Jeanne Lanvin Scandal

I can't believe how underrated this treasure is! At first when sprayed the scent is quite fruity and all I get is juicy sweet orange, but don’t imagine only the orange juice – there is also the scent of the orange peel and the pulp. After 15-20 minutes orange is almost gone and appear juicy pear and velvet apricot – imagine the natural and organic smell of fresh and fragrant pears and apricots. Such an authentic smell! Pear appears as dominant note here, like freshly cut, so sweet and juicy. Apricot’s scent is quite fine and delicate, but both pear and apricot have velvety feel in their scents and their velvetiness pair extremely well together. In the middle notes I got a lot of fresh, soft and creamy peony, combined with the soft scent of young white rose petals. I barely detect freesia here – on my skin freesia is never a dominant note. In the base there’s just sandalwood, which adds some depth and fine warmness to the composition, but it doesn’t make the fragrance heavy in any case. Musk doesn’t appear on my skin and that’s super for me, since lately I can’t stand musk in the perfumes I wear. Jeanne Scandal on me is amazingly tender fruity-floral fragrance, with detectable notes of pear and apricot, combined with peony and slightly noticeable sandalwood suspicion. This way the fragrance stays till the end – pear, apricot, peony and some sandalwood, orange appears just at the beginning, rose and freesia are barely noticeable and musk is missing at all. Although the main notes are pear and apricot the fragrance isn’t plain fruity in a childish or boring way – I can’t stand this mono fruity type of fragrances like Yves Rocher’s mono fruity scents for example. The juicy and sweet pear and apricot give sweetness to the floral-woody scent but they don’t make it undefined sweet. Combined with the peony and sandalwood theу make beautiful tender fragrance, that has some depth thanks to the sandalwood, floral feels thanks to the peony which makes the scent lighter and feminine. Peony appears as freshly cut after a spring rain. I was surprised that I like the pear & apricot combination so much since I always suck for berries when it comes to fragrances, but here pear and apricot are in the right amount to give sophisticated sweetness. Jeanne Scandal is easy to like, it’s not heavy, sickly sweet or artificial. It deserves to give it a chance and on my opinion is the best of all Jeanne’s fragrances – it’s the sweetest of all, but it’s not so sharpy floral, it really really tender and mild, but it’s noticeable as well. The bottle is beautiful (like all of Jeanne's perfumes), it has great longevity on me - like straight 10 hours even in the summer heat, is mostly daytime appropriate and my perfect summer & spring perfume this year. Love it!

This is very fruity scent, smells like sorbet in my opinion. Sweet and pleasant scent, not original, but good anyway. It was the best right after spraying. It reminds me of berries somehow, but it's apricot instead. Not scandalous at all, but I don't care about those names anyway. Suitable for spring. Quite girly.

Very synthetic and flat. Smells pink, fruity (not real fruits) and generic. Nothing original. Maybe suitable for young girls.

I love freesia note in perfumery. And Anne Flipo is one of my favourite noses. Will the accords match the promise? The promise of the scandal. Looking forward to tasting that. Enticing!

nothing scandalous about it.Another fruty-floral with no carachter ,no lasting power and lo sillage.I wonder why Lanvin puts on the market all these same fruty waters?