La Petite Robe Noire Eau De Parfum

The pillar La Petite Robe Noire opens on a sweet black cherry and marzipan-like almond accord lifted by bright bergamot and jammy red berries. A rose and licorice heart adds a slightly bitter, anise-tinged edge that keeps the sweetness from turning cloying, before it settles into a soft tea, tonka, vanilla and patchouli base with a whisper of powdery iris. Performance is middle-of-the-road: expect roughly six to seven hours and moderate projection that softens to a skin scent by the back half. It reads as a playful, gourmand-leaning cherry-almond fragrance rather than a heavy oriental.