ESScent Of The Week: La Bomba By Carolina Herrera Is What Happens When A “Good Girl” Grows Up

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By Kimberly Wilson ·Updated April 16, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…

Diana Vreeland, the legendary editor who once declared that the bikini was more important to fashion than the atom bomb, used to call Carolina Herrera (the woman, not the brand, itself) “La Bomba.” 

So when the house named their newest fragrance after it, they were honoring Vreeland’s read on Carolina Herrera herself. It was her way of saying that

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