Description
Lolita Lempicka launches Sweet, the new forbidden fruit—a delicious and flirtatious fragrance for women which symbolizes the pleasures of femininity. “Taste the delicious pleasure of being a woman …” The fragrance is available from mid-October 2014.
The composition is created by Anne Flipo, introducing cherry-cocoa lip-gloss accord, which evokes kisses. It opens with accords of candied cherries that lead to the heart of cocoa absolute, which flirts with angelica, both wrapped up in elegant iris. The final signature of strength and sensuality is provided by accords of musk and cashmere wood.
It is available as 30, 50 and 80 ml Eau de Parfum packed in the signature Lolita Lempicka apple-shaped bottle, this time lacquered and painted in bright red.
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uasergey – :
Sweet by Lolita Lempicka
I smell, sweet, fruity, musky, nutty, powdery, and of chocolate.
Am I a lollipop? am I a yummy cherry pastry? Am I lipgloss? What I do know is, yep, I smell sweet. A very flirty and fun fragrance. Sillage and longevity are average. It some what reminds me of Live irresistible deliciouse. The bottle as always is just adorable. Xo
Sereoga32 – :
Very simple like the reviewer mentions, cherry lip salve.
A pretty scent but nothing original.
I happen to like simple scents. Reminds me of Paris Hilton Can Can as it dries down. Love the opening of Sweet more.
296 – :
Plain and simple cherry candy.
It’s a bit one dimensional to me but I really much enjoy it on many days when I just want something youthful and sweet on me.
Occasionally I also use it to add some sweetness to overly powdery scents.
I do feel it’s targeted more towards teens and for that it’s very nice and fitting.
Anyway enjoying it even at 34 😉
hunt2033 – :
Raspberry sweet. Love it. Cannot find it anymore.
Deroxnymff – :
Its absolutely deliciously beautiful and my man cant do enough for me now lol x
mikola1 – :
Rather pleasantly sweet, and smells a bit like a fruity shampoo.
Liisss – :
It”s only sugar and musk on my skin and the longevity was about an our. Sorry, I would pass.
Marisha – :
Beautiful scent. I absolutely love it but it doesnt project well or last long at all. If anybody knows of something that smells almost just like this but better quality please pm me 🙂
fokx07 – :
Very sweet, warm, fruity smell. It’s similar to the black cherry merlot scent from bath and body works except it has the extra sweetness due to the sugar note.
makc_ar – :
Sweet basically just smells like maraschino cherries and nothing else. It’s fun to wear! This can be enjoyed by young ladies aged 8 – 88. 🙂
Projection is moderate for the first hour of wear, after which time it softens to a skin scent, where it lingers on for a couple of hours.
I think it can be worn anytime of year, day or night. Suits casual occasions best.
If you like to experiment with layering, I think Sweet would be a good one to try! It could be delicious layered with chocolate, vanilla, citrus, or almond fragrances. (Actually…that sounds good! I think I’ll try those combos sometime!)
This is a safe blind buy for those who like candy/sweet/fruity/fun types of scents.
16lara1976 – :
Glacé cherries when first opened. Cherry throat sweets. I’m glad I asked for a sample because I’d never wear this. It wore off on my arms quite quickly but I can still sniff it on my top where it smells like some sort of air freshener. I loved ‘Lolita Lempicka Midnight ‘ and the original ‘Lolita Lempicka’ but this isn’t even derivative. Very odd.
yrez – :
@LittleWing
I swapped my Sweet with Szilvihorv (see her review of it about 4 down from yours). Mine was definitely genuine but purchased when it was first released. I don’t know whether it has been subjected to reformulation or whether you have been unfortunate and bought from a bad bottle batch, but you should definitely be able to smell more than you can. In my opinion, it works better in winter than summer. If I were you, I wouldn’t spend money on another bottle – wait until weather is cooler and test again then.
