Belle en Rykiel Sonia Rykiel for women

This is so good for the price, so much better than most of feminine ones out there. Even I say it can be prettily unisex cause I get it near to "l'instant de Guerlain eau extreme".
It scent sugary, candy, coffee, incense, waxy, powdery and floral in a light luxurious way. It has cosmetic smell over a floral hint on gourmand coffee incensy mainstream.
It's oriental, modern, young and winter scent.

The more I were the more I love it!

Great for winter!

Belle is wandering around L'Instant ambery base in warmer seasons; and turns VERY powdery and dusty like L'Instant Magique in winter. While I enjoy the latter mostly on others, I don't mind smelling this Belle powder-powder on myself.
Pls note that top notes here are very deceptive, that's why I didn't buy it 5 years ago: what I initially had fallen for, was gone from my wrist in 2 minutes. But in 2012 I thought the scent is kinda pretty and cozy anyway, wouldn't hurt having it D.

Really strong opening that I dont really like, very wearable heart and base, the coffee is really creamy but I will have a hard time finding events and occasions to wear this... (changed..)
The bottle is classy and modern, a little difficult to put the lid on though.
While wearing it I find it very nice but as said, strong topnote and probably therefor quite good sillage !!!
I am surprized how it turned out better on my skin than I thought.
I can see myself wear this mysterious coffee scent at
evenings. Just keep still til the harsh top notes have faded then you´ve got yourself a wonderful and creamy and a bit different coffescent !
Its actually quite NICE - I am keeping it!

It's very aromatic, warm and heavy (for those who described this as light/delicate, are we really reviewing the same fragrance?) but not yet masculine in my opinion. The first notes were too harsh and even quite acrid for my throat, with strong lavender (which I'm not a fan of, since it mostly remindes me of moth repellent sachets). Unfortunately, I couidn't smell any coffee later on, and I developed a hell of a headache after testing this.
So, give it a try if you like bold, daring and aromatic fragrances, but stay away from it if you're prone to perfume induced headaches.

Lavender, vanilla, woods and incense, very soft and comforting. I find it a bit similar with SL Fourreau Noir, but FN is stronger, more masculine and lacks the fluffy, sweet softness that Belle en Rylien owns. I love and own both of these scents and I like them for different reasons, but I find myself reaching for Belle en Ryliel far more often than Fourreau Noir. BeR in so much easier to wear and I find it perfect bedtime scent, especially when I'm feeling anxious or sad. This perfume makes me feel better on those nights, but it's not just a comfort scent. It has an interesting dark twist that makes it suitable for nights out too.

not my type, and it would fit into oriental vanilla category more. Quite sweet on my skin, vanilla, vanilla and sugar sweetness. A bit of lavender, which I don't like a lot in fragrances either. And there are no spices even it is called oriental spicy. Longevity is quite poor as well.

Consider this: Belle de Rykiel is the contemporary Jicky. It has lavender and vanilla, yes, but so do many other perfumes that seem nothing at all like Guerlain’s Jicky. Jicky backs up its lavender/vanilla food elements with civet and a hint of coumarin, taking it a half step out of the realm of dessert. (I’ve never seen Jicky as a fougère. It feels like an oriental to me.) Belle adds a somewhat disparate combo of heliotrope, amber, incense and anise to side-step the gourmand trap and keep the lavendar/vanilla accord the focus from top to bottom. Although is it crisp where Jicky grows warm, Belle does wind up with a sweetness that makes its drydown come closer to gourmand than Jicky, though not by a lot.

I neither like the notes or how they are mixed, both on paper and on skin. The warm and cool all-at-once thing smells like some kid took a couple of mommie's perfumes from her dressing table and dumped them together. To be more specific, a splash of some cheap cliche aquatic scent- typical synthetic note, and a couple of splashes of some drugstore vanilla-ish tonka-ish warm fairly sweet amber/musk blob with a vague hint of something that is not coffee but is claiming to be. Not harmonious or artful, not at all good. Another disappointment from Rykel. The bottle is cool. I'm finding that her scents are polarizing - some I find not even wearable, and others- at least one other- I love.
Up for swap this one goes!

