Description
Diesel Bad is the new masculine fragrance from Diesel, coming out mid-2016, announced as a daring and sophisticated, addictive and fresh woody fragrance. It is apparently the first one that combines notes of tobacco and caviar, discovering the fresh salty side of the woody scents territory.
Perfumers Anne Flipo and Carlos Benaim made Bad to be “a game of seduction” that begins with an “exciting rush” of citrus and cool spice top notes. Pungent bergamot “bites” with freshness, revived by cardamom and lavender. Caviar gives a provocative and erotic touch “like a trickle of sweat on a man’s chiseled body.” Masculine and rough notes of tobacco and orris root facilitate the heat of the composition.
The face of the perfume is American actor and model Boyd Holbrook. The bottle design evokes a typical “bad boy” image, recalling the biker leather jacket. The texture that looks like leather is actually micro-engraved glass, using a technique developed by Pochet du Courval. The transparent “Bad” logo reveals the copper color of the liquid.
17yasha17 – :
The dry-down strongly reminds me of Avon’s Black Suede Touch which I used to smell in my teens. It is very bland and the quality is on par with an average deodorant in terms of complexity. I don’t say it’s bad, but when you compare it to something like a Chanel, it’s quite mediocre.
fixa45 – :
Love this one, never understood why it got that much hate. To be honest, it is one of them fragrances that smell really nice right away after you spray the first time, tho only for the first 20 min to half an hour. After that you get about 7 hours of a pretty good dry lavender with a masculine vibe type of scent.
777alix777 – :
The only perfume in the world I purely hate.
Smells aweful, rash, cheap and I can only smell bergamot living room air freshner all over. I’m sorry it’s only my opinion.
My friend uses it everyday and I can’t stand when he gets into my car and ruins my beautiful scent with his old lady living room air freshener.
Hate it! Smells bad and it’s bad. Good part is he only smells like it for 1h as even the sillage and longevity are hilariously aweful too
A hard 1/10 from me.
Верча – :
I bought it for my husband, he loves it, it is fresh, attention grabbing, youthfull fragrance! He gets lors of compliments with this one.
embareert – :
The dry down is invictus 100%. Don’t get the Invictus aqua, unless maybe top notes Abit?
combat-ivan – :
Its about the drydown. The drydown reminded me of emporio armani lui. Anyone?
mylenkapenka – :
I have extremely mixed feelings about Bad. I got a handful of samples after buying some makeup (they’re very generous in Germany!) and this happened to be one of them. I’m not really interested in men’s fragrances, so I figured I’d spray some on my bed linens to use it up. When it was on my pillow I got the lovely woody-patchouli-tobacco dry down. I was in love! It became quite a comfort to smell that at nights before drifting off.
The trouble started when I tried it on myself. The opening is a hideous bergamot-lavender mixture (this is surprisingly common in men’s fragrance, I’m finding), also found in Gaultier’s Le Male. Maybe I just hate bergamot, but a lot of the reviews seem to have reached the same conclusion that I have — once you get past the opening, this smells fantastic. The sillage is fine, and longevity is actually quite long-lived. This seems like a very versatile fragrance that a man could wear to most any occasion.
bubnov06 – :
My partner wears and owns many scents from Diesel. Their compositions suit both his tastes and skin chemistry, so whenever we browse the department store shelves, the Diesel shelf is where we usually start our journey.
Diesel Bad is the newest masculine release from this house and has intrigued me for many months as I love a good masculine tobacco scent. Diesel Bad is just that, a spicy tobacco and woods scent with a hint of herbaceous lavender and sticky-sweet amber.
This is a cool weather scent for sure, I would also go so far to say that it would make an excellent bar-hopping, clubbing scent. It’s important to let this fragrance settle before smelling it as the unique caviar accord can make this fragrance very salty and sharp in the initial stages. My partner wasn’t a fan of Diesel Bad when we first tried it in store, but he has grown to like it after experiencing the much smoother drydown.
