Beautiful Belle

First off, I love the clear glass bottle. This fragrance, to me, is more than just a Beautiful flanker. While it has some of the 'Beautiful' factor going for it, it stands alone as a modern but at the same retro/vintage perfume. For you to not only appreciate this fragrance, much less love it, you have to be into florals. This is a floral bomb. At the same time, it's a subtle scent and not a bomb-bomb either. The opening notes are fresh and citrusy with orange blossom and mimosa. The yellow floral aspects come through first within the first couple of minutes. A bright, sunny yellow flower-forward scent. It evokes the image of a park in the middle of a city (as in Central Park; but any city park) in the warm summertime under the trees of yellow flowers. It has distinctive green notes and herbal nuances. I suppose the green stuff I detect are the shrubs and leaves of both the orange blossom and the gardenia. The white florals gradually open up but later in the performance. Then it's no longer yellow floral but a real sweet white floral character: gardenia and tuberose. This is the finest but yet subtlest non-offensive pairing of two of the most aggressive florals that are otherwise bombs for your nose; gardenia and tuberose. These are shy white florals; dainty and sweet, lady like, elegant. The rose also adds to the sweetness. The litchi is most obvious as the fragrance begins to get into the dry down. It's a delicious fruit, almost tropical, with a tangy nearly pineapple like flavor. But it is straight up litchi. The marzipan is the one note I cant pick up on. If others can, that's them. To me the litchi is the real sweet factor of this scent. It brings the whole thing together into a atypical feminine perfume. It is mature-hearted; meaning a woman in her 20's can pull it off. But it is more for a woman over 30 or over 40 and up that has an attachment to florals. The perfume is classy and expensive smelling. Because it is so floral and sweet, it is better in the spring and summer months. At times, too, it gives of that powdery cosmetic, for women only - make up, perfume, woman at her toilette type of vibe. This perfume is an all purpose scent. That means it can be formal for weddings or other formal events to be worn with a pretty gown or dress; lunch with the girls, shopping, going about your day and smelling good kind of perfume. It's just a feel good woman's perfume. Downside: the scent does not last very long. While it is strong enough to be smelled in all it's glory and all it's facets, the dry down comes too soon and the whole thing is gone in less than one or two hours which is not long enough to really enjoy it as a traditional perfume. It could have lasted longer and had better projection. One needs to reapply many times through the day to really enjoy it. This is also very much a department store perfume; meaning that it is not a specific boutique smell i.e. Chanel, Dior, but the kind you definitely get at a Macy's or Sephoras. I bought mine at the JFK airport Duty Free Shop. I did not have a good experience with the sales lady that sold it to me. She was the only one working there that day and had an attitude. I was in the section where you have past the security checkpoints and you wait for your flight before boarding and she was still suspicious about me; like I was going to steal some perfume. Maybe others have stolen perfume from that shop in the past; but she was not supposed to ask for my boarding pass like I didn't have it. How did I get there if I didn't have it for God's sake. I also did not like that she asked where I was heading to like it was none of my business. She must not like her job at all. But the experience with the perfume itself was wonderful. It is a gorgeous perfume. I did blind buy it. There was no way of smelling it on a blotter but it was a happy and successful blind buy. I recommend this fragrance to fans of florals; particularly yellow and or white florals, and fans of sweet womanly mature scents. I also was quite hooked when I read the reviews here on Fragrantica as I looked at my phone before I bought it; particularly the ones that described this scent as evocative of Disney princesses Aurora and Belle. I think this is more Belle, not Aurora. Aurora (Sleeping Beauty) would be more rose-centered. She was Briar Rose and she sleeps with a rose over her folded hands during her sleeping spell. The fragrance would smell more 'pink'. This one is yellow and creates the image of Belle in the yellow ball gown she wears to dance with Beast. At the same time it is calm and soothing, garden-like, giving off the Belle in the French countryside or in a garden vibe. This is just so beautiful. Thank you Fragrantica for getting me interested in it.