Smells very similar to Betsy Johnson- Betsy Johnson perfume and Midnight Rain from LaPraire.
Its ok and sweet, even though it is a Oriental Spicy(!)
Cant smell the spice at all.
Just a scent that i get tired of very quickly.

has something similar to Prada - Prada

Reminds me very much (during the middle stage) of "Angel." Funny though, I do not like Angel at all, because I seem to get a cotton candy/pine needle scent off of it. But Belle Rykiel has something similar to it, like it is what Angel SHOULD have been, but wasn't. YUM, YUM, YUM!

Light, creamy, sweet, cool, warm and fresh all at the same time. However, the lavender, though very well-blended, makes it something not for me. I just don't enjoy lavender.

WOW! I bought this blind, based on reviews. I am usually a die hard fan of overpowering perfumes, and at first this seemed a bit light. But I got hooked, and it grew on me fast. I found that this had a HUGE price drop since it was released, from about 85 dollars, down to under 30 dollars. That gives me the sinking feeling it will soon be discontinued. I am also severely obsessive complulsive. So I ran out and purchased nine bottles of this wonderful juice online. It now joins the family of my seven Dior Addicts, seven Dior Hypnotic Poisons and seven Crystal Noirs. They will keep me company for the next few years....and hopefully I can stop sniffing stuff, or I will end up needing to open my own store, lol.

Very similar to Rochas Men :(

I have fallen in love with Belle en Rykiel xoxoxo.I must admit I didn't like it at first but second wear was the charm. I've gotten so many compliments on it today making me love it more plus it last all day long...

Very well done! Oriental-lite, for those hopelessly addicted orientalists who want something less buxom and voluptious but aren't overly eager to step out of their comfort zone.

On my skin it opens with a mouthwatering tart citrus powder with just a hint of coffee, and gradually turns to a very inviting and delicate scent, with cedar at its core, just enough of vanilla and patch to fill it out and a tad of incense to give it extra projection. Lavender is barely there and apparently it is what gives BeR its fresh vibe. Good for me, since I generally dislike lavender in perfumes (as much as I adore it fresh), and haven't yet found one which didn't have a barbershop feel to it.
Sillage is surprisingly good.

On my scale of things this is going to be placed in the Clean, Happy, Day-wear categories, and I'll be treating myself to a FB soon.

No-one should have to smell like this - on paper it sounds so nice, in reality stinks like a skunk. I keep trying to use it thinking maybe it's just me and I'm not giving it a chance. Problem is I have to wash it off within 10 minutes because I can't stand smelling so awful. Even after I wash it away the stench is still there like a bad boyfriend. Once I wore it all day and kept shrinking away from people when they looked like they wanted to say "you stink". Ughhh...

This is as much a spicy oriental as HD With Love...in other words, not at all.
This is a gourmand or possibly a vanilla oriental with enough incense tossed in to make it interesting.
The heliotrope makes it sweetly powdery with only a slight coffee tone, similar to sniffing a Nip hard candy.
I find nothing dated or masculine here, quite the opposite. It is a warmly comforting and very current scent perfect for cold weather and I plan to add a bottle to my collection as soon as possible.

Update: Heavy patchouli in the bottom...I still like it tho'.

It was not even on my test list, but a lovely member I did sample swap with added this as an extra. Surprisingly I started to love this from the first sniff, it's sophisticated, sexy, warm, cozy and very, very interesting. I don't get any fruity opening notes or lavander, on my skin it goes just right to the middle with wonderful spicy notes and my beloved coffee. Actually it even opened a little bit masculine at the beggining, but faded out fast.

It's very warm, sweet (but spicy, so no sickly sweet here).

I'm really surprised and thankful that I found this, because it is very beautiful.

I had the same experience with it as Nathaliez the 1st time! That time I thought, oh no, not me...

But the SECOND time I really fell in love really hard!! SUCH A SOPHISTICATION!!

