Bad Boy Cobalt Elixir Carolina Herrera 2024

Bad Boy Cobalt Elixir by Carolina Herrera

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7.0 / 10 114 Ratings

A new perfume by Carolina Herrera for men, released in 2024. The scent is sweet-woody. It is being marketed by Puig.

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Main accords

Sweet

Woody

Spicy

Fresh

Synthetic

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Sage

Black pepper

Heart Notes

Black truffle Woods

Woods

Base Notes

Frankincense Vanilla

Vanilla

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Ratings

Scent

7.0114 Ratings

Longevity

7.593 Ratings

Sillage

7.295 Ratings

Bottle

7.198 Ratings

Value for money

6.692 Ratings

Submitted by Essy07, last update on 06/18/2025.

Interesting Facts

The face of the advertising campaign is model Josh Upshaw.

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What the fragrance is similar to

Bad Boy Cobalt

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Reviews

7 in-depth fragrance descriptions

06/18/2025

6
Pricing 4
Bottle 6
Sillage 5
Longevity 7
Scent

Ezroni
44 Reviews

Ezroni

2

Sweet and slightly damp

Of Carolina Herrera's Bad Boy line, I've only tested the Cobalt Elixir. It starts off sweet, quite peppery, with some dampness from black truffle. The sweetness in the beginning reminds me of some sort of hair conditioner product. Not initially in a gourmand way but vanilla comes forth after an hour.

The pepper tones down, the frankincese comes out, the vanilla sweetness increases, and the black truffle steadily remains, which my colleague (who gave me the sample) didn't like.

This reminds me of Allure Homme Sport Eau de Toilette with a sweet finish. Nice, almost aquatic scent with not much performance at around five hours total, getting pretty quiet after the first two hours. I feel like this has good projection but only for the first hour. Need to get closer to enjoy this one after that.

I use this from a sample when on a run by the beach, but not for any other occasion. I would have no desire to buy a full bottle.

04/11/2025

5
Pricing 6
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 5
Scent

Guitar2016
229 Reviews

Guitar2016

2

An Ordinary Linear Fragrance

An Ordinary perfume that It smells similar to many perfumes in the market. I smelled more than one thousand perfumes up to now and I must tell you honestly that this fragrance is not special. When I bought another scent I received two samples of that. It opens up with sweet warm spicy then dry down is sweet vanilla ambery and woody. This is a linear scent from the opening up to the dry down. Don't buy it blind-buy. Longevity is good
Rating : 5 / 10

04/07/2025

5
Pricing 4
Bottle 5
Sillage 7
Longevity 7
Scent

Ursaw
127 Reviews

Ursaw

1

Yummy rum baba dessert

Sweet, youthful, easy to breathe in even at the very start. Pepper and sage give it a gentle spiciness that reminds me of rum baba dessert. Playful booziness stings your nose a little at first, but once you bite into it, the moist pastry and mellow vanilla custard envelop your tongue and everything comes together in such a delicious way...

It lasted a bit more than ~6 hours and settled close to the skin after the first ~2. Pepper withered away somewhere at that point, while hints of sage could be felt until the very end. A gentle vanilla-flavored woodiness stayed at the forefront, unchanging, the whole time. Nice, creamy and very satisfying (but also made me feel kinda hungry).

I was afraid to try this one based on my unpleasant experience with the original Bad Boy Cobalt, but they ended up being nothing alike. It's honestly great! I'm not interested in wearing gourmand scents nowadays, but would have loved to own something like this a decade ago.

04/07/2024

7
Pricing 8
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 7.5
Scent

Anon83
5 Reviews

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Anon83

5

Nice fragrance for in between

I bought the 50 ml version of Bad Boy Cobalt Elixir about 4 weeks ago. It had a great opening in the perfumery and actually smelled like something different. It opens fresh and a little peppery and becomes more and more sweet and vanilla in the drydown. Whether a bad boy smells like this in the end, I highly doubt. However, the elixir is absolutely not a bad fragrance that you can wear on many occasions. A flanker that you can give a chance. I think it's good. But if you're a big bad boy, then go for something with leather, this one is probably too soft for you.

02/11/2024

6
Pricing 10
Bottle 8
Sillage 9
Longevity 7
Scent

Jonny070813
13 Reviews

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Jonny070813

2

Average okay (don't like the pepper)

I think it just smells like perfume. I bought a small tester and somehow I'm not entirely convinced. It's good, and better than the original Bad Boy Cobalt but I've smelled better.

If you like the smell of pepper in perfumes, you should definitely form your own opinion, but I personally don't like it that much. I prefer sweet and fresh or perhaps spicy. But it also has some positive sides. If you like vanilla and are on Mediterranean soil, this is the right scent for you. It has something woody, peppery and yet creamy.

However, I wouldn't recommend it as a blind buy because, as I said, pepper is something that not everyone likes. There are testers at Douglas or Müller if you want to get one.

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