Bad

Diesel Bad: Don’t Let the Name Fool You—This One is Smooth, Sexy, and Seriously Underrated Let’s be honest—Diesel Bad gets way too much hate, and I’m here to set the record straight. This isn’t some synthetic mess or forgettable body spray. This is a quietly magnetic fragrance that blends citrus, lavender, and cardamom into something surprisingly elegant, warm, and just a little rebellious. The opening hits you with a fresh, almost icy burst of bergamot, quickly mellowed by lavender that’s smooth, not soapy—just airy and grounded. Then comes the twist: cardamom. Spicy, slightly resinous, and perfectly paired with the cooler top notes. It draws you in, like the subtle confidence of someone who doesn’t need to raise their voice to be noticed. The dry-down is cozy, masculine, and a bit mysterious—a quiet hum of tobacco, woods, and musk, nothing overpowering, just warm skin and memory. You’re not going to choke a room with this—but that’s the point. This scent wears close, which makes it all the more intimate and intriguing. Don’t believe the noise below my review. If you’re looking for a fresh-spicy scent that’s clean, a little sexy, and very wearable, Diesel Bad delivers. It’s perfect for cooler days, close conversations, and casual nights where you want to smell good—but not like everyone else. It’s not bad at all. In fact? It’s quietly brilliant.

i love this. ive had it for about a year now. first i blind bought the 35ml because it was on offer in my work and i thought it sounded nice. wow. everyone loved it. my manager would say someone smells amazing everytime i would wear this too. i have also sold soo many of these after discovering how amazing it was. this is also my gfs favourite in my collection, once i came into her flat and sat in her room as she was in the shower and she said she could smell me arrive and knew i was here even though she didnt hear me she could smell me from the shower and down the hall. men if you want to impress your girl buy this because she will go crazy for it. i now have the 100ml because i went through the smaller size and she loves it so much i will be repurchasing constantly until i am too old to wear it or can’t find it anymore. diesel bad is my for-lifer. i would kind of describe it as a fizzy masculine lush bath bomb. it kinda fits in. with the lush vibe which is maybe the bergamot, lavender and patchouli, but the caviar brings the nice salty fizziness which i really enjoy. im always a sucker for anything with violet and tonka too.

عطر خاصی هست، حتی وقتی شیشه‌ی عطر رو دست می‌گیرید متوجه این موضوع میشید. شیشه‌ی شیک و با کیفیت که بافتی مات و شبیه به چرم داره، بوی گیاهی اولیه که با ترکیب شدن با ریحه‌ی فلزی خاویر فضای منحصر به فردی ایجاد می‌کنه. اما نقطه ضعف این عطر این هست که اسمش خیلی مناسبش نیست. با شنیدن اسم بد انتظار عطر دیگری داشتم، تندتر، وحشی‌تر و مردانه‌تر. مثلا بویی دودی رزینی، هرچه که بود به نظرم اسمش خیلی مناسب رایحه عطر نبود. It is a special fragrance, even when you get a bottle of perfume in your hand, you will notice this. A stylish, high-quality glass that has a matte texture that looks like a leather. the herbal smell that creates a unique atmosphere when combined with a cavier metallic scent. But the disadvantage of this fragrance is that its name is not very suitable. When I heard the "bad" name, I was looking for another aroma, harsh, more savage and more masculine. For example, Smoky or resin Smell, whatever it was, I do not think it was very suitable name for this perfume.

ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS. Wore this every night out during college. Girls couldn’t get enough of it; find it “sexy” and “hot”. It’s a fantastic blend of bergamot meets ambroxan, with a lavender dry down. Picture Invictus Aqua and CH Men Prive had a popular son. This is the classic “bad boy on a night out vibe”. I have never NOT gotten a compliment while wearing this. Easy signature night out scent. I do not understand the hate. This is a Top Ten For Life fragrance easily. SCENT: 9/10. Wonderful, young, night-out blend. LONGEVITY: 6/10. About 3 hours for a night out. Bring a decant. PERFORMANCE: 7/10. Not the weakest, but need to layer-up in the club/bar.

Beast mode toilette. Lavender, cardamom and citrus. Fresh, herbal, little spice, little sweet. Noticeable tar/new rubber note in some bottles, not all. Odd note but somehow it blends nicely. Dries down herbal, pepper. This fragrance is masculine fresh, unique, a little loud, strong, people will smell you, it’s toilette excellence! Side note. I have a bottle from a local parfum retailer (made in Spain) and another from Amazon (made in Paris). Spain bottle has see through letters “bad” and tar note, beast mode performance. Paris bottle has no see through letters, no tar note whatsoever, still good performance but not as much as Spain bottle.