Januda, you could not have explained this beauty better than you did!!
I also think I might just drink it!!!
:-)

I love this! There's something about this perfume that makes it pop in comparison to everything else I own. It's like dressing in neutral colors and then throwing on a teal scarf or another accent piece that just pops out. I can identify the lavender and the currants in the opening, which is a bit tangy. I can't identify individual notes after that, but it's all so delicious that if I didn't know better I would drink it.

I get top notes of red currant and lavender, which seem to be lasting much longer than I've experienced in other perfumes. In fact, I don't seem to be getting any of the other notes. This is also the first perfume where the lavender note does not smell masculine on me. I know from prior rounds of testing that eventually a warm, woody, ambery base emerges, but unfortunately the coffee note never appears, and in the end I am left feeling undecided.

Oh... how I adore this one!! I am most definitely a lover of the Oriental Spicy category! Together with this, XS Extreme girl the newly discovered Iceberg the Fragrance, all Oriental Spicy and all heavenly....

very, very pretty.

I let my 6 year old daughter sniff the bottle & she said "This smells like old lady." And I .. couldn't agree more. It doesn't smell bad. It's a classic: powedery, heavy, mature, & confident. Definitely not my type of perfume.

I love all SR's perfumes. I have a mini of this. And when I open the bottle I am in heaven.....mackie wrote that this scent reminded her of Angel. I love Angel too. To me Angel smell like heaven too. Angel lasts much longer, this one not so.

This is one of the most classy fragrances ever!! But it is quite strange for me how I discovered that fact!! In my first try out I thought, no not for me. But later in time, after reading Turin praising it, I tried it again. And THEN it showed it's true identity.... unvelievably polished.... I fell so much in love with it that I took it as my only perfume for a romantic weekend with my husband. I have a backup bottle on the way!!!
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What a toothache! My decision regarding purchase was premature - I relied solely on note description and have just sprayed my wrists this morning and the first 15 minutes the fragrance was sweety-fresh but now it is becoming cloying and overly sweet minute after minute. It is like eating sweet pancakes with jam, honey, maple syrup, whipped cream, icing sugar and marshmallows :-( all at the same time.
I am a gourmand fragrances freak, so you may think BER shouldn't bother my nose. But while Eg. Lolita Lempicka signature makes me go wild and I instantly crave to drink the content of the flacon, Belle En Rykiel makes my head go spinning and I have an immediate headache. I think it might be incense I cannot stand mixed with helioptrope. I also couldn't detect any red currant or coffee or in it, which is a great shame as I picked that perfume based on my love to these notes.
If you ask me whether or not to try it - I'd say by all means try it but have a jar of aspirin handy, just in case...
It is one of them either love it or hate it perfume.
Unfortunately, the latter describes my feelings best.

BELLE EN RYKIEL is a remarkably nice fragrance, given its apparent cacophony of notes. After the sledgehammer disaster of Comptoir Pacifique VANILLA MOKHA (the barista tripped, dousing my paper white blouse with cappuccino), BELLE EN RYKIEL is a welcome surprise, a fragrance which also features coffee but in an artful, thoughtful way.

It's somewhat difficult to believe that notes as seemingly discordant as lavender and coffee could manage to blend together so as to form an appealing perfume. But the lavender is light, and although the coffee is strong, it serves more as a spice than as the focus and is complemented by both incense and vanilla. The dominant note to my nose through the mid stage and the drydown is definitely patchouli.

I realize that all of this sounds like a mess, but somehow it's a wrist sniffer with good sillage and staying power. I wouldn't want to wear BELLE EN RYKIEL every day, but it's nice on occasion. Probably too heavy for hot weather, but good for winter, to lift the spirits. Could be the caffeine...

omg! this is nice!
very sweet and warm fragrance: i can detect nice lavender and coffee scent in the beginning, vanilla in the background and hints of the incense. It last quite long on me, but stays close to the skin. I would recommend it as a winter fragrance.

I just tried Estee Lauder's Youth Dew and hated it more than any other frag in the past 6 months; maybe tying with Mugler's Alien. To recover I showered and applied Belle. It's quiet almondy goodness is healing me.

