Bad
Bad by Diesel is a masculine-leaning eau de toilette from 2016 in the designer price tier. It opens with caraway, lavender and mandarin, moves into tobacco and cedarwood and dries down to white musk, amber and benzoin. Expect around 7 hours of wear, and it projects at a moderate level.
Notes, explained
Opening
- Caraway Warm, seedy and slightly aniseed. Rye bread in a bottle.
- Lavender Herbal, clean, slightly medicinal. Barbershop in one note.
- Mandarin Soft, sweet, almost powdery citrus. Gentler than orange.
Heart
- Tobacco Sweet, dried and honeyed. Nothing like a cigarette.
- Cedarwood Dry, pencil-shaving woodiness. Clean and structural.
Dry-down
- White Musk Clean, soft, laundry-like. The 'smells like nothing but better' note.
- Amber Warm, golden and resinous. Not a real material — a blend that glows.
- Benzoin Sweet balsamic resin. Vanilla-adjacent but drier.
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