What We Do In Paris Is Secret
A Lab on Fire (2012)

What we do in Paris is…. visit patisseries! Or at least, I do. And the one this perfume conjures has lots of vanilla and almond (the heliotrope) treats, rather than the more daring stuff. Still, no mind, it's sweet and oozy, has baby powder comforts and will probably get you a lick from a friendly dog. Lazy, hazy and with a nice rise to it, it won't smother you with its affections like some perfumes with gourmand notes can do. Maybe that's because of the mauve floral notes or the gauzy woods and resins in the base. Whatever, this is fit to wear in civilised company.

What We Do in Paris is Secret is a very 'thick' gourmand perfume; it is probably the 'thickest' perfume I've ever worn. The thickness almost feels palpable and I feel like I'm enveloped in a dense cloud when wearing this. It also opens insanely sweet, however the sweetness thankfully settles down after a few minutes and gives way to the heliotrope, which as others have said, has a pastry-like smell. I love heliotrope but feel this is a bit much. It feels like the perfume is wearing me. I think it's a good fragrance though so giving a thumbs up.

If you want a less sweet and gourmand version, try Messy Sexy Just Rolled out of Bed, formerly known as Mon Musc a Moi, also composed by Ropion.

Nice. A delectable, smoked-honey gourmand with sort of a heliotrope-vanilla pastry note (the Paris of the name, I guess). It's easy to wear, and kind of sensual and sexy.
It has a nice lingering drydown, at least seven hours, in the same vein as the rest of the fragrance, growing more subtle as it ages.
On cooler days, the honey gourmand is really nice. It's warm and embracing. On warm days it can be cloying. So it's more of a winter fragrance.
At its best, in the right temperatures, this is an appealing fleshy fragrance, kind of voluptuous in the way that honey can be voluptuous.

On paper it smells rather powdery. Not much nuance

I don't find this to be anything exciting really, but it's pleasant and well done. Pretty standard honey rose over vanilla amber. The heliotrope never jumps out at me, but the dry down is a bit special because I can catch that tolu balsam and it saves the base from being generic. I like the amount of powder--soft and fuzzy in the warm and cool. It's a delicate balance, there at the end, enough for me to give a thumbs up solely on the action after the two hour mark. At three hours the rose and honey have retreated and the heliotrope and vanilla nudge into the foreground. It still has a fair bit of projection at this point as well and feels pretty edible.

If this keeps up I'll have to go edit out my first sentence, because this much progression to something this nice and lasting actually is pretty exciting.

I like this one, and I can see why some people are saying it smells a bit like pastry in their reviews – we have a fabulous bakery near where we live and they make the most divine Danishes, and it's a bit like that lovely waft I get when I open the bakery bag: warm, flaky almondy pastry and vanilla. Straight after putting this on, I get the litchi and rose, then after an hour or so the honey, vanilla and almond start to drift up. Yummy. The down side is that after barely more than three hours wear, it's already starting to fade. For the price per bottle of this, I'd want it to last a lot longer as it's definitely one you'd need to re-apply during the day.

UPDATE: I thought this had disappeared, but actually it's obviously one of those scents that you fail to register after a while, even when you sniff and sniff as hard as you can. All afternoon and evening I've been getting lovely wafts of this, and when I asked my husband what he thought, he really liked it - he said it was a bit sweet close up, but just sitting next to me, he said he could smell it and it was lovely. It's now 9:30pm, so it's lasted a good 10 hours, so I have to up the longevity rating to great.