La Petite Robe Noire Couture Guerlain for women

I own the original EDP and the EDT from when it was released and while at first I wasn't too interested in wearing it as I thought it was too juvenile and fruity sweet for my taste, I ended up wearing almost the entire EDP bottle. I read this Couture version is a chypre and as that is my jam, bought a half bottle at a great price. To my nose this is in no way a chypre (?), modern or otherwise. That's a stretch as it smells like a fruity floral to me. I have only worn it today so maybe I will notice differently after more wearings. Though this is supposed to have raspberry instead of cherry, I smell sweet peach and cherry up top. It does smell nice and in fact a woman in the shop I went in asked what I was wearing and that it smelled great. So there is that. It has a nice warmth at the base which is soft and pretty but I guess I prefer my chypres to have that full on mossy, earthy base and this doesn't. Perhaps a chypre for those who don't like chypres? Overall it's nice and since is discontinued, probably not as easy to get so I wouldn't pay a ridiculous price second hand to get it unless you love the line and want every flanker.

Lively, citrusy, sweetly fruity fragrance; the raspberry notes emerge victorious over harsh citrus notes, the temporal olfactory evolution becomes floral, bringing out an unexpected and surprising rose immersed in reassuring musky and enveloping and sensual notes of patchouli and Tonka bean. Very feminine, delicate, clean fragrance

Sour cherry powder. I adore a good modern chypre, and patchouli and rose are my favorite notes, so I had to blind buy this and I just received it. I've only been wearing it for one hour so far, but here's my first impression.The chypre vibe is sort of there, but this perfume is really more of a sour fruity scent although a complex, "adult", and interesting one. Its potent, loud, high sillage, the kind of perfume that people who claim to hate perfume would, well, find too "perfumey", and not something to overspray or wear if you want to go unnoticed. Obviously I love perfume but even I find it a bit overwhelming and I think it will require more wears to familiarise myself. There's definitely a bunch of sour cherry in this even though it's unlisted, which doesn't exactly surprise me since that is a common note throughout the LPRN line. There's also something strongly cosmetics-like to my nose after an hour, perhaps iris even though it's also unlisted. It's powdery, like vintage makeup compacts mixed with raspberry and cherry lifesavers, rather similar to JHAG Lipstick Fever. Overall this was a successful blind buy despite the composition not closely resembling the listed notes, but it doesn't make it to my top 10.

I love the opening this one has! A slightly spicy gourmand raspberry rose. It reminds me of a raspberry desert; maybe a trifle, cake, jam or even ice cream. Unfortunately it disappears after about two hours on me though.

Update: I ended up buying a bottle of this and it turns out that the atomiser was the issue. The tester had an awful atomiser that dribbled constantly. With the bottle atomiser, longevity and sillage are much better! It lasts nearly all day on me now and projects much better, even with only two or three sprays. I get more notes out of the fragrance too, and it's turned into a favourite of mine!

Warm slightly spicy fruity cherry Raspberry vanilla. I love it!

I didn't like this when I spritzed it on, but when the cherry licorice dried down it left a wonderful lingering vanilla scent. It lasts fairly well, around 3-4 hours. Agree with some reviews of it smelling like a Dr. Pepper drink

Well, i nearly just killed myself with two sprays of this before bed. I forgot i am allergic to perfumes with this distinct, artificial raspberry note. I was on my way to bed, and in the dark, i grabbed the first Guerlain on my shelf. Big mistake...
I can' wear this, nor i can wear Parlez-Moi d'Amour John Galliano. Both share this annoying, ultra strong raspberry note that overtakes all other notes, and does not let go for hours.
Couple of years ago i almost died an early death by wearing LPRNC, and few weeks later same happened after i sprayed a single spray of Parlez Moi. My throat started to close, and i do not generally suffer from allergies.
Well, since so much time has passed, i made the same mistake again tonight, and here we are. Midnight shower, flonase and wide awake not being able to wash this stuff off at all.
I wonder if anybody else has experienced these issues with this cloying raspberry note in perfumes? It feels terrifying. I love my fumes but i am not ready to die for them. Or of them. Or because of them.
As a side note, i do consider LPRNC to be extremely juvenile. Sometimes it is very hard to believe that this is a Guerlain.

I bought this bottle roughly 6 years ago. I've recently picked it back up, sucked into that beautiful opening.. just wow. It's so feminine and delicious - then I remember why I put it aside in the first place: the dry down is a bit screechy, almost too powdery, maybe even sour?? Admittedly, and as a point of reference, I am one of the mouth-breathing masses who is biased towards my gourmands and fruity florals (sue me) and this doesn't seem to hold up as a solid gourmand, but I really like it for that reason. The sweetness isn't "buttery" like caramel or sugary vanilla, rather a fruity, jammy kind of sweet. Despite my weird feelings about this perfume, it is undeniably classy. When I feel like wearing a "ladylike" Fall/Winter scent without offending people I share air with, or going into "this perfume is wearing ME" territory, I will reach for this. One spray is good for the office for the day.

Cliched fruitchouli. It would not be a problem if it didn't come this sickening and uncomfortable after 1-2 hours of wearing it. Sorry. :(

-Opens as a nondescript sweet scent.
-Dries down slightly sharp weird.
-The vetiver and moss lends this a chypre accord.
-Reminiscent of Chloe Nomade, but made for a younger audience. (-)

Odd... gentle, womanly, fruity smell.... muted. It's like if your mom washed her armpits with shampoo. Not dirty, it just smells instantly like you've been wearing it... for 3 hours. It's berries without that sparkling tartness.

I could swear there is a touch of cumin in the top and early heart that gives a sultry, bit dirty but very attractive body odourish vibe and also one that makes this classic red berry-rose-patchouli fragrance an unexpected twist. I admit I don't know the original but I know I generally prefer berry notes over cherry. Anyway, the tricky cumin note dissapears in 20 minutes and waht remains is a beautiful, spicey rose-patchouli fragrance with quite a unisex base. I think this is a superb fragrance that managed to stand out from its very popular genre.

Amazing fruity chypre, gives raspberry champagne vibe. One of the best LPRN flankers.

I really like most of the La Petite Robe Noire line. In my opinion it's an elegant, beautiful interpretation of the 2010s fruitchouli trend that only Guerlain could have done like this. Yes, there are so many flankers that it's starting to get confusing, which might be the reason why I didn't try this discontinued gem sooner. But now I'm so glad I did.

LPRN Couture is a sweet and sparkling blend of jammy raspberry and patchouli. Thanks to an intense dose of tonka beans it has a warm, vanillic, slightly spicy undertone and also recalls the cherry note of the original EDP.
This is not really a chypre in the classic sense of the word. The moss note lends an earthy base to tame the berry sweetness, but it's not dominating the scent at all. In my opinion this is too warm and not bitter and contrasting enough for a typical chypre. Not that I'm complaining, I love this just the way it is, playful and chic.
Performance wise it's also perfect to me, noticeable and long-lasting without being extremely loud or overwhelming.

Side Note: I feel like this is the missing link between LPRN EDP and LPRN Intense. I own and love Intense, but I never thought it had anything in common with the rest of the line. Until now. Couture has the juicy red fruitiness of the original, but not the licorice, and the berries and amped up patchouli of the intense version, without the cotton candy. I can really see how they got from the Edp to Couture and from Couture to Intense.

I love this.

I am a huge fan of LPRN and LPRN Hippie Chic/Legere, and was excited to try this one out since it didn't have cherry in it. And wow....I am in love.

Top notes are bright and fruity, and the dry down is sweet and very similar to LPRN without a lot of licorice. The raspberry really shines here.... this is lovely.

I'm buying a backup right now, because this is my new spring perfume!

I first tried this on at an airport. LPRN EDP on one wrist, Couture on the other. A while later, Couture bloomed into something I loved, and I decided to get it when I had a chance. But it was soon discontinued, and I bought the original EDP to hold Couture's place until I was able to access a bottle.

Now I've finally bought Couture. It's fairly similar in vibe to the original EDP, but I like and will wear them both.

Yes, the opening is very fruity and tart. Soon the deeper notes start to emerge. Luca Turin called this a "spicy rose." I don't get rose so much, but I do smell the spices, along with dry, sun-warmed woods and patchouli. The change in tone from the sweet, tart opening to this stage actually throws me off. It actually strikes me as more melancholic than anything immediately after the change. During this first hour, I'm able to see why some reviewers here have called it an "old-lady" scent: the powdery spices, dry woods, and moss together are reminiscent of the old Guerlain classics for a brief stage. I don't mind this so much (check my username) but I did worry that I wouldn't get the drydown I had specifically bought this for.

(Side note: If Guerlain intends to lure young ladies in with the LPRN line, maybe Couture is specifically meant to train their noses to appreciate the classics like Mitsouko?)

But within an hour, the tonka appears - hooray! And a touch of the fruit notes returns, and the melancholy tone turns happier and sweeter again until the end. For some reason, now it makes me think of caramel - not that it literally smells like caramel. I can't put my finger on it. Maybe it's a textural thing? - something giving me a "sticky" impression? - or it could just be the brown-hued tonka note playing tricks on me. There's something gourmand and yet not gourmand now.

I'd have to keep trying this to be able to compare to the original EDP more confidently. The general theme is the same: sweet-tart fruit to sweet dark patchouli-woods. I do appreciate that the fruit (especially the sourness) is a bit more toned down here, after the initial blast, and that in the drydown, the gourmand-y notes are more forthcoming. I always feel a little self-conscious smelling so strongly of sour cherry when wearing the original. I have to say that I'm not sure what's "couture" about this, but I'm not complaining too much. I'll just look elsewhere for my red-carpet fragrances.

Unfair of me to review this given I don't enjoy fruity fragrances, but I have a 2ml sample and today the vial twinkled at me in a most charming way.
It promises raspberries and it delivers them, filling the air around me with it's olfactory babble.
Sweet, juicy and a little bit trite, with not much to say to me after the first few minutes.
I waited for the delicious dry-down Luca Turin promised, but after 2 hours it hasn't arrived and I am shifting my attention elsewhere.
Nice enough, perhaps, but pretty dull.

