Carolina Herrera
Carolina Herrera · Eau de Toilette (EDT) · 1988
≈ $98 · 100ml · approx. retail
The house's founding 1988 signature fragrance, a feminine floral-animalic composition that established Carolina Herrera's namesake perfume line. It remains the brand's original eponymous scent, later followed by decades of flankers and new lines.
The scent
Heart notes
The core · the next few hours
Best for
Perfumer
American · 65 in collection
Veteran IFF master perfumer with decades of hits.
See their fragrances →French · 15 in collection
Clement Gavarry is a Paris-born, New York-based perfumer and a fourth-generation member of a fragrance family (his father is perfumer Max Gavarry); trained at ISIPCA and at IFF's perfumery school, he is now a principal perfumer at dsm-firmenich known for polished designer compositions.
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