Lolita Lempicka is a house that began by producing couture creations. However, these were only marginally distributed, and it is truly within perfumery that Lolita Lempicka made its name.
In creating the now great classic Le Premier Parfum Lolita Lempicka in 1997, Annick Menardo managed not only to bottle the house's joie de vivre but also to showcase raw materials still unprecedented in perfumery. On the eve of its twentieth anniversary, Annick Menardo bottled her precious essences to further magnify them, offering them under the name Le Parfum Lolita Lempicka.
Le Parfum de Lolita Lempicka, or the quintessence of the essences of Le Premier Parfum
By offering her very first fragrance to the celebrated designer of a thousand colors, Lolita Lempicka, Annick Menardo not only created the house's bestseller but also a fragrance that plays with the contrasts between the woman-child and the femme fatale through highly original accords. Indeed, the most striking distinctiveness of Le Premier Parfum Lolita Lempicka is that, through anise and apple notes, an overdose of licorice and praline plays the guest of honor within a richness of fiery accords.
How could one imagine, then, that the great perfumer and the now-celebrated house of Lolita Lempicka would fail to compose a fragrance that would exhale these original, and moreover natural, accords with formidable power? After many beautiful flankers, this would come to pass in 2016 with Le Parfum Lolita Lempicka.
Le Parfum Lolita Lempicka thus moved away from the pretty woman-child suggested by the gourmand notes to turn toward the femme fatale suggested by the depths. Make no mistake, Le Parfum Lolita Lempicka is a venomous and captivating fragrance whose secret Annick Menardo alone seems to have kept, much like Hypnotic Poison, which she also created for Dior.
Le Parfum de Lolita Lempicka, or the beauty of the deep licorice accord
Whatever the precious flankers of Le Premier Parfum de Lolita Lempicka, it is indeed the smooth, powerful, yet also very gourmand licorice accord that remains the signature of the entire range. To the child I offered flavor, to the woman, the flower. Thus was born the intoxicating nectar of the licorice flower, attributed to Annick Ménardo for Le Premier Parfum Lolita Lempicka.
Over the years, this precious licorice has taken on multiple scents and facets, yet this time, for Le Parfum de Lolita Lempicka, the licorice has adorned itself with its most mysterious guises and its most captivating raw materials.
Yet Le Parfum de Lolita Lempicka has not entirely lost its gourmand character, and the lovely vanilla in the top notes reminds us of this, to our great delight. The pretty floral notes of the heart, built around jasmine-violet accords, might also seem to make us forget the enchantment under which we find ourselves. But the cedar plunges us back into it. And the depths of tonka bean, labdanum, and cistus make us fall literally under the magical charms of this violet apple.