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!

All my other perfumes are old hands, as it were - my tastes run to the 70's and before, often well before. Although I started wearing and choosing perfume in my teens in the 80's, I never made peace with modern perfume; who wants to smell like air freshener? Or food items?

But Lolita I like. It's modern but it's complicated like the oldies I love. Violet and licorice and vetiver, oh my! I got a mini with a mail order make-up purchase and was pleasantly surprised. I kept going back to it. Sniff sniff sniff all day. It goes through so many changes that the final rather boring vanilla musk dry down doesn't bother me - it lets me go to bed without all kinds of scent sticking out all over, which is nice. I got the big edp and it's worth it to me, it's nice to have something from a recent decade that isn't boring and isn't omnipresent. This is my only everyday fresh light scent (or at least the most everyday stinkum I own!), probably the only perfume I have that I'm not habitually underdressed for. Perhaps that seems weird to some, but I've been known to wear Bandit under my pony tail with jeans, flip-flops, and a black tee shirt to run errands and go to the PTA meeting.

The bottle is a riot! I love it so, and I keep my empty mini next to it. So many bottles are dull as ditchwater. I know some people think it's gaudy and horrible - perhaps it is. But at least it's not some pencil-pushers idea of a bottle that will sell well to the mass market - somebody who loves perfume designed that bottle.

Ahh, lovely Lolita. I adored this when it was first launched - it was so unusual and captivating...and that bottle! I still admire it, but since discovering Jungle L'Elephant (which actually came before LL), I must say I enjoy Jungle much more. They both share the same unique liquorice note, but Jungle is smoother, spicier, and creamier. However, Lolita will always have a special place in my heart...I'm smiling as I'm looking at the adorable bottle right now... :-)

When I first tested lolita lempicka I was enchanted. By the moment I got home my family told me it was great on me.They found it refreshingly sweet and charming. So did I. Well, I finally bought the EDP and I use it almost every day (except hot days). It has an amazing lasting power, a beautiful bottle and it makes me feel nice. Also a little goes a long way, so it is economic too.

This blend of sweet spices and floral - AND vetiver - is magic! Not typical by any means. I must disagree with some of the previous comments ~ the anise and licorice notes are amazingly good. It comes off less sweet than Angel ~ not trying to be a 'clone' ~ and it's very wearable. What an ingenious blend! I've tried it several times now and grow to love it more with each application. This one is worth the full bottle. Which by the way is a treasure all it's own!

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.

What caught my attention with this fragrance is the bottle ,very lovely presentation; I would say it's elegantly bohemian !!
Now to the smell. My first impression was a cloying characteristic but its settles well to a slight musky/smokey scent. Its girly and flirty (even the packaging affirms this!) Definitely has a more youthful demeanor to it...!!

Sweet, sugary and fresh scent.
It is an Oriental - Vanilla type of perfume.
This recommended for people who enjoy the scent of sweet and lily of the valley.
If you liked it try out ‘Angel’ by Thierry Mugler, ‘Wish’ by Chopard, and ‘ange ou demon’ by Givenchy.
For me it is a magical scent
It is suitable for night wear and special occasions. It will make you feel like the star of the night. If you wear you will be stealing every one’s thunder.
This has a love spell on me.
It is my second favorite perfume after ‘ange ou demon’.

I crave Lolita Lempicka, and I don't own it yet! It breathes lightly and waves at me with ozone-fresh and sophisticatedely fruity tandem. Spring in the bottle, it is a great outdoor wedding fragrance for a non-clishet bride who is not into lavish floral arrangements.

I think this fragrance is wonderful for everyday wear. It is not too spicy, a bit sweet, with a smokey drydown. The violet and musk combination make it smell classic while being sweet pop at the same time. Flirty and not too heavy. A great gift fragrance for a younger sister or friend.

hehehe i Heart Lolita. If I've gone a long time without smelling it and I smell it, I t makes me nostalgic and it makes me feel sexy. If it was a guy, i would eat him up.
Dont expect to find Angel here, and i'm tired of those drawing comparisons. This is demure, and intoxicating at the same time. Its sweet but not like dessert, its musky yet lightened by the florals and greens. Ones a pleasant compliment to the other.

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.

Reminds me of something Marla Singer from Fight Club or Courtney Love might wear. Like others have said, it's nearly sickeningly, poisonously, saccharine sweet (but without the nasty aftertaste of artificial sweeteners). Very 1997, but I don't mean that as a bad thing. Definitely a moody, going-out fragrance for me.