B x
JOOPELIAS – :
I bought a second bottle from an eBay seller with a lot of positive reviews for Lolita Lempicka sales. I still can barely smell anything. Maybe the weakest almost not even there whiff of could be cherry and no other notes. I love love love Elle L’aime, Midnight Couture Black Eau de Minuit, L de Lolita Lempicka but if I didn’t know better I would swear this is not even made by the same company. The bottle is cute but I don’t like the smaller bottle trend, 2.7 oz rather than 3.4. Maybe this will grow on me if I use 7 or 8 pumps not 1 or 2 but for now I’m glad there is a bottle of Christian Dior Hypnotic Poison Eau De Parfum by my bedside.
I am very surprised a Lempicka scent is so weak so I will probably order from a brick and mortar just to see if I have been snookered on eBay. If nothing else 3 little red apples in my perfume collection will look good.
Tavda-66 – :
Terrible artificial cherry. Not the cough syrup but the cherry flavour hard candy variety. But not even executed well, just mediocre and juvenile.
Pointless release that has wasted a beautiful bottle and a catchy name.
55Razo55 – :
It smells like nothing. Rubbing alcohol that evaporates to none of the notes this is said to contain.
incexicag – :
So disappointed in this one! I blind bought it and I cant believe how basic it is! and people use it during winter! I am using it in summer and it lasts for 5 minutes after that I cant even smell it.
toubcobArtego – :
I love this. Sweet without a ridiculous amount of power.
lymnneele – :
I’m disappointed all the way. It has nothing to do with first Lolita Lempicka. On my skin it’s only sweet fruity musk; no smell of cherries (maybe a hint of generic smell of them) and no cocoa at all.
No passion in this perfume neither no sophistication, only a sad Meh.
Maybe only good thing is a bottle.
sifjn – :
I didn’t expect to fall in love with this so easily, but the first sniff had me on my toes, eager to bury my face into my wrist.
The sugary cherry opening reminds of the cherry jelly of my childhood, a cheap and yummy desert made of fresh cherries mixed into cherry flavoured jelly. Sweet, but not overwhelmingly so. Refreshingly fruity in the beginning. I took a double turn because what I expected was a creamier, powdery, chocolate-y scent. I don’t smell any cacao in here to be honest, but as Sweet dries down, it does become slightly powdery with a hint of sweet floral undertone due to the angelica. The chasmir wood adds a fine quality to it. I wouldn’t call Sweet a lipstick scent although it does remind me of lipsticks from time to time. Not intensely enough in my vocabulary though.
Longevity is pretty good with 8+ hours, but it turns into a skin scent so quickly! It projects way better sprayed on clothes.
uggs outletl7 – :
Wow, when LL calls a perfume “sweet” they are NOT messing around! I’m going through a cherry phase and trying a few and for what I want, this is perfect. I’m not getting any musk or cashmere wood, or iris even, this is sweet candy cherry through and through on me. More maraschino variety than sour, sillage is decent, longevity isn’t what I’d like but it’s not terrible. It’s sexy in a weird way, I can’t put my finger on it. So unabashedly and in your face sweet it might turn some people off of it, but I am one happy owner.
tmp303InsuffBooni – :
This is a very light, summery cherry/fruity fragrance. While many cherry fragrances are too sweet and cloying, this one is very delicate, surrounded by the other notes that blends perfectly together. This is an airy scent, but the sillage and longevity are sooooo poor on me, which sucks, cause it is lovely. It can be worn by women of all ages, but I think it would be a really classy yet youthful fragrance for a a 7 years old girl. 😉
hamhoojegoCog2007 – :
I watched for this for about 2 years and never saw it to test, and thought it sounded extremely fun–so when I found a really cheap bottle I pulled the trigger blind. Sadly, I don’t love it. If you’re considering doing what I did, try this first: get a soft leather bag with a suede interior. Add 1 can of cherry pie filling, the gelatinous type that comes in a shade of red not found in natural cherries. Squeeze in a tube of thick lip gloss. Toss in several years of insecurities about whether or not you’re obviously too old for this sh*t. Zip the bag and shake. Finally, sniff. If the resulting scent is one you’d like to wear on your person, check out Sweet!
