C’est La Vie

8 reseñas

Mostrando las más recientes primero.

• lilimarily

  October 5, 2012

  

  Wow, I love it and I want it back; it’s formidable. Let it return so I can enjoy it again; it’s very fine and long-lasting.

• Casablanca77

  February 8, 2018

  

  C’est La Vie by Lacroix is a killer perfume for sensitive noses… I say this because my first encounter was when I was a child, my sister gave it to me and I couldn’t stand it. I liked it for the bottle, which looked like a heart ripped straight out with the cap simulating an artery and lungs; that frankness promised one hundred per cent of what you smelled. I’ve never heard anything with so much power and criminality. It had aldehydes in the opening that could kill a bull in a second… if you could withstand the neroli, which was a real NEROLI, it would give you a shake that left your neck stiff for two days. With great courage, because with less than 12 years old I could take the pull and then, after two hours or more, an absolute magic arrived that mixed everything and lasted days. Just thinking that sometimes I went to school with it and my family allowed me to makes me laugh hysterically. If you can, try it; I had its pendant as a gift and it never went off. A perfume with a lot of imprint and character.

• charlotinable

  April 20, 2020

  

  I gave it to my mum a decade ago; it’s a treasure and the best I’ve heard. It lasted hours and hours. What a pity it’s no longer sold. The bottle is a work of fine art and very original.

• Merxox

  August 16, 2020

  

  Unforgettable…

• locadelosperfumes

  November 1, 2021

  

  My mum used to wear it in the 80s. I couldn’t stand it. It was too strong and invasive. I don’t think I would buy it today.

• locadelosperfumes

  November 4, 2021

  

  My mum used to wear it in the eighties. I couldn’t stand it; it was too strong and invasive. I don’t think I would buy it these days.

• Selene

  September 20, 2022

  

  A beautiful mess. C’est la Vie is the most extravagant, loud and capricious thing I’ve seen from the 90s. If we were at school, I’d wear it with girls of striking style who sported unique accessories that no one else dared to use, yet looked perfect on them thanks to their strong personalities. Olfactorily, it goes hand in hand with voluptuous contemporaries like Tresor, Escada or Amarige, sharing that opulence and the era’s new fruity-floral concept. It has great affinity with Red Door; at times it reminds me of Maroussia. It is a loud, honeyed floral, although in Lacroix there is a high intervention of fruits. It’s like a ‘pretty’ aromatic mess because there is a constant struggle to stand out among neroli, orange blossom, a mauve iris, carnation and ylang (who dared to put these notes almost at the same level and together?!). It’s as if each note wanted to go through its olfactory door first without being able to do so orderly, heading off to the fight. They add fruits like peach, raspberry and pineapple doing the same. I must not forget the musk and amber which, to grab a bit of attention, have to stride over everything. It reminds me of the models wearing Lacroix designs in the early 90s with vibrant overlapping colours, several layers of fabric and eye-catching details that couldn’t go unnoticed; I imagine she tried to put that into her perfumes. It’s a shambles, but it suits her, it’s showy and goes with her. The notes are of good quality and the longevity and sillage are phenomenal; I think that ‘opulent mess’ tries to rebel with the personality of the scent. The dry-down is calmer, the notes after so much fighting get tired and make up, the fragrance seems more ordered. I love it. It’s not ultra-original, but it’s subversive enough to please me.

• Miperfumegatuno

  September 6, 2024

  

  It is pure eccentricity in the form of a perfume.