View RSS Feed  Riding the Thermals  La Vie Est Belle by Lancome:
Review  Rate this Entry  I am not fundamentally against sweet,
mass-marketed fragrances. I am a huge fan of Sugar Lychee by
Fresh, and though I'm not sure I would ever want to wear it, I
am delighted by the crimson raspberry Jello scent of Escada's
Cherry In The Air. That said, I still think that if you're gonna
do a synthetic gourmand-floral fragrance, you should be mindful
of any bitter chemical "aftertaste" that could send the whole
composition down the tubes.  Even though I could smell it from
across the room before I opened the bottle, I had high hopes for
this one. For clarity's sake, I do not get sidetracked by
bottles or titles when writing fragrance reviews and do my best
to concentrate only on the juice itself, but in this instance,
the bottle and the name were both begging the question: Is this
in fact, what makes life beautiful? If not THE thing, then at
least one of the things?  La Vie Est Belle by Lancome has a very
sweet, ambiguou