Hello from Deco Dawn, I hope everyone has enjoyed the Summer and is looking forward to Christmas 2018. This is my review of the 'New' Estee Lauder Fragrance Autumn 2018 Beautiful Belle. I tested this at the airport in October and I loved it. I now own 2 small 4ml bottles as I like to trial all new launches and tiny bottles are ideal for my Xmas party handbag. Review A lot of thought has gone into the marketing & design. Lovely packaging. White box with Gold Edging. Looks very classy. Bottle is a glass square with etched design on front with gold accents to spray and lid. 30ml is handbag friendly, larger bottles 50ml and 100ml are perfect to adorn any ladies dressing table. Price ranges £52, £72, £99. Upon first spray Belle reminds me of two Classic Estee Lauder classic fragrances, 'Tuberose Gardenia' and 'Intuition'. Product is made of high quality ingredients. Belle is a combination of the two fragrances. Kind word of warning to potential buyers Belle does not resemble the original Beautiful at all, in any of its previous incarnations. So test before blind buying is advisable. I would class this fragrance as a Floriental. White floral explosion opening, fresh and flowery, the heart of the fragrance is Tuberose & Gardenia and with a Musky, sensual & sexy Drydown. Aerin Lauder is the creative Director. Romantic but modern, stays very close to the skin, radiates within arms length. I would use this fragrance during the daytime as very polite, inoffensive & office friendly. Very long lasting 8 hrs plus. Classy, sophisticated and smells very expensive. Very Estee Lauder. An ideal gift and perfect for the lady in your life. Age range IMHO due to the price tag classy ladies that lunch who can afford it. This fragrance will be a huge success, purchase and buy the Blockbuster make up set for Christmas 2018. Don't just try it buy it. I love it. A big thumbs up from Deco Dawn. xx

I don't have any experience with the original Belle, so I don't have any attachments or bias in that regard. All I know is that I love heady tuberose and sweet white florals; and I am drawn to scents that combine them with a musky or woody base, which usually increases the lasting power on me. So in that regard, I really do enjoy this fragrance. The first tuberose-heavy scent I acquired this year is the Gucci Bloom EDP and Beautiful Belle by Estee Lauder reminds me of that scent, at least in regards to how it reacts to my body chemistry. On my skin (particularly my neck and chest), Beautiful Belle and Gucci Bloom are near duplicates. I can really pick up that woodsy-tuberose combo that vacillates between sweet floral and deep floral. They both have an intense sillage that can really engulf a small area and leave a trail. But when I smell Beautiful Belle on a note card or the skin on back of my hand (which reacts differently than the skin on my neck, for some reason)...Estee Lauder reminds me more of Woman by Ralph Lauren. Ralph Lauren Woman is a bit more feminine, a bit more girlish and the same can be true of Beautiful Belle, depending on how your skin reacts to it and how it emphasizes certain notes. If that marzipan is emphasized for you and highlights the creamy sweetness of tuberose and gardenia in the middle notes, it is going to be candied and perform as if a perfumer added some citrus-floral notes to Pink Sugar by Aquolina. So it all comes down to how this reacts to your skin, which is true of all perfumes. Based on my experience, it will either perform as a girlishly sweet floral with a slight depth, or a deep and heady floral that skates the fine line between classic and overly mature. The latter is what I get and I actually love that. So this perfume is a win for me.

Love this so much! Gifted myself a full bottle for my 30th birthday as a transition scent. My husband called it “sexy grandma” because it does have some maturity to it after all the vanilla heavy gourmand younger scents I’ve worn. But it’s not “old” by any means. My little daughter loves it too! She breathes it in deeply and always says how good it is! Awesome lasting power. On clothes I can still smell it the next day. It’s different then my previous fragrances and that’s exactly what I wanted for a transitional scent. It’s not for wintertime. I love gardenias but usually not in my perfumes...however - this one changed my mind! As a huge lychee lover, I love the juicy lychee opening. Then the beautiful white florals come through. And the dry down is so unique with that creamy “white chocolatey” marzipan but then it’s balanced and matured with the suede note! Similar to leather but different. It bugged me at first until I realized what it was and then I really enjoyed it. Funny enough I was wearing my suede shoes when I realized what that note was too. It just all makes sense together and works well with the tuberose. It performs so good on a hot day. Makes me feel beautiful and happy. There is a real romance happening with this one. The feeling of being in love and feeling good in your own skin. And the feeling of being surrounded by white flowers on a beautiful sunny day. That’s the picture that comes to mind when I smell this one. Definitely a good wedding choice too.

