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What smells like the 90s to you?

254 replies

Jknow · 29/10/2022 11:35

I had a sudden random flashback today to this Charles Worthington shampoo that I used in the 90s as a teenager (when I could convince my mum to buy it for me). It smelled so delicious, and used to leave my hair really nice. Feeling nostalgic for the 90s now. What smells remind you of that era?

What smells like the 90s to you?
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Gufo · 29/10/2022 11:46

I loved that shampoo!!!

Ohyoudodoyou · 29/10/2022 11:46

Paris perfume
Paloma Picasso perfume
Mmmm an ex used to smell of Jazz by YSL and hair wax
Chardonnay and cigarettes

SpookabooAtTheZoo · 29/10/2022 11:46

See also: Boots Natural Collection stacking lip balms. I was gutted when they discontinued those. My favourite was the red strawberry one because it very slightly tinted your lips.

Gufo · 29/10/2022 11:47

Hugo Boss EDP
Marlboro light and menthol cigarettes

VioletCharlotte · 29/10/2022 11:47

LuLu or IssyMiyake perfume
Marlboro lights
Incense
Chlorine (swimming pool in our old town centre)
Pinot Grigio
Fish and chip shops
The library

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sendwineandastraw · 29/10/2022 11:48

O2 body spray, Sunny D for breakfast juice (perish the thought!!) and Miss Selfridge used for do this gorgeous smelling lip gloss, it was a glass tube with a roller ball at the end and was pink, maybe raspberry scented and if was just AMAZING!!

VioletCharlotte · 29/10/2022 11:48

suzyscat · 29/10/2022 11:45

Spice girls impulse- I'd buy it tidy if I could. Once walked passed an old man who smelt so distinctively of it about 10 years ago and it made me so happy.

I wouldn't buy a body shop product now because of their mlm structure but their white musk.

Also bonfires but that's more generic childhood joy smell.

Body Shop still do White Musk. I smell it sometime when I go in there, it takes me right back to being 15.

Blossomandbee · 29/10/2022 11:48

Yes Tribe, Exclamation and Charlie. I had a set of miniatures with those in.
Dewberry and white musk perfume.
CK One and CK Be.
Impulse Vanilla Kisses and O2 body sprays.
Woolworths used to sell a cheap (and nasty) unisex perfume called Kindred Spirit that me and my boyfriend used to like 😆

HonHonoriaGlossop · 29/10/2022 11:49

Smoke on your clothes when you've been pubbing or clubbing

HonHonoriaGlossop · 29/10/2022 11:50

Dewberry and white musk from the Body Shop
joss sticks

Itstarts · 29/10/2022 11:53

Teen spirit

HonHonoriaGlossop · 29/10/2022 11:53

SpookabooAtTheZoo · 29/10/2022 11:43

Ooh also Lynx. I don't even know if it was called Lynx Africa at the time but I only knew it as Lynx and every boy at school smelled of it apart from that one randomer who smoked a fake pipe and wore Old Spice.

Nowadays he's probably oiling his moustache, wearing bloomers and a monocle being terribly avant garde

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 29/10/2022 11:53

LesOliviers · 29/10/2022 11:38

CK One

Yes!!!!

My boyfriend of the time and I both got some fur our birthdays (a month apart) in about 1994 or 5. We thought we were sooo coool.

Maverickess · 29/10/2022 11:54

Jazz aftershave on the 'cool' lads at school
Charlie Red perfume
Cheap, nasty cider and Regal King-size cigarettes
20/20 - a 'fruit' flavoured alcohol drink that was popular with my age group and was utterly disgusting but did the job.
Horses

onlymyselftoanswerto1 · 29/10/2022 11:54

White musk, Lulu Blue and Exclamation! Can smell them all in my mind 🤣

Stretchandsnap · 29/10/2022 11:54

IssyMiyake / Amarige / eternity perfume
southern comfort 🤢
dewberry
smokey hair after a night out
Heather shimmer rimmel lipstick
feel all nosalgic!

PuppyMonkey · 29/10/2022 11:54

LouLou

(Oui, c'est moi). Grin

sleighbellsjiggling · 29/10/2022 11:56

Oh that shampoo 😍. That and organics smelt amazing.

Tribe, Charlie Red and impulse avant garde were my go to scents. I must have smelt hideous looking back but it's made me very nostalgic.

RedRec · 29/10/2022 11:56

Central London street smells.
I live in the sticks now but worked in London in the 90s and just felt a lovely nostalgia for my early morning walks from London Bridge. Wet pavements, coffee shops opening up, buses, etc.

KitchenSupper · 29/10/2022 11:57

Impulse, white musk, kyomi deodorant
The smell of damp jean legs from dragging in puddles
Cigarette smoke in your hair after a night out

Movinghouseatlast · 29/10/2022 11:57

Escape

DarkAndDusty · 29/10/2022 11:57

Sunflowers perfume
Lip Smackers
Benson & Hedges cigarettes

SpookyPanda · 29/10/2022 12:00

All the natural collection stuff. Especially dewberry. That lipstacker, the sunflower body spray. I used to love the display I do miss it.

RFPO77 · 29/10/2022 12:01

Body shop White musk and Impulse, also lynx Africa 😂