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

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hardshoulderr · Yesterday 20:24

And he just thought she was really beautiful?

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PolkaDotPorridge · Yesterday 20:35

Ah I can still smell them all! Poison, Opium, Rive Gauche and Anais Anais. Clothes I don’t really recall but the perfumes, I can still picture them all in her dressing table. I’m not sure what she wears now. I might ask her! Thanks for posting this OP.

BrainSoup · Yesterday 20:35

Chanel No5

I remember being quite entranced with the 1980s ballgowns and fur coats!

Shallysally · Yesterday 20:34

Anais Anais, I still have the bottle she was using 20 years ago.

Sunnybeachday · Yesterday 20:32

FionnulaTheCooler · Yesterday 20:26

Rive Gauche. I used to beg to be allowed a spray when she was putting some on for special occasions.

This was my grandma’s favourite. I’d completely forgotten about it, I need to go and sniff some, thank you ❤️

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hardshoulderr · Yesterday 20:32

I remember Miss. Dior for of my mum. And she has this beautiful shocking pink silk Square that she wore.

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Sunnybeachday · Yesterday 20:31

Chanel No5, I still love it now (as does she) ❤️

Starburst360 · Yesterday 20:30

embroidered waistcoats, colourful ones. Or black trousers and purple shirts. This was the 80s and 90s
i can’t remember smell but I suspect something from Avon!

Velveting · Yesterday 20:30

She never went out. To this day, she thinks that women only need friends so they have company going to places where they can bag a man to marry. Once they’ve bagged one, no need for friends. And, obviously, once the chap in question has bagged you, he doesn’t have any need to take you out any more, either. 😥🙄

ViciousCurrentBun · Yesterday 20:30

Chanel no5 or 4711.

CombatBarbie · Yesterday 20:27

Eden and Lulu were her go tos when I was a child

I have some of her scarfs (shes still very much alive) and can still smell it on one of them, its very nostalgic.

FionnulaTheCooler · Yesterday 20:26

Rive Gauche. I used to beg to be allowed a spray when she was putting some on for special occasions.

Notbuiltforheat · Yesterday 20:25

Opium.

always. She and my dad were Civic types and had a lot of formals and she always wore opium.

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