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L Lolita Lempicka 2006 Eau de Parfum

7.6 / 10 514 Ratings

A popular perfume by Lolita Lempicka for women, released in 2006. The scent is sweet-gourmand. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Sweet

Gourmand

Spicy

Oriental

Powdery

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Bitter orange

Solar note

Bergamot

Heart Notes

Everlasting flower

Cinnamon

Musk

Base Notes

Vanilla

Sandalwood

Tonka bean

Perfumer

Maurice Roucel

Ratings

Scent

7.6514 Ratings

Longevity

7.9370 Ratings

Sillage

7.2324 Ratings

Bottle

8.8372 Ratings

Value for money

7.962 Ratings

Submitted by DonVanVliet, last update on 07/03/2025.

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Reviews

16 in-depth fragrance descriptions

09/10/2013

10
Bottle 10
Sillage 10
Longevity 10
Scent

Sorceress
213 Reviews

Sorceress

Very helpful Review 6

L de Lolita Lempicka-My Own Midsummer Night's Dream

This is a delightful Lolita. Classified as an oriental vanilla fragrance, it's more complex than the eight notes it contains. They wax and wane so well to a drydown that manages to mystify a lot of followers.
Within minutes, I was transformed to a burning campfire in the deep, dark woods, surrounded by tall, dark evergreens. I was sitting on a tree stump, smelling the wood and twigs I had collected to burn and watch dance in the fire's embers. There was moss underfoot and it is my own Midsummer Night's Dream.
I could smell marshmallows and little night flowers. This is not a sweet scent to me, but a warm scent that brings to mind not food, but memories and places and dreams. It evokes thoughts of areas I've been to, of trips I've been on.
Perfumes give you sensory and olfactory experiences. L Lolita immediately put me into another time and place. I've had gourmand perfumes remind me of food, yes, but never had this type of experience happen so quickly. How interestingly and quickly it mixed with my chemistry. Its drydown stayed similar to its initial notes, just richer but softer.
Bergamot, immortelle, tonka bean and vanilla were the highlight notes for me. The scent lasted for at least 6 hours, happily well worth it. As with all of the Lolita bottles, very interesting, unique and pretty, although a bit cumbersome. This Lolita is my favorite so far.

01/25/2012

5
Scent

bloodflower
13 Reviews

bloodflower

Helpful Review 4

Christmas Candy in Greece

This is a review of a perfume I once used to love..
L de Lolita Lempicka has one of the prettiest bottles, the sea blue colour and the pretty charms just make it irresistible, so I was drown like a moth to a flame. The initial spray made me happy and exhilirated, it reminded me a lot of christmas time, I am guessing because of the cinnamon and honey notes, totally representing christmas desserts where do I live..and actually have weakness for.. So a little time later when I found a great deal on a bottle I jumped to it, apparently I had made a snap decision.. Becuase all the other times I tried L it failed to lift me up or either comfort me.. Sadly the drydown has too mucb vanilla and it is over sweet for my liking, sometimes making me nauseous.. If it was heavier on bergamot and orange might have been better.
Leaving my personal expirience behind, I can see this perfume to be very appealing to women, it is warm, it is cozy, it is sweet, it is wearable in every occassion in winter. Good idea, pretty bottle, not for me.

01/09/2024

8.5
Scent

DogiCoco
621 Reviews

DogiCoco

Helpful Review 5

A forgotten pioneer

It's a shame that this was discontinued so quickly, and not just because of the lovely, whimsical bottle. This salty, spicy vanilla and citrus combo was truly ahead of its time. There are many similar scents that were released later and became very successful, Xerjoff Lira being the most notable example. So I don't really understand why this had to go and was never reissued.

What made L de Lolita Lempicka so special is its balance between sweet, creamy vanilla, zesty citruses, cinnamon and the immortelle flower, which adds a salty seebreeze vibe to the scent. Oh, salty vanillas are another trend that became really popular long after L was released and discontinued - see how cutting-edge this was in hindsight? Back then, it felt original, but also cozy and snuggly. The mermaid theme of the packaging suggested summer, but I always found the scent more wintery. The warmth outweighs the salty freshness.