One of THE most adorable coffee fragrances out there!!

I have a sample of this fragrance and i am still uncertain about it. In the beginning i smell nothing but incense and lilac and a little sweetness. it smells like an older womans fragrance for the first twenty minutes. And then later I smell the coffee in the drydown. Something similiar to a gingerbread latte. The drydown to me is the best part.

Wows.. Picked Belle just because I saw the bottle and realized that I haven't smelled any of Rykiel perfumes. Chossing one for test seems pretty difficult these days (lol).

So. Rykiel is often called knitwear queen. Her clothes look soft, funny and first of all- very cozy. That's why I expected something comforting and warm outta golden shaded bottle.

True, true- golden fits the scent very much. Note combo is absolutely amazing and unique - at first I thought it smelled pretty much like Mugler's Innocent. Sweet, kinda velvety and warm at the same time.
Time passed, scent developed- It still a bit sweet, you can actually spot coffee and a little bit of warm incense framed with mahogany and thrown in sour drop of berries. Every time you smell it, it surprises you.

Lasts long, sillage is good. I recommend this one if coffee in Trussardi is not much as desired.

Further search may include-
Trussardi Inside
Lacoste Pour Femme > both pretty similar, but PF more creamy and suede like.

I find it perfect for winter, dry, powdery, maybe a bit harsh and not the least sweet. Has nice sylage and lasts for hours on my skin.

I find very similar to Ambre Sultan. Is it just me...?

The similarities between Trussardi Inside and Belle en Rykiel are striking. They both start out sweet, tart and slightly woody then share exactly the same caramel-like heliotrope heart with a fairly syrupy coffee note - Belle en Rykiel is even sweeter, I have the impression of smelling pure wild honey.

Surprisingly, the drydown of Belle is powdery with a distinct woody touch - a creamy type of wood, cosy and nice but isn't natural - I think there's a fair amount of Iso E super or something similar lurking in there. Same for Inside by the way. The accord is a fairly common pathouli-vanilla combo a la Eau de Star and Neonatura Cocoon. Luckily the vanilla isn't overpowering, it's just balanced, too much of it often ruins oriental spicy compositons for me.

Belle en Rykiel has slightly more sillage as well than 'Inside', and maybe it's a touch fresher and fruitier. Otherwise it's difficult to tell them apart after a few hours of wear. How odd that both perfumes were created in the same year by two different noses.

What an interesting combination for the first notes--but not bad! I detect the lavender, and I can smell fruits in here, but I can't point them out. Ah, the middle notes. I definitely smell the incense. I tried to find the coffee, but to no avail! After a few minutes, it began to smell....watery? Perhaps it's the heliotrope that's doing this. The incense is still there....but slightly watered down. Then came the amber-patchouli-vanilla blend that I love. Unfortunately, I think the heliotrope ruined the rest of the fragrance for me. The end just had this soft "aquatic" feel to it that I didn't like. The woodsy note at the end (mahogany?) did give it a slight boost, but not enough. Sadly, this fragrance stopped smelling nice on my skin after the heliotrope gave it its one-two punch. May have to try this one again to see if it changes... For now it's as "Aaaahh, not so much" (or at least a "Thirds a charm" fragrance.)

to me, it smells awful!! really dissappoointing! it is very similiar to shalimar.

Very nice. I was leery of the lavender, but it is not apparent to my nose; rather, I get crisp, tart citrus to start and then some dry (non-sweet, as in wine) florals. Heliotrope here does not seem to have the same sweet, wistful character as it has in Apres l'Ondee, one of my favorites. Instead it is light and cool, over the very warm vanillic base. The vanilla is always apparent throughout the scent story, but it's not the ultrasweet cotton-candy variety. Instead, the coffee and incense notes, while not apparent on their own, draw out a dry, smoky quality that keeps the vanilla enjoyable. Patchouli is deep and smooth, blended well with the woods and amber in the base.

