La Vie est Belle L'Éclat L'Eau de Toilette
L'Éclat opens with a brisk citrus clarity—grapefruit and bergamot sharpened by pink pepper's bright rasp.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 4 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Iris65
- Patchouli30
- Marine25
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Neroli
- Jasmine
- Orange Blossom
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readL'Éclat opens with a brisk citrus clarity—grapefruit and bergamot sharpened by pink pepper's bright rasp. It's immediate and transparent, a deliberate lightening of the original La Vie est Belle's sweeter weight. The neroli and orange blossom arrive quickly, diffusing into a soft white-floral haze that never grows heavy or indolic.
The iris here is whispered rather than stated, lending a pale powderiness that blends seamlessly with clean musk and ambroxan. Patchouli appears only as a faint woody undertone, stripped of earthiness. The result feels airy and modern, closer to a cologne than a traditional eau de parfum.
This is the flanker for those who found the original too honeyed or pronounced. It suits warm weather and anyone looking for something recognizably floral but uncommitted to depth or longevity. Uncomplicated, pleasant, and gone by afternoon.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