I definitely do not get the “sickly sweet” scent from this; or even the overpowering of anise – for me it is a bit “in your face” initially with the licorice but it mellows into a delicate, soft scent with enough uniqueness from the anise to keep it actually interesting. The first time I tried it I had the original Lolita Lempicka on one wrist, and the new “L” on the other and I could not appreciate the original much since I felt overpowered by the “L” – which I did not like as it really turns to a rather synthetic smelling vanilla on me and is simply too much. Once I was just able to savour the original Lolita on it’s own – I was in heaven  I have Angel too, and I can say that in no way does this seem at all similar to Angel at least on me. With Angel, I get a very rich, warm chocolate-caramel-vanilla flavour with that underlying patchouli kick (I almost want to eat myself up!) whereas with the Lolita I have this very soft, warm intriguing smell – I find it very complex and that is why I like it!

And of course, the bottle is amazing.

This is definately one of the weirdest perfume I ever smell. For insect repellant, this will suit best. But as a perfume? I can't imagine what kind of person will want to wear this.
If people stop and ask you what perfume do you wear? I'm not sure it could be count as a complement. Maybe they will write Lolita Lempicka under THINGS YOU SHOULDN'T BUY FOR THE SAKE OF THE WORLD.

PS: Although it had terrible smell, the bottle is gorgeous. This is one of the cutest bottle I ever had.

I got my Lolita EDP in the mail today! Wow am I ever impressed!! This does not strike me as gourmand at all. It's sweet, but more woodsy to me. Sounds funny but I can smell the ivy. The anise is wonderful, not too much. I don't smell the licorice at all(I found that really weird because my sense of smell is extremely keen!). This could almost be a nice hot tea! The dry down is like a dreamy, womanly powderish scent. It was well worth the wait!
Beautiful, unique bottle & packaging*****

Another Angel wanna-be. Cherry&Anise scented inhaler stick + vanilla. Horrible.

I'm sort of surprised by the descriptions of sugary sweetness. I do get deep musky vanilla in the drydown but mainly its violets and sharp licorice and astringent green notes (reading ivy as one of the topnotes makes sense to me) its quite foresty and green although yes very feminine and something tealike about it. My mum bought this for me just for the bottle and faerie themed advertisement and I will love it forever although it is hugely nostalgic for me now and a bit too emotional. A forest nymph fragrance.

Wearing Lolita Lempicka made me a little bit worried that I might be attacked by a horde of sugar-addicted ants at night. Definitely not my pick.

Mmmmm! I bought a 100mL bottle of the EDP which arrived in the mail today (thank you Ebay!) and this is divine. Just LOVE the aniseed smell, totally gorgeous. I also enjoy sweet scents and this is delicious. This one deserves its reputation and popularity but I can see why some don't like it. It just depends on what your style is!

I would recommend testing before you buy though! See if it is to your taste.

I love it .. makes me feel young & flirty .. and that's not bad thing for a 55 year old!

When I first spray it on, I always think it's way too sweet, but then it dries off to a subtle soft powdery scent that lingers for hours.

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 reminds me of a subtle version the "Angel" type scents and all its copies. Dries to smell like real baby powder, so it gets an A+++ from me!

This scent is addicting. At first, I thought I would be bothered by the licorice because I do not like licorice, but the way it is mixed in with the other ingredients actually makes it smell wonderful. A spicy oriental that I dearly love.

I had a girlfriend in high school who ADORED this scent. I think that it is way too overpowering, sweet and musky for my task. Definitely YUCK!

I love this fragrance. It was mentioned in a book that I was reading, so I bought it, unsniffed from ebay, and am I ever glad that I did. I've loved this one from the very first day that it came to me.

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.

I have to agree with most of the sentiments expressed about this, i.e. Amazing fragrance but very little lasting power on my Wife's skin which is a shame (and she has NO problems with other frag's and longivity by the way!)

I like Lolita Lempicka and find it easy to wear: light, sweet, lasts about 4 hours on me, & just a touch of aniseed scent wafts up from time to time.

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.

I just received this in an exchange of perfume samples between friends. I guess I too, live under a rock because I've never smelled it. It is so delicious. To me, it's very creamy and sweet, without the sickening vanilla that seems to be overpowering everything lately. I don't smell licorice at all, which is a good thing because I have disliked the smell since I was in grade school. It doesn't smell like any of my usual floral or fruity perfumes, and is way out of my comfort zone. Yet I can't stop smelling it. This is my new HG perfume. Definitely bottle worthy. I must thank my friend for the sample:))

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

I love this sent. It is my all time favorite out of my entire perfume wardrobe. I love licorice, and I just feel like this sent fits my personality. I like to wear it with darker clothes, or when I'm going out at night. I sometimes feel like its more of a winter sent, but a male friend of mine told me "I think it smells so sexy, and if sexy isn't in all year round then I don't know what is..." so there you go.

