La Vie Est Belle Intensement

Mostly sweet and creamy, like vanilla pod or custard. Underneath that, soft and dusty, somewhere between face powder and clean laundry.

It opens on raspberry, pink pepper and bergamot, moves through heliotrope, jasmine sambac and orange blossom, and settles on vanilla, iris and benzoin.

• raspberry: tart red fruit, jammy with a slightly fuzzy edge
• pink pepper: light rosy pepper that sparkles rather than burns

It lasts well and carries into a room.

Built from the note listing and the measured performance figures. We have not smelled this one.