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CHEZ PIERRE

My Life

My Life

Inspired by La vie est belle, Lancôme

50 ml glass bottle (Eau de Parfum)

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Inspired by: La vie est belle, Lancôme
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PRODUCT DETAILS

My Life comes as a 50 ml eau de parfum, built at roughly 20% fragrance oil. It costs €25, our price for every fragrance in the range, which keeps it affordable enough to wear every day. Free shipping applies from €49, and delivery runs 2 to 5 working days.

La Vie Est Belle is sold as an eau de parfum, so My Life keeps that same concentration rather than a lighter eau de toilette. It reads intense from the first spray without tipping into an extrait de parfum.

Longevity runs 5 to 10 hours. Handmade in small batches, vegan and never tested on animals, like all our fragrances. Fifteen days to swap My Life for something else if it does not suit you.

NOTES

Top notes

Pear, blackcurrant

Heart notes

Iris, jasmine, orange blossom

Base notes

Praline, vanilla, patchouli, tonka bean

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

My Life is our perfume dupe of La Vie Est Belle by Lancôme, made for women who love a scent that reads sweet and elegant rather than loud. It opens on pear and blackcurrant, the middle notes bring iris, jasmine and orange blossom, and it finishes on praline, vanilla, patchouli and tonka bean.

The iris and praline together are what most people notice first, a powdery floral wrapped in something closer to dessert than perfume. It stays fresh for the first stretch after you spray it, then the base warms up and the fragrance sits closer to the skin, so a single application carries you from morning into evening.

If you are comparing Lancôme fragrance dupe options, this one works as a clone in the plain sense of the word: same accord, same structure, built so it smells like the original rather than gesturing at it. It is our alternative to a bottle plenty of people already know by heart, and among our perfume dupes it is one of the most straightforward matches.

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Perfume concentration

EDT, EDP or EXDP - what you are actually buying

The difference between these labels is not quality but how much perfume oil sits in the bottle. That decides how long the scent stays on your skin and how far it travels.

EDT Eau de Toilette 5 to 15% perfume oil

The lightest of the three. It opens fresh and fast, but fades after three to five hours. Pleasant in heat and at the office, as long as you top it up during the day.

Our choiceEDP Eau de Parfum ~20% perfume oil

The middle ground that became the standard. It lasts six to eight hours, one spray in the morning is enough, and the scent stays recognisable into the evening without filling the room.

EXDP Extrait de Parfum 20 to 40% perfume oil

The densest form, worn in drops, and it can last over ten hours. In return it loses that easy opening, and the price per bottle climbs the most.

Why we chose EDP

Every Chez Pierre perfume is made in Eau de Parfum concentration, with 20% perfume oil. That is not by accident.

An eau de toilette would mean carrying the bottle with you and refreshing the scent after lunch. An extrait would push the price up, and only someone counting hours would notice the gain. EDP sits exactly in between: one spray in the morning carries the whole working day, and the scent opens and develops instead of settling on the skin at once.

So we don't make lighter and pricier versions of the same scent. We make one, in the concentration where that scent works best.

How a perfume is measured

Longevity, projection and sillage

Three things describe every perfume, whatever the price or the name on the bottle. Once you separate them, it is easier to say what you actually want from a scent.

01

Longevity

How many hours the scent stays on skin

Measured from the moment you spray to the moment you can no longer smell it up close. It depends on the concentration, but also on your skin: on dry skin every perfume lasts less, so a dab of unscented cream before spraying helps.

02

Projection

How far it travels around you

Strongest in the first hour, it tells you how much space the scent takes up. Big projection is great for evenings and colder days, while at the office or in a meeting it usually gets in the way more than it helps.

03

Sillage

The trail you leave behind

Pronounced „see-yazh“, it means the trail a scent leaves behind you. It is the reason someone turns around as you pass. A perfume can last a long time and still leave a small trail, and the other way round.

Strong is not the same as good. A perfume with huge projection quickly tires both you and the people around you, while one without any trail stays your own private thing.

That is why every one of our perfume descriptions says how it wears, not only how it smells.

CHOOSE YOUR LIFESYLE

My Life

Inspired by: La vie est belle, Lancôme

My Life suits spring and summer best, when the fruity opening and powdery florals have room to breathe, though the praline and vanilla base keeps it wearable through winter too. One spray in the morning is usually enough to carry a full working day. It is one of the sweeter fragrances in the range.

It is built as a feminine fragrance for her rather than a unisex one, and that is how it is worn most of the time, though some men layer it under something more masculine for an evening. Daytime errands or a night out, it works either way, since the sweetness never turns heavy.

Choose our Inspiration

Lancôme is a French luxury house, and La Vie Est Belle launched in 2012 as its most recognised fragrance, the scent that set off a whole wave of iris and praline perfumes after it.

Most people just say La Vie Est Belle rather than reaching for the Lancôme name, and that shorthand is what anyone searching for a dupe similar to the original types in. Read a review of any iris and praline release since and the original tends to be the yardstick it gets measured against, whether the release is a designer or niche fragrance.

My Life is our take on that idea, built to sit close to the original while staying our own blend.

Why choose us?

My Life is our alternative to Lancôme's La Vie Est Belle, our own blend filled by hand in small batches rather than mass produced.

We keep it strictly as an eau de parfum, because that concentration is where this kind of sweet, powdery composition lasts best, and where the praline accord stays put instead of thinning out by lunchtime. If it is not similar enough to what you remember, send it back within 15 days and we will exchange it.