La Bomba Refill
Carolina Herrera La Bomba Refill Eau de Parfum 200ml is bought by people who have already made the decision. It is a large volume of the same eau de parfum, sold to keep a bottle in service rather than to put another new one on the dressing table.
The composition is short and makes no secret of it. Exotic pitaya opens, a pale and watery sweetness with a thin tartness behind it, closer to cold cut fruit than to anything syrupy. Cherry peony follows and does most of the work in the middle, crisp red fruit laid over a petal softness that keeps it from reading as a sweet shop note. Red frangipani sits alongside, thick and creamy the way tropical white flowers tend to be, and it gives the centre its weight and most of its staying power. Solar vanilla finishes. It is warm and bright rather than dessert like, sweet but stretched thin and polished smooth, and it is what remains on skin once the fruit has burned away.
Four materials in all, so there is no long unfolding to follow here. What you smell in the first few minutes is close to what you have an hour later, with the balance tipping steadily from fruit towards vanilla rather than changing direction. Some people want exactly that from a daily scent and others find it plain, so it is worth knowing before you commit to this much of it.
Buying the refill is a volume decision rather than a presentation one. You get a great deal of liquid for the money because you are not paying again for a bottle you already own, which suits anyone who wears this most days and knows they will finish it. Christophe Raynaud, Louise Turner and Quentin Bisch are credited with the composition.
Carolina Herrera has been a New York fashion label since the Venezuelan born designer of that name showed her first collection in 1981, and perfume has been part of it since 1988, made under licence by the Spanish group Puig, which went on to buy the fashion side in 1995.
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