Millenium – :
My thoughts – at least it doesn’t have licorice in it.
Ta-ta-li-ka – :
I swore to myself that I’d never make a blind buy, but I found it for a good price. Unfortunately it was almost out of stock, so I just pulled the trigger based on the reviews.
I was still a little unsure how I’d feel about it because Lolita’s often have a strong powder heaviness that risks giving me a dull headache. Upon first sniff I get an artificial cherry mixed with a strong musky sugarcube. I could feel the twinge in my sinus and I did sneeze once. However, like other reviewers have mentioned, this perfume starts to transform at the 30 minute mark. Suddenly as the iris, cocoa and cherry start to meld, I get the whiff of lipstick and think to myself, “finally!”
This is a hard fragrance to balance because it’s all about the cherry-topped middle notes for me. So far it’s a like. I adore the scent of cherry lipstick.
Update: I officially *love* this scent. It has quickly become one of my favorites!
gqd692elipseskism – :
Sweet, but in a fruity way, so if you’re after a fragrance that smells like caramel, vanilla or chocolate, this isn’t for you. It does smell like cherries, the scent is pleasant and it’s not overwhelming. All in all, a nice fragrance, nothing to write home about but definitely a decent cherry fragrance to own in your collection.
EMalkgakEmene – :
“Sweet” definitely lives up to its name! Flirty cherry and mouthwatering cacao is the most prominent notes followed by a more subtle Iris and deep vanilla musk drydown. This gourmand sent from LL reminds me of enjoying candy floss and brightly coloured balloons at the fair. It’s an intense but very fleeting carousel ride you want to do over and over again. I don’t think the intention was for it to be so very sophisticated like Le Premier, it’s a young at heart, feel good, playful fragrance. If you’re an ardent LL flacon collector you will love this ruby red bottle with gold leaf detail, its a little gem to add to your collection!
kasper81 – :
I blind bought this on the basis of my long term love affair with Lolita.
Sweet is a highly polarising scent which is attracting a lot of hate; the reviews didn’t dissuade me from buying an 80ml bottle – although I must admit that references to this appealing to an immature teenager’s nose very nearly put me off. I had a feeling this may smell like a generic cheap celebrity scent (which don’t appeal to me at all).
On first spray, I get an almost overwhelming blast of sugary sweet fizzy cherry cola scent. To be honest, if I had tried this in a shop and sprayed it on a card, the first sniff would have put me off instantly and I may have ditched the card and walked off. Fortunately I have an 80ml bottle in my bedroom, so I am at leisure to let it develop on my skin.
After half an hour the sweetness has mellowed to a warm, musky, slightly fruity milk chocolate. The sillage is moderate to poor and I suspect the longevity on my skin will only be a couple of hours, which is disappointing. Having said that, my skin seems to absorb perfumes, unless they are a lot heavier and muskier than Sweet – one of the reasons I tend to favour them.
This is a keeper for me – I doubt I’ll re-purchase, but it certainly isn’t a scrubber. It’s warm and humid here in SE England – it’ll be interesting to try this in cooler weather and see what it does then.
To summarise – don’t dismiss this as a child’s perfume – give it a chance and you may be pleasantly surprised.
Edit: I should perhaps have mentioned that I am 52 years old and don’t think this smells too “young” for me; having said that, I think everyone should wear whatever they enjoy, irrespective of marketing. This is definitely a perfume which adapts according to skin chemistry, though.
16 August 2017, ETA: Actually swapped this in the end as the sillage and longevity issues on my skin compromised it too much to warrant keeping it. Fortunately its new owner loves it, so it found a happy home.