That's my first serious fragrance in my life, I bought this fragrance first time in 2017, and I love it, it's sexy, universal,masculine, after that, I was using only this fragrance until May 2022. Now, I have 80 fragrances in my collection, but Diesel Bad it's the only fragrance that brings me compliments from girls. Maybe, I'm not a 'fragrance expert' like everyone who decide to hate this fragrance and rate it that low, but I can say that for me this fragrance is amazing , especially for the price, you can use it all year around, maybe less on the summer. It's more a niche type of smell than a regular or basic designer. 10/10

Bad is really Good, when I sprayed this on a test strip it seemed very weak. But I sprayed it on the back of my hand and then walked around the store for awhile smelling my hand every so often. What a difference, some colognes just don’t perform well on paper, this is one. This is a nice all around scent performs well, I can smell it the next morning. Wear it anytime anywhere. So if you try this in the store spray it on you not a test strip. I’m sure you will have some love for it!

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.

This is just as warm and salty as the ocean itself! I can never NOT own this, it's like a piece of art that brings me right back to the sea and sandy beaches. Super masculine and rugged smell that also can be worn anywhere and anytime imo. Projects pretty well and lasts very long too! 10/10

When it gets cold I rock this for short days out of the intense for the long days either way the performance is out of this world, lasts forever definitely going to be buying this for as long as I can. The intense version has become hard to find so I hope they keep making this one at least.

I absolutely agree with @Fragfancyfella here. It's not a groundbreaking scent, basically smells like Invictus, but it's a more grown up, woodsy and spicy take on it, I love it. <3 Great performer as well, highly recommend it!

Underrated fragrance it can be worn in any season it shines the most during the summer months it lasts long and projects well you will get compliments from this . Please don't listen to the haters this is truly a gem .

For how cheap this fragrance is the longevity is amazing, I could smell it for a whole few days when spayed on clothes. It's similar to invictus with more wood and caviar, i think its better.

I absolutely love this fragrance it reminds me of Invictus aqua, and it's so very strong and long lasting, I get 7 hours easy and smell it the next day on my shirts... Brilliant value...

This is one of my favorite fragrances. It's very unique and not many people know about this. It's a 9.5/10. It's sweet and spicey with a nice bottle and an amazing atomizer.

Very underrated along with bad intense! I hope they never discontinue this! I get great performance and alot of compliments. Thank you diesel for this masterpiece

yes it is a market business, yes there are similar one but nothing can't change the fact that it's beautiful. i should say it gets praise and long lasting.

Not sure why this gets so much hate. I think it’s a decent fragrance. Nothing unique or anything but very likeable and I’ve got some compliments off it

The caviar must add a salty note (as in Womanity). At any rate I would really like to try this.

This BAD smell so good in summer. Most underrated i have ever seen.

Great notes of cardamom & lavender.Received as a Christmas present.

I love it... Simple as that...

