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Slajt7 – :
I am SO disappointed with Lanvin (better name: sinLESS). Lanvin, is it so difficult to produce the original? Positive Lanvin has the recipe. Does Lanvin seriously think they can fool us? NO you CAN’T!! I’m done with Lanvin, period. I don’t care to waste my $ on imposters.
This NOT the “My Sin” of days gone by. I want the original “My Sin” that knocked all others aside. Bold, brash, sensual, alluring, honey I’m ready.
This is a flaming grab bag mixture of eighth, quarter & half notes of I don’t know what. It’s disgusting! It smells like something, but it is so lite I can’t begin to describe this mist of YUCK.
KoshmanKo – :
Lanvin’s sin is one of omission. By simply adding “21” to the name (as in a 21st century re-imagining), think how different the response would be. Or even “My Sin II”, or some such.
Maybe they think those of us who are old enough to remember are dead. Not yet, dears!
forteu – :
This is impossible to review.
The original My Sin by Lanvin was not this perfume. My mother wore the original My Sin and let me borrow it for dates. Well, actually i had to sneak it. It was intense stuff.
What the heck this new junk is, i neither know nor care. Away with it.
sasha555 – :
Absolutely sad. Obviously an effort to keep that trademarked name in circulation. I understand the brand wants to reign in young blood with these new releases but also use the old names as some sort of siren call to the faithful users of My Sin who wish like hell that Lanvin would revive the long lost and forgotten cult fragrance. However, to those who have remained forlorn after all these years, this is not the My Sin you love and remember, it is a completely, absolutely different fragrance and if you purchase it thinking it is the sensuous love potion of your wanton youth, you will be sorely disappointed and confused. This is a modern saccharine travesty of the floral kind.
A friend of mine sent me a small decant that she had from a sample of the new launch. It smelled kinda like a mix of sweetly sour fruit and flowers. I hated it. It was not “juicy apricot and pear” to me. Nothing “juicy”. The freesia is very shrill and the rose reminds me of something you’d spray in your bathroom. The drydown was blah, powdery and barely there. I could not wait to scrub this off. Boring. Mall perfume. Mainstream. Garbage. Teeny bopper special. I expect this to be discontinued within the next two years if it lasts that long. Sorry.
Lanvin repeated this name switcheroo with Rumeur and Scandal, two names of their ancient discontinued perfumes that I know plenty of people who would give their eye teeth to be able to purchase the original formulas again. What’s next? Pretexte and Crescendo? Spanish Geranium, Niv Nal, Petales Froisses or L’Ame Perdue?
The original My Sin first created in 1924 is classified as a floral fragrance for women with a dominant acacia note with aldehydic character.
Top notes: aldehydes, lemon, clary sage, neroli, carnation, bergamot, heliotrope, acacia, mimosa
Middle notes: white narcissus, clove, orris, orange blossom, lily, jasmine, violet, rose, lily of the valley, lilac, iris, jonquil, ylang ylang
Base notes: ambergris, vanilla, tolu balsam, styrax, patchouli, musk, vetiver, civet and sandalwood
fenix8605 – :
The scent is pleasant, but not strikingly amazing. Very freshly fruity and a bit floral. I have no glue what the original My Sin smells like, so I can’t compare them. They probably don’t have anything in common, as this one is very light and modern, not a classic in any way.
It smells like berries to me. The bottle is lovely and the scent is nice.
I don’t understand how there are so many dislikes, it’s not disgusting or anything. I guess, people are comparing it with the original.
I can only evaluate this one, and I admit I like it.
vkontakte456 – :
Almost the same notes like “Scandal”… Can you create something new or … WTF is going on with this brand…?!?
newlas – :
Really upset, to name it with a name of retro fragrance from 1921! Lanvin, do you have some fantasy to call it in another name?
lorik555 – :
Madame Zed, the creator of the original masterpiece that was the first My Sin, must be turning in her grave over this. Everything about this reeks junk: the look of the bottle, the notes. A fruity-floral. The original was a complex work of art.
