No 63 Bad Boy

No 63 sets out to replicate Carolina Herrera's Bad Boy, a fragrance built on a sharp double-pepper opening over a cedar-sage heart and a tonka-cocoa base. The pepper opening here is punchy and close to the original, and the cedar-sage heart holds up reasonably well. The base is the clearest divergence: Bad Boy's cocoa note has a slightly bitter, dry edge that balances its sweetness, while this dupe's tonka-cocoa combination reads sweeter and less nuanced, tipping the whole composition into gourmand territory faster than the original does. It's a bold, wearable spicy-woody scent for the price, just softer around the edges than Bad Boy's more assertive character.