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

[Alcemeg]

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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This escada

OP all I can think of from your post is Diesel red.

Intrigued by this so just placeholding .

Hope you find out what it is!

This?

The bottle isn’t quite right but… the fragrance I think would be?

I'm going to be so sheepish about telling what it is, if I ever find out.

The spray nozzle sat centrally on the top of the bottle.

God, I'm beginning to feel like I imagined all this...!

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Jeeeezo back in that year we were ALL wearing JOOP! Which is a man's cologne I think? I'm assuming someone had a boyfriend (or maybe a dad lol) who wore it and it just spread like wildfire around the teen girls.

I'm sure it was this obscure shop called Bodycare or something we used to buy it? (Along with the Elizabeth Arden wipe-on foundation compact lol).

I doubt I'll be right but I enjoyed the stroll down memory lane....

I wonder what it smells like ! Will need to investigate if they still sell it and find a shop to sniff it.

Could it have been exclamation play?

Maybe some limited edition Stella?

Second thought no, you would have remembered the roses..

Diesel red and Versace red jeans they were also favourites of mine.

OP even if you don't find it, thanks for starting this thread haha!

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L.A.M.B by gwen stefani?

There’s only really Charlie, exclamation and diesel to go with during the era and budget?

For what it’s worth I had this exact issue and I eventually found said perfume (bellagio) I imagined the bottle completely differently to what it actually looked like.

Gucci rush ? www.notino.co.uk/gucci/rush-eau-de-toilette-for-women/p-60426/?gclid=CjwKCAiAhreNBhAYEiwAFGGKPO767I1SA-mJYGKWcPdYdkGKF2gLI_kzKP7ywAlxvAj4eF1-dT4GzRoCR4gQAvD_BwE

Those were the days of Charlie, Exclamation, Audace etc...... nothing high end, I remember it well.

In fact I nearly cried when they stopped selling Audace...........

@BleuJay are you sure it was Ted Baker and not Aquolina? I remember the 'Pink Sugar'... sickly sweet. A bit like So.. Sinful? (The purple one) but it lasted longer.

Tempted to buy myself a bottle for old times sake....

hot by Benetton?

@Staryflight445

There’s only really Charlie, exclamation and diesel to go with during the era and budget?

For what it’s worth I had this exact issue and I eventually found said perfume (bellagio) I imagined the bottle completely differently to what it actually looked like.

I'm really scared that the bottle looks nothing like I remember it 😕 but I feel as though I can visualise it really clearly! I just wish I could visualise it clearly enough to read the label!!!!!!!!!!!

Still none of the above, no no no no no no... Sorry!

@simonthedog

hot by Benetton?

Not a shop brand or a designer label...

Give us a drawing! It’ll help loads lol

Was the bottle this sort of shape?

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Was it Hypnotic Poison?