Haiku of the day

a charming black dress
sweet olfactory babble
quickly forgotten

Another fruity floral. Actually mostly just fruit and sugar. At least Guerlain maintains some of its classics in great condition. This perfume, however, could be any other fruity floral you find at Sephora.

Luca Turin must have been drunk when he reviewed this one.

This is a beautiful luxury soapy berry, it's so interesting, good sillage and stays clean on the skin!

This is my first Guerlain, i didn't choose the original EDP because I'm nervous about the licorice and then decide to blind buy this instead.
My first experience is quite disappointing since this is too fruity with a weird earthy dry down that i don't understand. Vetiver and oakmoss is unfamiliar notes to my nose. Bummed i put it aside for days.
Today I try to wear it full day in a rainy day and i smell.. clean. Husband said my new perfume reminds him of an expensive laundry place for fancy clothes. Well, guess it's not a really fail blind buy. I like it but i need to layer it with more vanilla to get the creamy base i want.

I get pineapple raspberry then a bit later big glorious oakmoss. Very chypre. Husband loves it.

I like this raspberry, not too sweet and not cloying. It smells like a very expensive homemade jam in a high class hotel’s breakfast. But there a some vetiver in the dry down and vetiver is not my cup of tea. It’s very prominent to my nose, as a any note we don’t like usually is.
I guess vetiver should be a serious and well mannered ingredient, the « couture » touch in the mix, but it’s too greenish weird for my nose, like a unclean swamp note.
The idea is interesting though.

Edit : I do swear there’s some licorice in this one too.

I was somewhat disappointed.
I expected a sophisticated raspberry perfume with some rose and patchouli and "moss".
What I smell is just a raspberry perfume.
It's ok, and if you're in the mood to smell raspberry it's pretty. But honestly, I don't find it anything special.

The raspberry keeps it away from being a chypre. If it is a chypre, it is an edible, delicious one.
Quite a seductive/fun perfume, sweet fruity woody.
A fruitchouli which you can find at lower prices by brands like Avon, Oriflame, Zara.
Couture is great overall, lasts very long time. The one perfume which smells exactly like this is Parisian Chic by Avon also raspberry based.

What a beauty! Hmmm, can´t tell the individual notes apart as this is so well blended. A bit of cherry ... raspberry...almond..tonka, most importantly no licorice here.Clean and not clean at the same time. I am loving this...

This is one of those perfumes that has the most divine powdery drydown. It's raspberry meets patchouli heaven. Smells very expensive and I can see very powerful woman wearing this as a signature scent.

This is gorgeous. I'm by no means a perfume expert, but the notes in this blend so well together. I love sweet scents but find grown up sweet scents are hard to find, so this came as a complete shock after blind buying. It's grown up day perfume that's a little bit naughty. Love it.

oh god this was a blind buy and after the initial spray i was like "there it is the toilet spray smell why didn't i listen to that review" but after that stage passes i swear it transforms into something really beautifully sweet and powdery. i haven't smelled the original lprn but i chose this flanker because i can't stand licorice in scents so i was happy to find out that this smells similar without that note. i did see reviews below saying this smells less elegant and more young than the original lprn and this might just be me because like i said i haven't smelled the original yet but this actually smells elegant to me in a quiet kind of way like the elegance is just not on the forefront but it's still there and somehow i prefer it that way because it's a more approachable scent

Was in two minds with this for ages. I truly thought it smelt like the automatic airfreshner that would spit out every 10 mins or so at work. I fought to get them to get rid of it i found it so disgusting - polluting my personal space.
I wore LPRNC again the other day. It is at first sharp and tangy and takes a moment to adjust. It does have an intense raspberry and shampoo like feel. It is does seem to awaken you with its special like brew. Someone near me commented, he said "gee you smell good". I asked how like. .? The answer was, "like a fresh shower". Thats fine by me - a shower can mean all sorts of wonderful soap and gel aroma like concoctions.

LPRNC is very nice and of quality but it can take a moment perhaps to wrap your head around the intense fruity moss like freshness. So, it is a little like "couture", on the "runway", perhaps ? Its definitely not quiet. And it definitely suits my skin. When a stranger tells you, you know its right.
Reviewer below is absolutely right. The right man can easily wear this just open your mind and dont look at the bottle too much. This and Hippie chic are my faves.

Currently, this is the fragrance that has garnered the most attention and compliments from men and women alike. I guess I lucked out, especially because I blind bought it after reading Luca Turin's review.

This Couture flanker replaced the cherry note with a warm, jammy, rosey raspberry. There is a clean laundry smell, but is dirtied just slightly by the earthy blend of patchouli and moss. This is very feminine and somewhat innocently sexy, though i can totally see some daring and open-minded men wear it.

Suitable for any season and occasion. I like to wear it to work (2 sprays) and on date nights (4 sprays). Lasts about 6 hours.

This has been discontinued, but i purchased mine from Gilt.

I like this one quite a bit. I mostly get the raspberry which is delicious, but it doens't last at all on me! Very much a skin scent right away and not that strong. Disappointed.

Instead of the other gazillion bubbly iterations on fruity macaroons from the line, the “Couture” is a rather homey, jam-packed with raspberry and rose, well...jam. But the reallyreally good kind, made without the adding of water or lemon, or pectin, but from the concentrated reduced juice of the fruit and served in a Mason jar with a whimsy fabric topper by the kindest french mémé. But if the normal LPRN is a teen girl in possession of her parents’ credit card gone rogue on Bond Street, Eau Couture is a smart woman reading Alice in Wonderland while having a Lapsang Souchong at The Wolseley and scones without clotted cream, just heaps of recently made raspberry jam while wearing the fifth reformulation of Jicky, or that one that has the beautiful, waspy compositional sketch of lavender and little else. This is the olfactory equivalent of transitioning from eating Smuckers to St. Dalfours and a good option for those that like the genre but feel their taste has matured from the original and the likes.

Raspberry "striperella" body splash smell; Guerlain quality. Mature yet completely contemporary chypre. Fruity white-musk tonka chypre lasts for weeks on clothes. Cool-weather Summer fave.

I don’t like this as much as the original EDP or Black Perfecto. The raspberry note is too much like cherry jam. The woody/vetiver base is too earthy and weighs down the whole composition. Also, the drydown is not as nice as in the other two versions.

My favorite version so far is Black Perfecto. It’s well balanced and there’s just enough candy and wood.

It's me yet agaiiinnnn, had to come &check the notes. How in hell this does not have any white flowers? It smells creamy, tart & gorgeous. B**ch I'm shooooook

Very similar to the LPRN Legere version with the added moss/salty note. Im wearing both on each arm and they still smell similar in the dry down with same level of longevity and moderate to low sillage.

I prefer the Legere as it is more sweeter in a sparkly way. The Couture has an earthiness about it which reminds me of the notes in Lush's Amelie Mai.

It was a blind bought because of turin and sanchez review. It reminded a lot ungaro “aparition” or “apparition” with 1 or 2 Ps, which I had 15 years ago and I didn’t like it. LPRNC is sweet and banal and has a cheap smell. I couldn’t see anything special on it. If you’re in doubt on buying it or not, don’t buy it.

Unfortunately LPRN Couture was not for me. It started off really good: a toned-down version of LPRN EDP and I thought it was lovely, but the moss note did not play well on my skin, so for awhile it smelled like a forgotten wet cloth, and then it was gone altogether. Definitely try before you buy as it is quite different from the original.

I don't like the first La Petite Robe Noire at all,but this one is good. It's more wearable,not so dark like the first one. The note that makes me sick ( probably licorice) is missing here. I like it!

I did my review, but I just couldn't stop singing praises for LPRN Couture.
It smells sooo beautiful.
Makes me feel beautiful. For the sake of myself only. I enjoy smelling the back of my hand over and over and over.
Lucky for me it's long lasting and I can discern the development clearly.
I enjoy the fresh yet powdery raspberry opening. It's quite warm and intense at the same time. I'm always careful not to inhale too close upon this opening stage, coz it may induce headache.
But when it reaches the middle stage with rose, tonka bean and finally vetiver mixed in, God it's to die for! So gloriously beautiful.
Silage moderate to heavy.
Longevity awesome with just 3 sprays (but I love to add another 1-2 sprays just because).
I am mad with my first Guerlain and preparing to buy heaps more from this reputable house.

Edit:
Happy to say I finally detect the oakmoss. At the very last phase when the perfume is almost gone, I smelled something green mossy. Very delicate on me.

This is absolutely a modern chypre. How refreshingly unusual these days to find a scent with earthy, green moss as its backbone! I can feel the mossy base of Mitsouko whispering to me throughout the drydown, and yet, there is nothing 'fusty' or vintage about this, it is completely doing its own thing; modern, fresh, reworked.

The raspberry accord at the top? Yes, as others have said, it's bold and bright, and might be overwhelming if it stayed at that concentration throughout, but it settles very quickly to a perfect real-fruit sweet (not candy-fruit sweet) accord, which blends with and is undercut by that smooth Guerlain patchouli and the beautiful green, deep moss and vetiver.

It's a bright, uncommon mix of real raspberry blended into an utterly wearable and contemporary chypre. When I wear this, I feel like I've gone back in time and am kicking it loose as a flapper girl; not like looking back at a faded photo, but actually living it in brand new Technicolour. And I know different people have different expectations for sillage, but this is perfectly lasting on me; a cloud of scent for the whole working day. I'll be getting a lot of wear out of my 100ml bottle.

This is beautiful from opening to dry down. But I would never recommend anyone paying for this without trying it. The scent is lovely but the performance is awful. Longevity is only 4 hours, Which I wouldnt complain about for a $20 fragrance but we are talking about $120 fragrance. So unaccceptable. Then the sillage is nonexsistent. I see no point in perfume that no one can actually smell. I asked people close to me because I just bought this & no one can even smell it. I do NOT have a light touch with spraying.
Its very disappointing because this smells so good I would love to keep buying this and wearing it but I dont understand putting out a perfume that just can not perform.