Kyrenie – :
I was searching a gift for a girl friend and was very hestitant to try Sweet.
At first, it smelled like cherry-flavoured cough syrup…
After 15-30 minutes, the fragrance became sourer, darker, more ripe smelling somehow. I could smell the cocoa faintly, which gave the perfume a “rounded” character.
This is a nice take on the whole fruity gourmand trend and a great gift if you know someone who likes these sort of perfumes. Yes, it’s sweet, but it has somewhat of an edge to it.
The bottle is very appreciated by the trendy young women.
I could see someone mature wearing this, too, because of the ripeness of the fruit smell.
The longevity was good, sillage very moderate.
Liginvibe – :
Cherry lip gloss/ kool aid definitely. not much sillage or lasting power. It’s OK…… maybe it will grow on it. I think id like So Sweet more.
Slipknot66610 – :
A new flanker is coming out in July called So Sweet I don’t know wether is gonna be sweeter than Sweet or toned down a bit.
Sweet is a lovely fun fragrance but doesn’t last on me more than one hour I’ll look out for the new flanker to see if longevity is better
well73 – :
Cherry candy, sweet, tasty, lovely. Very girlie scent, but I am never hesitant to wear it, though I’m 26 years old. The smell is ripe, the sillage is moderate, but still you can feel it on yourself for 4 or 5 hours, and the other people notice it too. It’s not delicate, more like… naughty? Yeah, I’d call it naughty. Playful. I feel much younger wearing it. The tastiest cherry I’ve smelled in perfumes.
enemy-11 – :
A blind buy based on reviews and my love of cherry as a fragrance note.
I wasn’t expecting much – maybe a fake cherry body spray smell – but this was love at first sight!
You know when you bite into a big, sun-warmed, ripe black cherry, and it’s kind of crisp and sweet? That crispness is here, and evokes the same pleasure. Yet it is soft, slightly musky powder. Juicy, but sweet and soft.
I don’t get the lip gloss accord ( having been a big consumer of giant Bonne Belle Cherry lip balms as a teenager) or even noticeable chocolate or cola. Perhaps white chocolate?
I adore it. Surprising sillage, which dries down to a musk but still retains some fruitiness.
Although it’s sweet, it’s more Nina Ricci than Escada or Britney Spears, and definitely has more class in spite of the childish notes.
Try it. It’s a sweet, soft, juicy little number. Adorable.
I bought two more bottles to stash away!
EGCaollin – :
The vanilla and cashmere in this gave me nausea and a bad headache. Aside from that, it’s a very nice perfume. The top notes are delish. And the drydown is very woody/sweet.
This is like a more mature, sophisticated, less bankrupt Betsey Johnson.
The bottles are too freaking darling. I LOVE the little stem as the sprayer. If I hadn’t had such a bad allergic reaction, I would be dousing myself in this everyday.
As a side note, topping off with Demeter’s Barbados Cherry was a nice way to keep the cherry top note present throughout the day.
el-kukl – :
nice dupe for LVEB, but not that quality like the lancome´s one, the sugar makes it smelling kinda cheaper. but not bad at all, there are lots of much worse dupes for LVEB, this one is the nicer one
macaulaytippins – :
me encanta!un dulce juvenil.
gafson4ik – :
Lolita Lempicka Sweet really does smell like cherry and chocolate lip gloss, as a preteen I wasn’t a fan of makeup but I did enjoy using lipgloss and this scent reminds of the Smackers cherry flavored lip gloss I used too use. So far I’m liking this, it’s very different from all the flankers by Lolita Lempicka, but Sweet is a very adorable scent and the bottle us just too cute and pretty to not wanna display, I love that it looks like someone wearing lipstick took a bite out of the Apple
Andrew29rus – :
Not bad, strangely. After the cherry note the mix of the iris and cashmeran gives an overall note of suede. Like the smell of a lady’s bag who let her lipstick melt inside.
