Vintage Mania: Oh My Sin!

I hadn't been feeling myself for a few weeks, and my sense of smell and taste were strongly affected, to the point where I wasn't particularly interested in perfume, and it made me very sad!  I was going for stronger tastes in food, eating Thai and Szechuan and Lebanese and Korean food, all very easy to come by here in LA, which cheered me up a bit, but I missed my auto perfume responses terribly.  

Finally, after almost three weeks I started craving vintage scents most of all, that kind of strange dark almost bitter tinge of Jolie Madame, Miss Balmain, Vent Vert, and Cabochard, all of which I have in my arsenal turned out to fit the bill, but then my little sample of My Sin Parfum twinkled beguilingly, quite different in character from the others.  I had falled in love with it a month or two ago and had bid on several bottles on Ebay rather timidly and lost them, and I attacked the auctions with renewed vigor, and I'm almost ashamed to admit that I won several in one day, like a gambler on a roll, I felt invincible, and that this chance might not repeat itself, compulsively bidding on each My Sin auction in a 24 hour period, winning each one!  Ah, the old days, I've always been nostalgic for the times I've never seen, and my interest in vintage scent really makes me feel as if I can actually smell another time, so I don't feel guilty about craving it, as the payoff is so great.

But later, with pangs of remorse (I've never been interested in proper gambling, as the stakes weren't at all interesting to me) I was concerned that I might have made a big mistake, blowing my was on one scent, while I had just had a renewed sense of scent, might I have changed a bit?  I'm so promiscuous with scent anyway!  And what of the difference between the parfum and the EDT (called simply Eau de Lanvin or Eau My Sin (get it?  Oh My Sin?).   I'd just have to wait until the bottles rolled in.

The first came in today!  I tore open the package, and got to the small bottle (thank heaven more was coming!)  I splashed it on, immediately and breathed in sharply, ahhhhhhhhh, that's it, My Sin, just as strange and interesting as I had imagined from my parfum sample.  And now I can live out my fantasy of drenching myself in it (cough splutter) but there is that adage about too much of a good thing, easy girl!  I could smell it all through dinner and wondered again if I was going overboard.  Ask me tomorrow what I think of it.  And about the two bottles that will come in next week, will they be any different, different years of production, different formulas, who knows?

Tune in later for my further adventures with My Sin, Mme Zed and Jeanne Lanvin..........

Comments

[carmencanada]

Ah, Wendy, I feel a bit responsible for your My Sin binge! I go on and off vintage for periods and like you, I love the bracing bitterness of the first notes of Jolie Madame and her sisters -- did you try Diorling? Another take on that bitter, then floral riff... But My Sin, ah, now that's another beast entirely. I can't even define it except to say it's a kind of archetype of perfume. I'm looking forward to reading your further explorations of the different concentrations. I have pure parfum and edt, and am currently resisting the urge to stock up (so many others beckon and I'm very flitty too...).

[Qwendy]

Denyse, I feel exactly the same way about My Sin, I'm glad you can't define it either! It's so much more than a collection of notes. I haven't tried Diorling EDT, although the Parfum didn't have the same effect on me as the others named, I'm just not a big Dior fan, I know I'm in the minority (so what else is new?). Yes, it was you who encouraged me to buy up everything I could find, I'm spraying it on my clothes, as it doesn't last very long on my skin! The EDT is just the concentration I was dreaming of for our climate, the parfum seems a bit intense, even for me, probably because it's already in the 80's here..................thanks so much for stopping by!

[tmp00]

So when are we going to hear the rest?

I've been curious about this scent for years!

Tom

[IrisLA]

Yesterday, My Sin smelled so gorgeous on you. You.Need.Some.