La Petite Robe Noire

The reviews and ratings on this page annoy me. I guess most people are talking about the current version of LPRN EDP that's available now, but this is the FIRST VERSION from 2009! This has no cherries! It would be helpful if people checked the bottle they own before reviewing it. This is a gorgeous soft sweet fragrance, absolutely beautiful, and while it reminds me of the THIRD/CURRENT version of LPRN, it is not that similar. For the record I also love that version, but probably love this a bit more.

Beautiful scent. One of my favorites. It’s a little powdery. Kind of sweet. I smell a touch of licorice. More of a gourmandy, powdery, slightly floral scent that is best for fall and winter. It lasts a long time and doesn’t require more than one or two sprays. Can be worn by women of all ages but doesn’t have that “old lady” smell. Has a feeling of sophistication. I get compliments every time I wear it. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

Oh my! This is an amazing composition! There are some fresh and soft citrus notes in top notes and warming vanilla and patchouli notes in base notes. And what I love the most - licorice! It is not some teenager-suitable sweet perfume, it's a masterpiece! Elegant, modern and well-balanced fragrance which is suitable for any occasion.

EXTREMELY sweet, not sure why i like this so much, i usually never go for sweets... it is actually quite spicy on my hand, got a weird memory of a car garage right now while sniffing it, some citrus ethanol thing The only perfume i have found in a store that i liked, it always seems to cheer me up

I don't know the difference between this one and the other couple that are listed under La Petite Robe Noire. I just bought mine so I'm assuming it's the most recent Edition. I love the scent. It reminds me of Tresor La Nuit but not as sweet. It's absolutely stunning, I adore the scent.

It's all personal taste, but it's a fantastic creation! It reminds me about my childhood. What gourmand means for someone, can be something completely different then what it means to someone else... . La Petite Robe Noir, is due to his ingrediënts really gourmand, no doubt about it.

This is Lolita Lempicka's older, more mature and sophisticated sister. She knows what she wants and goes and gets it. The licorice and vanilla is soft and beautiful. I adore this perfume, I hope I can resist wearing it everyday because it is EXPENSIVE.

sprayed it on my wrist at the boutique and felt it was overpowering .. as soon as i left the boutique a cool breeze blew in my direction and suddenly fell in love .. this is for people who like sweet yet elegant gourmand scents .

I am in absolute love! From the first sniff bright with lemon to the next level of rose, drying down to a wonderful warm vanilla and patchouli that lingers for hours, I can't believe how perfect a match this is for my chemistry.

I absolutely love this. It reminds me of Lolita Lempika, but with slightly less of a woodsy twist. I got a sample of this on Sephora and bought a bottle of it immediately. It's sexy and remarkable.

This one can be very hit and miss for me. It really depends on my mood or my surroundings on whether I want to wear it with the first initial spray, I get straight up cough syrup, and then dries down to a super powdery, sweet, almost cherry like fragrance. I’ve had this one in my collection for about three years however it looks like I’ve probably only used about 7ML. Not to say I don’t like it! I do like it, I just like the drydown more. This is very polarising and is not for everyone so I would definitely would not say this is a blind buy safe fragrance

Can smell the licorice right off the top. I think the lemon and almonds are very subtle. The smoked tea & musk emerged more with the dry down. I really do like the tartness of the lemon in this stage. I can't say I smell too much vanilla. Strangely, on one wrist the "cherry" note as described by another reviewer seems there while on the other wrist, the lemon is much more dominate. Nice fragrance but I'm not wowed as much as I thought I'd be.

This is a fun scent. It's really girly and innocent. I'm not really a gourmand gal but this works for me because I'm not smelling a specific dessert or ingredient. To me it smells like a Lush store but less heady. If you've smelled Lush's Godmother/SnowFairy soap, this smells almost EXACTLY like it (except more almond and patchouli...y'know sliiiightly grown up...). I wore this biking on a summer day. Really beautiful to smell in the breeze.

The bombastic combination of macarons, anise, lemon and licorice is quite strange. A bit of a mind f*ck. If I do reach for it, I wear it only to bed because of how powdery and sedating it is. Absolutely unique, but this is not a date night "little black dress" fragrance in my opinion. A very polarizing fragrance to be sure. I prefer Lolita Lempicka.

I smelt this on a friend of mine and I had to ask her what she was wearing. It smelled really similar to perfume I had sampled before but I couldn't place what it was. I later came to realize it reminded me of Interlude for Men by Amouage; on her it was quite smoky and had that burnt herbal/cloves smell.

Too young for me, I think, but very pretty, summery and effervescent. This is just the kind of thing you could give to a young girl and be confident that she'd like it. It's not too fruity, too trendy, or too syrupy - just sweet, fresh and youthful.

Agree with the other reviewers, it's smells like Lolita Lempicka's. Fortunately I loved LL and I didnt mind having the similar ones since I still able to find the difference kind of uniquness between these two ;)

Quite nice, smells really nice on my wife- very much as the notes listed by degree of prominence here. I can definitely see the brother/sister relationship between this and l'homme ideal.

I'm so glad I only ordered a sample of this. I was really excited to try La Petite Robe Noire but it was a disappointment from the first spritz. It is not an elegant perfume that would warrant a little black dress nor the price tag for a full bottle. On my skin it's sickly sweet cherry pie and almond extract. I imagine wearing this outdoors in the fall would make one a yellowjacket magnet. I enjoy the occasional gourmand but this one is not for me. This pedestrian scent was born from my beloved House of Guerlain? If it came from a celebrity perfume line I wouldn't have such high expectations. Surely it was conceived by their marketing department to pump sales from a teenybopper market. How sad. Excuse me while I go scrub this off and douse myself in Mitsouko to make everything better again.

This is definitely a gourmand. Vaguely reminds me of Lolita Lempicka, but this would be her younger sister, aspiring to becoming more like Lolita. I mainly smell cherries, but they are far too sweet to be interesting. I generally like sweet perfumes, but this is cloying, even for me. I find it has a distracting quality, keeping me going back to my wrist to smell it again ang again, but not in a good way. It just seems like too much. The same goes for the almond note. It is not an elegant almond scent, but a sort that reminds me of the artificial almond scent they use for confectionery sometimes. I'm sorry, but I don't like this.