A Wren Says

When I first sprayed Carolina Hererra La Bomba eau de parfum, it was instant regret. “Oh no, is this too sweet, too artificial, too not me?” But I kept it on, went on with my day, and decided to just wash it off later. Luckily, as it wore on, it was no longer as sickeningly sweet. Sweet, yes, but fruity and floral, and more powdery.

La Bomba eau de parfum

$165 for 2.7 oz

Top:  Pitaya (dragonfruit)

Heart: Cherry peony & red frangipani 

Base: Solar vanilla

It’s a nice scent. It stays on my skin from morning into night. I could smell it on my skin throughout the day. But it’s not for me.

Maybe this is something younger me would like to wear. The scent itself feels more like something I would want to wear in high school, not now as a grown woman. But at this point in my life, I don’t like this particular formula of a fruity scents. And yet, based on the reviews and Reddit posts, I’m in the minority on that. Other people seem to feel it’s magnetic and feminine and empowering. To each their own.

However, my bottle design gripes are going to send me down a different rabbit hole. Perhaps this is the type of bottle I would have wanted on my high school counter. But in my personal opinion, this poorly designed shape of a butterfly errs towards playful but is unnecessarily gimmicky. The design makes the spraying mechanism less intuitive and presents problems for people trying to hold the bottle for application. But the brand seems to make non-intuitive sprayers their signature. As an example, most people intuitively go to pull the heel of the Good Girl bottle before realizing there is a button at the top of the shoe shaped bottle. They are going for iconic bottles here, not customer experience.

You can probably guess that there is no way that I would personally be investing in a full bottle, but maybe you should.

If you like long lasting fruity feminine scents, this might be one for you. But if you don’t like that profile, you should steer clear.