This is my second review on this fragrance. Couture is my favourite summer fragrance and one of a kind, with its fresh combo of raspberry, clean patchouli and vetiver. It's like walking with a basket full of roses and freshly picked raspberries through a green forest after rain. A summer dream that I'm going to miss because, as it's been happening with many other good Guerlain fragrances, they have discontinued this one too. I've known for quite a while that they would, but I guess I hoped against hope that they wouldn't. So if you love this beauty, grab it before it completely disappears.

I get the gel bathroom air freshener opening, too - I am so bummed! The edp drydown is gorgeous on my skin (though it opens strong), but I wanted to be sure before committing. I got samples of the edp, edt and couture, because none of them are safe blind buys (even for a Lolita Lempicka fan). Maybe the raspberries are too synthetic? It ruined the drydown. Such a shame!

I bought this as my birthday present to dear self this year. This is my first Guerlain! I was debating between buying this first or Shalimar but I go with this first as I live in the tropics. Some of the reviews here said that this is quite fresh so LPRN Couture is my choice.

I was a bit worried about the harsh cough syrup smell many people dislike, but hey, I actually LOVE IT! It's not cough syrup for me but rather like cherry cough drops candy (well perhaps still cough thingy). I'm sure it's the raspberry opening note. And yet combined with bergamot, LPRN Couture is indeed fresh. I adore this opening stage, very juicy, like biting fresh fruits.

And the raspberry note continues to Couture's middle notes, with powdery rose taking center stage. And my first thought upon smelling this is, "Wow this is so French!" Maybe the fact that it's Guerlain, I consider it immediately as very French. Just a newbie in my perfume journey, but I'm sure I'll be buying more Guerlain.

There's no iris here, where powdery notes usually present for me, but this is definitely face powder smell. The powdery quality of this middle stage is strong, I will remember to spray only at the back of my neck and hand. So far this is unique, fresh, and quite heavy perfume. Happily not headache inducing. Just so unbearably pretty like the bottle and the printed one shouldered black dress. As usual the middle notes last the longest on me. Powdery rose very prominent, fresh raspberry noticeable for first 2 hours and no patchouli at all.

I can now detect the dry down of tonka beans. Perhaps later on I can detect the vetiver and oakmoss. But so far longevity and silage for me are very good.
Awesome first Guerlain!

Edit:
I'm loving this perfume experience LPRN Couture gives me!
Sometimes the raspberry cough drops quality will be present and other times undetected.
My impression so far is like eating a sugar powdered raspberry, as you bite it, the fresh juice is mixed with bergamot and glided over rose essential oil. Finally it seeped through your skin, leaving only warm earthy musky vanilla I adore very much. How this makes my day!

Well, I never thought I'd find a chypre fragrance from Guerlain or from the wonderfully talented Thierry Wasser which I didn't adore, but this is it. The opening is pure faux fruity cough medicine. It does dry down to something less fruity, but is a Meh for me. So disappointed.

Edit - Oh Mme Couture, I owe you and M. Wasser such an apology. I wore you for the first time for 6 hours when I wrote my review, however that was in air conditioning. After submitting the review, I scurried out into the 36 degree Celcius heat and you came to life. Lovely and fresh, I would even call this a green scent when it is worn in heat. Just what I needed in the Australian Summer humidity. Now today I have given you another chance in both outside heat and indoor air con. The opening raspberry note is still overwhelmingly reminiscent of artificial cough syrup (horrible, but it lasts only a couple of minutes if that), but the dry down is now a beautiful earthy vetiver and moss. I'll be buying a 100ml bottle now.

I love it! I blind bought this one sale thinking it would be ‘another flanker’ but this shouldn’t be in a lot of ways a flanker as it is so stunning. It is the perfume I’ve been looking for. I am so glad I ignored the negative reviews. Normally I understand different opinions but to say this smells ‘cheap’ is nuts. But in some ways this wouldn’t suit everyone’s tastes I guess but you know I think this is despite being strong a pretty safe blind buy if you like the notes. If you like hot couture or insolence this is your kind of perfume. I haven’t been able to find a nice berry that wasn’t like a blackberry type or a fake smelling synthetic perfume that is anywhere near as good as hot couture. This is a great fragrance. It’s like a raspberry, cherry fragrance while not being just another sweet perfume. It’s softened by the earthier notes so to speak. It smells pretty expensive too :) highly recommended.

Cherry, raspberry, mulberry every kind of berries with a liquorish taste standing on an almond nutmeg base. For a white flower/ powder lover like me, this one is way too sweet and gourmand. But though i enjoy it on some cold winter days especially for cosy occasions .

After years, I finally got this.
It reminds me of the Miss Dior 2012 reformulation, I like the sour, expensive champagne quality this has.
It smells way too expensive to be a LPRN flanker, it's masterfully blended, It doesn't have too much of anything, It's not overpowering, and it's not your regular off the mill fruit+patch combo. Oakmoss, vetiver and tonka really ground the composition, making it smell more grown up (not mature by any means), the patchouli it's a mere accompaniment note here and the sweetness is nowhere near "sweet".
Beautiful creation by Monsieur Wasser where all the notes shine altogether hand in hand.

First smelled this in an airport going on vacation. I put it on then and went my way. Since then I could not forget the smell. Felt in love with it and had to have this one. I do not see cherry, but I smell more cherry than raspberry, I am a fan of cerry note in perfumes.

Smoky light cough syrup, for girls in their mid 20's who are kickass stylish and a bit cool/dark. It's not sugary sweet at all.

Guerlain did an amazing job, La Petite Robe Noire Couture smells just like a sexy little black dress, one with decent fabric and great cut!

It's cultivated, trendy, modern and super fucking classy.

My anytime, anywhere go to perfume <3

This is NOT a blind buy. I blind bought it, and now I’m sad. It looked like it was going to be something I love. I love raspberry! I love Guerlain! I love petite robe noire! Ummm... yeah. So about that- this really does remind me of the gel bathroom deodorizers that slowly evaporate as they sit atop the toilet tank. This is not pretty. It smells very artificial and stale and is more potent than Fracas. And I actually like fracas. This outstinks Madonna’s truth or dare... and I like truth or dare.

This is a lot like the cough syrup smell of Guerlain insolence.

So this is not a trash fragrance, even though I dislike it.

I think someone who wants a super strong synthetic in your face raspberry would like this.

And hey, there aren’t too many frags on the market in league with gel bathroom deodorant.

Personally, I do not want to separate type of fragrance by sexual or gender stereotype. I think everyone could wear fragrances as many as we desire. Then each person will find what the signature or suitable scent for him/herself is without discourse of male/female/unisex perfume because all perfumes in my mind are sexless (and borderless of age also).
For me, La Petite Robe Noire edp Couture edition by Guerlain is although designed to capture the target of young women, it can make men or older women shining and smiling by sweet notes; from fruity and vanilla, together with light floral-patchouli tone.
Surely, I fall in love it at first time suddenly and I decide to find the original and the other flankers of LPRN soon.

The patchouli in this balances out the sweetness.

Raspberries,rose and patchouli are three of my favourite notes.This fragrance has body and depth. The vétiver is shot through and gives it an aromatic feel with the sweet raspberry that makes it playful but very chic and elegant.

Longevity is great a good 8 hour wear,the projection is moderate, more in the first 2 hours then it gives a halo of fragrance around you as you walk.

This is far better than the original and in my opinion the best flanker.

Guerlain always comes through!

I have a sample edp. The perfume is lasting - first. In the midst of cloudy weather, not on the heat - secondly. Excellent. Combination of dense raspberry jam and rose with patchouli. Forest walk in the wet forest, raspberries everywhere. There is no sweetener, no sugar, which is great. Surprise on the plus. I recommend to try it out.

The fragrance is good when you want to bath in it!! This what happened to me with LPRN Couture! Absolutely beautiful, this is the sweetness I like in perfume. Totally gorgeous creation! Bravo, Thierry Wasser!

Received my sample today. I did not like the original LPRN.....so I was skeptical about this one.
Well, I am not skeptica; any more...lol.
Love this one. Brings out the "chypre-ish" side and I love chypre. Enough said....Full bottle purchased today from eBay !!!

By all accounts I shouldn't like this perfume. I typically detest patchouli and I strongly disliked the original LPRN. So imagine my surprise when I not only liked LPRN Couture, but loved it!

This opens up with a bright, sweet raspberry that's grounded with just the right amount of patchouli. I'm finding that there's something about Guerlain's patchouli that I actually enjoy and that works amazingly with my skin. As Couture dries down it doesn't change all that much, but the raspberry becomes deeper and the chypre base becomes more evident. This is classy and less heavily sweet than the original LPRN which I think makes it more wearable and versatile.

The sillage is light to moderate, but longevity is fantastic--it easily lasts 8 hours on my skin and even longer on my clothes. I'm so glad I invested in the 100ml bottle as this has become a winter staple for me.

I had to try it. Not my thing. It smells too synthetic berry air-freshener to my nose. It has the tart rasberry at the top, predominantly patch-bergamot in hot persuit.
This is a crowd pleaser to be sure, but sample before you buy. To its credit, good longevity and moderate silage so that's a few pluses. I would rather wear AT Fruitchouli if I'm going to berry-ville.

Morello cherry preserve is my favourite jam, for being tart, just the right amount of sourness. Guerlain waved goodbye to cherry when they made Couture, proclaiming it to be raspberry, but I keep thinking of conserve, as opposed to Jam, it's not really very sweet once the dry down commences.

La Petite Robe Noir Couture is unisex to my nose, the woody base is Guerlain's secret but it smells quite masculine to me. Everything else is covered in other reviews and as it was a limited edition, grab it while you can. It's a trainer wheel version of Coco Noir.

The opening is raspberry gelato. It's refreshingly sweet/tart and creamy. Just before this becomes another boring fruiti-chouli the chypre notes come to the rescue. It becomes a deeper mossy scent that has great longevity with modest sillage. This classic Guerlain powder note is absent, but not missed. LPRN Couture is fine as it is.

Admittedly, I'm not a fan of the bottle graphics - I like my Guerlains to maintain their classic elegance and mystery. But the bottle is the only thing I can fault here.

I apologize profoundly to the line of La Petite Robe Noire and to Guerlain. LPRN Couture is ah-may-zing. The raspberry is obvious, realistic, but the patchouli gives it depth. I thought this was a silly, jump-on-the-bandwagon line but I was wrong. My only complaint about Couture is that I would love it to project more and be stronger. If you want an unusual fragrance, one that you won't smell on very many people, try this. It's pretty wonderful.


