed, which makes it a straightforward thing to give, and the bottle is distinctive enough that it does not need a label to explain itself.
Carolina Herrera set up as a fashion designer in New York, her first collection reaching the public in 1981. Perfume has been made for the house on licence by Puig, a Spanish group, since that decade was out.
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