C`est La Vie Christian Lacroix for women

I have a huge 200 ml testerbottle of this, if anyone is interested, let me know.

I don't know why the I Have It button doesn't work from my Black Berry device.so I have it now.found 2 more bottles in the shop.do you recommand I purchase em too?

I just bought this on ebay after not having it for at least 15 years. I remembered how much I loved it in my 20s and began wearing it in my search for my own signature fragrance. I was surprised to find that I don't like it as much as I used to. It seems dated now and doesn't smell as exciting to me as it once did. It actually smells like a fragrance for a more mature person, and I'm so surprised that I liked it so much in my 20's. My best friend used to wear LouLou. I wonder if I wouldn't like that as much now either.

note: I recently decided that I thought this smells like Oscar de la Renta's Oscar. I checked and they share at least 9 notes so they are very similar. But I think this might smell slightly more youthful.

this one reminds me of a dated 80's perfume. very acrid at first, then the mix of old time flowers and spice. dry down is much better, the bouquet is much lighter and powdery, with an amber/spice finish. a good perfume for cold weather. a small amount is enough and lasting power is very good on me. not a favorite, but a comfort scent at times.

i really miss this one. I had it 15 years ago and did i love it!!!!

Truly beautiful scent; so rich, warm & romantic. Pefcet for night.

I love Lacroix designs, so colorful!, so I thought I would love his perfume, but it doesn't smell like an Oriental bouquet to me at all. It is fruity, I don't even get the oriental floral or spice on the dry down, just fruit! I like the bottle, so it just sits on my shelf with all my other perfumes. I did not find anything wonderful for magical about it, and I did try, I tried really hard to like it.

WONDERFUL taste you have Passionata!

I wanted to try it for a long time and had a feeling it has to be good.
What can i say! I am totally in love with this one! it is very different from C`est La Fete which i also love, but totally got me falling for this!
This is such a classy smell, that makes my soul sing! Quite sweet, a bit powderly, i think i will work best on windy autumn or spring days and evenings and best for frosty winter days. Yes, definitly best during winter days and evening which a re filled with snow!
Dress up to nines, put your best jewerly on and spoil yourself with this beautiful fragrance on an evening out in the restaurant or at the theatre!
C`est La Vie! C´est ma vie!!
I also use it as a bed time fragrance: just a small dap behind my ears gives me very sweet dreams :)

MMMMMM C'est la Vie. I have to say I LOVE it. Let me tell you, there are major bidding wars for this fragrance e on EBAY, and snyping is about the only way you can get it half way at a decent price. It definitely tends to be high end. Watch carefully if you take the EBAY route because some vendors will show a full bottle for the auction, but in their description, hidden in the various parts of the description, they will have something such as ' bottle only' or at the very end will have something like, ' this 1.5 oz bottle that is 1/4 full'. REALLY GOTTA WATCH THE WORDING.. Also, the shipping can be really misleading.

With that said, I have to say that it is a truly beautiful scent that is an almost EXACT scent/ smell as Apres L'Ondee by Guerlain but with less of the cedar/ woody edge. It has that beautiful sweetness ( but not sugary) scent of 'After the Rain' as in the translation for Apres L'Ondee.
I have worn this several times and I love it on me, and others have complimented me on my C'est la vie. For me I love to almost bath in it. Could get really expensive though... especially since you can hardly get any FULL bottles in the auctions.

LLC COmmon Scents, however which is an online designer replication of 'Designer Scents' has it to the TEE!!!!! Can't tell the difference, and I have both versions. LLC Common Scents, which also lists themselves as 'PURE SCENTS' will reformulate any perfumes if they get enough people requesting them.

I would say that the heliotrope and carnation are the elements that tend to draw me, even thought I can't detect them 'literally'... such as 'Oh, that's carnation, and Heliotrope'. I admit, that I tend to gravitate to scents with those elements.... as well as a couple others.

Yes, Go for C'est la vie. If you can get it at a good price go for it. Just know that I'll be trolling the sites along with you, as well as buying by the full ounce from Common Scents.
C'est la vie.... I wouldn't call it a LIGHT scent, I would call it a WINDY scent... gentle, yet active.

Very nice scent for calm winter days where you want to appreciate rich and heady notes in front of the fire...

The intial spritz is loud and perfumey and takes you back to the 90`s...heavy blusher and red luscious lips come to mind...