I wanted to add that this and LPRN Eau Fraiche were both blind buys that I just received today. I have the Couture on one wrist and the Eau Fraiche on the other. Absolutely no regrets.

As the Couture begins to dry down it definitely becomes more chypre-based. In fact, I would love to see what would happen if oak moss were increased. It is not a gourmand, although it is a sweet chypre, versus a dry chypres like Magie Noire. Love!

EDIT: I've been wearing this for a few hours and I LOVE the scent. This and Eau Fraiche are beautiful and distinct. The only issue I have, with either of them, is the longevity! Granted, my skin does eat perfume, but typically Guerlain has better staying power. The Eau Fraiche isn't a surprise, because it's an eau de toilette, but the Couture does. If I put my nose right up to it, then I can smell it, but I smell it more on my shirt than skin. Still, no regrets for two beautiful scents.

EDIT AGAIN: Oh my god this drydown is beautiful! Guerlain all the way. Just wish it projected more!

What a beautiful, cheerful fragrance! That's what I think every time I wear LPRN Couture. This is my favorite edition of the LPRN line. It's not that the other Robes aren't well-done, but the combination of notes, especially the rose in LPRN Couture is simply irresistible. The raspberry-cherry combo gives it a juicy sweetness, the rose evokes elegance while the patchouli mixed with vetiver and moss brings fresh, green and earthy accords to the whole composition. And on my skin it has great longevity and projection!
I heard they were going to discontinue it, but I really hope they won't, as this is a masterpiece, a modern chypre done right.

This is juicy ripe fruit and patchouli. Love it. It is softer and dries a bit more chypre than Tauerville Fruitchouli Flash but in the opening they are siblings.In the dry down the oakmoss rises but not to full chypre power. It just balances the scent and makes it dry instead of sweet. After an hour this is a skin scent. After two hours, it's gone.

Goodness I adore this scent. The opening notes are fruity, intense, and fun, almost cherry-like. For a fruity fragrance, it's surprisingly warm and mature. This is definitely worth carrying as a signature scent. To me, it's unique and unforgettable, even among other gourmands. As it dries down, it becomes woody, slightly spicy, and sweet. It's incredible. Personally one of my favourites. It's unique, warm, and sexy. Keep in mind it's a very intense scent, however. I haven't been able to take this perfume off my mind, I'm obsessed with it.

Sillage: I'd say moderate. It definitely leaves a trail behind, but it won't turn heads in a room---I consider this a good thing.

Longevity: Very long lasting. If you put it on in the evening, you'll likely wake up to this scent.

This one's a great choice if you want a year round LPRN. It's light and fresh raspberries with a hint of Shalimar vanilla and it lasts well into 7 hours on me. This is feminine and girly with just enough sweet to make you smile. If I were to recommend one out of the many for a blind buy it would be this one.

I love this elegant bottles.I didn't like EDP.drydown is heaven but first hour is intense cherry sherbet and I can't wait.
Couture is simple perfume.no change in it and it's very raspberry (and I think some cherry)but not strange and complex like EDP.just lots of raspberry,some cherry and some patchouli and woods and very little rose.it's sweet but also tart and a little dark because of patchouli.after some time it become less sweet.I don't love it;it's boring for me because of lots of dark raspberry but it's good to have it.it looks lovely and very chic and a lot of people,most man,love it.my boy friend says it's very sexy,dark and naughty and modern
Longevity is good.sillage is moderate.I hear they discontinue it so I'm happy I buy it before ;)
7/10
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Since I hate patchouli and also raspberry isn't my favorite fruity note,la petit couture doesn't seem to be my thing,but the truth is,I like it very much
After owning la petit fraiche and edt,I became intrested in this one and it never disappointed,among edp,edt and fraiche,I can see more similarities between couture and edt,cherry/raspberry and a green vibe is common between them but couture is sweeter,a tad warmer,less clean and fresh and more charming..I can't say which is my favorite,I like them all,each if them in it's special occasion and mood
Guerlain la petit couture opens with a fresh,tart,juicy fruit note,combination of raspberry and a hint of bergamot as notes suggest,but my nose can tell there's also cherry..yeah I believe star of this fragrance is raspberry+cherry..I don't have much raspberry scents..there's lancome midnight rose,Givenchy hot couture edp,guerlain my insolence and this one..among these four famous raspberry scents,Guerlain la petit couture is my favorite,still not a passionate love for me,but I like it so much
As rose blooms,fruity notes become sweeter and less juicy.it's sweetness isn't sugary and doesn't lead to a raspberry jam,there's still a fresh,tart undertone beneath other warmer and sweeter notes
Base notes are completely woody,patchouli doesn't add masculinity to scent as it usually tends to do so,it's almost green here..it's not as clean as edt and fraiche but still it's not dirty..woodsy notes aren't as earthy as usual here,they're soft and blend nicely with raspberry,cherry,rose combo providing a warm and strong base for these sparkly notes
For me la petit couture is exclusively a fall scent but all in all it's wearable in mild temp,day or night
Longevity is good on me,not as good as edp but still more than moderate,sillage is moderate..as other raspberry scents it tends to receive more nice compliments from men
This is something in between the range of casual and elegant so it's wearable in friendly parties,nights out and other freindly/not too formal occasions
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Yes! I love this! I'm not a fan of the original EDP (not too crazy about licorice). This one is like a thicker, sweeter version of the EDT, minus the soapy note. Cherrybomb indeed! It has a delicious tartness to it. You can count on Guerlain to make cherries smell sophisticated. There's that distinctive Guerlain-esque powdery nuance to this scent that keeps this juicy cherry lady classy. I know the notes list raspberry, but I smell cherry, period. Very good sillage, and the longevity is fantastic too, 12 hours later and I could still smell it lingering on my skin. I had Miss Dior EdP on my other arm and that one had vanished without a trace by then. I've been waiting for ages for a quality TART cherry (like Escada's 'Cherry in the Air' tartness) that doesn't smell too young/casual or too licorice-y or too sweet/maraschino-ish or too roomspray-ish...this one is just spot-on. I've ignored it for so long, thinking it was the same scent as the regular EDP, just in a different bottle, but I'm so glad I let the SA spray it on me.

This starts off a strong rasperry and patch but quickly dries down to a smoother chypre type scent. I can smell rasperry and oakmoss. Imo it smells like cherry chapstick and light notes of cosmetic powder. It is long lasting but sillage sits close to the skin occasionally wafting around. I love Couture, it's elegant and is amazing with my skin. It has similar dna to la petite robe noir but this one is less sweet, no licorice and the oakmoss makes this lighter feeling. I know that la petite robe noir and some of the flankers get alot of hate but i think there different than other fruity frags on the market. It smells expensive to me, not overly sweet, not heavy or syrupy. Maybe they just work great with my skin chemistry. All the negetive reveiws almost made me avoid trying them but I'm glad it didn't. I love this perfume as well as the others!

I now have in my possession two 100 ml bottles of this beauty from my fav perfume site. Aproximately 8 hours ago I sprayed this on my outer hand, went to sleep, and woke up smelling the most beautiful dry down of raspy raspberry and the rest of the ingredients but the raspberry was the most dominant. This is on skin! Usually the only time I have scent left from 8 hours ago is on my clothes. This is the EDP (they don't make a toilette in this) and not only is it beautiful, it is worth the money. I was thrilled to see this on my fragrance site- I now wasn't finding it in the stores anymore(they have pulled it off shelves in the last month).
It also was much less $ on line.
I just want to say though, as much as I love this one(it is my favourite LPRN) I do miss the tea note that the 2012 EDP version of regular LPRN has. Fortunately I DO have that version also so it's no big deal.
Soooo, I guess it's safe to say I love the series and wish I could find the original from 2009. I doubt that will happen, it must be long sold out...

It is official...Men are crazy about this one.every man i know loved this fruity chyper!

This is a true ch-ch-ch-ch-cherrybomb! Or, to be precise, raspberrybomb. :) I usually love Guerlain perfumes, but this one is way too fruity for me. I guess it is aimed at younger consumers.

This one is like velcro: it has a plush side and a curiously raspy side. It is nature-inspired, but unmistakably man-made. And most importantly, it works! I see the L'Heure Bleue reference as well as the Red Berries of Death. Even though I don't like it enough for actually wearing it, it's a shame they're discontinuing it.

Of all the LPRN collection this is my favourite. I was at the Guerlain counter in Fenwicks today, asking the sales girl about the new LPRN Intense flanker and when it would be due out, and she said late summer/early Autumn - which will coincide with when Guerlain will be discontinuing LPRN Couture!!! I think my wee squeal of shock summed it up

I'm sure that this will still be available on the Guerlain counters for a while yet, as they sell off the remaining stocks of LPRN Couture, but if you like this flanker, it might be time to start stocking up on it before it goes (and before prices go up on Ebay for it!).

I was leaving the department store with this when the security sticker that was still on the bottom started going off.. and I had to hang back for security to show them my receipt. All of a sudden, he starts sniffing the air and looking around everywhere going "what's that.. what IS that?" and I started laughing and he said "is that you?! what is that.... it's like.. god.. oh my god.. it's so good... it's like bubblegum or.. something sweet.. wow!" he was freaking out over it and asked to see the bottle.. so he could run off and grab it once I left. I explained to him that it's not the original and a flanker and which 'dress' to look for.. and the entire time he was freaking out over it. "You've done well, girl!"

It is AMAZING.

It's the sweet cherry scent I've been looking for. Seriously, if you want something with a tart cherry note but a womanly sweetness that isn't ostentatious, nor too 'fluffy' this is going to make you smile.


It lasts for ages and I love the dry down as much as I love the initial burst. It dries down very similar to the first spray but smells very clean, it's not quite just showered in the typical way, but smells as though you've only just sprayed it. It's so yummy!!!!

Don't bother with the original which is a heavy, clunky, medicinal thing. THIS is where it is at!

top notes are nice, but the dry down is maturely sweet. silage is quite good.
i see a 40-ish woman wearing this.