A delightful oriental scent. Having praised it, I now have to admit that I don't feel a need to buy it! When my Organza Indecence is gone, I'll probably pick up a bottle of Belle en Rykiel for the same warm mood.

what a surprise!this is not like any of other Rykiel fragrances I've ever tested.
it starts with very sweet notes,something like chocolate or caramel and coffee.there isn't any hint of citruses.it's like many of sweet fragrances that you know but are more famous than "belle en rykiel".
by the way I love the middle notes.it's less sweet and more sophisticated.the bad point is that it doesn't long last on skin and soon it goes to the base notes which is again sweet,but not the same sweetness of first notes.this time it's all about vanilla and amber.if you like the scent of amber you would like this kind of sweet warm smelling.I don't admire it.
by the way I don't consider this one a "spicy" perfume.it's all about sweetness in different smellings.

This one was a no for me.

I wanted to like it, truly I did. I love love love Sonja Rykiel (orange, t-shirt), but Belle en Rykiel reminds me of my grandmother's fave fragrance Royal Secret (1935).

I had to returned it.

Got my Belle en Rykiel finally! Only paid 14.99 for a 2.5 oz! This scent is nice and like I have said reminds me of a previous fragrance I used to wear.I do think that this has lasting power but this one is easy to overspray because it is gentle in the beginning and just when you don't think you have sprayed enough it creeps up on you and it smells darn good! It is a tad bit sweet but it is warm and musky and has a bit of coffee in the dry down! Very nice 5 stars Ms Rykiel!I will continue to purchase it is in my regular stash!

Smells alot like a cheap fragrance I used to have called 37 degrees by Karen Low and I liked that one and this reminds me of it. I always see this for a good price and I am going to get a bottle! And the bottle is cute too!I like a perfect square bottle it makes me feel like there is ALOT of perfume in it!

It's like brighly crystal in lavender cave. First, you are cold... lavender take you in one's arms, when you starting love this cold breath, kiss you spicy with amber and vanilla. It's cold fragrance with pleasant warm glow.
Persistance is great!

Pretty, but Belle en Rykiel is a bit of a disappointment. It's another one that looks amazing on paper, but on my skin, there's a brief "whoosh!" and the fruity top notes are gone right after application. Belle then becomes a sweet, spicy coffee that slowly dries down to a rich frankincense/vanilla base.

The persistance on this one is so-so, about 4-5 hours.

Nice, but I have other Oriental Spicy fragrances that I like better and which last longer on my skin. I have been testing this one and also the regular Sonia Rykiel for the last week or so. Belle en Rykiel suits my taste more, but is still in the "pretty, but not quite right for me" category.

I can hardly find any difference between this and sonia rykiel 'pullover'. Notes are quite different, but... Warm, a bit sugary and smokey scent, though not my cup of tea.

It is not quite like, but close to obsession. But not as complicated. Does smell rich and full..Warm...I can't say it's a favorite, but it's worth a try if you want something similar but less complicated and weaker than Obsession.

I enjoy this perfume a lot but it does remind me of Thierry's original perfume Angel at 1st sniff but, this perfume has more sophistication and it brings the other notes closer together compared to angel. The sweetness of this perfume when it's 1st sprayed is intense but it quickly dries down into a softer and much warmer scent.

On me the gentle scent of heliotrope and frankincense slightly emerges and mixes very well with the spicey red current, sweet fruit and a soft flowery smell. After a few hours have gone by I noticed a nice warm lingering smell of vanilla that seems to just top off this fragrance quite nicely like a cherry on top of a bowl of vanilla ice cream.

I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys a warm/sweet scent that you could wear in a casual settng or a romantic evening in.

Sweet, warm and deeply seductive, I love this spicy flavour. It is cool and strict smell due to the lavender in the top notes which further on leaves the foor to the delicious cappuchino and frankincense...Not the typical floral women's fragrance but attracts the men's attention cos reminds them of "their" aromas...The dry down is beautiful and delicious, it is definitely one of my favourites !

Smelled very interesting on paper, rich and somewhat "full", sparkling, but not like a golden dust you put on your skin, rather a little diamond you wear in your nose.
I regret it doesn't smell the same on me!