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Nostalgia time- can anyone remember?

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TheSilentStars · 17/11/2020 18:31

I'm talking about 1970s-1980s soap and talc style gift sets. This is driving me mad trying to remember...a particular brand, always around at Christmas...
It's not:
Woods of Windsor
Morny
Crabtree and Evelyn.

Any ideas on this vague conundrum of mine?

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Onesmallstepforaman · 17/11/2020 18:35

Yardley?

vampirethriller · 17/11/2020 18:44

St Michael?

AGeeseGoose · 17/11/2020 18:45

Bronnley?

PajamasnoDramas · 17/11/2020 18:47

Yardley sprang to mind, or Avon?

Miggymoggymugwumps · 17/11/2020 19:06

City or Fabergé perhaps?

Miggymoggymugwumps · 17/11/2020 19:07

Coty not city!!!

MrsMoastyToasty · 17/11/2020 19:08

Charlie
Tramp.

WitchesSpelleas · 17/11/2020 19:10

Tweed by Yardley used to be popular.

ItsAlwaysSunnyOnMN · 17/11/2020 19:14

Imperial Leather

LunaNorth · 17/11/2020 19:14

Aquamanda?

TheSilentStars · 17/11/2020 19:42

I'm sure it had two words. Did soap sets and bubble bath usually in Boots.
Going down a rabbit hole of childhood nostalgia with all of these suggestions though!

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AGeeseGoose · 17/11/2020 20:16

I used to work in a very old branch of Lloyds Pharmacy (it had previously been a family owned chemist for decades) which sold that sort of thing - soaps shaped like little lemons and sets with talc and wrapped soap nestling in paper. The main brands were Yardley and Bronnley though, I can’t think of any more!

MissClementine · 17/11/2020 23:26

Yves Rocher?

Sunnywaves · 17/11/2020 23:32

Roger et Gallet?

Bloodylovecheese · 17/11/2020 23:41

Crabtree &Evelyn ?

Bloodylovecheese · 17/11/2020 23:42

Doh! You just said it wasn't that

Bloodylovecheese · 17/11/2020 23:45

Heathcote and Ivory?

Dowser · 17/11/2020 23:51

French fern morny

Dowser · 17/11/2020 23:53

Yes to bronnley lemons
French fern was my mums favourite
You could get sandalwood as well

goingtotown · 17/11/2020 23:56

Coty L’aimant
Goya
Paco Rabanne

Blingismything · 18/11/2020 00:01

Norman Hartnell 'In Love'

ImFree2doasiwant · 18/11/2020 00:02

City l'aimont?
Badedas?

bluerad · 18/11/2020 00:05

Pretty Peach

Gancanny · 18/11/2020 00:16

Sarah Michaels? It usually came in a basket with a couple of bottles of bath stuff and some bars of soap.

Boots did a range of smelly gift sets called Flower Garden where each colour was a different flower. Purple was lavender, green was lily of the valley, I can't remember the others. It was in a box with foil wrapped bath cubes, talc, and bubble bath.

Body Shop ones were the best though, they had bath pearls.

TheSilentStars · 18/11/2020 06:25

Nope. Confused
But I can remember all of these. My gran had some Hartnell and I thought it was the height of sophistication. Perhaps I've just got a false memory about this other brand! In my head I associate it more with Woods of Windsor and Crabtree and Evelyn as a name...and definitely boxes with 3 soaps in!

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