Beautiful Belle

I’m shocked at how much I love this. Fresh, bright, juicy, smooth. I definitely get the juicy pop of lychee and then plunging face first into a freshly picked pile of white flowers, stems and leaves and all. Then there is a bite of gourmand sweet and the sumptuous caress of expensive new leather. I get vibes of Alien, Chloe, White Suede, Hypnotic Poison.

I wore the original Beautiful back in the 1980s and it’s a beast of a fragrance. It will clear a room if oversprayed. Beautiful Belle is a departure from that but lovely in its own right. I love mimosa and gardenia so this is a winner for me. So elegant and fresh. The marzipan is not overdone and the musk and suede are subtle as well. It only lasts about an hour on me. I smile every time I spray it, though. It’s so pretty and mood-boosting.

It smelled good, richly floral, creamy, a bit tropical somehow, very familiar too, and suddenly I got it: Moringa from the bodyshop. Lovely memories.

This perfume is a more floral version of Marc Jacob’s Daisy to my nose. It’s boring, basic, but pretty. Has poor longevity and moderately projects. Decluttering.

Sadly, it seems that Beautiful Belle may be getting discontinued—at least from what I’ve been hearing lately. That’s a shame, because it really is a gorgeous, elegant, and feminine fragrance. It feels like something you’d wear for a special occasion, but honestly, it could work just as well for everyday use. To me, though, it leans more toward warm weather. I do like this fragrance—I have respect for it—but it’s not one I would necessarily repurchase. I have the rollerball that I bought a few years ago, and it still smells great, but I rarely reach for it. There are just so many other beautiful fragrances that I love even more. I suppose that might be part of why it’s being discontinued. It’s lovely, but it’s not quite “to die for” in the way some fragrances are. Personally, I think Beautiful Belle is nicer than Estée Lauder’s Beautiful or Pleasures. It feels more refined to my nose than the other two I mentioned.

It opens fruity and a little sparkly (lychee + rose), then turns into a rich white floral moment with gardenia and tuberose, and dries down warm and slightly creamy with a soft musky feel.

Beautiful Belle is a pleasantly clean and friendly floral perfume suitable for a blind buy or for gifting. The feeling this perfume invokes in me is feminen in a more motherly way. I like wearing this perfume in my daily life, but I would not wear it on a date night or night out with friends.

a very strong tuberose, mimosa, marzipan sweet but not in an overdone juvenile way, rather flowery elegant a very feminine take on a classic

Such a gorgeous blend! I can see this as a worthy successor to OG Beautiful... except for absolutely dismal staying power. 7 sprays was gone in 35 minutes. If it had even 2-3 hours longevity I'd probably make it my sig.

Plastic cap looks a little cheap but pretty bottle overall. A summery gardenia with supporting high-pitched white florals and a tiny hint of amberwood or maybe ambroxan. (That's the suede, presumably.) If you want a true fruity leather-floral, I recommend Miss Boucheron. Update: in September I'm getting a different experience. I can really smell the fruit next to the white florals. Smells juicy and sweet, but not gourmand. You get the suede in the drydown. More grown up than the Boucheron I mentioned. "Beautiful" is right!

@SL.MS1958 In regards to your comment about pronunciation. I suppose it's because there are two acceptable spellings for the same fruit - lychee or litchi. Depending on which version you read first probably corresponds with how you'd pronounce it. I've heard both pronunciations as well, and apparently both are acceptable haha keep saying it the way you remember it ;)

Very beautiful scent with mostly white flower notes, but some yellow florals too. The tuberose smells delightful. Beautiful Belle stands out to me because of the suede note. It’s not too strong, but you can definitely detect it.

I think this is one of the most body chemistry reliant scents I own, and I'm beyond glad it works for mine. On some people, this scent can be extremely generic where the marzipan doesn't really shine, and the tuberose really takes over and bo can happen. On me, the mimosa absolutely shoots out of me before it becomes a sweet and creamy gardenia musk scent with a touch of nutty sweetness. I find beautiful magnolia works on nearly everyone,but often smells a bit generic (lovely though) where as this one has a habit of smelling amazing or awful on people. Og beautiful on me.....like trying to fit size 12 feet in size 4 shoes. Definitely worth a sample before you settle on a bottle! I think this scent can work all year, due to its dual fresh and sweet nature. It's a unconventional Christmas scent given the marzipan and general sweet almond smell. It's also a wonderful spring scent from the blossoming florals that make up the other half of the scent. Will this be a signiture scent for me? time will tell

The opening of Beautiful Belle is a blast of florals and delicious marzipan, ambery depth and orris. Setteling down it reveals an airy freshness that keeps this fragrance from feeling too heavy. It's a bright, sweet and cheerful scent. To me it's a yellow orange in color, in case that makes sense to you. In these qualities it reminds me a lot of Lalique Soleil. Some of the notes are quite the same, but there's also differences. Soleil, both in the opening and drydown, is a bit stronger on the gourmand aspects, where Beautiful Belle remains slightly more elegant. The packaging and bottle are both beautiful and I got Beautiful Belle at an affordable price, so that's another plus. Since it's so similar to Soleil in some regards, I'd probably just decide for one of both in the future.

