Because I am SERIOUSLY into this perfume at the moment.
Olivia, at least I know you understand…..
NB:
I was very wrong about the reformulation in this original (and rather naive) review. While the re-edition does a brilliantly cunning approximation in the blaringly triumphant top notes, making them fresher, and dare I say it for a few seconds even more appealing, the dry down in this deceptive little wannabe is total and utter crudsville. Just wan and thin fake sandalwood, nothing, as our little baby Loulou chokes on an E and expires her last in a pile of plastic trash.
The ORIGINAL Loulou, unfazed and unhinged, just keeps on smoking, pouting…….flaunting…..and she smells gorgeous throughout: of almonds; of vanilla; of deepset heliotrope, of resins and of joss sticks: in hindsight a brilliantly, androgynously, incensed-sandalwood trouper.
Where her try-hard doppelgänger is already entering rigor mortis on her tray in the morgue; the real deal Loulou is tossing back a cherry brandy cocktail; smouldering; and laughing on a last minute plane to Goa….
Love this! Fun read on a Friday morning. I’m in an excellent mood now. Love how you write.
I love this lil biatch! I have several of the vintage blue and red bottles that I’ve picked up from estate sales which in and of themselves make such a loud statement. The reformulation doesn’t deserve to even go on the same shelf…
YES : the blue and red bottle – so textured and rich….
At the time it was seen as a tacky joke I think, but now when you smell it you can feel what good quality it was – the dry down in the original is quite sublime.
Curious if anyone knows when exactly LouLou was reformulated? I’ve been wearing it for decades and stocked up a bit when it was impossible to find in the US so am currently using a pre-2016, probably closer to 2010ish version now. I can’t find anywhere what year the change happened though…
Well it all depends on how you feel about it.
If you are still loving it who cares ?
I would love to sit next to you in a bar, drenched
Yes, I do still love it! It’s the only perfume that truly feels like me every time I wear it. It really only matters for repurchasing that I want to keep wearing the version that I’ve worn and loved all these years. If it’s the old version, which I think it is, knowing when the change took place would help ensure I get the right one. I was able to look up the manufacture dates from the batch codes of the 2 that I have, one is 11/2008 (the one I’m currently using), the other is 1/2011 (unopened). So at least I know the ‘08 vintage smells right to me. Also, caught up in a moment of nostalgia…and impulsivity… I bought an original unopened bottle from 1986 that should be arriving today. Though I’m not sure when, or if, I’ll open it.
Oh surely you should to just confirm the similarities / differences
I have a vintage parfum – oh that bottle !