Les Belles de Ricci

In case it's helpful to anyone else who was as obsessed with Les Belles de Ricci as I was (wore it for 16 years!), here are the perfumes I've bought that have close similarities.... Listya Tomata by Brocard - It has the greenness, freshness acidity and fruitiness, but with a different floral note (love it) In Love Again by YSL - Has some of the same freshness and notes, but is less tangy and more sweet. Very wearable (love it!) Hedonist Cassis by Viktoria Minya - Very sharp blackcurrant that gives a similar (more extreme and less sweet) acidity that really reminds me of Les Belles. (love it!) Grain de Folie by Gres - This is Les Belles, but with added vanilla. On first spray I thought I'd found the holy grail, but sadly the dry down made it unbearable for me because I hate vanilla in perfume. :)

After reading the comment below , i was very excited to rush straight to "royalstore.com" . . .8 euros - Bargain i thought , as this perfume is now very expensive on Uk ebay , and isnt avail anywhere else. Royalstore.com DOES look like a legit shop and i quickly clicked on the "designer perfumes sale" tab , grinning with happiness that a btl of Les Belles will soon be mine .....But Alas , my happiness is ruined .....The perfume sale page has no ACTUAL perfume for sale , in fact it is just a page full of links to well known perfume sale sites. . . . . Advertising nonsense and a waste of bandwidth IMO I wonder if this is one of those "affiliate" schemes and people who get the links out there get 0.0001p for every click recieved. NOT amused!!!

I finally got to do a side by side test with my old bottle of Les Belles Liberty Fizz and Herbae L'Occitane en Provence. They’re really quite similar despite having such different notes! Herbae is a bit more syrupy but along with Brocard Tomato and Blackcurrant, Herbae is as close to Les Belles as you can get. Herbae is obviously way more expensive but it is much stronger than the Brocard one and lasts much longer. For a cheap and easy to find perfume that has a bit of a Liberty Fizz vibe it’s also worth checking out Elizabeth Arden’s Green Tea Pomegranate :)

GOOD NEWS FANS !!! A new dupe house called Jubilee Fragrances - UK based , are doing this !!! I've ordered it and I'm so happy I could cry. Acceptable dupe that has brought me great joy..... I can't say if it's identical cos I ain't got the OG to compare. ...It brought back a flood of emotion/nostalgia/happiness/memories. This has been my frag Unicorn for YEARS!! They are also doing Boudoir and many many other much loved and missed vintages!!! Oh I nearly forgot. Their prices are v reasonable!! Not from the company - Just a VERY HAPPY frag head!!!

I have a small mini of this cute perfume! I gotta say it was a mistake to discontinue Les Belles :( I hope one day it can be rereleased even if it's in a different bottle! Les Belles reminds me of a green Caterpillar in a garden full of greens and fruits! Fresh tomato plants, mint leaves, sweet berries and some flowers growing near the vegetable fruit garden! When the notes all come together it's like a mint and sweet fruit tea on a warm sunny day :) very happy and unique scent! Please NR bring this one back!

I absolutely LOVED this back in the day when it was released .It VERY hard to find now. The Blue and Yellow bottled versions are much easier to come by. Some say its "Sour" , IT does not suit everyone. But i agree with the lady 3 places above - Yes - Fruity but not sickly sweet fruitiness's . Many of today's sweet scents are too cloying on a hot day. This scent is very refreshing , i love the unusual notes of tomato/mint/cucumber. Can anyone recommend anything that smells similar to this please ?

If you are thinking of getting the Jubilee dupe, get the sample first. I regretfully bought a big bottle, and although a little reminiscent of Les Belles on first spritz, on my skin it dried down to a very cloying perfume smell within seconds. I’m not getting any of the Les Belles notes like tomato or raspberry. Very disappointing. Hopefully it’s a skin chemistry thing and you all have better luck with it.

I wore this as a teenager. My family used to go on holiday to Scotland each year and this scent became associated with those holidays. So this is a nostalgic and emotional scent for me and I’d love to smell this again. I remember it being a lovely green fruity scent. Wasn’t a cheap teen scent at all. I think I’d def still enjoy this now and it would transport me back to happy memories of the past.

Cult of the Liberty Fizz crew , listen up! On the home page now Is an article about Naf Nafs new perfume set. Looks very inspired by this 90s Nina set. The green one is called MAGIC FIZZ and even has tomato leaf!! I'm hoping it's going to be a dupe. The other bottles in this new collection are similar to the other 90s Nina's too..... OMG please let MAGIC FIZZ be a dupe please !!!!

I miss this fragrance so much. I am yet to find a dupe for the perfume, however the brand Skandinavisk, make a range of products called Fjord, which smell remarkably similar. They make a candle, body wash, hand wash etc. There is no tomato in Fjord but It's the closest I have smelled to Les Belles. Please Nina Ricci. Bring back this iconic fragrance.

I had this as a teen and wish it was still available. I've just bought a sample of the Jubilee scents version and it's the closest I've got to the original, it doesn't have the initial 'fizziness' of the original but I find the longer I wear it the more it smells like the original, so I'll be getting a larger bottle.

Fizzy, fruity, green, fresh and invigorating. I love this a lot. Perfect for summer. And perfect for all ages. I particularly love the tomato leaf scent of it that's wrapped in a citrus raspberry sherbet cloud. Just gorgeous. Jubilee scents in the UK do a wonderful dupe which I have stocked up on.

This was my favourite perfume in the 90s and I really wish they had not discontinued it. I have bought old bottles off eBay but they have gone very vinegary due to shelf life. Please bring this back Nina Ricci!

I wore this as a 16 year old in the 90’s and I loved it. I remember it being a sweet, fun and quirky scent. I support all the other comments saying bring it back. I just want this back in my collection.

I wrote to United Colors and Prestige Perfumes, asking them to to consider bringing back Liberty Fizz. Just on the off chance!

I loved so much this fragance when i was younger ! It was very pleasant. Unfortunately, no way to find it now... Very sad.

Please please PLEASE if there’s anybody who can and who is reading this: Bring this masterpiece back 😔

Try Bella if you like this. It's wonderful and very reminiscent.

please nina ricci do it again!!!!!!

For anyone looking for a potential "dupe", I have a suggestion. I used to wear this ALL the time when I was 16 back in 1996. My scent tastes moved in a very different direction over the years and I admit I've not given it much thought since then. Today I received a sample of Musc Amarante by L'Atelier Parfumeur which I ordered because I was intrigued by its description of having earthy beetroot notes. Well, I sprayed it on me and it has an initially very prominent earth note indeed. but lurking behind it was something very familiar. I couldn't put my finger on it but I new it absolutely reminded me of my teenage years and a scent I used to wear all the time. I know it is a beetroot note however once I thought about it as I kept smelling it, a sweet tomato scent that was "green" was what was emerging to me. So I searched for perfumes with a tomato note and low and behold, a picture of that neon green bottle and hot pink lid was staring back at me halfway down the page. BAM! The memories of that perfume and my 16 year old self came flooding back to me. The memory of Les Belles De Ricci was exactly what I was smelling under the earthiness. Unfortunately I have only my own, fallible memory telling me it is so as I cannot smell Les Belles to compare, but I urge anyone to seek out Musc Amarante and see if they agree. Now, it's no total dupe because of the earthy, damp note - and some people may hate that - but I think it's worth looking into. L'Artisan parfumeur will send you two samples from their site for the cost of shipping (£5.50) if you are in the UK, or I have also seen them in Harrods Beauty stores. Not sure where else you can sample their stuff.