Beautiful Belle could quickly become a signature fragrance for women. Unlike the original Beautiful, adding the note of Iris (orris) in this flanker made me appreciate it even more. My experience with the scent was lovely, especially in its initial phase. The fragrance features top notes of lychee, rose petals, and mimosa, leading to heart notes of orange flower, gardenia, and tuberose. It concludes with a base of iris, suede, marzipan, musk, and ambrox for a warm and sensual finish. This perfume is for those who appreciate florals, but is far from a floral strident bomb( it's far from overwpowering). It’s subtle and exudes timeless beauty, with shy white florals that are dainty and sweet—perfect for a sophisticated, elegant woman. Given its floral and sweet nature, it’s best suited for spring and summer. The sillage is delicate, and while the longevity is shorter than expected, it remains a charming, graceful fragrance.

a very nice airy white floral perfume. i dont love it blast right out the bottle... a bit blah, a bit of an odd smell - perhaps the marzipan - like from the packet though not foodie - it settles, its light and lush, i wouldnt say this scent is a freshie, but its clean, floral - get your nose on some white florals if you havent already. its wet floral, clean, a touch very faint touch of flowery greens..

First off, I love the clear glass bottle. This fragrance, to me, is more than just a Beautiful flanker. While it has some of the 'Beautiful' factor going for it, it stands alone as a modern but at the same retro/vintage perfume. For you to not only appreciate this fragrance, much less love it, you have to be into florals. This is a floral bomb. At the same time, it's a subtle scent and not a bomb-bomb either. The opening notes are fresh and citrusy with orange blossom and mimosa. The yellow floral aspects come through first within the first couple of minutes. A bright, sunny yellow flower-forward scent. It evokes the image of a park in the middle of a city (as in Central Park; but any city park) in the warm summertime under the trees of yellow flowers. It has distinctive green notes and herbal nuances. I suppose the green stuff I detect are the shrubs and leaves of both the orange blossom and the gardenia. The white florals gradually open up but later in the performance. Then it's no longer yellow floral but a real sweet white floral character: gardenia and tuberose. This is the finest but yet subtlest non-offensive pairing of two of the most aggressive florals that are otherwise bombs for your nose; gardenia and tuberose. These are shy white florals; dainty and sweet, lady like, elegant. The rose also adds to the sweetness. The litchi is most obvious as the fragrance begins to get into the dry down. It's a delicious fruit, almost tropical, with a tangy nearly pineapple like flavor. But it is straight up litchi. The marzipan is the one note I cant pick up on. If others can, that's them. To me the litchi is the real sweet factor of this scent. It brings the whole thing together into a atypical feminine perfume. It is mature-hearted; meaning a woman in her 20's can pull it off. But it is more for a woman over 30 or over 40 and up that has an attachment to florals. The perfume is classy and expensive smelling. Because it is so floral and sweet, it is better in the spring and summer months. At times, too, it gives of that powdery cosmetic, for women only - make up, perfume, woman at her toilette type of vibe. This perfume is an all purpose scent. That means it can be formal for weddings or other formal events to be worn with a pretty gown or dress; lunch with the girls, shopping, going about your day and smelling good kind of perfume. It's just a feel good woman's perfume. Downside: the scent does not last very long. While it is strong enough to be smelled in all it's glory and all it's facets, the dry down comes too soon and the whole thing is gone in less than one or two hours which is not long enough to really enjoy it as a traditional perfume. It could have lasted longer and had better projection. One needs to reapply many times through the day to really enjoy it. This is also very much a department store perfume; meaning that it is not a specific boutique smell i.e. Chanel, Dior, but the kind you definitely get at a Macy's or Sephoras. I bought mine at the JFK airport Duty Free Shop. I did not have a good experience with the sales lady that sold it to me. She was the only one working there that day and had an attitude. I was in the section where you have past the security checkpoints and you wait for your flight before boarding and she was still suspicious about me; like I was going to steal some perfume. Maybe others have stolen perfume from that shop in the past; but she was not supposed to ask for my boarding pass like I didn't have it. How did I get there if I didn't have it for God's sake. I also did not like that she asked where I was heading to like it was none of my business. She must not like her job at all. But the experience with the perfume itself was wonderful. It is a gorgeous perfume. I did blind buy it. There was no way of smelling it on a blotter but it was a happy and successful blind buy. I recommend this fragrance to fans of florals; particularly yellow and or white florals, and fans of sweet womanly mature scents. I also was quite hooked when I read the reviews here on Fragrantica as I looked at my phone before I bought it; particularly the ones that described this scent as evocative of Disney princesses Aurora and Belle. I think this is more Belle, not Aurora. Aurora (Sleeping Beauty) would be more rose-centered. She was Briar Rose and she sleeps with a rose over her folded hands during her sleeping spell. The fragrance would smell more 'pink'. This one is yellow and creates the image of Belle in the yellow ball gown she wears to dance with Beast. At the same time it is calm and soothing, garden-like, giving off the Belle in the French countryside or in a garden vibe. This is just so beautiful. Thank you Fragrantica for getting me interested in it.

