Oh, I like this one! This smells like a night time rendevous! Going to a club… It’s definitely for someone in their 20’s. Young and spunky. I like it!
She says it’s more elegant than skanky, and she didn’t even know the name yet.
Avon had Little Black Dress first, but it wasn’t this version, and it wasn’t with a French name. La Petite Robe Noire, Little Black Dress, AKA Little-Black-Dress-gone-clubbing, is considered a fruity gourmand, right up the alley of the 20-somethings. And it decidedly not noir noir, it is more fuchsia noir.
Notes include Sicilian lemon, licorice, almond, rose, smoky tea, musk and vanilla.
Yesterday I picked up more of the floral. Today I’m picking up more of a somewhat subdued Angel. It is Angel’s youngest sister. Sweet and sassy. LVMH uses the word audacious.
Almost cherry or very cherry, it must be the almond thing going on, but it does not smell like the original Jergen’s. And then there might even be a touch of Lolita Lempicka — it’s got to be the licorice.
I want that bottle. Or, at least I want to see that bottle.
Octavian has a nice write up at his blog, a play on French words, and a great picture of the window on Rue de la Paix.
I keep hearing this lyric in my head:
Someone left the cake out in the rain.
12:40 Today, it is not moving past this first stage very quickly, but then I gave myself a double hit. The top notes are predominant, but make no mistake, it will move. I will update as the day goes on.
3:00 pretty well gone, just smelled lighter
5:00 gone; but still apparent on Book Girl
5:47 I replenished with a drop on each wrist — smells less like Angel when used in small doses
7:06 much more of a fruity floral when worn this way
Update December 2009 I got a great compliment while wearing my sample. I still have not bought this in full size, but considering the compliment, I ought to!
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I’m not one to eat a lot of black licorice, but I do like it.
When our son was five, we had one of our most beloved exchange students from Finland. He came when he was 17, and until he was in our house, we didn’t realize he was a twin. His brother spent the year in Maine, but on various school holidays he came to visit us or our student went there. During the year his parents and their older sisters also visited us. It was a grand year.
I’d always said I wanted twins, but I never thought I would get them in this manner. I skipped the bulk of the work.
One of the things he introduced me to was Finnish chocolate which is quite superb.
When I visited Helsinki a number of years later, I asked that they stock some of this chocolate for me. Imagine my dismay when his wife said she got me something better. It turned out to be chocolate with black licorice pieces in it. Who’d ever heard of such a thing!
Actually, it wasn’t bad. Finns probably eat more licorice per capita than any other country. And when I especially miss him and Finland, I wish for some of the chocolate with licorice which is not to be found in these parts. I’ve been known to eat a piece of licorice with a piece of chocolate, but it isn’t quite the same.
Two of my favorite perfumes are by Lolita Lempica:
with licorice flowers, anise seeds and violets, touches of veviter, tonka bean, vanilla and musk. Its a lovely blend in a beautiful bottle shaped like an apple. (Each bottle has the same shape, just with different colored decorations.)
Lolita Lempicka Midnight (Limited Edition) was introduced in 2004. It is a deeper juice with notes of Aniseed, Ivy, Myrrh, Iris, Amarena, Violet, Jasmine, Tonka Bean, Musk, Vetiver, Benzoin, and Vanilla. Its bottle is also beautiful.
And at one time there was a purse roll-on decorated in the same manner, quite lovely. I actually found it: Lolita Lempicka Midnight Fragrance .24oz ROLL-ON FRAGRANCE CONCENTRE DE PARFUM. It makes me feel good when I am carrying this with me.
To my nose, they smell very similar. But Midnight is headier. Except for the beauty of the bottles, you could choose one over the other and likely not miss the other one.
Lolita Lempicka Au Masculin for Men is the men’s version, introduced in 2000. It is complementary to the women’s versions and includes notes of licorice, vanilla, rum, cedar and bark. For myself on myself, I prefer the women’s to the men’s. The women’s is sweeter. The men’s is sharper and woodier.
I am quite surprised to see how much perfumes are discounted, if you know to look. Testers are generally discounted a bit more, but sometimes they do not include a cap. In the case of the women’s Lolitas, there are no caps, so it is a moot point, making a tester a good buy. I’ve found through experience that I miss the cap, at least on some bottles.
And on the subject of teas again, there are two herbal teas with licorice that I love: Stash Wild Raspberry tea (hibiscus flowers, rosehips, orange peel, lemongrass, licorice powder, citric acid, raspberry and natural flavors) and Stash Licorice Spice tea (with licorice root, cinnamon, orange peel, star anise, sarsaparilla, vanilla, cardamon, and clove.) They both taste as good as they smell. I wouldn’t mind a fragrance in either one.
Karin
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