Reviews of Lolita Lempicka (1997)
by Lolita Lempicka

I tried hard to love this one. It's so weird, smells like licorice in the basement...or licorice and pipe tobacco. The overall sweetness is overpowering for me. Somehow it doesn't dry down right, and wound up giving me the worst headache. I sold my bottle on ebay!

It smells very strange on my skin. First it's the sweet licorice and something spicy(annis?). I think the Licorice note is quite weird, but still ok for me. But then, it turns into a horrible BURNT rubber smell which I can't stand at all!

It's not a fragrance suits for every girl... really need to sample before you buy it.

There seems to be a fine balance of the woodsy and gourmand smell of this perfume on me. I am not crazy about it but I would wear it occassionally.

I bought this unsmelled just on the scent breakdown. I was disappointed when it hit my skin. It smells like watery, vanilla soaked violets, which would be great if there was personality. It has none on me. This dries down to pleasant, mediocre mall-scent on me. Oh well.

I had to have a bottle because the bottle was so darned cute!
Not for me however. Way too sweet. Too overwhelming. Swapped it away.

This is a truly frustrating fragrance. On a strip it smelled powdery (not a favourite of mine) and a bit generic, but I detected liquorice-y notes and other not-quite-identifiables. I like liquorice, and frankly, I loved the bottle.

On my skin, a liquorice vodka accord quicly gives way to a powdery heavy liquorice with a faint suggestion of the soapy violet sweets I used to eat as a kid. A caramel-scented detergent-like note briefly muscled its way to the front, then faded after several hours to... fried chicken wrapped in the paper that had previously lined a box of violet and liquorice bon-bons.

Incidentally, unlike other fragrances I've tried, LL smells different when sprayed on different parts of my body (e.g. front and back of wrist; it smells worse on the front of my wrist, over the pulse).

I still have to give this points for having something different on offer, and for lasting all day.

Wish it worked on me, but can't say that it did. Gave both me and my b.f. terrible headaches -- we had to give our bottle away. The friend we gave it to -- guess what? -- started getting awful headaches himself.

Giving this one a "neutral," as all three of us got compliments on the scent, but -- alas -- had to put up with splitting headaches between the compliments.

A friend of mine used to wear this, the bottle was beautiful and I was disappointed that it did not smell so good.

Well, it's definitely not an Angel clone and that's a good thing, though they are certainly cousins. The anise/licorice is lovely but overall it is just too sweet and cloying after awhile. If you can carry off gourmands like Angel, you would probably like this one, though. It would be lovely on the right person. Great bottle, too!

I would love this fragrance too, but the anise ruins it for me. If it weren't for that discordant note, this would be a delicious, sweet, comfort scent.