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Mon Premier
Cherry and licorice is not an obvious pairing, and it is why Lolita Lempicka Mon Premier Eau de Parfum Gift Set is an easier present to give than most sweet fragrances.
The opening is bright and slightly odd: cherry, sweet and a touch syrupy, star anise lending a cool aniseed snap, and ivy adding a green, bitter, almost stalky edge that keeps the fruit from becoming a sweet shop. Then licorice takes over, dark and salty sweet, with violet going cool and powdery against it, orris adding dry earth and powder, and amaryllis a clean floral lift above the pair.
The base is the comfortable part. Praline brings its toasted confectionery sweetness, vanilla rounds everything off, tonka bean adds a soft biscuit tin warmth, musk keeps it close, and vetiver runs a dry rooty thread underneath so the sweetness has a floor to stand on. Twelve materials, and the trick of the composition is how long it stays interesting while remaining easy to like. Annick Menardo composed it, and her hand shows in the way the sweetness is always cut with something dry or bitter rather than allowed to pile up unchecked.
Bought as a set it solves the two usual gift problems at once: it is instantly likeable, and it arrives looking like a proper present rather than a purchase made in a hurry. It suits a woman who enjoys sweet perfume without wanting to smell like a pudding, and it is at its best in autumn and the colder half of winter. Lolita Lempicka began as a French ready to wear label before fragrance became the larger part of what it does, and its perfumes have kept a storybook, faintly theatrical character since the first one in 1997.
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