As this fragrance is also quite heavy, I would recommend sticking to a maximum of four sprays. In small doses, Diesel Bad is very appealing, but it could become cloying if applied incorrectly.
Diesel Bad’s bottle design is quite eye-catching in person and really suits the juice inside. I greatly admire Diesel’s ability to create bold masculine fragrances with a tasteful hint of sweetness. It’s that sweetness that makes these scents all the more worthwhile whilst still appealing to the masses.
rusik90 – :
I Like It Alot. Don’t Know Why So Much Hate Is On This. I Get Awesome Compliments Every Time I Wear This
laburenko – :
i really like this stuff & it lasts ages on me. 50ml for £27 in Boots currently (December 16th)
yes it smells like invictus aqua & i’m totally fine with that as i like that too so it’s win win for me. not usually a fan of Diesel fragrances but i really enjoy this. not too serious but not too youthful either.
Mecjp058Bessinepome – :
Can’t believe all the hate this gets, so many dislikes!
It’s honestly a pretty good fragrance! But since this place is full of niche snobs, it doesn’t surprise me that this site hates this scent.
After about 20 minutes, this scent smells 90% like the drydown of CH Men. I can see one this pulling of many compliments (just as CH Men does).
Too bad it doesn’t project very well and doesn’t last very long.
beryozonyka – :
My second review and i still love this fragrance.
A realy underrated fragrance.
It smells nice, women love and the performance is fantastic.
kasminaolya87 – :
Mr.honest below is spot on.
The top notes are nothing special, hence why this performs poorly on paper, but after a few hours it’s actually a quality fragrance.
The lavender is beautiful, and the tabacco is dry and salty. Toss in a few sprinkles of Dior Sauvage type Ambroxan that helps create impressive sillage….big clouds of this scent…Similar sweetness to CH Men in the dry down.
Plus performance tops 9 hours on my skin.
Ignore the name and marketing, try this on skin or cotton clothing and consider buying it if you find a good deal.
minwoo – :
Wow. A LOT of dislikes here…
But honestly, people really need to get past the opening on this one. Have you tried it on your skin? Yeah, I thought not.
It’s actually not that bad. It’s like a mixture of Mont Blanc Legend, Diesel Plus Plus and Dior Sauvage. The sillage is more sweet with the lavender (hence the mass appeal), but there is a strange depth there. And the funny thing is that the note breakdown is curiously spot on. But caviar??? Sure. Whatever you say…
Personally, I find the scent itself to be less boring than Legend, although it seems to have the same effect on women. And the drydown is virtually identical to Legend Intense. It’s spicy, it’s sweet, it’s a little salty and the longevity is decent. What’s there to hate?
OH YEAHHH. That’s right. You probably sprayed this on a test strip and immediately thought you knew everything about it. Shame. That used to be me. But I guess I grew up. Do us a favour – shelve the ego, ignore the ad campaign and have another go.
I will agree with this though – it’s definitely not worth what they’re currently charging. But for $20, sure, I’d buy it.
Scent – 6.5/10
Longevity – 7.5/10
Projection – 8/10
Overall – 7/10 – NOT BAD, but average.
rsf845speagoessenda – :
Opens up with some strong citrus and cardamom both are very unaturual to the nose. I do get a strong tobacco sent with a hint of a salty note i.e. Caviar note. This is a very masculine scent for a young man who is in highschool, university or a guy just hanging with the boys. That strong aromatic opening doesn’t calms down quickly and projects moderately after that. Longevity for me is average. The samples projects much better than my bottle for some reason. If it wasn’t for the dumb name and the BAD Ad this fragrance would have not gotten so much dislikes in my opinion. We now live in a time where men most be soft to put in nicely. Good scent that failed due to bad marketing.
