La Vie Est Belle Soleil Cristal
The opening fizzes with pink pepper and bergamot, a citrus spark that quickly softens into something warmer and more enveloping.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Vanilla65
- Floral65
- Citrus55
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Coconut
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Orange Blossom
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening fizzes with pink pepper and bergamot, a citrus spark that quickly softens into something warmer and more enveloping. This is the brighter, sun-drenched sibling in the La Vie Est Belle family, built around a prominent coconut accord that reads more tropical vacation than gourmand excess. The heart layers white florals—jasmine, ylang-ylang, orange blossom—over that creamy coconut base, creating a floral sunscreen effect that somehow avoids cliché through sheer technical polish.
As it dries down, vanilla and a whisper of patchouli anchor the sweetness without turning heavy. The iris from the original formula appears faintly, lending a touch of powdery elegance to what might otherwise feel too casual. It's unabashedly feel-good, designed for warm weather and uncomplicated pleasure. This wears best on those who want something cheerful and legible, a fragrance that announces good mood rather than quiet complexity.
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.