Beautiful Belle Estée Lauder (Store test) Estee take on recent white floral fragrance trends. However, I quite appreciates the route stée Lauder take. Powdery woodiness in this much reminds me of more older fragrance. Even the creaminess of white floral in this is sort of new, modern. But it counterbalances with Leathery, Powdery Samsara kind of powderiness. I think that is property that Beaituful Belle offers. I think, if you wanna hop on the recent white floral trends. But you have sniff quite amount of fragrance. You can easily choose Beautiful belle. (to be consider add in collection) 8.5/10

I was ready to write this off as a generic scent. Brought it home over a week ago and smelled magnolia dryer sheets and a breath of almond. Weak and unoriginal. I was heartbroken for 40$. My son lost the receipt so I couldn’t return it. It is getting hot so I thought I would revisit it. I hate fresh fragrances most of the time. This blew me away on my skin. The magnolia and other flowers twirl around the almond cookie that fell in the flowerbed. It is not made for chills or cold. This is meant to mix with your sweat. And shine. Very very ladylike, the projection is minimal. Idk about lasting power yet I just have to do a full wear. I’m thinking of silk blouses and minimal makeup.

Beautiful Belle by Estee Lauder shares similarities with My Way by Giorgio Armani, both presenting safe, pretty, girly scents with a lack of originality. However, Beautiful Belle surpasses My Way in quality and character. Opening with lichee and mimosa, Beautiful Belle exudes a more joyful aura compared to My Way. Additionally, its marzipan base adds depth and complexity, distinguishing it from My Way's more conventional vanilla base.

I tested BB at Budapest airport and immediately fell in love with it. Sophisticated, well mannered, put together, these associations came to my mind while smelling this scent. Unmistakably Estee Lauder. Not an instant buy but on my wishlist since then and a future keeper in my collection.

I have had a change of heart where Beautiful Belle is concerned. I wasn't wowed by this fragrance at first for some reason. I think it was 2 years ago since I had smelled it. I tested it again last evening at Ulta and thought to myself why didn't I buy this? Had I sampled to many gardenias at the time? Probably, I was going through gardenia faze at that time and thought I had to many. Smelling this again I am enchanted by it. Soft, creamy, pretty, slightly sweet. Utterly feminine, charming. It smells loads better and has better longevity and projection than fragrances that cost more than twice its price. I have a few really expensive perfumes in my collection that I will say are worth every penny I paid for them, but I find in this game just because something costs a lot doesn't mean it is worth the price, they are asking for it. The Niche world is full of disappointing perfumes that cost too much. I own quite a lot of EL fragrances. Why? Because they give value for money. Do I like all of their perfumes, no of course not but when they get it right no company does it better. EL delivers quality smelling perfumes for good prices and not only that they deliver a perfume that performs, and they have the best damn sprayers on their bottles. The spray is a lovely fine mist that covers you in the right amount of scent w/out any waste. The sprayer is easy to use and easy to control as well. If only all companies would give us this! Their luxury line are the best bottles in the business, easy to hold, use and store. I already have Beautiful Belle Love now I will bring her older more serious sister into my collection. Where she should have been in the first place. Edit: 9/27/24 my baby sister came up to see me yesterday and we went through my perfume collection. She fell in love with this and is thinking it could be her wedding perfume so I gave her my bottle along with some other things. My other sister got married last year and my youngest is getting married next month. Beautiful Belle would make a lovely wedding day scent for any young bride. If my sister chooses this I will not wear it again just like I didn't buy a FB of In Every Season by Blocki because that was my other sister wedding scent.

When I spray too much, this is intense and hurts my nose. When I spray less, it’s a juicy bouquet of white flowers glowing in the sunshine in a warm spring day.

