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La Vie Est Belle(2012)
Lancome ยท Dominique Ropion ยท Floral
At a glance
Created by Dominique Ropion for Lancome, La Vie Est Belle opens on blackcurrant and pear, moves through a heart of iris, jasmine, and orange blossom, and closes on praline, vanilla, patchouli, and tonka bean. Its dense, gourmand-iris structure, combining a powdery iris with a sweet, almost edible praline-vanilla base, became one of the best-selling feminine fragrances of the 2010s, its optimistic title, meaning Life Is Beautiful, matching an equally uplifting, universally appealing olfactory profile.
Did you know?
This scent's vanilla note relies on vanillin, the compound that made vanilla affordable worldwide โ first synthesized in 1874.
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