Scent 6/10
Longevity 6-7 hours
Projection 1 hour moderate
radost1 – :
Deeply misunderstood fragrance! Just look at the bottle! Look at the TV commercial! This is obviously targeted towards douchebags. And great job at that, Diesel! Now douchebags can wear an even blander, more synthetic fragrance than ever before. Is there really anything we can wish for more than A-level a-holes wearing mediocre fragrances, that won’t do a very good job at impressing girls, but at the same time not smelling like a dead cat to the rest of us? Nope! Lasts a long time too, so the shmucks rocking this can smell like the try-hards they really are the whole day! Amazing.
Nothing less than a 10/10 for what it is. Amazing execution, Diesel! Douchebag fragrance perfection
jtu710JeomiWogkig – :
I’m not leaving a review or rating for this as I don’t own it yet. But I love tobacco scents and want to know how great this scent is????? Or somebody break it down, from initial spray through drydown to it’s longevity???
I’m very intrigued with this one…..
increase backlinks – :
The other day I bought a fragrance for my collection and the clerk gave me some samples to try, among these samples was this Bad of Diesel.
I had previously tested other fragrances of this clothing company and never convinced me completely except for Fuel for Life Homme, which although it is not my taste, still seems the most usable (if you can use some of this signature).
Bad opens citrus and spices, the citrus are completely artificial, of fairly low quality and for me they smell dirty and dead, without shine, that is to say, the antithesis of what is a citric note, of pity !! . It is a good thing that the spices are soon opened and although the lavender is there, the cardamom opens its way with an aroma that is not bad at all and directs the fragrance to the only salvable of the aromatic agreement, here in these middle notes already detected A note of hazy warmth that blends well with the dry and dusty spot of the lily root and the woods. During the middle notes also a sharp, very astringent and acidic note is detected that unleashes a lot and unbalances the fragrance, which I assume will be what they call tobacco ???
I have tested many notes of tobacco, but this “thing” that they call tobacco, nothing, or looks, this has been one of the worst that have gone through my nose, even becomes annoying after 5 minutes Of smelling it.
During the drying, if I detect a salty point, but no caviar, rather a bark musk cocktail that ends up dying on a typical detergent note identical to the one Invictus has, but at least Invictus is better done.
This musk for those who do not know it is called “Tonalid”
Good duration with moderate stela.
Finally, another horrible designer fragrance, another clone, lacking in imagination, with qualities “cochambrosas” and attacking good taste and quality perfumery. Undoubtedly who is disadvantaged is the consumer or buyer who relies on a brand of certain prestige and those who ultimately benefit from the interest and large corporate dividends are these companies because they charge much more than they actually give.
Rating: 1
Redl – :
First you smell it and think “Not bad.”
Then you chuckle because of the irony of that statement.
Then you put it back on the shelf because it’s not good, either.
BARRACUDA-797 – :
Very nice one, it’s sweet and pleasant, really fits for the cold nights.
I like it.
8/10
lenusekkk – :
Despite all of the bad reviews this cologne gets for being generic and “boring” this is a very big compliment getter and the girls deffiantly love it! Safe clubbing/night out scent that is similar to Versace Eros. Was a given to me as a gift but once I tried it a couple times I completely changed my mind on this one.
torent – :
@CGV
Hate to burst your bubble buddy, but it has always been that way. We are buying based on the bottle and name as much as the fragrance itself. Remember Antaeus? Brut? Le Male? You might not agree, but it is true. If all frags were in plain clear bottles with long descriptions of notes, it would not be as easy for the least common denominator to associate with any particular fragrance. You are correct about the majority of releases being mediocre, but again, they are not targeting fragrance enthusiasts, just the average joe or jane who wants to smell nice, and wants to project their personality with a certain image the fragrance portrays.
mitya2006 – :
I am sick and tired of these primitive, unoriginal releases riding the plain simple marketing line using some tough guy words like “Bad” while moving along the lines of todays designer crowd pleasers. Cant stand todays releases at all. 90% is unoriginal, boring and unimaginative. 100s of releases each year and not a single original fragrance among them. Walking into a perfume store is so utterly boring today. You pass Johnny Depp posing for Sauvage only to end up at a perfume bottle in a skull shaped bottle or another having written “Bad” on it….
tavaExparry – :
It’s not a groundbreaking release. It reminds me three others fragrances :
1) top notes : similar to Invictus;
2) middle notes : similar to the top notes of CH Man;
3) basenotes : similar to the basenotes of Versace Eros.