My mother’s garden was a riot of colours and fragrances, with jasmines and frangipani and roses and tuberoses all vying for attention. In a quiet corner, quite by itself, grew a gardenia plant. For the rest of the year it didn’t really play a contributing role, but come spring, it burst into blooms, perfuming the air itself with its heady scent. On spring evenings, particularly after an unexpected bout of rain, those gardenia blooms seemed to glisten and sparkle, spreading their fragrance all around. Beautiful Belle captures the essence of those gardenia scented spring evenings to perfection. The first whiff is just as heady as the real deal, and as it settles down, it becomes softer, quieter and less persistent, but still very much, well, beautiful. This is a walk on dew soaked grass, bare feet, in a white dress and hair let down, feeling the breeze caress your skin. I don’t get much of the other notes (what marzipan? What litchi? Where is the rose?) Instead all I get is a harmonious gardenia through and through - dulcet and creamy. Wearing this tonight as a sort of “palate cleanser” from the heavily gourmand perfumes I have been testing, and loving the soft white cloud that seems to be following me everywhere I go.

I find this perfume very approachable, happy and comforting smelling. It has a certain airy and yet warm quality about it, like a smiling woman in a field of flowers that's dotted with pretty trees filled with birds like robins and blue jays. Very much like a spring day, the sky a celestial blue and the sun a glistening white gold... indeed, like a fairytale princess like Aurora from Sleeping Beauty! I liked the airy and powdery smell from the mimosa and the romantic soft pink rose in the opening, but I found the frutiness from the lychee a bit too sweet and a bit too much for me and I think that just mimosa and rose together would have worked better as the opening notes. It would have driven home the spring-like nature of this perfume more to me. I really love the heart notes though, being such a white floral fiend and all... the creamy and lactonic gardenia, the sweet and animalic tuberose and the heady and clean smelling orange blossom were just perfect for me. The tuberose in the heart was also a clean smelling tuberose, stripped of most of its spicy, green and slightly mentholated nuances. I couldn't smell the bitterness that others were referring to on here. I found the sweet and slightly nutty marzipan a genius addition in the base, since it drove home a 14th century French princess (like Princess Aurora again) aesthetic to me, since marzipan was a favorite sweet for the people of medieval Western Europe. I like how this combines with the subtle leatheriness of the suede and the powdery smell from the musk and the orris root, but the ambroxan didn't feel like it belonged here and was on the synthetic side of things for me. I'm not the biggest fan of ambroxan and the base would have been perfect without it. Sillage was moderate on me and its wear time was just above average, lasting just over 7 hours in total on me. I liked this perfume, but it didn't blow me away and so I'd give it a 7.3/10.

I recommend this for anyone who can wear it. Pretty, pale light. As other reviewers have said , there's an animalic note that turns bitter on my skin. Maybe these particular suede or musk notes don't play well with my skin chemistry ? It's very noticeable even with one light spray. Over spraying intensifies the bitterness on my skin, making Beautiful Belle unwearable for me, unfortunately. After the first hour, it becomes a very close to skin scent, suitable for office, non offensive.. You could wear this scent easily anywhere. I gave this to a friend who prefers cold perfumes as opposed to warm notes. She works in a crowded office where perfumes are not permitted. Her aloof personality makes her more of a loner, since by her own admission, she says she's proud to be the total opposite of warm and inviting. Off work, she wears Clean Cool Cotton, Prada Iris, Vicky Tell 21 Bonaparte and Taylor Diamonds Night. She loves Beautiful Belle, wears it to work daily and it has made it her signature.

Federica76 has described this scent perfectly! I feel pretty much the exact same as them. Each time I give this a sniff, it's magical. As platonically as possible: This is what being snuggled into someone's chest listening to their heart with your thumb in your mouth is like (Or is that just me?). It's mumsy, I guess, but not at all in a dowdy or frumpy manner. Like, if I had to come up with a stereotypical image for this, it'd be a mother. As for what she looks like, that flickers a bit in my mind. Also, it's 3am and I'm trying to wind down from a play party so... I'm not that up to thinking much tbh! Also gobsmacked there's lychee in this, as it's a note which typically Does Not Work on me at all. Only have a sample of this, but will definitely look into a bigger bottle.

I love feminen, floral, fresh, sweet, performing parfums and this one gives me all. Suitable for spring and early auntumn. Better to use during Daytime for me.

Modern elegance and modern classic, cheerfully so, like a young, proper miss still full of vivid liveliness. It doesn't smell like this decade, takes me back, maybe 15-20 years back. Undeniably Estee Lauder scent. It is dense, but transparent, full of determination, strong-will and dreaminess. Mimosas, gardenias and a hint of marzipan. High blue sky and bright sun, joy, and that youthful anticipation of something good coming your way.

It has a fresh scent but also has a dry down that smells like marzipan. I quite like it. In the 80s, my favorite was Beautiful. I think the formula changed or as I get older my olfactory senses have changed. Or maybe a bit of both, and now I can't stand Beautiful. It's too soapy. Maybe it's the aldehyde. Beautiful Belle does not have that soapy smell, which works in its favor. And it feels lighter. I think this is better than Beautiful Magnolia, which is too aquatic for me.