Easily cloying but perfect for a night out and i think i’ll prefer this perfume on a man skin, far away of the stereotype merchandising.
ium586speagoessenda – :
This perfume is so so lovely! I catch myself sniffing every places I put it in, Sweet is just intoxicating! 😉 I smell little cherries served not in adult & strong way – vide for example Pioson Dior – but in more playful even frolic still very sexy way, then plain sugar & topping of gourmand chocolate. All together gives mix of sexy sweetness, young innocency with flirting wink and strongly girly scent. Not a big fan of other Lolitas this one is 10/10.
Bottle is so cute <3 Longevity & sillage are very good.
wikpo50 – :
Ok it’s sweet ok it’s Lempicka!!!!!!the cherry cocoa notes fade out quickly!!!!!!and it dries out to a very worm musky iris like fragrance almost masculine to my nose!!!! For all of you who somehow wanted to wear or eat your lipsticks the top notes of this perfume are very close to a typical lipstick scent !!!! But don’t be confused of its opening let it dry and change it’s way to a more elegant perfume!!! The sad fact is that this perfume has nothing to do with other Lolita’s creations there is nothing innovative nothing special!!!!!! I expect more from this amazing french house!!!!!
But ok Let’s say it is a good summer-spring scent!!!!!!
The bottle and the artwork as always AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PSIX XAXAXA – :
Starts off like cherry cola, dashes past a sugared lipstick scent and finishes with a sweet cherry cordial, equal parts fresh and syrupy. If you want a more glamorous lipstick inspired fragrance try Frederic Malle’s Lipstick Rose; for a more sophisticated lipstick scent try Maison Martin Margiela’s Lipstick On. This is not at all sophisticated or glamorous, but it is very fizzy and very fun.
dinvdinv – :
I don’t understand. I honestly don’t understand. What is this im smelling??? How could this child’s toy come from the same brand that creates Lolita Lempicka, or the now discontinued “L”??? The most bland, basic, underwhelming, bath and body works type fragrance flashes before my nose and then vanishes. It’s super sweet for meer seconds. And then something “chocolatey”, but not really. Ive never eaten chocolate like this, but I get what it’s meant to be. And within minutes all that’s left is a smell. It’s “musk” but not really. It’s just there. It lacks shape or color or personality. I know it exists, but I don’t know why.
If I can say anything about Sweet by Lolita Lempicka it’s that it never smells bad. However it also never manages to smell good. Take away the pretty bottle and the fancy schmancy box and it’s simply a glade plug in.
voiten80 – :
Probably, my review is not going to by a unbiased one, because I just don’t like any perfume of the Lolita Lempicka’s range, but, in my opinion, this one in particular epytomizes all which I find to be wrong in the designers perfumes in our days.
It is targeted to young women. Young women, very young, teenagers, I would say, although already strongly sexualized. Neverless, it’s as expensive as any other designer perfume focused in more mature women. Strongly advertised (although not by a famous face, as is so fashionable today). Flashy, kitschy, posing as being sophisticated, but in fact very cheap looking bottle. The juice…oh, the juice…we haven’t thought about it. Well, let’s put another fruitcholy, candied thing, which is so fashionable in our days, and let’s run and get some cash from wannabe poshy, young girls who want to spent their weekly pays in the local Sephora.
The smell…the smell itself is almost indescribable…A very synthetic, screechy, red fruits candy -the cheap kind of candy that I used to buy when I was seven-, along with a heavy, ultra-sweet, cloying powdered cocoa smell. Like Fiesta Piruletas mixed with Cola-Cao. Mon Chèri Chocolates. And iris, yes, they have to put iris (one of the most difficult notes to use in perfumery): it seems to be “de rigueur” in our days in all the fragances which want to pretend to be fancy. This is like the slutty, annoying little sister of Lâncome La Vie Est Belle. Horrible. Not precisely the kind of smell that I link with sophistication.
