La Petite Robe Noire Eau de Parfum Absolue

I love Black Perfecto and I am only ok with Absolue. That is because I find it too aggressive. Even if I only spray once in my arm, i keep smelling it everywhere for hours and hours and that can get overwhelming even if I overall like the notes, the last 2-3 times I have wanted to scrub it off which is why I'm down to one spray and still feel it too much. I need to revisit it in winter* (spring in Spain might be too hot for this perfume). And I love smokey, spicey leathery perfumes, so it is not a "class" problem but this individual perfume. I am not sure it is one note that bugs me, and I find it extremely different to Black Perfecto which is one of my favorite LPRN (I own many different ones). I bought it online because I couldn't find it in stores and I regret the blind buy. *Edit in late September: I put Absolue out in my fall and winter perfume selection and gave it another try and it turns out that I love it! it is strong, but not aggressive and certainly not overwhelming. Smokey, leathery and quite different from Black perfecto which for me is inciense-rose while this one has more spice and leather. I am probably using it about 3-4 days a week now. Suits well leather or black dressing. Either the 5 month rest or the weather change made this but I would encourage others to revisit this perfume also if your first impression was not good!

The ONLY thing stopping this from becoming my new favourite Guerlain scent is that it performs like a celebrity fragrance does - and by that I mean it's absolutely disappeared within an hour. Not even a skin scent, which is REALLY strange for Guerlain. It is unabashedly sweet cherry, but the rest of the ingredients give it a very rich character. Sometimes smokey, sometimess mixing with clean tea, but always supporting the cherry note. Cherry is my absolute favourite scent, and I'm still yet to find one where the cherry is the star from start to finish. After this, and how Guerlain absolutely ruined the Intense flanker (personal opinion) I'm losing a lot of faith in their plans for future releases :/

Oh, this is such a sweet, syrupy cherry beauty! I adore everything about it the bottle, the packaging, total vibe. I even have the green one, and I used to have the blue one too. I used to call them my Powerpuff Girls trio because they just have that magical, girl power energy ... The La Petite Robe Noire flankers hold such a special place for me. The notes of cherry, almond, smoke, bergamot, tea, iris, tonka, and leather blend together to create something so uniquely delicious and comforting. It’s a fragrance that feels like a superpower in a bottle, sweet but with a little edge. – Bhavna Darira Chesan

This is dark, sweet, flowery cherry syrup with a hint of smoke. When I wear it, I feel alert, like my senses have been sharpened and my mood has been lifted a couple of notches. It doesn’t perform the best but I get glorious wee whiffs of it over a few hours. It maybe lasts around 4-5 hours on me. I’ve got back-up bottles because I can’t bear the thought of a future where I don’t have this available to me. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT.

I got this as a sample and now upgraded to a full bottle. I think this is such a seductive sultry fragrance. Perfect for date night or a night out. The cherry and smoke for me are the most prominent notes. But it's not a bitter cherry. It's like a dark almost liquorice cherry. The smoke note adds such a depth without giving that burnt feeling. If you know what a black forest gateux smells like. This is exactly that on a bottle