I never had a bottle, I only owned the classic purple apple by Lolita Lempicka. If I had a real job in 2006, I might have bought this, too, but alas, I was a teenager. Many years later I got Lira, which reminded me of L a lot, and I'm still happy with it. Recently I got the chance to test a small decant of L again, and while the immortelle note makes it stand out, I prefer the smooth, creamy caramel in Lira.
I wouldn't say that someone who has never smelled this before desperately needs to go out of their way to try this, just go for Lira, Tendre Madeleine by Les Scenteurs Gourmandes or Valkyrie by Sylvaine Delacourte to see if you generally like this scent profile, and if you're really missing a grittier, drier, salty edge in these - then, and only then, try to find a decant of L.

In summary, there are more than enough gorgeous scents in this category nowadays, but I'm still happy I was able to retest the original and wanted to leave some love for it.

02/23/2016

jtd
484 Reviews

jtd

Helpful Review 5

l de ravageur

Frédéric Malle Musc Ravageur is the classic ‘whole lotta everything’ perfume. It’s an Aromatic Fougiental with gourmand tendencies. It doesn’t blend categories. It lumps them all together in the same bottle. Keeping the different genres at arms length from each other is a remarkable technical accomplishment. Unfortunately, it also leaves Musc Ravageur open to love/hate criticism. Fougère fans will find too much sweetness. Those hoping for a warm amber will find the aromatic elements jarring. It’s not gourmand enough for others.

I don’t know if perfumer Maurice Roucel had plans to spin off a set of flankers by overdosing particular notes, but Musc Ravaguer is an ideal starting place. Helmut Lang Eau de Parfum glides past the aromatics and amps up the musk. Le Labo Labdanum 18 makes a marshmallow of a perfume by emphasizing vanilla and removing much of Musc Ravageur’s kitchen sink.

L de Lolita doesn’t so much overdose a particular note as accentuate the ties to the gourmand genre. The perfume makes its point with patchouli. The camphorous side of the material replicates the aromatic top of Musc Ravageur, but by skipping the lavender L de Lolita skirts fougère references. Patchouli’s chocolate side combines with a maple syrup note (immortelle) to create a dessert feel. Juxtaposing patchouli’s contrastingly cool and warm sides while adding skosh of cotton candy gives Lolita a passing resemblance to Thierry Mugler Angel. Angel’s trick, though, is its inherent dissonance. It suggests food and poison in the same sniff. Lolita is far less conflicted than Angel and lands squarely in the desert camp, ultimately smelling like a German Chocolate cupcake.

L de Lolita misses the point of Angel. Angel balances food and toxin in a 50-50 mix. It draws you close with cotton candy and then blasts you with camphor just as you get intimate. It’s a classic tease. L de Lolita distorts the ratio. 90% cupcake draws you in but the 10% poison isn’t enough to push you away. It’s classic nausea.

There is something technically fascinating yet conceptually crass about L de Lolita. For all the expertise that that may have gone into manipulating genres and layering notes just so, the experience it asks the wearer to have is trite. L de Lolita creeps too far into the laziness of the gourmand genre. The experience it offers is, “Hey. Wanna smell sort of like a cupcake?”

11/09/2017

8
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 7.5
Scent

StellaDiverF
213 Reviews

StellaDiverF

Helpful Review 5

Christmas Cookie

L opens with a strong cinnamon. The orange adds some tartness and balances, makes the cinnamon so yummy. The drydown is mainly vanilla, but the cinnamon is slightly detectable and spices it up, to remind you this is not a whatever vanilla drydown but L by Lolita. I don't think it's a very complexe fragrance. But it's a wonderful mood lifter. It's so cheerful that it will light up a grey autumn or winter morning. And like some previous reviewers it reminds me so much of Christmas. As the longevity, it's 8h+ on me and the sillage can be huge for the opening, so beware.

Originally written in 2013.

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