La Petite Robe Noire Parfum: Guerlain removes the saturated 2012 cherry-licorice replaces it with sophisticated (finally) praline-chocolate-rose Late 2025, Guerlain launches La Petite Robe Noire Parfum — the maximum concentration in the LPRN line created by Delphine Jelk, Guerlain's creative director of perfumery. Revolutionary composition for the line: praline, lemon, bergamot / Centifolia rose Grasse absolute, rose bouquet / patchouli, vanilla, tonka bean. Total ABSENCE of black cherry-almond-licorice, the LPRN DNA from 2012-2024 that saturated the market for thirteen years — a welcome radical change. A tester sums up the transformation: praline translates chocolate not sweet like gourmands bergamot offsets chocolate beautifully rose water floral character, think rose flavored macaron drizzle honey lemon, actually smells classy cheerful playful with grace, still LPRN but different previous versions can smell someone aged 20 someone older. Guerlain finally dares mature sophistication-elegance vs the cherry-sweet-teenage previous versions. Performance of the Parfum concentration is excellent: sillage moderate heavy first longevity very good. A welcome revolution for a line tired by the excessive proliferation of ten versions in thirteen years.