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Bad Boy Cobalt Gift Set
Black plum is the material that stops the Carolina Herrera Bad Boy Cobalt Gift Set from being a cold fragrance, and it is the one thing in the composition that smells generous.
Inside are the 100ml Eau de Parfum, a 75g deodorant stick and a 10ml spray. The opening is brisk: pink pepper, prickly and bright, with lavender just behind it, clean and faintly camphorous. Geranium then cuts in sharp and green, with a metallic edge, and the plum arrives against it, dark and winey, with a sweetness that is nothing like fruit juice. The base is the unusual part. A truffle accord brings an earthy, savoury depth with a sweet undertow to it, and vetiver adds dry roots and bitterness beneath that, so the fragrance finishes somewhere between soil and spice.
Six materials, and the result is considerably stranger than the bottle on the shelf would lead anybody to expect. Nothing about the composition plays safe once the lavender has burned off. If you tried the sweeter fragrance this one is named after and found it too much, this is the version that answers that complaint.
It is an evening scent and a cold weather one, and it belongs to men who are tired of smelling like everybody else at the bar. As a present it is a more interesting proposition than the usual safe pick, and the set arrives boxed, so all you are required to do is hand it over. Domitille Michalon Bertier is on the composition. Worth knowing before you spend: this is not a crowd pleasing scent, and somebody who wants to be complimented by strangers may be happier with something more obvious.
Carolina Herrera is New York fashion, founded by the designer of that name whose clothes first appeared in 1981, with a perfume business run on licence by Puig, beginning in 1988.
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