It's essentially a berry-infused LPRN without the medicinal liquorice. Smelling the EdP, the EdT and the Ma Premiere Robe version of LPRN next to this, it is evident that this Couture flanker is a bit separated from the rest ("elevated" if you will). For this reason I recommend it if you simply cannot stand the regular LPRN, you might surprise yourself.

The brilliance of La Petite Robe Noire Couture is the manner in which it twists and bends a paradigm that is expected. For one, look at the bottle: a graduated pink hue. But remember, it’s housed in the same shaped flacon that houses Mitsouko too, our venerable reference chypre. La Petite Robe Noire Couture is a chypre, after all, and with deconstruction this can be realised.

First comes the pink and frilly, the crystals on our little black dress, which is a deliciously sticky ‘stuck in-between the teeth’ blend of jammy fruits interlaced with praline, deep and dark Amarena cherry (say, liqueur soaked), then brightened with lemon.

A further pleasing and sensual depth is given by the way of black liquorice, unctuous and golden maple syrup, tonka bean, and a near gluttonous sprinkling of confectioner’s sugar – a brûlée to a point just before black burntness. An intriguing tar can be smelled from a distance, carrying a thematic theme.

The cool grip of raspberry remains, a fabulous deliciousness, but I detect a touch of olfactory irritation. The cooly fruit undulations which is mixed lovingly with lavender and citrus recall hygiene and obnoxiously tinted body mists (which seemingly only come in one size, excessively jumbo, and a hydrant-like atomiser). Thankfully, this dissipates quickly.

Underneath all this is a warm chypre body. Our chypre has an exuberant and sly sensuality – most shocking when one recalls the story our pink top notes told just before. A cleansed patchouli with a hint of its dense earthy greenery, free spirited but somewhat chained to the other notes and the saccharine top note accord. A marvellously rooty, naturalistic and oily vetiver dances in the distance – a moreish counterpoint.

At the very base is an ambery moss, forming perhaps what is the most necessary element of the chypre structure. The almond seems to sing forever in this perfume, which achieves some interesting effects. In its green form, raw almonds are bitter and uniquely fresh, with a touch of a residual mouthfeel – I am tempted to say that this can be found at the very top, exalted with a hint of functional aldehydes. Move inwards and detect almonds, now powdery and vanillic. This is where it strikes me the most, a gossamer whisper that says “L’Heure Bleure”, “Apres L’Ondee”, and dare I say, “Farnesiana”? Why Farnesiana? As a superbly edible marzipan and play doh, a majestic pollen scent, attachments to LPRN Couture makes some sense to me, no matter how far fetched. This trio are our covert gourmands. LPRN Couture takes the covert powder inflection and adds it to the overt – not brashly, I must add.

La Petite Robe Noire Couture demonstrates a unique fragrance. One side fruitchouli, another side gourmand (perhaps that’s just a synonym), chypre, and marvellously oriental too. The sweet, bready nuances of methyl cyclopentenolone (maple lactone) with coffee, nuttiness, and maple add wonderful layers to this complex work. Perhaps LPRN Couture sparks excitement because it swaps ethyl maltol for something with a touch of gusto, something that can be treated seriously. It has the neon sketchings of the fruity Nahema and tingly sensations of Chamade. A tonka and vanilla brûlée, done before in Shalimar, but here it is drowned in fruit. And on the note fruit: Mitsouko has peach. LPRN Couture has red fruits washed with white musk.

Perfect on first spray! But then it turns into this kind of gross milky-sweetness that ruins it.. too bad! the opening is so wonderful!

@Maoocha: "Smells like a glistening berry mocktail served in a wine glass during a gala dinner. A girl who is old enough to know elegance, but still too young to drink. Sweet and juicy." Indeed it does! You've described it perfectly. It smells absolutely drinkable!

Delicious! Smells like glistening berry mocktail served in a wine glass during a gala dinner. A girl who is old enough to know elegance, but still too young to drink.
Sweet and juicy.

I bought this by mistake, supposed to buy the original lprn. Ended up this version really goes with my chemistry. Love it.

The bottle of LPRN Couture that I have contains a sickly-sweet heavy fragrance that smells nothing like the fresh composition described in the Perfume Pyramid above. It smells instead like the Pyramid for LPRN original. I wonder if there was a major packaging error.

I find this business with flankers annoying generally, but this one takes the cake. What an exasperating and confusing experience with this line of Petite Robe Noire fragrances. I went into a store and tried a tester on paper, loved it, and then sprayed it on my skin--loved it. It smelled bright and fresh, like old world lip gloss and a beautiful light bouquet, not cloying (incidentally, just like the Perfume Pyramid on this page). Wrote down the name: "Le Petite Robe Noire" ---did not occur to me this was another flanker since I noticed no others on display--and walked off to see how it aged on my skin. I still liked it the next morning. I returned to the store, told the clerk I'd like to purchase Petite Robe Noire. Got home, opened it, discovered a green liquid--didn't smell anything like the tester I had tried. Looked it up online, discovered there were other versions of this fragrance. Okay.

Returned to the store, noticed they had the green one (which turned out to be the "Eau Fraiche" variation, the one I had mistakenly bought, and whose exterior package looks identical except for the shape of the dress and the tiniest print underneath) and a pink one. I explained the situation to the clerk. She agreed to exchange the green for the pink. I got it home, noticed the bottle had an unfamiliar black band across the bottom--turned out to be the original LPRN, but clearly not the scent I had sampled on my skin. I hated the cloying sweetness of this newly-purchased variation. I returned to the store. Turns out the tester they had on display was LPRN Couture, but the one they had in stock for sale was original LPRN. Barely recognizable differences in the packaging, and even the clerk had no idea. For heaven's sake! I looked all over town for a location that had LPRN Couture (the one I had originally sampled and liked?), finally found a store, got myself there before closing, bought it (LPRN Couture). This bottle of LPRN Couture turns out to be NOTHING like the composition described above (citrus, raspberry, rose etc) or the one I tested in store in the first place--instead it's some cloying heavy licorice sweet scent, exactly like the one (LPRN original) I returned earlier.

What is the deal with this fragrance? Why all of the major variations with almost-identical packaging? And why is this bottle of LPRN Couture that I purchased tonight exactly like the original LPRN and nothing like the Pyramid above? Could there have been a mistake in the packaging? (Perhaps the manufacturers themselves got mixed up by this ludicrously confusing packaging? Jeez.)

At any rate, infuriating experience. I hope I can return this most recent purchase and be done with LPRN forever. And I'm still trying to wash this cloying thick stink off my skin! :(

If anything can instantly influence your manners or the way you move and react turning you down into an appealing French lady just flourising amongst the grey crowd, it must be LPRN Couture. It's more powerful than you think but demands you to reveal fully. The woman who you really are in secret, a bold "lolita" or a sweet nun. The choice is yours. The frag captures the innocence and pleasure of being sneaky at the same time. It reminds me a little bit a vision created by YSL through Parisienne but that story was about a young, immature French girl ready to fall in love. This one is dark-minded, playful but soaked with awareness of consequences and daring for what she desires...freedom in love towards the man/woman or God... especially in spring.
Longevity: 8 h on my skin (much longer in my clothes and scarf)
Sillage: perfect to evoke a crushing impact on a person near you. The longer you stay close the reaction is bolder but in total secret

The felicity of early spring in a bottle! What more can I say? I was given this beauty in a swap and fell in love at first sniff! Sweet, sun ripened raspberries and roses that fade to the softest, powdery patchouli with the vanillic trail of tonka beans. Beautiful!

Beautiful, gorgeous, dare I say fresh spring fragrance! Discovered this today. I sprayed some on my hand and I'm addicted! Not a massive fan of the licorice in the original but this is sheer heaven! Won't replace my beloved L'Instant though.

My start with the series was a bit confusing - I now realise this was the first one I tried, but because I hadn't realised there was more than one I couldn't understand why the tester smelled so different and so much better than the full sized bottle!
I now have the Eau Fraiche and the Couture, and I love them both. The Couture dry down is a lot more powdery on my skin, probably because of the patchouli, but the two are my new favourite fragrances.

It took me a long time to get to my samples of this one and its sister, La Petite Robe Noire Eau de Toilette, because I wasn't attracted to this line at all. First of all there's so many of them it's quite confusing, and then I also really dislike everything about how this is marketed, the name and the bottles. In practice I have nothing against black dresses, little or not- to the contrary! But when people start raving about them, blowing the whole thing up to ridiculous proportions, I think it's so tacky I kind of want to throw up. And I agree with a lot of other people - out of all the perfume houses, I would never have suspected Guerlain would be the one to go with that as a concept for a whole perfume line.

So I was a bit prejudiced to say the least, but I'll try anything at least once and I do really like cherries in perfume, so I've been wearing both of my samples on and off for the last couple of days. And I have to say, although I'm not crazy about them or anything, I do really like them! It shouldn't be so surprising, marketing is just marketing after all. I do think they're quite similar, so I'm just writing the one review for this Couture version, which I prefer.

Finally, on to the scents themselves: although cherry isn't mentioned in the note list for this Couture version, I think they're both very much cherry-focused - I guess the jammy raspberry must translate to "cherry" to me, and I see I'm far from the only one to think so. I'm not complaining!
The difference is that the Eau de Toilette is a bit lighter and patchouli is earthier in it, making the scent just a bit more dusty. Ironically, I think the Couture version is a lot heavier on the cherry, richer and more syrupy. In fact it reminds me just a little bit of my exuberant cherry syrup favourite, Serge Lutens' Louve. This one doesn't come close to Louve in regards to richness, sweetness, longevity and just pure joy, and the patchouli makes it a lot less edible, but they do have a bit of a similar vibe.

So I think both scents are quite nice, and definitely worth trying for cherry lovers, but to me they're not outstanding enough to make me want more - especially considering my enduring dislike for the branding here. For now, I'll stick with Louve for my cherry fix.

ps: I just saw the comparison to Cacharel Liberté and I have to say I agree - there's definitely a similarity there; something about the combination of jammy fruit and patchouli and something quite like (nice-smelling) pencil shavings...

