Lolita Lempicka
The original anise-and-liquorice gourmand, in an apple flacon
Lolita Lempicka is a Parisian fashion-and-fragrance house founded by the designer of the same name — born Josiane Maryse Pividal — who built her label in the early 1980s around a fairy-tale, slightly gothic aesthetic of corsetry, ribbon, and dark florals. The clothing business has shrunk over time, but the eponymous fragrance pillar, launched in 1997, became one of the defining feminine releases of its decade. That first scent — a sweet, anisic composition built on liquorice, violet, and ivy — pioneered the gourmand-floral register that mainstream perfumery would chase for the next twenty years, and its enamelled apple-shaped flacon remains immediately recognisable. Subsequent flankers and the masculine Au Masculin have iterated on the same idiom without eclipsing the original. The fragrance line is licensed to Inter Parfums and sits in upper-accessible designer territory.
DNA over time
Each column is an era. Each colored band shows that family’s share of accord weight across every perfume the house released in that window. Bigger band = the house leaned harder on that family.
