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Do YOU remember this perfume (ca. 2005)?!

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Alcemeg · 06/12/2021 08:35

Something about not being able to travel much over the past couple of years has made me seek escapism through... perfume! I've gone mad for it. I've got together quite a little collection now and am missing one I used to have, but I can't remember the name of it.

The facts:
I bought it in about 2004/5.
It wasn't expensive, just an impulse buy somewhere like Superdrug.
It had a red glass bottle, like a lopsided/squashed cube (?).
I'm no olfactory expert, but something deep in the mix reminded me of chocolate.

??????????

I have trawled the internet, including Fragrantica, looking for clues, but so far drew a blank and I wondered if anyone here could help!

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Staryflight445 · 06/12/2021 16:20

Fab! You found it!

Wife2b · 06/12/2021 16:24

Does this ring any bells?

Do YOU remember this perfume (ca. 2005)?!
Benjispruce5 · 06/12/2021 16:25

Ah just seen your update. Great that you found it! Funny that you thought s and z were significant with the capital s making the z sound! Your memory is better than you thought.

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picklemewalnuts · 06/12/2021 16:45

@Curbaisti

There's even a YouTube video Grin

Isabella rosselini isabella Grin

Can you link, please? I've searched and can't find it!
whatausername · 06/12/2021 16:51

Petition to rename this thread the Mumsnet Christmas Miracle?

Lol, you have given me a good laugh on a rubbish day.

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Alcemeg · 06/12/2021 17:04

@whatausername

Petition to rename this thread the Mumsnet Christmas Miracle?

Lol, you have given me a good laugh on a rubbish day.

I must say, I am truly amazed by the ability of MN hive mind to solve impossible riddles like this one. It's also opened my eyes to a bright new future for me in technical drawing!
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fridgepants · 06/12/2021 17:05

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Alcemeg · 06/12/2021 17:06

@picklemewalnuts
I found (and drooled over) the video!

Here it is... you can applaud the accuracy of my sketch. Giotto's perfect circle has nothing on me!

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WestwardEast · 06/12/2021 17:06

Glad it was Isabella! Great perfume.

HollyandIvyandAllThingsYule · 06/12/2021 17:09

Isabella Rosselini = Dirty slag 🤣🤣🤣

Ahh I’m so glad you figured out what it was, I was getting itchy there for a while!

FindingMeno · 06/12/2021 17:10

So glad the mystery has been solved.
The bubble gum and fluff comment made me lol.
I sooo wanted it to be Charlie Red though.

DreamingOfTheSouthOfFrance · 06/12/2021 17:10

Loved this thread despite my total lack of knowledge of perfumes!

fridgepants · 06/12/2021 17:11

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Mammyloveswine · 06/12/2021 17:11

@Jubilate

Hypnotic Poison- red bottle and a bit chocolatey
No hypnotic poison is in a round bottle.. like an apple.., my favourite perfume!!

Although don't love it as much as I did in my twenties!

Nicolastar78 · 06/12/2021 17:15

Red door by Arden ?? The bottle sounds similar.

Pawprintpaper · 06/12/2021 17:18

Le Chenet?

ClawedButler · 06/12/2021 17:22

Just imagining the typically incomprehensible perfume advert for "Dirty Slag (pour femme)":

Close up of woman with greasy hair in pony tail scratching her be-legginged arse
Voice over of random clips of people in small grocery shops ("Cor blimey these carrots has seen better days" and "You got ID?")
Cut to: street in Vauxhall. Cafe owner scrapes some metal chairs across the pavement
Close up of woman with greasy hair in pony tail rolling around on a mattress in someone's front garden, while still looking to camera
A deliveroo cyclist goes past the ground-level camera. A bit of pizza falls off and lands with a splat on the road.
Man with teeth missing is seen fingering the woman with the greasy hair against a skip. They both mouth "FUCK OFF" to camera.
Cut to: camera panning across an STD test result

SLAG.

Sibilant. Filthy. Cheap.

Elodie9 · 06/12/2021 17:24

The description of amber and vanilla reminded me of how much I used to love the Laura mercier ambre vanille body souffle. When I worked in a department store I used to put it on and just couldn't stop stop sniffing it. I don't know the Isabella perfume so couldn't say if it is anything like yours!

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Alcemeg · 06/12/2021 17:59

@ClawedButler that's priceless... 🤣

@Elodie9 The trouble with some smells is that they just make me crave cake. This one wasn't really sweet and appetising, it was more... mysterious. I'm kicking myself for having lost it, along with many other treasures, in a series of chaotic house moves 😣

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Chikapu · 06/12/2021 18:59

I didn't have a suggestion on the perfume but just wanted to say your drawing made me laugh like a goat OP.

Nasturs · 07/12/2021 00:23

Sibilant. Filthy. Cheap

Grin
asha456 · 07/12/2021 03:37

@SmellyOldOwls

I'm helpless with laughter at poor Isabella Rossellini and her dirty slag perfume Grin
😂😂
GrubbyGirl · 07/12/2021 04:13

Best drawing on MN.

I really want to try the perfume now.

HighlandCowbag · 07/12/2021 06:20

4am I was thinking about this fucking thread. 4 fucking am.

Anyway, price and smell and where you bought it I came up with Suns, moons and stars. But it's in a blue bottle and it's not square.

But it's all Ive got so just tell me I win the internet so I don't have to think about it anymore.

fourandtwo · 07/12/2021 08:40

@HighlandCowbag it was solved. Isabella by isabella rosselini Smile