I can’t help but thinking in Nabokov’s Lolita trying to lure some sort of child molester. No good…
MardapeWeek – :
I haven’t tried Lolita’s perfumes but a lot of them seems to include some Cherry note, which I’ve experienced is rare among all brands.
Since I love to eat both sour and sweet cherries, I think I’d enjoy the scent of them too.
ustrix – :
Cherryish, sweet musky smell with soft sillage. Transparent and uncomplicated. Rather childish.
Like a lollipop that hints at cherry, but is made of sugar and with cherries it shares only its color.
Red Kiss smells like a very complicated, dramatic masterpiece in comparison to Sweet.
The bottle is gorgeous and the smell is nice and innocent, so if you like cherry candies it might be for you.
Drydown is reminiscent of the classic Lempicka though, after 6-7 hours with my nose on my skin I feel some distant magic. If only it was more prominent with a candied cherry on top…
ETA Actually, it’s getting better in colder weather and when used in the evening. There’s more of the seductive, deep original Lolita Lempicka edp peeking from under the girly, innocent top then, and the fragrance becomes very likeable and pretty.
nik_teplyakov1960 – :
very forgettable fragrance…
dimastyi-inta – :
I feel like I have to leave two reviews…
The first is being OBSESSED With Lolita Lempicka, the bottles, the scents…
I love SWEET! OMG! It smells so good! Juicy candy cherries!! With a detectable note of lipstick/chapstick and a hint of florals. Near the drydown, the next morning (whatever was left) I swore I got the LL signature of licorice!
It actually reminded me of those powdery, Sweet-tart candy lipsticks I used to get as a kid!
It’s so juicy and the opening is sooo good. I love it! The bottle is gorgeous and cute, and I’m so happy this finally popped up on US ebay, even tho a new tester was $50. 🙁
Now… as a scent itself… it’s generic, candy/sweet, juvenile, doesn’t last, doesn’t project… It’s pretty basic. Like a teen’s body spray. If you are looking for a unique, juicy, loud cherry scent, go for La Petite Robe Noir from Guerlain. That stuff is awesome!
I do have to agree that LL is slipping, they are getting “kitschy” with putting out the same lovely apple bottles and lame juice. But for what it is, I love this!
Now, when will Loverdose Red Kiss hit the US where I can afford/buy it???
samdj – :
Does anyone know if this will be available in Australia?
Update: Got it!
It’s not all that sophisticated but I really enjoy it. It’s strong on cherry but not syrupy like Petite Robe Noir. I wish it lasted longer. And I love the bottle!
michardon – :
Tried this at a drugstore today. I have several fragrances by Lolita Lempicka, and love them all, so I had high expectations. Unfortunately, this was a disappointment. It did not have the “quality” smell, or the uniqueness that I associate with the brand.
xfe681speagoessenda – :
Thank you JeanneBird for responding to my comment and making it possible for me to finally have my very own bottle of this treasure & for being my first perfume swap experience ~ you are awesome!:)
I love this perfume ~ to me it is the perfect balance of sexy and sweet, one of my new favorites!
DavidBQlo – :
Not classy. Lipstick smell. For young girl maybe.
dmit-yamaha – :
I just received a sample of this and love it! Please message me if you are one of the people that have a bottle and dislike or want to get rid of it. I will buy it from you, I do not know where else to look. Thank you! <3
katya92box – :
I wanted to give this perfume a chance, but unfortunately the longer I wore it, the more I desperately wanted to wash the scent off me! Like its name suggests, it starts off with fruity cherry tones, and after the opening notes, I too began to pick up on the lipstick scent which I found to be quite unpleasant. The dry down was an overwhelmingly sweet floral, sadly I did not pick up on the cocoa notes.
ubineks – :
At first it’s a sugary sweet, cherry scent. Then I get the lipstick smell that other people seem to be getting, but I really like it. It’s like a slightly a iris-y, musky lipstick. After a bit of that, I can detect some wood(Not sure what note that is exactly.) and cacao coming into the mix. The bottle is gorgeous and before I even smelled the fragrance, I decided I wanted it just from looking at the bottle. The longevity is pretty bad but I love the scent enough to not really care about it. I’ll reapply it every hour if I have to. I like it that much.