Like a said, it’s maybe not original, BUT overall it’s a very good fragrance :
– longevity and sillage : powerfull;
– smell : quality, very nice and crowd pleaser.
kokaartist – :
Great notes of cardamom & lavender.Received as a Christmas present.
GrooveH7 – :
I have a 10ml sample Nothing new here this type of scent has been done before…
Has good longevity for now until they bring out the watered down version. Not worth the £55-60 price tag… and the name Bad??? Seems like a younger person’s fragrance in my opinion.
leech – :
Another year, another Diesel fragrance. It will most likely be utter synthetic crap with zero creativity, right?
Well it isn’t as simple as that. Yes, BAD was made to pander to the early 20s age-range. Young boys who want some sweet smell-good to wear to the club.
BAD hits that spot perfectly. I don’t dislike these type of scents. Though I prefer a good 80s powerhouse, it is quite nice to have a fresh scent that just works.
The opening is typical 2010s fanfare. Fresh bergamot and lavender, given a sweetened edge by cardamom. It’s blatantly synthetic and comes across as quite stock. Sort of like how some songs feature similar chord progressions, BAD has a familiar opening that reminds me of La Nuit De L’homme without the ginger.
However things take a turn for the better once it begins to progress.
First off, forget all about caviar. That note was a big selling point for this scent, and is merely a marketing trick.
Instead I get a very nicely done strawberry note that intertwines with some leather of the typical faux plastic variety, often found in modern “leathers”.
The strawberry is sort of similar to the note in Black XS. However where it becomes almost dirty in Black XS due to patchouli, the leather gives the strawberry a sweeter and darker edge here.
The two notes are joined by some nice crisp tobacco of the cigarette variety and is rounded out by some woods.
I also get a hint of vanilla. Not so much that this is a vanilla bomb, but there is a hint of vanilla in there.
Overall I am quite stumped by this. It is totally obvious in its intentions. BAD wasn’t created to attempt to reinvent Diesel as a semi-niché brand. Instead it was created to be a nice scent for young guys to wear, and it does that to perfection.
I own a 50 ml bottle and have already used 10 ml’s of it. I am not sure why, but I find myself reaching for this quite often. I guess it’s nice at times to just wear something you like to smell, rather than trying to always find uniqueness. I can’t rate BAD very highly. To be fair, it doesn’t break any new ground at all, and doesn’t bring anything new to the table. But, like Sauvage, they are just very nice to wear, and that alone gives them plenty of merit in my book.
Either way, Diesel BAD delivers.
Longevity is very good – 8-9 hours.
Rating: 7/10
Haxaddilm – :
another fragrance made on some meeting with talking heads from the management, that will even never try it at the end.
it is even not so bad, it is just cheap.
aleksandrabrosimov – :
Unappealing, generic aromatic that goes straight through to your brain upon first sniff. And not in a good way.
djon7601 – :
It decently has the caviar note done very heavily it gives that salty sweet note found in CK Reveal. Very strong scent little goes a long way.
Linginhaddy – :
I did try this one today and found it very strong. It’s like they decided to take every trendy note in perfumery and stir it all into the witches brew.
They should have called it “Commercial”, but either way it lives up to its name.
I am getting so bored with many of these overtly commercial fragrances. I am not saying this one particularly. But this is my GENERAL perception:
It’s like the design formula is too standardized. A bunch of corporate types, all with their degree’s in chemistry or marketing making perfumes. Following their corporate formula’s, based on market research and statistics?. But they lost something on the way, it’s called creativity. The one thing that will be very hard for them to achieve is artistry. A scientist can rarely do what an artist can. And thats how it seems to me. I’m not saying it’s a fact, but all these synthetic notes all smell too familiar and hypoallergenic. It’s boring.
