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What do you remember your mum wearing or smelling like when she used to go out?

162 replies

hardshoulderr · Yesterday 20:24

And he just thought she was really beautiful?

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GellerYeller · Yesterday 22:04

Tweed when I was little, Rive Gauche later on. I remember she and all her friends had fur coats ‘for best’ and me not approving.There was roll on lipgloss and and metallic strappy heels.
For the PP who mentioned it you can still buy Gloria Vanderbilt.

MeetMeOnTheCorner · Yesterday 21:58

My mum never went out socially with my dad I don’t think she owned a perfume. She did a woodwork class and WI. Does that count?

bungobungobungo · Yesterday 21:54

My Mum wore Tweed by Lentheric, I hated it! Before that it was Soir de Paris.

PauliesWalnuts · Yesterday 21:49

My mum was Rive Gauche when she went out too. Her day perfume was Miss Dior.

OldEnoughToBeYourMotherAndThenSome · Yesterday 21:48

Norman Hartnell’s “In Love” was another favourite.

SendTheNextOneIn · Yesterday 21:47

My mum’s perfume was always Ysatis by Givenchy. My dad travelled abroad for work a lot when I was younger and he’d always bring her back a bottle from duty free. And she’s always used The Body Shop White Musk shower gel.

Fuckingfuckssake · Yesterday 21:47

Opium, still to this day.

OldEnoughToBeYourMotherAndThenSome · Yesterday 21:46

Avon Charisma (in a small red pot) and Youth Dew. I still don’t do subtle perfume!

Pabbel · Yesterday 21:43

Hair spray
Perfume from blue bottle( dont remember name )
Red lipstick

Thecatbeggar · Yesterday 21:42

Charlie! 70s mum. I loved the way she smelt and she used to wear a green suede coat with fur collar. Such lovely memories.

WilliamsWishWellingtons · Yesterday 21:41

Anais Anais or Ysatis!

Happysnappydays · Yesterday 21:40

Blue Grass (Elizabeth Arden)

thatAgneswhocallsherselfPerditax · Yesterday 21:40

Always Panache, by Lentheric, when I was a child.

Latterly she liked some of the Jo Malone fragrances. I sometimes get “ambushed” by them on other people since she died,

watermybegonias · Yesterday 21:39

Soir de Paris or Yardley’s Sea Jade.

TheTwerkingDuchessOfMonteshitshow · Yesterday 21:39

Chucklebunnie · Yesterday 20:46

My mum wore Youth Dew too. She died 16 years ago, far too young. I miss her, thank you for the nice thread and memory. I still have her last bottle, when I get home I will spray it and see if it still smells of her ❤️

I still miss my mum even though she’s been gone for 30 years now. In fact I say you’re never too old to still want your mum. I’m 68.
Im loving you still have your mums perfume, me and my girls have a bottle we bought about 6 years ago that we wear when wrapping the presents in Christmas Eve.

clearlysunshine · Yesterday 21:38

Estee Lauder private collection and then La Perla. Wow, really brought back some memories!

Arran2024 · Yesterday 21:37

4711 and Tweed

Middletoleft · Yesterday 21:34

Diorella, and one by Balenciaga that I can't remember the name of when I was pre teen. Then White Linen which I hated (she wore it to work and came home smelling of a mix of it and Jeyes Fluid. Just ugh).

SemmaLina · Yesterday 21:32

Jolie Madame or Tweed

Penguinteachermom · Yesterday 21:32

Lovely thread! Early 70s so Tweed, face powder from a compact and rarely worn lipstick x

maddiemookins16mum · Yesterday 21:30

Tweed.

fourcamels · Yesterday 21:30

Je Reviens. She always wore it.

Makes me laugh to see so many people saying Anaïs Anaïs - I’ve just spent this summer wearing it! I’m 38 and it reminds me of magazines in the 90s with the little perfume samples in them.

Debbie196 · Yesterday 21:30

My mum wore multi coloured mini dresses with halter necks, white pull on faux leather boots and Coty L’Aimant perfume. Always wore pale pink lipstick and had high back combed hair. 1960s.

Kevinbaconsrealwife · Yesterday 21:30

Gloria Vanderbilt…..she was so glam…I look like I’ve been dragged through a hedge backwards 😂 x

Hotafternoon · Yesterday 21:29

Casceres · Yesterday 21:23

Fidji Perfume.
Bought it recently for her Mother's day present. Unfortunately like many perfumes it's been reformulated and not like I remembered from my childhood

I love Fidji, I wear it quite a lot as it's a favourite of mine