It did take me awhile to figure out that the “stem” is actually where the perfume sprays from though. Haha.
madfan26rus – :
Smells like lipstick 🙁 what a dissapoitment. One less.
advismikisunk – :
I’m beginning to think this perfume company is not even trying……lets pick some fruit, add a little flower throw in some sugar and voila! Sweet……Yeah well this ‘Sweet’ leaves a sour taste in my mouth. Just another fragrance in the gourmand hungry generation, non-descript…..
-funny- – :
A big disappointment for me. I was so excited to see the tester at shoppers drug mart that I had to check the bottle twice. The bottle itself is indeed beautiful….red glass apple with a bite taken out. At first spray, my thoughts were “how generic, let’s see if it gets any better”. It does dry down to a decent fragrance but it leans too masculine on me. Yes it’s sweet but it’s also dark and the masculine note just makes it unwearable to me.
ramiko – :
The opening of this is perfect. Transports me back to 6th grade, about the time I started becoming interested in scents. Reminds me of lipsmackers and wal-mart body sprays. I had a tube of lipsmackers lip gloss with a red cap and thick transparent gloss inside, and it smells EXACTLY like that stuff.
Once it starts drying down, it reminds me of Katy Perry Killer Queen. It holds on to that childlike fruityness, but the chocolate comes forward more, to the point where it starts smelling stongly like pralines. The iris comes out too, giving it a very modern feel.
The drydown ends up smelling very ‘typical’ to me – as in, a lot of frags that are coming out right now have a very similar feel. Pralines, heavy sweetness, iris, a touch of fruit – I can name at least 5 frags that it smells like. The opening/first 5 minutes are to die for, though. And what an adorable bottle! My mini looks like a little cherry. I strongly prefer to spray on my skin – on my clothes it becomes a clone of many recent perfumes, the skin seems to better bring out the fun [quirky] parts of this perfume.
Вадян28 – :
OH MY GOD. I need to have this in my life. I am testing this for the first time right this second, so my opinion might change, but seriously… this is awesome. It reminds me of La Vie Est Belle, but more fruity and not as typical.
allena – :
The name,”Sweet” is spot-on… first spritz is undeniably cherry, along with that same familiar kind of sweet found in orginal Lolita Lempicka.
Here is the part where you might jump to the conclusion that it is “for young girls”, but oh, no. Not necessarily, anyway.
This sweetness is gourmand, but not like cookies, or candy. Nope, this is a cosmetic gourmand. It’s a boozy schmoozy cherry party!
The “lip gloss” accord I read about and anticipated is unapolagetically present, front and center, and I am SO relieved to discover that, as I feared that claim would be empty marketing, but no ma’am… it is there, and it is the sexy guest of honor. I can even sense the kind of slick stickiness of a high-quality lip gloss; feel the sensation of pressing my lips together and mmmmmmm smearing it in good! ;D The musk shows up early, and it is a nice one, which is important for me, as I LOVE a good musk. This one mingles graciously with the rest, for the duration.
Several minutes in, the heart opens up, and here is where the cocoa powder joins the party. I imagine angelica shows up fashionably late here, too, and this team serve to “grow up” the whole affair… warm it up, too.
Just when the party is in full swing, everyone is smiling and chatting and getting along well, some rude monster takes the needle off the record, and all the guests groan as they get their coats and go home… way too soon. (Who invited *that* guy?)
Cherry, our perky hostess, is left a bit faded from two hours ago, but has to stick around to tidy up, and of course, her dear pal musk stays by her side until it’s like nothing happened.
