How to recognize LANCOME perfumes.

Climat, Magie Noire, "O de Lancome", Trèsor....LANCOME is one of the greatest French perfume houses, created in 1935 by Armand Petitjean, and got fame and prestige worldwide thanks to many celebrated perfumes.How can we recognize and "put a date" on LANCOME perfumes?It appears difficult, but -actually- it isn't.Most of LANCOME products, since 1978, sport a "Copyright date" on the box, so, coupling it with the batch-code, the identification could...

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GCMS : "My Sin" (Lanvin, 1980s version)

"My Sin" (in the French original version: "Mon Peche") was the first successful perfume launched by Lanvin, the famous French fashion house, in 1924. At the top of success, in the early 1920s, Jeanne Lanvin decided to create her own Perfumes line, and entrusted this task to a mysterious lady of Russian origin: "Madame Zed", as she was known.Madame Zed created fifteen different “Lanvin” fragrances over just two years, of which today we know virtually...

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