La Vie Est Belle L'Eau de Toilette

I love heavy,sweet perfumes,sillage monsters and I'm a lancome girl.I adore this brand so imagine how sad I was because of not being able to love lancome la vie est Belle edp,one of the most popular and famous lancomes all through world I think fruit notes ruin it for me.or maybe it's patchouli which I find a tad dirty and combination of this heavy patchouli,praline and sharp fruity notes bothers me,I don't have it but while I used it's sample,I received couple of negative comments.my husband said it's too much and my mom said your perfume makes me choke Finding intense version was a pleasure.it's among my most favorite perfumes and I see it as a far cousin of original.there is a similar gene but there's also lots of differences.you may love the intense version whether you love the edp or hate it But edt has a different story.I tried edt by mistake.actually I was looking for florale version.when I sprayed it on paper I thought it's the original and when I saw that it's a flanker I was shocked it hooked me with it's sweet nuttyness and never developed to something bothering.I tried it a couple of times on my wrist and I thought this is original's sister.so similar and just a slight difference.guess what.this slight difference lets me enjoy it.I looove lancome la vie edt! As I said similarities are too much.if you hate original la vie I don't think you may love this one but if you loved the idea of original but you hated some part of it,make sure to give this one a chance.if you own and love edp you won't need this one.unless you love nutty gourmands There's no fruit notes here and instead of fruity notes there's a light touch of florals here.edt has patchouli but not as heavy and dirty as edp.spun sugar and nutty notes are more dominant here,it seems to be dryer,more powdery and I can smell toasted hazelnut and almond blended with sugar and praline.I believe this one is more gourmand while the edp is sharper,more juicy fruity and heavier.after an hour or two it dries down to a subtle sweet scent of Tonka/vanilla,florals and a touch of sugary almond.not as dense and burnt sugary as initial hour.warm and sensual.an elegant,mature gourmand If you like nutty gourmands with a burnt sugar undertone you may love edt version I think edt is the less heavy,less scratchy sister It's still very sweet and potent.I can't even think of wearing it in hot days so I can't name it a summer version of original by any means Although they're so similar that most people think I'm wearing edp while smelling it on me,there was no negative comments.my mom told me isn't it that perfume of you that suffocated me?!it's strange it seems better now and it's delicious! I ordered a 50ml bottle as a Christmas gift for myself and I'm happy to have it.I love both edt and intense and I think I have enough la vie sisters now.albeit I'm going to try florale on my skin,I really wish I don't love it as I love these too[poor broken perfume addict:(] Edt has very good Longevity on my skin +10 hours and heavy sillage.progection is great it may seem less heavy because of it's balance ❤❤❤❤❤

This perfume is a delight to wear. Pure delight in a bottle. Of late I have been on the hunt for rare to find perfumes, and when I found a second hand bottle of this at a throwaway price, I didn't even think twice before blind buying it. I had previously tried the OG on paper and smelled it enough to know that I love the LVEB DNA. The moment I sprayed it on my skin, I knew we would have something special, this perfume and I. The magnolia and iris lend freshness to this, while the spun sugar makes it almost airy, and the praline grounds it. I think iris and praline is a combination I have fallen for hook, line and sinker. This is LVEB turned down several notches, so that the original DNA is merely a hum in the background. The added spun sugar is what shines and shimmers in the foreground. You know how if you place spun sugar on your tongue you can feel it melt? This perfume brings to my mind precisely that feeling. It is sugary wispiness, organza ribbons, chiffon blouses and sparkling water. It is a sensation more than a scent. This is a gourmand that is not cloying, not heavy or intense in any sense. This is just simple and breezy. But this is no way faint. It might be a delicate scent but it is definitely tenacious. On one of the hottest days of summer, this lasted on me for a whole day, and I felt like I was floating on a cloud. I can't say about projection because I stay at home most of the time and can't really tell if others can smell me but I don't really care because this makes me so so happy. I am contemplating stashing a back up bottle away while I can still find it, because I know I will use up this bottle of mine very soon!

Well, I for one am thoroughly fed up with all the LVEB flankers and discontinuations. It almost makes you not want to fall in love with a new perfume for fear of not being able to get hold of it when you run out, or pay extortionate prices if you are lucky enough to find a single remaining bottle of your favourite juice. This EdT version and the original 'Intense' (not the new 'Intensement') are by my favourites from the LVEB range. They are also the only ones to contain nutty notes out of all of the flankers, and I do love a bit of nuttiness! As soon as I heard that the EdT was discontinued I bought myself a back up bottle from an online retailer... now that that bottle is running low I've been looking around and do you think I can find it... anywhere??! Search for La Vie Est Belle L'Eau de Toilette (or Eau de Toilette, or EdT) and you'll find 'L'Eclat' (who knew there are two versions of that one now?!), 'En Rose', even 'Florale', but the original EdT? Nowhere to be found. So, if anybody has a bottle that they no longer want, please get in touch. Sorry this has turned into a rant rather than a review. Suffice to say, I love this perfume and wish it had never been discontinued. It's the perfume I reach for the most and is just a perfect blend of floral and gourmand notes that'll make you smell delicious!

I finally found my LVEB❤ I've been feeling an irresistible pull towards them for years, to those beautiful, sparkling, magical looking bottles and the delectably sweet scent. Almost every time I smelled it in public I'd get so jealous, why can't LVEB work for me? The original is nice from afar and sprayed very sparingly but it's just an overpowering sharp synthetic mess up close, I can't wear it. Intense is gorgeous and more of my type, more deep and nutty, but still a little too loud and overpowering. L'Eclat I like a lot but it's not me. But this one is perfection, to me it smells something like LVEB Intense EDT, it has the deep nuttiness that I love in Intense mixed with spun sugar and praline and a sprinkling of makeup-y iris. But unlike Intense it's light and fluffy and easy to wear, but still performs wonderfully and leaves fabric smelling like iris and praline for days. I also find it to be the sexiest LVEB, it's so decadent and feels more intimate than the rest, like you're subtly pulling someone into your world. Ugh I'm trying to resist wearing it every single day, I don't ever wanna run out of it.

I can't believe I fell in love with this one so quickly. Since I had the edp and hated it on my skin, I got rid of it and never thought I would buy any flanker. But I received this in an exchange, so I tried it. Wow. LVEB Eau de Toilette has indeed the DNA of its loud mother, but it is the cute, elegant, and sophisticated daughter every mother wants. Yes, it is sweet. But I swear to you I've been wearing it non stop during this hot spring, and instead of finding it suffocating, I use it like a way to indulge and compliment myself during the hot days that I hate so much. At the beginning it is almondy and floral. It stays that way for a long time, until the spun sugar and the iris take protagonism, leading the senses to a divine experience. It is a soft floral gourmand, so beautiful, I can't explain it. I sincerely don't get any patchouli. Perhaps that's why I love it, since the edp is pure sweet patchouli bomb in my skin. It has quickly become my favorite, and my signature. This is the best LVEB from them all. This is the Lancome masterpiece everyone wants.