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Mon Eau
Anybody who finds the house signature too sweet should start with Lolita Lempicka Mon Eau Eau de Parfum, which takes the same brand and makes it tart, green and considerably more grown up.
The opening is all fruit and peel. Lemon, lime and mandarin orange come first, bright and sharp, with blackberry adding a dark juiciness and raspberry leaf doing something cleverer: it is green and slightly fuzzy rather than fruity, the leaf and not the berry. Anise runs underneath the lot, cool and sweet, and it is the only part of the top that points back to the rest of the range.
The middle is a soft, slightly herbal bouquet. Chamomile is dry and faintly medicinal, like a herbal infusion left to go cold, and it is a genuinely unusual thing to find at the centre of a mainstream fragrance. Iris adds powder and a cold root quality, blackcurrant keeps the tartness alive, and sambac jasmine, rose and lily of the valley fill the middle out with sweetness, freshness and dew respectively.
The finish is quiet and clean. Violet turns powdery and soft, sandalwood brings a creamy warmth and white musk keeps the whole thing laundered rather than heavy. Annick Menardo composed it, and it arrived in 2018.
Expect six hours at eau de parfum strength with modest projection, which makes it a great deal easier to wear to work than its siblings in the range. Spring and summer, daytime, offices and anybody who likes fruit without sugar. It reads feminine. Lolita Lempicka itself began as a French clothing house, has always worked a storybook register, and has built its range around the violet it first used in 1997.
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