L de Lolita Lempicka type for women

I've never smelled the original. This was a blind buy which was a mistake especially since I ordered the 1/4-ounce bottle. It's so nauseatingly sweet. When I initially applied it, I kept sneezing. Now that it has settled a bit, it smells even sweeter and makes my head hurt. I wish I got the V Absolu or 1153 as the 1/4-ounce bottle instead. Funnily enough, I thought Donna Born in Roma and Alien were sweet, but they smelled cleanly sweet, so they were fantastic. This just isn't it. Please excuse my inability to eloquently describe how much I dislike this perfume.

L de Lolita Lempicka is one of only two Lempicka fragrances I ever liked -make that loved. This oil has that same sweet/spicy/powdery scent of orange, cinnamon, vanilla and incense I adored. I'm giving it only 4 stars because it doesn't seem to last as long as the perfume, but I'll take what I can get! Now, if only TFS would make its sister frangrance, Fleur de Corail, I would buy that too!

I’ve never smelled the original so I can’t compare there but this fragrance oil is awesome! A beautiful sweet vanilla with spice, what’s not to love? I also like to layer this with a straight vanilla fragrance to up the sweet factor. If you like vanilla and gourmands you’d probably love this!

To preface: I am a very big fan of L de Lolita Lempicka, and currently wear it quite often. What draws me to that fragrance is a combination of a dry dustiness, something like a not-too-sweet cake, a bit of spice that melts perfectly into the dustiness, and the tiniest bit of citrus. It's an incredibly well blended fragrance, and evokes a feeling similar to finding a small glistening faberge egg in the attic of a Victorian house as your grandmother bakes a lemon poundcake in the kitchen 4 floors down.

The L de Lolita by TFS is well blended, and the first top note waft I get after applying is spot on. What I find is that 'dustiness' I appreciate in the original L is more like an incense/smokiness here, that after an hour on my skin chemistry verges onto cigarette smoke now and again. It's not a stale smoke, and even so I've been told it's more like incense on me, and not cigarette smoke, so it may be my nose. I don't find it that unpleasant, but what it lacks is the delicate dusty pouf that the original L does on my skin, and is a more heady and thick scent here. It makes sense though, since this is an oil. Sometimes it kind of oscillates--I catch the original L and then it swings back into something thicker. A bit less sophisticated and delicate than the original, perhaps instead of being a Russian ballerina Grandma was secretly in the circus, and you find a gold cigarette case from a mysterious old lover in the attic instead.

I still really like this oil and will repurchase when finished.

I had already ordered this as a sample a few weeks back and loved it. I just don't care anymore that the original perfume has been discontinued. Now I have the Fragrance Shop! =)
Thank you so much!

P.S.: this version of the perfume is MUCH better than the original. Smells amazing, lasts all day and skips all the alcohol junk.