Bad Boy Le Parfum Carolina Herrera 2021

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6.5 / 10 205 Ratings

A perfume by Carolina Herrera for men, released in 2021. The scent is sweet-synthetic. It is being marketed by Puig.

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Main accords

Sweet

Synthetic

Fruity

Spicy

Green

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Hemp

Grapefruit

Heart Notes

Black pepper

Geranium

Base Notes

Leather

Vetiver

Perfumers

Bruno Jovanovic, Fanny Bal, Nicolas Beaulieu

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Ratings

Scent

6.5205 Ratings

Longevity

7.3183 Ratings

Sillage

7.3185 Ratings

Bottle

6.4204 Ratings

Value for money

6.3167 Ratings

Submitted by Franfan20, last update on 06/16/2025.

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Reviews

9 in-depth fragrance descriptions

05/26/2023

7
Pricing 8
Bottle 10
Sillage 10
Longevity 7.5
Scent

Napasonoma
31 Reviews

Napasonoma

3

Surprisingly Different

This is a unique fragrance, it makes many changes from start to finish, starts out fresh and bright, the hemp is in there kind of a hay smell in the background, then picks up some spicy sweetness. The dry down is clean smelling leather with some earthiness. So this is a stronger fragrance and really smells wonderful in the air and around. If you stick your nose into for the first half hour it may torture you nose. But this can be used anytime of the year just spray less in the warmer months.
This would be ok in the office with jus a few sprays, you will leave a scent trail and you will fill smaller areas, could be considered on the beastly side. If you test before you buy, don’t jam it in your nose wave it in front of you I think you will be surprised. This is a love for me, scent, performance and versatility 8+ all the way. The Bottle is a love or hate, I’m in the middle with a like, the atomizer works just fine by the way. Also this is not overly sweet, at least not on me, there is no tonka, vanilla or amber!

08/25/2024

6
Pricing 6
Bottle 10
Sillage 10
Longevity 8
Scent

JuanP14
34 Reviews

JuanP14

4

I dont get the hate

It's a solid leather N citrus smell. The weed note aint that strong, and its blended nicely with the other notes. The sweetness is there but not annoyingly, and the weed contributes to it, while being a lil herbal.
The weed note is subtle but distinguished. The pepper and vetiver make a little earthy. It gives it a different spin than a typical leather fragrance. Like someone else said, it's more like a tea.

As a whole, the fragrance is very long lasting (12hrs minimum for me). It's pretty loud for the 1st 2 hours, and then calms down just a little.

It don't smell like a freshly sparked blunt. Or a resparked doobie out the ash tray. Some of y'all are cry babies N talk down on a fragrance cuz ur sensitive noses can't appreciate perfumery.

08/25/2021

8
Pricing 2
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 8
Scent

Jota
20 Reviews

Jota

4

Shiny Cannabis

Wonderful opening. That hemp note really shines on the first minutes of the fragrance life. Then it becomes more designer-ish but i still like it. Its different from the other designer releases at least. Good lastin power and pojection. And nice compliment getter. Happy to have this one in my collection.

05/14/2025

8
Pricing 9
Bottle 9
Sillage 9
Longevity 8
Scent

Mysticmiggy
4 Reviews

Mysticmiggy

2

Green and Black

Let's get it out of the way, the cannabis note is there, yes, but it's closer to the scent of cannabis concentrate rife with citrusy terpenes, your dabs, wax, shatter, oil, whatever you call it where you're from. It does NOT have smoke or ashtray notes, nor does it have any skunky or petroleum or other acrid notes sometimes associated with cannabis. Think sativa, not indica. Furthermore, it's accompanied by a bright sugary grapefruit and a rich vetiver and all those notes blend in such a way that if you were never told that cannabis is in the note breakdown or you aren't as intimately familiar with it as some might be, you wouldn't even know.

With all that said, let's get into the details of how it comes across when first sprayed then settles down a few hours later. My initial impression is 'Fruit Stripe Gum meets Irish Spring soap'. The fruity sweetness of the grapefruit and the earthy green of the vetiver notes plus the somewhat clandestine cannabis acting as a subtle bridge between the two open the show with a lot of sugary green freshness. Two to three hours later, a warm soft suede or leather note starts to show its face. The citrus and cannabis retreat but never fully fade as a fuzzy fruit sweetness lingers well into the life of the fragrance, but the in your face sharpness of those notes fade and blend into the emerging rich leather notes.

Set and setting, I think it's a strong year-round option. Sweet enough for winter, fresh enough for summer (when applied judiciously), good enough for the office (again, when using mindfulness in application), the bar, date night, maybe even a formal occasion if you're a confident eccentric. Gender neutral, but all fragrances are if you deprogram your mind.

Performance is long-lasting, more than enough for a workday. I can't judge the sillage accurately, I can certainly catch whiffs of it on myself.

The second elephant in the room is the bottle design. I like novelty but don't consider bottle design a major factor in my fragrance decisions. As a nearly 37-year-old, I am neutral to positive on the lightning bolt. The only thing that truly matters to me on that front is the competency of the atomizer, a test that this bottle passes.

This fragrance is not nearly as controversial or unapproachable as the hub bub would indicate, it simply isn't as anodyne as the current trend of popular fragrances, which also means it isn't exactly blind buy safe. It is, however, a versatile, great performing and interesting fragrance from a designer that commits the sin of excluding tonka, vanilla, or ambroxan in the notes. If this were a Creed or Tom Ford release, it would have unending praise heaped upon it. Test it in person with an open mind and come to your own conclusions.

05/17/2025

6
Pricing 9
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 6
Scent

wallls183
11 Reviews

wallls183

2

Great opening, not so great development

I bought this one for 2 reasons, I wanted a sort of long lasting party fragance and the fact that it was rated as sort of a challenging or quirky scent.

The opening is deeply herbal, its like smelling a hemp plant up close, but doesnt really smell like a joint or ashtray as people would make you believe, this goes with some grapefruit that makes it sort of fresh at the same time.

Later on I get some spicy notes, I atribute this to the pepper and I guess geranium, which I really don't know how it smells. This get complemented by some leather too, that gives it additional depth.

This last for about 30-45 minutes on my skin, at which point I really like it.

But then as the scent progresses, I get this sort of bizarre sweet notes that i cant distinguish much.

And then it hit me that I had smelled this accord a bunch of times at nightclubs, and that i dont really like it.

I guess this is what people refer to designer sweet or CH sweetness, which is a shame because for the first hour I really do like it.

I ended up trading it, because of the drydown. I'm just not a fan of cloyingly sweet abrasive accords that remind me of nightclubs. But I can see people that like more potent or do care about longevity liking this one.

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