Sweet
Cocoa is not a material you meet often in a fragrance built around fruit, and it is the reason Lolita Lempicka Sweet Eau de Parfum is worth smelling before you decide what you think of it.
The opening pairs sour cherry with sugar and the two pull in opposite directions. Cherry arrives sharp and a little stony, sugar gives it a crystalline, almost granular sweetness, and for the first few minutes the scent is quite literally sweet and sour. Cocoa then takes over, and it is handled dry: unsweetened powder in a tin rather than anything melted, dusty and faintly bitter. Iris reinforces that powderiness with a cool, chalky quality of its own, and angelica runs a green, root like bitterness underneath. What remains is simple and effective. Musk and cashmeran make the base, the first smoothing everything down and the second bringing a dry, soft warmth that stays on skin for hours. There is no long evolution to follow here. A seven material composition states its idea early and then holds it, which is worth knowing if you prefer a fragrance that keeps changing on you. Worn in a cold room it reads richer, and worn in heat it can turn heavy, which is the usual behaviour of anything built on powder.
Anne Flipo composed it. In eau de parfum strength it has the staying power for an evening out and the discretion for a day indoors, and it is most at home in cold weather, when the cocoa and the powder read as comforting rather than heavy.
Lolita Lempicka is a French name that began in ready to wear and found its larger audience in perfume, trading on a whimsical, storybook look that runs from the advertising right through to the bottles. Fragrance has been part of the business since 1997.
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