Hello & Welcome to the discount bin.
Goodbye perfume market.
visotskiy.roman – :
nice fragrance I see , Mixture of invictus , Eros Versace .
all seasons fragrances , above Average performance , manly .
scent 7/10
projection 8/10
longevity 8/10
pzk06 – :
Let a terrible advert a guy basically tells a girl he will treat her like dirt and she will lap it up ???? Who’s this aimed at ? Rubbish advert and no doubt a bad no pun intended fragrance yikes !
ygalek – :
DIESEL BAD ? Yes indeed very bad…
Synthetic smelling juvenile liquid….
1/10
AgentDeath – :
Generic, nothing new. It’s not BAD, it’s boring. Move along, find something better.
affottome – :
Why they made this perfume!? I don’t know, waste of time and money. The bottle is the only cool thing:D
Semi-fresh aromatic generic boring masculine fragrance, smells bad like the name. I felt this smell earlier, similar to other man colognes…
puma759 – :
Well, they said it themselves: B A D.
avalakish69 – :
I did not try it on skin but on paper. .. luckily enough…
another xth variation around the invictus theme. First came to mind the countless cheap markets sharing the same mimique of this.
Longevity seemed quite ok though. Pass for me…
ekuprienko – :
I dont know if its a recently discovered aromachemical or a trend but most of the recent mens releases contain this same weird ambery salty-sweet aspect. Sauvage has it, CK Reveal got lots of it, Invictus doesnt even need to be mentioned and now Diesel Bad has that exact same disgusting “saltiness” that I cant put my finger on. If you want to imitate the sweaty skin of a man you simply have to go animalic or use some leather. I’m afraid this is a miss for me – it’s very cologney and falls to the boyish high school genre. Think of Mont Blanc Legend, A&F Fierce..
The bottle is pretty cool though with the copper plated inside.
elektroniks2010 – :
bad name, bad marketing, bad branding, bad bottle, and most importantly bad fragrance.
gpk380speagoessenda – :
First impressions:
When we see the notes, we expect something at least a bit different, we expect a new fragrance, not the case.
Grab all other mass market boring fragrances = Diesel Bad, the only thing corrected in the marketing department it’s the name, indeed Bad. Nothing, absolutely nothing new here, same thing that has been done over and over again.
Well, it doesn’t smell bad, of course not, it just boring, which to me it’s way worse.
saddam – :
Diesel’s Bad is not a terrible fragrance. It is just mediocre at best. Normally I do not care if a fragrance is generic, but Bad takes it to another level. Personally this is the most generic designer fragrance I have ever smelled (excluding cheap drug store crap). It is not bad, just so redundant.
Generally I am very optimistic and pleasing when it comes to fragrances, but Bad is so meh in every department.
It literally smells like a ‘higher’ quality middle school deodorant.
vano_mc – :
First of all I’m not the biggest fan of Diesel fragrance but I don’t hold any grudges and I’m always welcome to being surprised but this I’m afraid is more boring nonsense.
Bad? Nah I wouldn’t say it smells bad as such but when combined with the fact that from the notes at least, it had the promise of bucking a trend of mediocrity in designer releases lately, sadly Bad doesn’t do that.
Instead it is a mildly noxious cocktail of the good the BAD and the en vogue. I have to say it has that modern feel of an Invictus, single handedly trying to be everything to everyone a bit of freshness here, some aquatic masculinity there and shades of thick clunky oriental all around.
The only two things that stand out are a kind of amber scent, with lavender and sage vibe with some darker tones of tobacco.
There’s critically no caviar but there is that bit of calone or aquaticness which could nod towards it I suppose? However, in my view has no business being mixed with tobacco. It all just messy and I can see why there’s comparisons to Just Cavalli which is similar but perhaps a bit better?
