Carolina Herrera · 2025

La Bomba

VersionEau de Parfum

Carolina Herrera says

You’ll smell Exotic Pitaya, Cherry Peony, Red Frangipani and Solar Vanilla.

The house’s page

Top notesthe first minutes

Heartthe first hours

Dry-downhours later

La Bomba’s scent picture, a draft: peony, frangipani, vanilla, bergamot, patchouli, sweet orange drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top notesthe first minutes

La Bomba, top notes: Pitaya, Bergamot, Sweet orange

Heartthe first hours

La Bomba, heart: peony, frangipani, cinnamon

Dry-downhours later

La Bomba, dry-down: Vanilla, Patchouli, Iso E Super, Galaxolide, Coumarin

On the label

What’s inside it

19 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

4 citrus3 herbs & lavender3 florals2 woods3 sweet3 spices1 musks

Citrus4

Bergamot oilLimoneneBitter orange oilCitral

Herbs & lavender3

Linalyl acetateLinaloolTerpineol

Florals3

Benzyl salicylateRose ketonesGeranyl acetate

Woods2

Patchouli oilIso E Super (pencil shavings)

Sweet3

Vanillin (vanilla)Coumarin (tonka)Benzaldehyde

Spices3

EugenolCassia oilCinnamal

Musks1

Galaxolide (clean linen)

Not in Ingredients yet3

Pinene, not in Ingredients yetBeta-caryophyllene, not in Ingredients yetTerpinolene, not in Ingredients yet

Not for the smell7

AlcoholWaterAvobenzone (a UV filter)A light stabiliserBenzyl alcoholRed 4Ext. violet 2

Named by Carolina Herrera, never on a label

Exotic Pitaya, not in Ingredients yetCherry Peony, not in Ingredients yetRed FrangipaniSolar Vanilla

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Wearers say

How far it carries

Perfumers call it sillage.

Close to the skin

An arm’s length

Across a room

Not researched yet. We gather wearers’ reports for the most popular perfumes first.

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Counted from the printed lists: 19 scent ingredients on this label. A shared name, not a shared smell.