La Bomba Intensa Refill
Solar vanilla is where Carolina Herrera La Bomba Refill Eau de Parfum 200ml ends up, and anyone buying 200ml of a fragrance should know which part of it they will be living with. The journey there is short. Exotic pitaya opens, watery and mildly sweet with a tart edge, the fruit treated as something cool rather than tropical. Cherry peony follows, which reads as crisp red fruit over a soft petal character, and red frangipani sits underneath it, creamy and thick in the way that white tropical flowers always are. Then the vanilla arrives, bright and warm rather than heavy, polished smooth and stretched out, and it carries the rest of the wear.
Four materials. That is a short composition by any measure, and it behaves like one: there is no third act, no hidden turn and nothing to wait for, just a steady handover from fruit to flower to vanilla. Being a refill, this is the format to buy if you already own the bottle and you have decided the scent is yours. It gives you a large quantity at a lower price per millilitre than a presentation bottle, which is the entire reason it exists. As an eau de parfum it has the oil content to last through a working day with a light application, and in cold weather it holds on for longer than that. What it will not do is develop while you wait, so wear it for what it is. Christophe Raynaud, Louise Turner and Quentin Bisch are the three perfumers credited with the formula.
A New York fashion label with Venezuelan origins in its founder, Carolina Herrera, who showed her first clothes in 1981. Puig took the perfume licence in 1988 and bought the fashion company seven years after that.
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