Lanvin also did the same thing to vintage Lanvin Rumeur, put out some fruity floral that had no relation to the earthy, leathery vintage. And Fragrantica won’t even put up a listing for the original because they want to advertise for the inferior modern version. Perfume history is real and should not be erased for the sake of commercialism. These soulless corporations who buy out old perfume companies so they can rip off the names of classics are a real bore.
sysanin – :
Oh god no… nonononono.
Redaarenrynus – :
After having observed those facial editions of Eclat d’Arpege (“So cute”, “Pretty Face” etc.), I came to the conclusion that those in the Lanvin department responsible for naming and design must have a very…at least wry sense of ‘humour’. This *new* version strikes me as full of self-deprecation.
Btw, if Hieronymus Bosch was to paint the “Hell” of our time (according to big perfume houses), I’m sure he’d use pink colours and fill the ground with pears, peaches, sugar-coated berries, vanilla and fluffy ribbons (for reference, see the use of terms like “Poison”,”Sin”, “Opium” and more.)
*This comment will be removed to the release section once it’s there.*
InDaDream – :
Ridiculous!!!!
A floral/fruity on top of it. Unbelievable! It was bad enough that Lanvin renamed another perfume Scandal but My Sin I cannot take. Such an amazing classic and now they name a `girly thing` like it.
veres – :
I hate to say so harsh things of a perfume that has just been released, and that I have not even tested yet, but I am afraid this has nothing to do with the original My Sin. For sure.
It is plain that (since a long time, alas), that Lanvin has taken the same way of lack of inspiration, unwillingness and laziness that is already the trademark of houses like Dior, Paco Rabanne, Chanel, YSL…As a matter of fact, Lanvin has made with this stuff just the same that Dior did with the obnoxious Miss Dior (new): release a mediocre flowery-fruity juice “à la mode” with the name and the looks of a venerable classic. So I must say I am not so suprised. Today, perfume houses are ruled by people who don’t care for art and beauty and who don’t even respect their own cultural heritage or the philosophy of the brand. It is just about the cash, the accursed cash…
santey08 – :
THROW IT IN THE TRASH
ionuts – :
Wow, so many venerable Perfume Houses seem to be falling into some type of Twilight Zone vortex these days! It’s fine and dandy to create scents that follow along with trends or are as ‘safe’ as possible, but why use the name of an original scent that was meant to be anything but safe? Such a shame to use a name and legacy like My Sin and tack it onto a basic bottle and scent…
895138883 – :
It’s like spray painting primer over a Rembrandt, drawing a stick figure on it and calling it art. Why not just release the original? WHY? And to top it off, the new crap is a fruity floral, which is the final insult. This house is dead to me now. Seriously it is.
ChanelBleu – :
Wow. Just wow.
I’ve never been truly sad about a new perfume being announced before.
bhan – :
It is utterly repugnant to this Parfumista that a reputable house such as Lanvin not only re-released My Sin but that it is a fruity-freakin-floral?!!
Jeanne Lanvin My Sin? The only SIN here is that someone was too lazy to come up with another name, Also sinful is the cashing in (or attempting to) on a true classic that was bursting with aldehydic intensity and dripping with civet with something akin to fruit salad and flowers served in a musky sandalwood bowl. Misdirection is one thing, this is a flat out abomination.
If those who created the classics of this House knew of this they would be rolling over in their marble mausoleums…and Madame Zed?! Well she might still strike back from the grave.
The classic scent was so unique and richly full that my first sniff made my brain react in such a way I can only describe it as a cerebral thunderstorm. This is just a soggy wet blanket and even if it smelled better than any other modern fruity floral I would STILL boycott it on principle alone.
Shame, shame everyone knows you’re lying with this name.
*hangs head and wipes tear from cheek*
;-(
Tigra1989 – :
What are they doing? Maybe everyone at the Lanvin house who ever had any idea about what My Sin was went on vacation? A pink fruity floral My Sin? This is ridiculous.
It actually reminds me to Bruiser, the little lapdog from the movie Legally Blonde. Take a tiny chihuahua, dress it in pink, and name it Bruiser, this is what Lanvin did now.
mornetlettemy – :
Used this name, “My Sin”, for a fruity-floral…
Shame on you, Lanvin…