La Vie Est Belle X Atelier Paulin 2019
Pear and black-currant create a juicy, slightly tart opening that feels almost candied before jasmine and orange blossom add creamy white-petal weight, their lactonic edge amplifying the fruit’s sweetness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Woody50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Black Currant
- Jasmine
- Orange Blossom
- Iris
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readPear and black-currant create a juicy, slightly tart opening that feels almost candied before jasmine and orange blossom add creamy white-petal weight, their lactonic edge amplifying the fruit’s sweetness. Iris slips in early, dusting the florals with cool, talc-like powder that keeps the sugar from tipping into syrup. In the base, tonka and vanilla form a warm, almond-hued fondant while patchouli provides a bittersweet cocoa facet; together they swallow the fruits and flowers, turning the whole structure into a praline-shelled confection that stays close to skin. Projection hovers at arm’s length for six hours, making it office-safe yet unmistakably gourmand, happiest in cool fall weather when the air can tame the sugar rush.
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.