I tried this one three years ago and have fallen in love with it. Every time I wear it, someone asks me "what is that wonderful scent that you are wearing?"

This is an unusual choice for me because my other favorites are 1000 and L'Heure Blue".

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!

Well, this was rather unexpected. I received my mini in the mail, opened, and immediately fell out of obsession with the lime and lavendar box (what a wonderful box!) I couldn't get the scent off, no matter how many times I washed my wrist. Then, literally overnight, the olfactory-fairy sprinkled her dust of inexplicable enchantment, and I woke up craving the perfume. This just doesn't happen. I like anise as a flavor-- it's great in cookies and other sweets (though I abhor licorice), but on me? Needless to say, something about the scent was addictive, and after a week, I'm already half-way through my mini. Notes: anise, violet, vanilla, possibly a tame breed (?) of patchouli, and Cabbage Patch Doll with a rebellious side... (there's no baby powder here, ma'am!) I know I have to stop saying it, but once again, I'm in love with my wrist.

I just sampled this (I basically live under a rock) because someone sent me a sample. I never tried it before in dept stores, I suppose, because I don't care much for anise or licorice flavors and I thought that I wouldn't want to smell them in a perfume either. How wrong I was! :-) This is one of the loveliest fragrances I've tried in a long time. On me, it's very long lasting. It smells of anise pastilles and violets and soft musk -- it's so nicely composed. I don't find the anise/licorice at all discordant. I think it adds a note of interest without overwhelming. I'm surprised by how much I love this one. It's now on my wish list.

This one is so sweet as to make me back away from the bottle -- and there is a slightly sharp top note that doesn't die down on me, staying very sweet and very aggressive. The bottle is lovely, I really wanted to like the scent, but it is unrelentingly sugary to me.

I just bought a small bottle of this yesterday after using up two Sephora samples.

At first, I didn't care much for it, but that anise note is like a drug. The drydown (on me, anyway) is pure vetiver, here very dirt-like, and somehow so compelling. I've made a fool of myself many a time, snorfling the dry LL on my wrist in public.

I was in heaven yesterday when I tried this on! I've been searching for that perfect scent and I tried this on my wrist skeptically because I hate black licorice. I tried clinique's simply and absolutely detested it because of the licorice notes. However, I don't smell strong licorice notes in this at all. It was just the right amount of sweet mixed with soft powdery notes and it was heaven on my skin! I kept smelling my wrist over and over again and I'm searching for a bottle of the perfume, not the EDT. I want it to last longer on me...so yummy! And the bottle is amazing too, just an added bonus!

This is one of my favorites and most complimented next to Angel. I love it.

I've offered compliments to women on their fragrance only a number of times, and I've been surprised that more than twice they were wearing Lolita! It's beautiful, sexy and sweet...though I agree about that Licorice note.

I really detested this one. It reminds me of Angel and Cruise (both I hated). I've never been a floral gourmand fan. With my chemistry LL smells like rotten fruit. On the plus side the bottle is unique and very cute.

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.

Lolita, of course, an interesting name for this fragrance. And so, like it's name, this fragrance too, explores the femininity of a "young"/"youthful". Having said this I don't necessarily think that this is either a "young" or "youthful" scent, it is rather reminiscent of the sweet exploration into ones sexuality/femininity/maturing into a woman... something reminiscent of 'awakening desire' in a young woman. Lolita is of course both inviting and deliciously playful... Lolita is in my opinion slightly similar to Chopard's Wish, but I do like Wish quite better... However, where the true winnings with this scent lies as far as I'm concerned is in the bottle itself. The bottle too is reminiscent of the 'sinfulness' of Eve - hence the apple... but this apple of course is far more fairy-like and more innocent and dreamy looking! Who could ever resist?

I, along with my twin daughers, love this fragrance! It is sweet, feminine, girly and fun! Every time we wear it someone asks, "What do you you have on that smells so good???"

The scent reminds me of something heavenly. The best way I can describe it is that it smells like cotton candy tastes! Absolutely delicious!

Plus the purple apple bottle looks fantastic on my bathroom counter top!