The play Beth (Mary Taylor Moore) and Calvin (Donald Sutherland) go to see at the theatre is Same Time, Next Year, a 1975 romantic comedy by Bernard Slade. The protagonists are a man (George) and a woman (Doris) who accidentally meet, have sex, and decide to meet every year at the same hotel for one weekend together. This goes on for 26 years.
During a conversation, they discuss Doris’ signature scent: it’s Lanvin My Sin [1].
This powdery musky fragrance was created by Madame Zed and launched in 1924.
[1] The Bernard Slade play was adapted into a film in 1978: it was directed by Robert Mulligan and starred Alan Alda and Ellen Burstyn. Here is my post about the same conversation in the film.
Linnet Ridgeway’s bedroom/boudoir is lavishly furnished in white and decorated with colorful glass, mirrors and marble. Several French perfumes are sitting on her vanity, a natural extension of her flawless style.
The first bottle that has caught my attention is the Lanvin boule on the left. It’s unclear what perfume it contained, because the French maison used the same bottle for two different perfumes, Arpege (created by Andre Fraysse in 1927) and My Sin (called Mon Péché in French, created by the mysterious Madame Zed in 1924). The film is set in the 1930s, so it’s plausible for both to sit on that vanity.
The same thing can be said for the black bottle on the right, containing Lanvin talcum powder. It could be Arpege or My Sin.
The Guerlain chauve souris bottle unmistakably contained Shalimar, created by Jacques Guerlain in 1925.
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