Lancome La Vie est Belle Soleil Cristal is an elegant, warm fragrance that features notes of pink pepper, mandarin orange, bergamot, ylang, iris, orange blossom, jasmine, coconut, vanilla and patchouli.
Created by Olivier Polge, Dominique Ropion and Anne Flipo, La Vie est Belle Soleil Cristal was launched in 2021. The original, created in 2012, consistently ranks in the top five best-selling fragrances. The story behind the creation of La Vie est Belle is that it took three years and 5,000 versions before they created this absolutely gorgeous fragrance.
"La vie est belle" is a French expression that means "life is beautiful". The fragrance is the first ever iris gourmand that is made with the most precious natural ingredients and is a modern interpretation of an oriental fragrance with a twist of gourmand. Lancome calls it "the fragrance of joyful femininity and happiness. The fragrance that makes life more beautiful."
Fragrantica: "This is a stunning coconut suntan-lotion fragrance. If you want a beachy coconut - this is it!! This is salty, sandy, naked skin lathered in coconut."
Fragrantica: "Soleil Cristal in the dry down focuses more on its tropical aspects with the coconut dampening the intensity of the sweetness."
Fragrantica: "Soleil Cristal is a much less sweet fragrance in this range, and the coconut is a timid note done beautifully here...Just enough of citrus to make the opening bright, the coconut is soft, yet inviting."
After reading the olfactory notes and reviews on the internet, I was sure I'd love this fragrance. I found it to be a much heavier cloying scent than described. My nose was picking up super sweet amber and honey, which neither are listed as notes. It is very sweet. Must be my skin chemistry and my nose. I'm so thankful for Surrender To Chance for offering samples so we don't have to purchase a FB and find out it just wasn't the one for me.
Could any perfume be more beautiful? If I ever get married again, this is the perfume I am going to wear. So incredibly beautiful.
After reading the olfactory notes and reviews on the internet, I was sure I'd love this fragrance. I found it to be a much heavier cloying scent than described. My nose was picking up super sweet amber and honey, which neither are listed as notes. It is very sweet. Must be my skin chemistry and my nose. I'm so thankful for Surrender To Chance for offering samples so we don't have to purchase a FB and find out it just wasn't the one for me.
Could any perfume be more beautiful? If I ever get married again, this is the perfume I am going to wear. So incredibly beautiful.