Diesel Bad Men EDT opens with a moderate projection of sweet, floral, and spicy notes. The opening is fresh and sweet, delectable, light, and pleasant. The bergamot and lavender are the most noticeable opening notes, citrus and clean-like floral respectively, the violet leaf and orris root add a soft breeze touch, the cardamom and sage are the soft spicy touch. The caviar note creates a soft salty touch, but nothing prominent compared to other notes. The tonka bean and ambroxan, although listed as base notes, they come up as soon as the fragrance is sprayed, they add very sweet and projecting accords, the ambroxan comes across as ambery and powdery. The tobacco, woodsy note, and patchouli are support notes, they add some aromatic nuances but they are not prominent. The fragrance is relatively linear, most of the feature notes, except for the bergamot, come up as soon as the fragrance is applied and continue into the dry-down, also, the tonka and ambroxan become more prominent towards the dry-down. Once Diesel Bad men EDT has reached its full dry-down, it can be summarized as a moderate projection, very sweet (tonka), ambroxan, and airy (violet leaf, orris root) fragrance with woody, soft citrus, salty, and tobacco notes. The fragrance feels casual, comforting, common, delectable, inviting, masculine, mild, modern, resinous, sweet, syrupy, warm, woody, and pleasant. BATCH REVIEWED: 2020. WOW RATING: 6/10. It is a pleasantly sweet, tonka, woody, and ambroxan fragrance but not impressive. DISLIKE RATING: 0/10. The notes in this fragrance and inoffensive. UNIQUENESS: 4/10. The notes and resulting scent is not unique. MASS APPEAL: 9/10. This is a crowd-pleasing fragrance. PROJECTION: 4/10. Moderate, about 4 feet around the wearer. Up close the fragrance is intense. SILLAGE: 4/10. Moderate, about 4 feet behind the wearer. APPLICATION: 6 more atomizations to improve performance. LONGEVITY: 4/10. Moderate, about 4 hours, with 2 hours of moderate projection. SEASONS: Winter, spring, fall, colder days, and climate-controlled environments. OCCASIONS: Formal events, outdoor gatherings, office, casual, holidays, romantic, dating. This is an office-friendly fragrance. VERSATILITY: 7/10. Good, this fragrance is better suited for mild or cold days. GENDER: Masculine, the tobacco whiff tilts the fragrance to the masculine side. AGES: Any. RECOMMENDATION: Diesel Bad Men EDP can be found discounted for about $90. It is a pleasant fragrance, but not unique. Its cost does not match its value. It is a nice-to-have. BLIND-BUY: Yes, but only if you are familiar with its main notes. SIMILAR: These are examples of fragrances in the same genre. Cuba Prestige Gold Men EDT is a very sweet, amber, woody, and spicy fragrance; Yves Saint Laurent Y Live Intense is a great very sweet, spicy, citrus and woody scent; Mandarina Duck Black is a mandarin and tonka bean delicious fragrance; Baldessarini Nautic Spirit is a sweet, passion fruit, mango, and spicy fragrance; Zadig & Voltaire This Is Him, is a sweet, vanilla, sandalwood, and incense fragrance, but lacks performance; Mandarina Duck Cool Black Men EDT is a pleasant but short-lived sweet, resinous, woody, and airy floral fragrance; Armaf El Cielo Men EDP is a low projection, delicious, sweet, woody and fruity fragrance; Diesel Bad Men EDT is a pleasant, sweet tonka, slightly salty, woody and soft floral fragrance. SUMMARY: A moderate projection, very sweet (tonka), ambroxan, and airy (violet leaf, orris root) fragrance with woody, soft citrus, salty, and tobacco notes. The fragrance feels casual, comforting, common, delectable, inviting, masculine, mild, modern, resinous, sweet, syrupy, warm, woody, and pleasant.

Man this is 90% CH MEN opens up fresh and fruity blue think invictus aqua, sauvage, bleu & all that good shit (it doesn't smell by any means like bleu or sauvage but opens up in the same fruity way if this makes sense) You'll smell citrusy elements and fresh fruits, then it'll become spicier and woodier after like 15min you're left with ... CH MEN son trust me, this is ch men minus the suede note and it's less green to me it's a ch men clone with a little bit of montblanc legend (same herbal nuances) But this one is more mature imo, I smell citruses, woods, tobacco (ashy smell that is very likeable) only a lil bit of a marine note (caviar ?) and something leathery dry down is ambery masculine well done i like this one. Way more mature than invictus og but still playful performance : seems to be above average, at least better than ch men If you like/love ch men you'll surely like/love this one

I got this bottle as a gift from someone, and I must say, originally, I wasn't very impressed! I wore the fragrance out for a day, and found it quite overwhelming with a couple of sprays, giving me a headache. I've found since then spraying on the back of the ears or neck is less irritating. I've tried it a few times since then, and it's been better, although having quite a harsh smell that isn't quite for me. The packaging isn't bad, but I do agree that the advertising campaign is somewhat outdated. I love the rose gold diffuser and details on the bottle though. overall, "Bad" isn't a bad scent, it does smell quite similar to Invictus, and I think worn in the right setting, and in the right volume, it can be good.

Ignore the hate. What do these guys expect for a sub $25 designer frag? It smells just fine and is great for the price point. Certainly better than some of the middle eastern glunk getting pushed as a "great clone" these days. Has an eighties backbone of cardamom, wood, and tobacco, though none of them are overly prominent. It won't win any awards for its quality or blending, but it has longevity and sillage and is inoffensive. Frankly I get a bit of Lafayette Street in this. Screw the haters, buy a 1oz bottle for next to nothing and thank me later.

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.

Received this as a gift when I was 18, and I loved it back then. It is quite versatile. It certainly has something special going on that I think can be attributed to the tobacco and the caviar note (!?) maybe? Cardamom is also a really nice addition that spices up the opening notes. I found it to be quite unique and indeed "bad" in a good way - daring for a cheap designer fragrance while still maintaining the mass-appeal factor. Very good value for the price and quite unique in my opinion. 7/10.

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.

With this cologne in the opening you get fresh spices and citruses which make it very "classically" masculine. It settles to something fruity warm-woody savory (thanks to the caviar, I suppose). It's nice actually, not ordinary. I can see this worn by a guy in his 30s in his free time. Casual but cool.

