Third tier of the line opened in 2012, La Vie est Belle L'Elixir Very Cherry extends the 2024 L'Elixir by trading its raspberry for a black cherry. Antoine Maisondieu and Christophe Raynaud keep violet leaf at the heart and place oud at the base. Lancôme presents it as its first woody cherry.
La Vie est Belle silhouette reinterpreted by glass designer Suzanne Dalton: black cherry gradient, glittered wings, engraved crystal smile.
The bottle is signed by Suzanne Dalton, glass designer, already the author of the one for L'Elixir in 2024. Very Cherry is a variation on it rather than a new object: the silhouette of La Vie est Belle, its cut lines and full curves, remains recognizable at first glance.
What changes lies in the color and the detail. The glass comes in a black cherry gradient, dense at the bottom and lightening toward the top. The wings crowning the cap are glittered. The crystal smile, the line's emblem since 2012, is engraved into the glass rather than applied — Dalton presents this point as a tactile choice, the object meant to be recognized by hand as much as by eye.
Four sizes are announced: ten, thirty, fifty and one hundred milliliters. On a line as populated as La Vie est Belle, where the bottle shape practically never changes from one variation to the next, it is the tint of the glass that serves as a marker on the shelf.