The good news is, this is a party that can be revisited any time (and if you are a fan of the sweet and the musky, you will want to)… if you can afford it.
AlHacker – :
The opening of Lolita Lempicka Sweet is indeed SWEET with a sugary, syrupy cherry liqueur/glacé cherry type of smell. Fortunately (for me), this stage lasts no more than 20 minutes.
With the cherry mellowing down, a slightly bitter cacao powder note emerges, to balance the sweetness, and turns Sweet into a gentle, cherry-flavoured praline. This stage of Sweet reminds me of Lancôme La Vie est Belle and Guerlain La Petite Robe Noire, but Sweet is arguably less intense and more restrained than the former, and more cacao than the later.
The final drydown after about 5 hours, is a gentle cherry musk, while the cacao gives a nod from time to time. The sillage is moderate during the cherry bomb opening, and turns close to skin afterwards. The longevity is around 9 hours on me.
Although Sweet is quite sugary at first, once it calms down, it’s actually a relatively soft gourmand, cute but not really childish, either. I’d recommend it as a fun cherry fragrance. However, I can’t say it really stands out, like Le Premier Parfum does.
No1se – :
Slightly tart cherries rolled in sugar. In the drydown, a hint of musk and vanilla. Pleasant, not too sweet, as the cherry retains some tartness, refreshing. A good break for when my orientals have started tiring me. My aunt smelt this on me very recently sprayed and said it smells like caramelized sugar.
Patik.E46 – :
Sweet, and especially – cheap and old smelling. I had an old aunt, years and years ago she had a perfume which smelled in a very similar way. I was at Sephora with a friend who also tried it and agreed with this. Couldn’t recommend enough to try it before buying.
Error – :
Alors j’ai voulu acheter ce parfum car l’odeur j’adore je suis très fan de parfums sucrés en plus j’adore le flacon car je fais aussi collection de flacon problème testé sur moi et au bout de 10 minutes plus rien .J’ai demandé à mon entourage ils m’ont répondu que je ne sentait rien donc très déçue car le prix environ 50 euros pour une durée de 10 minutes (sur moi en tout cas) ça ne les vaut pas du tout.J’attendrai de trouver quelqu’un qui me donnera ou échangera le flacon vide 🙂
жукк – :
Lolita finally makes a red bottle. I dont think I’d wear this one out when I get it but I’m sure it will be a popular collectible. Still excited to try it.
dinamo13 – :
Hmm, I really like it. But then again I love sweet perfumes, as long as they seem fresh and not cloying or sticky. This one opens very fruity– I guess that’s the cherry, but I don’t get much tartness or sourness. More like juicy fruit gum! A little further in I can detect a lipstick smell (kind of like in Malle’s lipstick rose but without the rose), which I’m going to attribute to the iris. It stays sugary and powdery throughout. I don’t really get the cocoa element of it at all on me, mostly just sweet sugar and cherry. It might feel too young for some people, but I think the under 30 or 25 crowd should love it. Sillage is decent, longevity just OK (not as good as the original LL.)
I definitely want to add it to my LL collection once it hits the states (whenever that may be? I waited like a month for my sample to come from France and don’t see it selling anywhere online right now..)
Edit: so is this not going to be released in the US? Does anyone know? Was supposed to come out last September but I see no signs of it anywhere, not even on worldwide ebay (except for mini bottles now and then.) Had to get my large bottle directly from France…wtf.
akkonty – :
At 1st pschitt it smells like a cherry sweet, or cherry syrup. Then it smells something like a liptsick. By the end, iris and musk appear.
It makes me think of Délices – Cartier, and Folie Rouge – ID Parfums, but Sweet is more syrupy, maybe because of chocolate.
I was pretty sure I would have fallen in love with this new fragrance but I’m not convinced that this one is for me. It’s very girly and I’m 36, I love sweet perfumes but this one smells too