Six Hollywood Stars on the Good Life, With a Nod to a Traditional Fragrance

“Julia Little one was not a classical magnificence,” Isabella Rossellini says from her transformed barn in Bellport, New York, days after filming wrapped for the second season of HBO’s Julia. (Rossellini performs the culinary legend’s coauthor.) “She was very tall and type of awkward and had a humorous voice—however had an unlimited sense of wit and this ardour for the kitchen.” Rossellini is speaking in regards to the French phrase la vie est belle, which she likens to the Latin carpe diem: a name to relish life. If the TV chef embodied that philosophy with gusto, so does one other Julia: the Fairly Lady who has fronted Lancôme’s La Vie Est Belle fragrance (optimistic, with notes of iris, vanilla, and jasmine) since its debut in 2012.

A decade later, the French magnificence home is uniting six of its ambassadors—Julia Roberts and Rossellini, together with Penélope Cruz, Lily Collins, Amanda Seyfried, and Zendaya—for a marketing campaign that waxes important. “Make life lovely” goes the brand new tagline, which begs the follow-up: In what approach? Like a trusted astrologer, Vainness Honest consulted the celebrities.

Roberts, showing subsequent within the adaptation of the apocalyptic novel Depart the World Behind, defines dwelling properly outdoors the self. It’s a “sense of all these round me being in a great place feeling centered and seen,” says the mom of three. Cruz cites a night years in the past at Roberts’s dwelling, after they mentioned motherhood. “I bear in mind an ideal dialog with Julia when she already had her kids and I didn’t but have mine, and telling her how a lot I needed that type of life for me,” she says. “The extra gratitude you’ll be able to expertise day-after-day, I feel the happier you can be. It appears everyone knows that, however typically we overlook to observe.”

So the verb in “Make life lovely” is vital: Residing properly is, partly, an endeavor. Zendaya has made gratitude a nightly observe. “Typically I write it down and typically I say it out loud. However merely saying ‘I’m grateful for this stuff’ actually helps put life in perspective.”

Collins remembers 2012 because the yr of her first main movie, Mirror Mirror, with Roberts. “Again then I used to be centered extra on preserving myself busy. I at all times needed to be on the go and say sure to every part I may,” she says, describing a present devotion to morning canine walks on the seaside. Seyfried, who tends a menagerie, can relate. “Isabella and I talked about our farms and the way eerily related our lives are proper now,” she says. “We’ve got the identical ardour for what we’ve created.”

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