After an hour or so, the scent settles down into a very pleasant floral mix which is uncommon and certainly keeps your attention till the very end; settling down beautifully with woody and musky notes

Big Thumbs up...!

I can not say a good thing about this frag unfortunately! Try it to see! That decade produced some beauties, but this is just like high quality soap.

High quality, but just smells like soap!

I bought a sample of Parfums MDCI - Enlevement au Serail and it reminds me alot of Cést la vie as i remember it from the early nineties.

I see this was released in 1990 but it screams "big 80's scent" to me.

It starts out with the iris, spice and orange blossom, jasmine, white flowers dominant.

The next stage patch, musk, and cedar give it a very earthy tone that ends out smelling like dirt to me.

The last element to appear is the strong, almost bitter, incense note.

To me this is all flash, no substance. It it loud and in your face. It definitely lacks finesse. If you like big & bawdy, this is the one for you.

This used to be my signature, prior to the time Cassini was later on. I only now understand how unbelievably complex this perfume is, when I was younger I thought, how happy! Cest la Vie! Now I know it is only for mature and confident women! It must have had some impact in my earlier years, as I used to spray very generously with it!!
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I had this a long time ago.Nice perfume little bit strong though. I wore it in the evenings

Where Spellbound failed, this one was able to make the complex concept work!
I do NOT agree with Turin on this one.
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I have an EDT and EDP miniature of it. The EDT is sharp and alcohol-y at first then shortly settles into a distinct sandalwood and pineapple combo. Soon enough, the scene gets busier with lots more of soapy jasmine and earthy, mossy patchouli being the most dominant notes.

The drydown is floral - woody and fruity, especially in the EDT where I can pick out a strawberry then peach not one after another from the sheer and almost transparent woods. The EDP is softer, deeper and the fruits are somewhat lost.

C'est la Vie isn't sweet but oh, it's so comforting. A lovely, vintage style comfort scent, essentially for automn.

Nice, old style scent. But well done and long lasting. It surrounds you but is not overwhelming, sweet but not nasty. And the bottle.. a beautiful bottle! It doesn't matter what's inside. But what's inside is as good as outside. Aldehydes are on the background to my happiness.

When I look at the notes, I understand why I couldn't get a grip on this perfume. I use to wear this as a young girl. It has so many ingredients, the scent is always changing when you wear it to. It starts light and fruity but oh my, don't let the opening fool you! How this changes into a smell for people who dare! To bad I can't find it anywhere.

I really loved this perfume.C´est la Vie was an excellent perfume,but i can´t find it anywhere.Does someone knows where i can find it?Why don´t they keep making it if everyone loved it.

This is one fantastic perfume! I fell in love with this fragrance straight away. To me it's the sexiest fragrance i've come across ever. Whenever I put on some of the precious remainders that I kept I get a lot of compliments on it! Since it's been discontinued does anyone have a hint on something quite like it? Any ideas? Please shoot!

This is fruity floral in the old-school sense: big and busy, for mature audiences only. Nothing like the fresh, innocent J'adore or Envy Me; not like the dangerous gourmand meets patchouli Angel, either.

Somehow the name and bottle design seem too breezy for the scent, but on second thought, this was probably a playful blend to the late-80's, early-90's nose. The floral notes merge in that hard-to-identify-mixed-bouquet-with-roses way that I associate with the 80's. These flowers lie on candied base that smells like the necklaces you could eat while wearing by tugging the elastic to your chin.

Very intense and lingering fragrance. Delicious on your skin. The essential feminity. Sensuality at its peak.

One of my favorites... too bad it has been discontinued. Does anybody know where i can find it besides the miniatures?

I was surprised to find I really like C'est La Vie! It's a big brassy power fragrance from 1990, and is similar in character to other '80's powerhouses like Lou Lou and Exclamation (though it doesn't smell like those).

Those fruity berry notes are prominent upon application, and I'm not nuts about them, but they burn off quickly to a floral woody amber that lingers for hours. C'est La Vie is warm, feminine and sexy. This is a great fragrance for dates and evenings out, though I may apply a discrete amount for office wear, too.

If it were being introduced today, it would sink like a stone. Not enough fruit. Not enough sweetness.

For appreciators of all types of fragrances besides Floral Fruity, it's a beautiful anachronism in a joyful box, and worth seeking out.

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