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.

I tried a small sample of this and I thought it was really good! It has that Invictus DNA with a slight spiciness and it has a dirty feel to it which gives it a nice masculine edge. I like it and I would buy a big bottle of this. It's good! I give this a 9.2/10

A work colleague wears this, it projects like crazy and smells too damnn good! I can't help but compliment him all day, its too good. A cheapy but a goodie, want to get this for myself but its a touch too masculine for me.

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.

This is a perfect daily driver for the Average Joe. For the small fraction of us it's a meh. Been there and done that frag. Not terrible but not great. Many smell alikes with this one but kudos for it being long lasting.

It'is a good fragrance , the first 3 minutes its like a hurricane you will not easily smell the notes , but later on it is a long lasting and sexy fragrance i love it .

Fresh and herbal sweet, with a hint of tobacco. It is very nice, but nothing really groundbreaking. It is a good and inoffensive choice for summer. Final note: 6,5/10

This is much better than what the reviews online makes you think. You can use it for almost every occation and I found it dirt cheap, so I’m using it all the time

the first 2 hours smell fresh and spicy kinda basic and after that it reminds me of eros flame

Very nice one, it's sweet and pleasant, really fits for the cold nights. I like it. 8/10

Some days I like this fragrance and some days I can’t stand it. Nice for outdoor wear

Pairs great with Lacoste fraiche 2022!!

similar to ysl Y le parfum 2021

Perfect Perfume for cold days 🌨

The opening is quite sweet, but as it dries down it becomes a lot more woody and bergamot-y whilst some sweetness (from the lavender and/or tonka maybe?) is retained in the base, I can also detect a hint of soapiness which eventually begins to appear. The drydown is pleasant enough but I would not say it is unique or particularly interesting, as a result this probably won't offend anybody but it's also not going to necessarily draw any attention if that's what you're going for. I will say that this is very versatile though and you could probably wear this any season and anytime of the day or night. I have to be honest though and say that the drydown is giving me slight high school Lynx/AXE body spray vibes. Is this an attractive scent? meh. It's not a bad fragrance (I personally dislike prominent bergamot so that drags it down for me although I can appreciate the fresh sweetness of the base on this one), but it makes a somewhat immature impression on me because of the Lynx body spray likeness which it in my experience has. Very much a masculine leaning fragrance. Just have a tester of this which I wore today so that I could review it, but as a woman, I won't wear it again.

Very uncharacteristic, but decent fragrance. What I get from this is just the smell of perfume, good smell. It's nice though, doesn't stand out and that's what makes it work. For personal use you could appreciate it for not being a big release, maybe your own little unpopular fragrance. But everyone who smells it is just gonna think "this guy smells like men's cologne". Caviar note is weird though, there's no fishy or salty smell in this, one person commented that it could be caviar lime / finger lime, I'd like to believe that since it's way more fresh than caviar, but one advertising image has caviar in it. If you can pick up caviar in this and you like it, good for you, I wish I could pick it up. But it just seems like some marketing gimmick to make it stand out, which failed since this thing does not stand out in advertising or scent.

Does anyone else experience having bought this fragrance and it not smelling similar to the tester? I'm sure I bought the right fragrance. I didn't know batches may differ even in designer fragrances. It's sad because I really fell in love with Diesel's BAD upon testing it in store, but ever since buying a bottle, it just smells totally different. It doesn't have the same aromatics, notes, projection nor longevity. It performs significantly worse than the tester. I only get intimate projection with 2 hours longevity. Another note is that I bought my bottle from Japan. Does the Japanese market have different formulations to their fragrances? Made to be weaker for the sensitive noses of the Japanese? If this is all true. It's sad and underwhelming since I had high hopes for this fragrance. :(

Had this for a while but haven't worn it in probably a couple years. I get all the notes listed except for the caviar. But mainly is lavender cardamom and tonka. Power from orris. It's sweet and fits in with all the rest of the sweet designers.. All of the notes are sugar coated. Every diesel I have smelled smells like candy and is no different. As with all diesel they project well but don't last long. So all and all it's pleasant and will pull compliments if that's your bag. Another diesel candy frag that unfortunately doesn't have anything interesting like caviar that I'd hoped would set this above the others. This fits firmly in the average category for me.

Very basic. Very distinct lavender + citrus-y cool/fresh scent Cardamom undetectable to me. Base & mid-notes too faint for me to be able to detect either. Not bad, just nothing special either. I'm sure there are better lavender perfumes if that's your thing.

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...