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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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tsmainsqueeze · Today 00:56

Chanel No 5

MyGirlJ · Today 00:57

When she was in her 30s (in the early 1990s), I remember her wearing a long black fitted dress, with inch-wide straps and thigh split. She always smelt of body shop japanese musk perdume oil, which got discontinued in the late 90s/early 00s. When she passed away in 2014, I bought a small bottle of Japanese musk for a small fortune from an Ebay seller. It's kept in a drawer, and i sometimes have a smell when I really miss her.

Nofeckingway · Today 00:58

White Dirmonds by Estee Lauder. I have a cardigan and this perfume in a special box . I would love just one more hug from her while wearing this . She wasn't glamorous but wore expensive pretty conservative clothes .

Onacuctustree · Today 01:11

Tweed.
I have no idea why.

Friendlygingercat · Today 02:14

My grandmother wore Estre Lauder Youth Dew and Chanel no 5

Copperoliverbear · Today 03:52

@shitshow1976I just looked on boots it’s £99. Might ask for it for Christmas. Perfume is so expensive.

TwentyDunhill · Today 03:57

Tendre Poison or Georgio.
ALWAYS trousers,
Big oversized blazers and shirts
leather or denim jackets
doc Martin's and converse (and matching for me!)

Waitinggame42023 · Today 04:00

Paloma Picasso. She used to have this black, velvety wool coat that she'd where out. She's never been a smoker, but I remember standing in the hallway sniffing her coat, remarking about the 'pretty pub smell' (perfume mixed with stalemate booze and cigarette smoke).

Beesandhoney123 · Today 04:09

Chanel no5 or este lauder youth dew. Even for gardening and dog walking! And the faint waft of silk cut.

Soft tweedy skirts, soft fitted twinsets, even with wellies. Slim, bobbed hair, not much make up. Pretty sandals/ flat shoez. Never owned a pair of trainers or coat that didnt have a belt or shape:)

TheTwerkingDuchessOfMonteshitshow · Today 05:18

opaldark · Yesterday 22:46

My mum wears the same perfume my Granny wore, Youth Dew. Even when she was far too young to do so! I haven’t quite sprung for that (yet) but I have been on a mission to find a signature scent my children can remember me for, I think I’ve settled on Chanel Coco, while it’s not Youth Dew, I’ve clearly followed my female line in their love of old lady musky perfumes!

One of my boys was at uni thousands of miles from home and one day he phoned me crying and said, mum I could smell your perfume in Tesco and I went looking for you, but it wasn’t you and now I’m sitting in the car crying.

The perfume was Organza.

GoldenGirl85 · Today 05:21

My mum always wore Chanel or Lancôme. She used to smell divine. My mum is a professional charity ball goer

Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain · Today 05:35

Femme by Rochas or Anais Anais.

My mum didn’t really dress up (not much money) but when she did it was a black chiffon clinging evening dress or a stunning red and white and black patterned evening maxi dress (70s chick). She did have a couple of designer pieces from her previous life in advertising, just classic evening outfits, dresses.

I once went with her to buy a midnight blue silk and sequinned evening dress from a concession in Harvey Nicks but her mum had given her money for this as it was for a special charity hotel event (ball).

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