This is fresher, brighter, sweeter, fruitier, and greener than LPRN EDP, but def the same vibe. It's most of those things I listed because it has raspberry instead of cherry, and no licorice. It also doesn't have the powdery aspect, although I don't get much of that in LPRN.
You can def smell the patchouli in Couture, which I'm starting to enjoy when done right. (I normally HATE patchouli)

I love it! I wish I had more, but it's harder to find online in the US for good prices, whereas I have been tracking down 3.3 oz of LPRN for about $36-37.
This 1oz of Couture was a good price tho.
It is very "jammy" but fresh and heavy at the same time.
It has less depth than LPRN, but overall... yum.

I've never smelled the EDT of LPRN because it seems to lack everything gourmand that I love about the EDP and Couture. But if I find the EDT for a good price, I'll do it. Haha. I'm addicted. (I bought an EDT for $36 and ended up getting the Parfum instead, which made me very very happy, and yet sad because I really wanted to sniff the EDT. I have to blind buy my perfumes since I live in the middle of nowhere.)

I def love this! Will keep my eyes for deals and steals so I can get more!

Another decent raspberry/patchouli is Jimmy Choo Exotic, which is a lot more fruity and tropical, but divine in it's fruity/patch.

After a candy-like opening, it blooms into a fruit and berry salad served in a crystal bowl à la Guerlain. There's something milky there too to give it richness and body. A little hologram of Shalimar my appear fleetingly in your peripheral vision as you take a whiff from your wrist, but why not? Someone in the house across the street is burning incense as those berries burst between your teeth. Lovely.

I really almost had an aversion against La Petite Robe Noire EDP, so many people on the streets wearing it and always a mismatch regarding their appearance. I even turned my head away because I found it strong and simply not a smell that I want around me.
But suddenly I found myself turning my head AFTER something I thought was LPRN EDP and I couldn't explain this kind of extreme paradigm shift of my nose to myself.
Now, after testing the whole range anew, I know what it is: LPRN Couture is much better! Even something I'd consider wearing (in small doses)..

Sweet and fruity, but not without depth. Better than a lot of other recent mainstream launches (or is last year not recent anymore?). It's pretty and wearable, at one point I was a bit ovewhelmed by the sweetness, but that phase didn't last long.
It's not really something that I would buy, I prefer my sweet fragrances with less cherry, because despite the fact that the tartness of the rapsberry is present without a doubt, there still is a lot of cherry here. The dark syrup-y sweetness of cherries is just not my thing. Too much sticky sweetness I guess.
Overal, very fun, but not too playful and silly, fragrance. Not sure how relevant this is regarding Guerlains other scents, but nice none the less.
Oh, and if you're interested in the deep licorice-and-almond sweetness, but are taken aback by the jammy fruits in this fragrance or its relatives (La Petite Robe Noir EdT & EdP), try out the gorgeous L'Homme Ideal. At first I wasn't a fan of it, but it really got to me. And not once is it too masculine for me.

To me it smells too sweet and clean, somewhat like a raspberry laundry powder.
I like the smell of it, But only on cloth, I don't think it's the type of perfume that could be applied to skin

This is the first perfume ever where I actually find that the raspberries smell like real raspberries, enhanced indeed, but still realistic. I find this fragrance to be beautiful almost beyond words. It manages to be classy, youthful, mature, sexy, flirty, fun, dramatic, serious... all at once! I smell all notes all through the wear as a matter of fact and the vetiver and moss are all the way as good as in classic old time chypres. The vetiver, in particular, is stunning, green, earthy and balancing the whole concoction from being cloying. Because this stuff is sweet, and I mean... Sweet! The vetiver calming those those lovely berries, then a sweet and relevant rose, bright citrus and last... the patchouli. I have a complicated relationship to patchouli, because I think it works best when it´s by itself. No, I didn´t mean that, I meant when the patchouli in a fragrance would still be good if all by itself. i find that to NOT often be the case. Here it´s perfection. This is one of the few scents (and I do love many scents) that I cannot imagine ever being tired of!

Delicious! From all the dark rasperry jam patchouli perfumes I prefer Couture the most. The raspberry in the opening is very definite and kind of in-your-face, but not overwhelmingly so. It's very enjoyable and less sweet than expected. Coupled with the rose it makes this amazing rose marmalade experience which I'm always looking for in fruity rose perfumes. Gorgeous, a joy to wear. The raspberry is present all the while, but as soon as the patchouli kicks in, it's that element which keeps couture sweet, and it also gives a dark edge which I like. It adds that sultriness which makes Couture couture in my opinion. There's a bit of oakmoss in the drydown and traces if tonka, but the rest of the Vetiver a mystery to me. Cannot find it. Anyway, Couture is unexpectedly pleasant, I prefer it much more than the original with the cloyingly sweet almond/licorice duo. Longevity is good, I'm getting 8 hours with it, and it's easy to pick up the scent as I'm walking around.

i can't believe this perfume! what a dark horse....

she woke up under a stranger's bedsheets, to find a tray of raspberry jam, toast, hot fruit tea and an even hotter chap sitting on the edge of the bed, smiling....the morning after a party to which she arrived incredibly late, wearing only a Ralph Lauren black dress (the one on the bottle) and her Guerlain.....

i sort of loath (if it is possible to "sort of" loath) fruitchoulis...but hello!
this has me ensnared in a cloud of raspberry deliciousness, which is slowly melding into the perfect rose patchouli and a Guerlain oak-moss, vetiver, tonka base.

Couture is XS for her (and the rest of them) gone right, which can only be achieved with a Top Dog nose and over a century of perfuming, to produce winning formulas every time (nearly every time).

i detect anise and liquorice in this?
there's a definite nod to a Lolita gourmand and ofcourse my beloved l'Heure Bleu.

LPRN Couture is the perfect dark and seductive fruitchouli, after everyone got it so horribly wrong.
i bloody love it!
she is a seriously smokin leggy lady in a hot black dress...

EDIT: all that said. beautifully crafted as this is, i can't actually wear it!
it is too sweet.
sweet to the point of making me feel nauseous.
i feel like i've been rolling in thick raspberry jam and liquorice on a dry forest floor. so if you like the sound of that...give it a go (the perfume i mean).

Sophisticated and delicious. I have LPRN EDT as well but like Couture much more. I can't decide on my favourite part: the raspberry top notes or the spicy, creamy drydown. I always feel sexy wearing this scent. If you nuzzle in close to the skin you can still get hints of the initial raspberry hours later. Not too sweet on me and lasts. Can still smell some of the cherry of the LPRN EDT which I also love.

Guerlain have long followed the rule that it's better to be good than to be first. Or at least it's better to be the last one standing. Coty Chypre created the genre that defined perfumery in the 20th century. Mitsouko copied the formula, improved it and is now the standard-bearer. Shalimar came on the heels of Coty Emeraude and a number of other huge vanillic/balsamic ambers that were popular at the time. It then surpassed them and became the model of the genre. Coty l'Origan, then Guerlain l'Heure Bleue. Caron En Avion, then Guerlain Vol de Nuit. Even on the men's side, Guerlain's eponymous Vetiver followed Carven's by four years.

The Fruitchouli genre is a somewhat restrained take on the egregious gourmands of late 1990s. The Fruitchouli's emphasis on berry notes makes it technically gourmand in nature, but it is Gourmand 2.0. The questionable goal of smelling like a cupcake was toppled and 'hints of (fill-in-the-blank) berry' became the marketing catch-phrase. In 2009, late in the game, Guerlain entered the fray with La Petite Robe Noire eau de toilette. The reference Fruitchoulis by this time were already dead and gone. Badgely Mischka by Badgely Mischka was discontinued and Miss Dior Chérie had been thoroughly reformulated, flanked and renamed to the point of anonymity. Guerlain went the shell-game route of Miss Dior Chérie, quickly replacing its first version by Delphine Jelk with a similar version by Thierry Wasser, then releasing an eau de parfum. Then came the stream of flankers, each distinguished by a slightly different silhouette of a little black dress on the bottle. Most buyers don't actually know which perfume they actually have.

La Petite Robe Noire Couture is the stand-out of the lot. It is unmistakably a Fruitchouli, but rather than simply following the reduction of the genre (sweetness + berry flavor = perfume) that has become the norm, it benefits from Guerlain's years of twisting patisserie into perfume. It shows its Guerlain DNA in an almost campy exaggeration of its predecessors. Mitsouko's plum is prim next to La Petite Robe Noire Couture's sweet berry cobbler, but the likeness is there. La Petite Robe Noire Couture's dark sweetness is a less restrained play on L'Heure Bleue's bittersweet version of the floral oriental.

La Petite Robe Noire Couture's real precedent, though, is Guerlain Insolence. Insolence was derided as a trite sweet floral that watered down the reputation of the brand. Guerlain's smart move was to beat the criticism by going further over the top, creating Insolence Eau de Parfum. It was a monstrous, laughing fuck-you of a perfume that made critics of the original appear out of step and fussy. If La Petite Robe is considered just the next post-LVMH nail in Guerlain's coffin (also said of l'Instant, Insolence, Idylle, Shalimar Parfum Initial and l'Homme Ideal) the Couture model wades further into the dogfight. The berry compote is simmered down to an even thicker consistency so that Couture's sweetness is denser than the edt's or edp's. It even steals a page directly from Insolence with a touch of a hairspray note that gives Couture a defiantly 'perfumey' quality.

You thought the original Petite Robe Noire was a little déclassé for Guerlain? Try Couture. Modesty is for pussies.

from scenthurdle.com

I like PRN Couture but I think I like PRN edp slightly better. I seem to get more patch from the Couture in the dry down which I'm not liking. The raspberry opening is really nice but I prefer the creamy dry down of the edp.

I have always been a bit of a purest when it comes to flankers, however I bought this after testing it and absolutely love it. It's delicious. Edible notes of raspberry and vanilla with a beautifully balanced woodsy note and a lovely spike of patchouli and the addition of my favourite note. - the much maligned oakmoss. Terrific. I had actually intended to buy a completely different Guerlain perfume and wound up with this instead and I am totally delighted.

I adore this! There is no question why La Petite Robe Noir Couture won the French 2015 FIFI award for the Best Woman's Fragrance for Selective Distibution. Well done Monsieur Wasser!

