Carolina Herrera
Explore 216 Carolina Herrera fragrances — notes, longevity, sillage and community ratings, matched to how you want to smell. The house dates from 1981, founded by Carolina Herrera.
About the house
Carolina Herrera debuted her first full collection at the Metropolitan Club in April 1981. The fragrances arrived through a licence: from 1988 the Spanish company Puig licensed the Carolina Herrera name to develop perfumes.
In 1995 the same firm acquired the Carolina Herrera fashion business, retaining her as creative director. Puig itself traces its origins to 1914, when Antonio Puig Castelló founded the company. In April 2024 it announced plans for an initial public offering to raise more than 2.5 billion euros.
Herrera received the CFDA Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008. In 2018 Wes Gordon took over from her as creative director of the label. He had worked as her creative consultant since 2017.
On the fragrance side, the Perfume Society's page quotes the house describing CH Eau de Parfum Sublime as inspired by the allure of a sophisticated woman. The same page uses the words rich, intense and smouldering for the Herrera Confidential collection.
Signature notes
These notes show up in Carolina Herrera fragrances at least twice as often as in the catalogue as a whole. We worked this out from each fragrance's listed notes. It is not how the house describes itself.
Best known for
Good Girl, 212 Men, Very Good Girl, 212 Sexy, CH Men and Good Girl Blush — the most-rated in our catalogue.
Releases
From 1988 to 2025, 214 fragrances with a known year.
Said to be the inspiration
Some houses say which fragrance one of theirs was inspired by. These are the Carolina Herrera fragrances they name.
- One house describes one fragrance as inspired by Good Girl Blush. What they say →
- One house describes one fragrance as inspired by Good Girl Suprême. What they say →