I’m not a fan of this and although it’s perfectly okay fragrance It’s not for me and is just too mainstream for my tastes.
I will wear the samples I have and I have any further thoughts I will add them, can’t see my mind changing though.
nevermind1987 – :
In the 2010s, ambery sweetness is what melony freshness was to male fragrance in the 1990s. For a fragrance to become a jack of all trades, today’s amber is invariably served with a selection of fun fruits and something pungent. Whether it’s Versace’s Eros, Paco Rabanne’s Invictus, or (sadly) Dior’s Sauvage, to my nose they are all a variation of a mix of almond essence, vanilla-infused pipe tobacco and peach-flavored cotton candy with synthetic pepper on top.
I predict that in 5-6 years, the amber-and-fruits era will smell as tired as most of the 1990s aquatics smell in 2016. Until then, designers are going to keep launching microvariations of the same theme, and the average consumer will look forward to smelling like an ambery microvariation of the guy standing next to him.
Diesel has managed to market one such microvariation as something mischievous, something that only a bad boy could wear. Read the description at the top of this page and chuckle.
maukl – :
This smells very similar to Cavalli Just Him. Dry down gets a little minty as in Eros. Not very interesting sadly.
aman – :
BAD! Yes! BAD!
I really would love to smash and hate on this scent verbally only just because of its stupid fucked up name alone but as it’s being too abstract in it’s notes I simply can’t.
When I smell it, the first thing I think of is Leather. Kind of absurd but that’s what I predominantly get. Also I’m not a big fan of cardamom in perfume but here it’s really harmonious, so I can cope with that as well. Other than that I do get the woody notes and the tobacco, that boost masculinity in to this bottle.
To be honest I probably won’t be going to buy it even tough I like it and also their fashion.
Be it as it may, this must be the most grown up scent ever released by the house of Diesel.
Kaifik86 – :
I quite liked it, I get the impression they were trying to do something similar to CK One Shock, with the tobacco vibe. It is fresh and woody, but I think it’s one I’d get bored off fairly quickly, the name is a bit dull.
5kw – :
i went for the training day, from the notes you are put off this perfume but dam it smells nice, manly, edgy, strange woody (smoky smell) but fresh at the same time 😛 smells so nice on the skin 🙂
kanaz – :
Just released a Video on this Fragrance on my Youtube Channel “Jeremy Fragrance”
The Fragrance opens up like invictus, after 5-10 Minutes you get a slight Ch Men/Ch Men Prive vibe, sounds pretty interesting, it is interesting BUT the performance..disappointing.
Check my Youtube Channel “Jeremy Fragrance” for the Video
replicae66611 – :
@GRAF, some fragrance stores (the big ones) and marketing companies sometimes get new fragrances months before the date of release. This things are made for research purposes and to make new selling (and advertising) strategies.
I happened to read a couple reviews from people who worked in these jobs, and who were able to talk about fragrances that weren’t released yet. I talked to a couple of them.
Maybe the votes come from them. There’s no need to be judgmental and critical, if you know the fragrance is not out yet, just ignore the votes.
superstarik – :
” Diesel Bad is the new masculine fragrance from Diesel, coming out mid-2016, announced as a daring and sophisticated, addictive and fresh woody fragrance. ”
WHO has already voted for a fragrance that NEVER before tried? It hasn’t yet released from the Diesel and you vote? I do not get it.
We must keep the good image of Fragrantica as the best PERFUME ENCYCLOPEDIA and not behave like spoiled small children.
den-sv – :
The caviar must add a salty note (as in Womanity). At any rate I would really like to try this.
Sta1n – :
Not a huge fan of Diesel Fragrances but i want to try this. I like the bottle. That leatherish appeal linked with the name makes it feels like an 80’s punk’s leather jacket. Let’s see how the caviar note combines with the tobacco.