The Raspberry note is prominent and lively. Not as tangy as I would have thought. The Patchouli is not overdone or over powering in any way. The Bergamot is strongest upon initial spraying and then it calms down adding a wonderful zesty dimension. I love the Tonka Bean lurking in the background which gives off an aura of sex appeal. The soft Oakmoss adds some earthiness and dimension. Then the addition of Rose gives this a romantic air as well.

There is no sharpness and the sweetness is not what I would consider young but more a classy and refined experience. It brings to my mind the young and beautiful Bette Davis. I had to procure a bottle and I am so glad I did. This is more serious than the original. Miss Couture is for expensive dinner dates and jazz clubs as the name would suggest where the original is more for a playful night out dancing.

The sillage is within arms length. The duration is extremely long. I applied at around 11 in the morning and I was still catching whiffs at 10 that night. Absolutely gorgeous!! 10/10

This is an interesting launch by Guerlain as this "flanker" is different enough to be released on its own merits and in a way I wish it had. This is a much sparklier and less languid than the original LPRN EDP. The raspberry note on the top is joined with the intensity of begamot to keep it from becoming too syrupy sweet. There is also the addiiton of a rose note, which again is another departure from the original LPRN. As the perfume dries down, the flanker again shifts, showing a heart of patchouli tamed with tonka bean. The typical Guerlainade is a bit changed, less powder and the addtion of vetiver is noticeable.

I know lovers of vintage chypre will recoil at this being framed as a chypre, and there really should be a different category to put the new variation of patchouli based chypres. But this is one of the better examples of the "nouvelle chypre" where the fruitiness is not too sweet and the patchouli is well executed. The addition of a "moss" accord is probably a nod to the vintage chypre lovers, but is not a major part of the drydown. The patchouli definitely overtakes any moss that may be evident.

Overall, this is definitely one of the better flankers from Guerlain and deserves more attention. Alas, it will probably languish for a couple years before being discontinued due to lack of advetisement and understanding of its qualities.

The wonderful thing about a bright new fragrance especially one launched from the Iconic House of Guerlain is that you will never please everyone but aim to surprise everyone! I have loved Guerlain Fragrances for more years than I care to remember each one is crafted individually and every fragrance carries the famous Guerlainard base. Le Petit Robe Noir and Couture are Guerlain's tribute to the Fruity fragrance Vogue very popular for 2010-2015. On first application I get an immediate burst of Raspberries so sweet and juicy, like a cordial drink on a hot sunny day or an eton mess. I ask you to try and imagine you are in a beautiful country garden surrounded by flowers, you are relaxing sat down under a tree, you are young and carefree and full energy and excitement a beautiful flower about to bloom. This is Le Petit Robe Noire and Couture. The dry down is subtle but very Guerlain and a young woman's fragrance. I am a Mitsouko lady myself. I see the comparisons between Chanel Coco Mademoiselle, Dior Miss Dior Cherie, Givenchy Irrisistable and Mademoisselle Guerlain but this one is my favourite of them all. Gorgeous.

This is not a girly, sweet, over the top fruity perfume. This is a classy perfume. In my opinion it has a combination of notes that have been expertly blended. To me this perfume smells of very dark rich cherries and I can detect a liqcorice note. It has a very special quality about it, I feel it is a love or hate perfume. I just happen to love it and highly recommend it.

One of the few perfumes from Guerlain that I really dislike. Sweet,fruity cherry raspberry in a Tonka bean blanket. On me that combinations smells like bubble gum which is not something I enjoy. Nice for a young girl or even maybe a teenage girl,it doesn't work as a woman's perfume in my opinion. Longevity is average and sillage very low.

This new flanker seems more like an original scent than a flanker. It has a distinctive character, more sophisticated than the original LPRN. I smell jasmine and vanilla after the first fruity whiff. A more classic Guerlain, I appreciate the drift away from just sweet and fruity, as are so many frags meant for the "20 somethings." I don't know how long it wears because I haven't tried it yet. But it will be in my Christmas stocking, and my husband will be happy to have the gift suggestion. Thank you Mr. Thierry Wasser and any others of you at Guerlain who worked on this new scent. I also love the bottle -- wish I could get the Limited Edition.

Oh dear. I love all that is Guerlain, even scents that aren't to my taste are still compatible on my skin. But this was a rollercoaster.

When I sprayed it on in the store, I could feel myself falling in love....could this be my new love affair, my new sig scent!..(Which is huge for me, I've been in love with Champs Élysées for 16 years)

I couldn't wait for the dry down....Could. Not. Wait!

Went grocery shopping and got home to a disgusting stench all around me....It smelled like toilet cleaner, or those blue-type deodorisers in a hospital toilet. I've waited hours and resisted washing off this heinous scent in the hope of more to be revealed, but no. Not on my skin, it smells horrific. There is no echo of the beautiful scent I sprayed in the store. I will try again, but boy, I've never had a Guerlain fragrance turn on my skin like this.

Granted, I could be the exception, but I'd recommend no blind-buying on this one.

At first I smell a very sweet, candy-ish berry, but after a while it turns into a warmer, wood-like scent. I don't get any rose which surprised me since normally rose is very noticable on my skin. I really love this perfume! Sillage and longevity somewhere between moderate and heavy. I think this would be suitable for both day and night

This is a cherry bomb and cherry is not even listed.
According to the note list it should smell like a less musky version of Idylle. If only...
Guerlain is having its hard times.
This Couture is yet another variation on the same theme of gourmand black cherry.
It's quite strong so you get bang for that (big) pricetag and the bottle is captivating like all the line. Better than EdT, worse than EdP.

sometimes i like it sometimes i dont !!

❀ I find Couture to be the classiest and more interesting scent of all LPRN. It is true that raspberry and patchouli dominate, but I like both notes when they are at the right amount...and I believe in Couture they are, nothing overwelmes the other.
It opens with a sour-sweet&creamy fruity smell and then settles down with the patcouli aura of elegance. I find it suitable for all ages.

Since LPRNC was launched I didn't think much of it.
I have LPRN EDP and I highly enjoy it but this flanker didn't leave me very impressed.
I love Guerlain but LPRN flankers I find lovely but a bit boring.
In LPRN Couture I smell cherries instead of raspberries and it dries down very similar to LPRN EDT which is fine but not special at all.
Longevity is pretty good though about7 hours on my skin.

I don't dislike any of the LPRN fragrances and I love Guerlain but they all just strike me as "Guerlain does Angel". I can't see beyond berry patchouli gourmand thing. I'll be happy when the post-Angel apocalypse zombies have all died and the perfume world moves on to something else.

I mostly just smell jammy raspberry that does come off kind of like cherry, a tiny bit of rose, and way too much patchouli. Disappointed with the sillage and longevity.

I actually really like that razzcherry opening. . . It is cute, before the patchouli overwhelms it.

I really dig this one. I love that the cherry impression (even though it's not listed as a note) in this one isn't the usual cheerful type, rather it's a deep and mysterious. This is the mature version of all the La Petite Robe Noire flankers. I think the well designed dress on the bottle agrees with me as well - it's different than the cutesy short dresses on the rest of the bottles.

It's mostly fruity with tonka bean on me and slight rose, dries down into a wonderful sweet(ish) mossy scent. Fortunately the patchouli is not very prominent, just the right amount so those who're sensitive to it can enjoy Couture. Very good staying power and great sillage. On my want list!

It should be called a "Cherry bomb". To me it smells more like cherry than raspberry. But not a fresh cherry. It smells like sweet, syrupy cherry liquor. It's fun, flirty and intoxicating but with a classy feel to it. I like it. I wish, I could get it for my collection, but it gives me headache:(

I love guerlain and I'm obsessed over their creations but this is so underwhelming.
FYI i purchased a 1oz bottle because I had tested it on a store and they only had a sample and they tested it on MY skin WITH THE SAMPLE. unbelievable. No tester whatsoever for Couture.
This opens with a weird pineapple scent which reminds me of YSL Baby Doll. Goes on like that for half an hour and then stays pretty much linear on the edt notes. I've got the edt too and I get that this is a reformulation of it but it's almost like a bad bad joke. I Just use this as a base and then refresh with the edt When it dies down. Good sillage. Poor longevity for edp and guerlain. Disappointed.

Le Petite Robe Noire Couture reminds me of Miss Dior Cherie 2005 so much, not that the scents are the same, but they both have the same concept: fruity and then patchouli. The nuzzle smells very woody, sweet and has the patchouli scent, these scents are basically the drydown of LPRN Couture.

At the first spray, the raspberry note is prominent. I thought that it would be a regular fruity floral scent, but then again, this is Guerlain we are talking about. Alongside with the raspberry, the patchouli also appears at the beginning as well, and it stays there throughout the course of the perfume. It's also woody and a little bit floral, and the moss is not very prominent as a base note. I feel like it has more amber.

The longevity of this perfume is about 5-6 hours, and it's one of the most versatile perfumes I have tried. Just like MDC 2005, it can be used at day or night, and it's great for every occasion I think. LPRN Couture is very cheerful, happy, but also sophisticated and complex. This is a real lady's perfume.

This one confuses me, so much. In a very good way. It is an extremely complex frangrance, dare I say the most complex Guerlain has.
Most complex frangrances end up like a melting pot of scents one can't quite make out.. but this.. it's like every note comes out for some time, one at a time, during wear - which is exceptional, for the record.
I still smell gorgeous cherries in this, less raspberry, and not so mcuh rose.
But I do get the very interesting and bizarre moss, soft and delicate, slightly sweeter than one would expect, also patchouli and vetiver are noticeable, popping out from the background without taking the scene.
Gorgeously made frangrance, very high quality, wears so luxurious and expensive, a dream. Can't wait to own a full size, got addicted to the samples I used!

A lot lighter than the original version. Also doesnt last long. Only lasted for like 2 hrs for me. The original is much better. Still, not a bad one, but not impressive.