My mother’s garden was a riot of colours and fragrances, with jasmines and frangipani and roses and tuberoses all vying for attention. In a quiet corner, quite by itself, grew a gardenia plant. For the rest of the year it didn’t really play a contributing role, but come spring, it burst into blooms, perfuming the air itself with its heady scent. On spring evenings, particularly after an unexpected bout of rain, those gardenia blooms seemed to glisten and sparkle, spreading their fragrance all around. Beautiful Belle captures the essence of those gardenia scented spring evenings to perfection. The first whiff is just as heady as the real deal, and as it settles down, it becomes softer, quieter and less persistent, but still very much, well, beautiful. This is a walk on dew soaked grass, bare feet, in a white dress and hair let down, feeling the breeze caress your skin. I don’t get much of the other notes (what marzipan? What litchi? Where is the rose?) Instead all I get is a harmonious gardenia through and through - dulcet and creamy. Wearing this tonight as a sort of “palate cleanser” from the heavily gourmand perfumes I have been testing, and loving the soft white cloud that seems to be following me everywhere I go.

I love this. I love it so much that it may become my signature scent and I have not had one of those in a long time... not since the older formulation of Coco Chanel. When oakmoss was outlawed it ruined coco for me. Anyway why do I love this? It’s a light sweet gardenia tuberose scent, with a unique marzipan twist. I am a white floral lover so I think that’s also why I’m partial to this. It has like a tangy zippy sweetness. It doesn’t last terribly long - especially not for the money - I would say 4-6 hrs. But I love the scent so much I bought a full bottle anyway. This doesn’t really remind me of the original beautiful at all. I worked for Lauder when the original Beautiful was launched and I never really liked it. I just felt overwhelmed by the rose in it. And then there was a weird sour base. It just wasn’t for me. This fragrance, this is for me. EDIT: By the way, I’m NOT OLD. I’m really tired of people labeling perfumes as old people scents. And even if I were old, I wouldn’t care. When I smell this I get a sense of happiness and euphoria.

I think this is one of the most body chemistry reliant scents I own, and I'm beyond glad it works for mine. On some people, this scent can be extremely generic where the marzipan doesn't really shine, and the tuberose really takes over and bo can happen. On me, the mimosa absolutely shoots out of me before it becomes a sweet and creamy gardenia musk scent with a touch of nutty sweetness. I find beautiful magnolia works on nearly everyone,but often smells a bit generic (lovely though) where as this one has a habit of smelling amazing or awful on people. Og beautiful on me.....like trying to fit size 12 feet in size 4 shoes. Definitely worth a sample before you settle on a bottle! I think this scent can work all year, due to its dual fresh and sweet nature. It's a unconventional Christmas scent given the marzipan and general sweet almond smell. It's also a wonderful spring scent from the blossoming florals that make up the other half of the scent. Will this be a signiture scent for me? time will tell

I recently ordered this perfume after finishing my mini sample one. I have been looking for a signature everyday easy to wear perfume for a long time now. I have my L’interdit and Donna Born in Roma type scents, and while I love them, I find that I don’t reach for them on a daily basis. I tend to wear those kind of fragrances more in the evening or on a date night or going out. Beautiful Belle is supposed to be sweet, and it is, but I actually smell something slightly bitter in it, and it offsets the sweetness. I can imagine the most gorgeous white blooms in a garden on a sunny day. It has almond like powdery dry down and at times I smell more suede. I retried this recently in the winter and has fallen in love with it. I love white florals, and most recent designer scents do not seem to delve into that profile. This one is a great modern white floral! The projection is mild to moderate, but you can still smell it around a bit. It’s becoming a favorite so far.

Beautiful Belle by Estee Lauder 💫 There are not many reviews about her on blogs but I decided to blind buy her going through the notes; and I was safe. 😌 What shall I say about this timeless beauty? She’s white floral goodness mixed with musk and powder blend and little bit of sweetness that is very distinctive for me. This one totally reminds me of Belle in “Beauty and the beast” with her yellow vintage dress and dancing in the ballroom; flowing like an ethereal angel with the gentle music with the lightness of her heart; just being happy! For my surprise this lasted me for a long time on skin and on my clothes too for good 8-10 hours which I honestly didn’t expect with the mild sillage this has. * Longevity: long lasting * Sillage: mild to moderate (depends on the number of sprays) For me this was such a vintage vibe with the bottle itself and the dried down notes of musk and suede really captivated the floral notes beautifully!

The opening of Beautiful Belle is a blast of florals and delicious marzipan, ambery depth and orris. Setteling down it reveals an airy freshness that keeps this fragrance from feeling too heavy. It's a bright, sweet and cheerful scent. To me it's a yellow orange in color, in case that makes sense to you. In these qualities it reminds me a lot of Lalique Soleil. Some of the notes are quite the same, but there's also differences. Soleil, both in the opening and drydown, is a bit stronger on the gourmand aspects, where Beautiful Belle remains slightly more elegant. The packaging and bottle are both beautiful and I got Beautiful Belle at an affordable price, so that's another plus. Since it's so similar to Soleil in some regards, I'd probably just decide for one of both in the future.

