La Vie Est Belle Vanille Nude was released in 2025, in the thirteenth year of a line launched in 2012. Lancôme presents it as its first musky vanilla: a grandiflorum jasmine absolute from the Domaine de la Rose, a bourbon vanilla from Madagascar and an overdose of white musk. Anne Flipo and Dominique Ropion signed the formula.
Two women reviewers judge the gourmand promise half kept: the jasmine dominates, the vanilla stays discreet and the trail holds close to the body.
Olfastory’s review
Samantha Scriven, I Scent You A Day, August 2025
The reviewer finds the gourmand register absent and speaks of a fragrance of sunshine and flowers. She recognizes the white-flower signature of Anne Flipo and notes that solar notes remain a fantasy category, with no settled formula.
She says she gets along with this chapter better than with the 2012 original, whose praline, pear and blackcurrant had driven her away.
Pauuulette, July 2026
The blogger keeps a successful bottle, a fragrance that lasts and a development in several phases faithful to the line. Above all she notes a gap with the marketing copy: the result strikes her as markedly less gourmand than announced.
She adds that the fragrance stays close to the body, which may disappoint anyone after a trail, and recommends it to those who like warm, woody and vanillic compositions.