If I was a teenager I maybe would like to smell like a raspberry drink..maybe. In that case, this would be perfect

This is a berry fresh scent. It opens with a burst of tart raspberries and bergamot with a moderate sillage. The base is all about rose and patchouli on me and the longevity is moderate, maybe 6 hours tops on me where it becomes barely perceptible on my skin.In between the opening to the dry down, the vetiver and tonka are discernible. There is a similar DNA to its predecessor but I own both and feel that they are different enough to have justified both buys. However, I do prefer its older sibling for a few reasons. LPRN wins hands down in terms of longevity. I prefer the dark luscious cherry almond combination of LPRN to this rasperry-rose-patchouli combination. I would have exchanged the dresses for the two bottles or for the Couture, added a darker patchouli to suit the gown. At the end of the day, its all about taste and colours. This is without doubt a well done and pretty perfume, in line with Guerlain's newer offerings.

After reading the reviews on here about it not lasting and not having good silage, I decided to proper go for it with the sprays!

WELL - this lasted all day on me and a colleague even said I smelled wonderful and she was standing about 3 meters away from me!!

It was about 230pm when she said this and I put this on at 8am.

So i think you can be spray happy with this one, which some people wont like. I quite like having a really good spritz so it suits me!

As for the scent its self I love it. Just enough sweetness and freshness for spring and a gorgeous after tone which lingers in your nose.

It does seem to dissapeer after about 3 hours but obviously thats just to the wearers nose. Its a shame though because I like to be able to smell myself and enjoy my perfume all day.

It had been two months since I was looking for a perfume, after my oh so loved Fan Di Fendi. I looked elsewhere on this site all the reviews and all, I made no less than fifty choices and I went in perfumery several times to try on my skin. The irony is that in all those I chose , La Petite Robe Noire Couture was not in my choice! What was my surprise when I felt on my skin this delicious fragrance! Gourmand, without being candy or generic, glamorous (I would say a new glamor, a little more in tune with the times ) Perfect for spring and summer, but if it's your signature ( as I believe for me!) You can wear for any occasion.


At first, it opens with raspberries , by saying raspberries , I mean , a wonderful harvest basket ! It reminds me of a childhood memory when I was with my family and we pick these fruits to make pies. I'll cherish for always these laughs in the kitchen.

After about one hour , the rose blooms, present, but not heady, I'll say in a cool way. And patchouli comes enhance the sensual side of the flower.

Moderate sillage
Longevity 4-5h (on my skin)

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Ça faisait deux mois que je me cherchais un parfum, ayant vider jusqu'à la dernière gouttes mon Fan di Fendi (automne-hiver). Je regardais d'ailleurs sur ce site tous les avis de tous et chacun, j'en ai fait pas moins d'une cinquantaine et je me suis rendue en parfumerie plusieurs fois pour en essayer sur ma peau. Le plus ironique est que dans tous ceux que j'avais choisi, La Petite Robe Noire Couture ne figurait pas dans mes choix! Quelle fut ma surprise quand j'ai senti sur ma peau ce délicieux parfum! Gourmand, sans être bonbon, glamour (je dirais un nouveau glamour, un peu plus dans l'air du temps) Parfait pour le printemps et l'été mais si c'est votre signature (comme moi je crois bien! ) vous pouvez le porter pour n'importe quelle occasion.

Au début, ça ouvre avec la framboise, par framboise, je veux dire, un merveilleux panier de récolte ! Ça me rappelle un souvenir d'enfance où j'étais avec ma famille et que nous cueillons ces fruits pour en faire des tartes. Rires dans la cuisine.

Après 1 heure environ, la rose éclot, présente, sans toutefois être étourdissante, fraîche. Et le patchouli vient agrémenter le côté sensuel de la fleur.


Sillage modéré.
Longévité : 5-6 h

This was disappointing to me. I expected something more from this line. I like the original PRN, but why did they even bother with this one? It may be just my body chemistry, but it got completely lost on me. My husband could not smell it either. The raspberry is overly sweet for me and the whole concoction lays way to close to the skin. Give me more sillage please !

I am a little disappointed in this one. It smells synthetic to me. It's not happy and girly like the other perfumes from that line. There's also no cherry which I loved in previous ones.
I don't enjoy the composition of citruses, raspberry and tonka bean in this one.
It's very different from other LPRN's, so maybe people who didn't like the previous ones could enjoy this one.

I have to confess: I really enjoyed this one! It's a fresher LPRN, still with the juicy cherries (I definitely don't get any raspberries!), but not as dark and dense. It's a sparkling berries cocktail, very sweet and powdery, but crisp, clean and fresh, with a velvety rose and something green underneath.

I don't think that it's that simple a scent, in fact it has that luxurious aura and smells expensive and highly qualitative. The only thing it lacks is seriousness. Yes, it's flirty and coquettish, and very optimistic. Which makes it even more enjoyable.

And I just have to say that the bottle is so beautiful! Usually I'm not crazy about bottles, but this one makes me want to play with it like a little girl.

I prefer this to the original which is like dark cherry cough mixture - just cannot get past the synthetic type smell.
The couture version is fizzy bright raspberry drink.
I really like this one. Even though i wouldnt have thought of this to be a 'Guerlain' type fragrance, it is quite light hearted and fun scent.

I did try a sample of this a week ago. It's very nice!I already got La Petite Robe Noire Eau de Toilette and love it but this time i'm going for this one too because its too nice. this is how i felt:)

Much more powdery than the original PRB. The raspberry note adds some kick to the opening, and the dry down is just heavenly. The original PRB is the best, but this is not bad for a flanker.

I'm on the fence about this one. I find it is pretty much la petit robe noire but a little less sweet, this one is almost sourish I think. I have a feeling this new perfumer at Guerlain is riding the popular coattails of it's predecessor. It kind of smells good but you have to wait a while before that sweet/sour smell tones down a tad.

I wanted to like this, it sounded like something I would like, but the longevity was just too poor for me.

This perfume reminds me of Miss Dior (new version). This was a blind buy and I am so chuffed. If you like Le vie est Belle, Flowerbomb and Miss Dior, you will love this. The first spray is very fruity, but the dry down is just beautiful. On my skin, this has just the right amount of sweetness, raspberry and patchouli that I just hope that this is not a limited edition. My first Guerlain fragrance and I am hooked.

First notes are sickly sweet, literally. Raspberry overdose! However, after 2 hours scent is really OK, mildly sweet, feminine and tempting.
Piece of advice: spray it at least one hour before leaving home, to make sure no one would be bothered by its sweetness.

I just tried a sample of this today. It's very delicious to begin with then smells quite a bit like Paul Smith Women on me. That's ok, but was unexpected as I used to use that as more of a casual scent and I imagined LPRN Couture would be something more elegant. I prefer La Petite Robe Noire Eau de Toilette but would happily wear this if a bottle magically appeared in front of me. It's a clean, softly fruity smell on me with a bit of spiciness.

Interestingly enough, I don't get raspberries, the cherry liquor is still there. But it isn't so resinous anymore. This is a fruity scent, with a warm base...the other versions didn't work so well for me, Couture to my nose is an improvement, it is brighter, lighter, and real soapy to my nose for some reason..in a way it is like a fruit cocktail with soapy undertones.
Just glad to add it to my collection, although it won't be in my favorites, as it retains the Guerlain vibe real strongly..
Still quite an interesting perfume!

It is amazing I loved it but it is light

Original LPRN was little bit too much for me. I like it, but not love it. Too much cherry an licorice for me. It was also little bit too overpowering for me. But this Couture... it was a love at the first sniff! Much softer and gentler. Flowery fruity cocktail with woody base. Longevity is moderate. Perfect soft fragrance for spring & summer.

If you smelled the original LPRN and you liked the scent but found it a little overpowering or heavy, this will be perfect for you.

The change in the scent is barely noticed but that atomic explosion of scent that the original EDP produced is tamed. This version is even lighter than the EDT but not necessarily weak!

The reduction of power has simply turned LPRN from a roaring fragrance that projects heavily into a more intimate and reserved version that has still a very long lasting power.

Even though I am not a huge fan of this new one, It's a smart marketing move from Guerlain, trying to get this perfume line to an even wider range of customers!

@antonopan ( review bellow ) absolutely perfectly said , couture keeps the Same character as the original . This one is easy to wear its softer Its sweet but less powdery and the cherry has been replaces with raspberry yet I still find it smells a little of cherry but no liquereish ,its a really nice perfume and definitely geared towards the younger crowd as a daily wear rather than a elegant couture as I expected. I do like it and I may add it to my collection although it is rather sweet it is well made and I like how the raspberries and the woods mingle around the center rose.
Update , can still smell the test strip this morning and I sprayed it yesterday at noon. Good lasting power.

The new Couture version is still close to the regular Eau de parfum, but for some of you the difference will become significant. Couture is like a younger, more linear and brighter version of LPRN. The cherries replacement to raspberries is not really evident, the scent has retained its soul. However, it has simultaneously become more sour and less creamy/powdery in the base. As a result, the Couture is better visible, though less elegant and versatile.

Note to self: launches nationwide (USA) in Sephora in February/March. So excited to smell this new version!

EDIT: HOLY SUGAR, BATMAN!!!
This is sooo sweet. Like, "crush some over-ripened berries, add in a bag of sugar, and why not add in more sugar for good measure" kind of sweet! Then, those berries kind of sour on your wrist. Like maybe your darling cat came along and peed on them and they sat out in the sun for a day.

Okay, it's not that bad... It's something I'd expect my 10-year old sister to like. I surely wouldn't pay what they're asking for this measly body spray. Sorry, Guerlain. I love you! I love Shalimar Initial, but this was a bad move.

No cherries, no licorice, they used raspberries instead ! but I am wondering how Tonka bean will smell here ..
I am so interested to try this !

Mmmm, just love the notes, I wonder what kind of a surprise this particular bottle unveils! I definitely want it!

Waiting to try some of this in Brazil!!! But it takes too much time to bring it here!! Guerlain open a store in São Paulo! Please! We love you!

About the scent? I can't say anything without trying... but it looks austere...


I am sure it is going to rock...


And YES!!!I am a fanboy of Guerlain and I am not afraid to show it!
Don't like? Sue me!!

I WANT IT!!!I LOVE LA PETITE ROBE NOIR IN ANY FLANKER AND CONCENTRATION, IT´S A MASTERPIECE IN PERFUMERY:)