“I’m busy, I’m capable, I’m beautiful, and I have a little bit of a sense of humor. I have work to do, so the fragrance will do the talking.” Everything you’re supposed to love in a white floral, a gourmand, and a leather is here. Yes, all of them. It’s strategic and it’s harmonized. Rose petals greet with elegance. Mimosa is frisky and fun. Gardenia and tuberose are serious about kindness. Marzipan sets flexible boundaries and suede reveals a dry, soft leather snap, which both uphold a protective rigor. Orris root is down to earth like a sofa with cushions that are firm enough yet soft enough. One would almost guess there’s a hint of oud and magnolia if this composition weren’t so clean and fresh. Good posture yields rewards.

I think the review that says this is similar to Gucci Bloom is fascinating. On me the marzipan really stands out. I have a problem wearing Gucci Bloom because there is an animalic note in it that my skin amplifies. It’s not attractive. I agree with the review about Belle probably being really sweet on some people. I think it’s like that for me and I love it. I believe the tuberose saves it from being like the cotton candy of pink sugar for me. I think it is a great point that this probably isn’t a safe blind buy. Also on my skin I don’t get any suede whatsoever so yes this is a try before you buy because other people seem to get the suede and that’s not for everyone.

Beautiful Belle Estée Lauder (Store test) Estee take on recent white floral fragrance trends. However, I quite appreciates the route stée Lauder take. Powdery woodiness in this much reminds me of more older fragrance. Even the creaminess of white floral in this is sort of new, modern. But it counterbalances with Leathery, Powdery Samsara kind of powderiness. I think that is property that Beaituful Belle offers. I think, if you wanna hop on the recent white floral trends. But you have sniff quite amount of fragrance. You can easily choose Beautiful belle. (to be consider add in collection) 8.5/10

This is a masterpiece from Esteé Lauder. I used to wear the original Beautiful, but I find that more iconic, vintage perfume. However Beautiful Belle is a light, sophisticated, modern floral scent. I find it very classy as well. I bought it a couple days ago but captured my heart already. After I bought, I went in to my favorite restaurant’s bar, and in a couple minutes later a couple came to me and asked what I’m wearing.... 10 minutes later a girl sat next to me and asked me.... In an hour a guy.... Wooooow.... COMPLIMENT MAGNET!!!! I guess I found a new signature.

I wore the original Beautiful back in the 1980s and it’s a beast of a fragrance. It will clear a room if oversprayed. Beautiful Belle is a departure from that but lovely in its own right. I love mimosa and gardenia so this is a winner for me. So elegant and fresh. The marzipan is not overdone and the musk and suede are subtle as well. It only lasts about an hour on me. I smile every time I spray it, though. It’s so pretty and mood-boosting.

Edit: After wearing this for about a week, I've determined that it's a favorite of mine. A really energizing and well blended fragrance. Very pleasant and light fragrance! The opening is very dewy and sweet like a ripened fruit mixed with morning roses. I got a sample of this and am considering purchasing at least a decant because this seems like a nice, office-appropriate scent that's not too daring or risky.

I love the updated fragrance very much! It’s very floral and fresh. Just the right amount of lychee, can’t stand too much lychee, it kills my nose. Not really detecting any marzipan but lots of Tuberose and other white florals orange blossom? It is Devine! Think I’ll have to spring for a small bottle. So cheerful and sweet and actually has pretty good longevity!

I’m shocked at how much I love this. Fresh, bright, juicy, smooth. I definitely get the juicy pop of lychee and then plunging face first into a freshly picked pile of white flowers, stems and leaves and all. Then there is a bite of gourmand sweet and the sumptuous caress of expensive new leather. I get vibes of Alien, Chloe, White Suede, Hypnotic Poison.

One of my favourite . I love how elegant, floral but little bit creamy. Not like flower garden but a bouqet of yellow and white flowers. Mimosa and gardenia smells very strong to me. Ok call me crazy but this parfume reminds me of Rare Gold by Avon. Of course its not same scent but it is like very light, dried down-rare gold.

This perfume is perfect year-round, specifically for the daytime. It is fresh, complex, clean, refined, and exciting, but never overwhelming. I mostly notice lychee and jasmine from this scent. This is my safe scent when I don't know what to wear. Lot of compliments when I wear this one.