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Your first perfume

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Gingersay · 21/11/2022 15:53

Can you remember what your first proper perfume was? I was looking for a perfume for dd12 for Christmas and I sniffed one and it instantly took me back to 1994 it was identical to the original United colours of Benetton perfume, I got a bit excited and said to the girl in the shop who nodded along sympatheticly with the old woman!!

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MadameSzyszkoBohusz · 21/11/2022 16:44

Ooh, I had Anais Anais too!

cobblers123 · 21/11/2022 16:45

My first really expensive perfume was Chanel 19 and was a Christmas present from my boss. This was 1978.

At the end of 2020 I bought it as a treat for finishing a lot of surgery and wanted something to celebrate a rather traumatic year and to make me feel good again. I remembered how much I liked it so ordered the perfume.

It worked too! 😃

Narwhaleahoy · 21/11/2022 16:45

Anais Anais; then United by Benetton. I thought I was properly grown up and sophisticated when I bought Chanel Christalle!

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Roselilly36 · 21/11/2022 16:45

Anais Anais for me too.

fantasmasgoria1 · 21/11/2022 16:46

As a teen I had some dewberry and some exclamation but when I met my first husband it all stopped as he didn't allow it.

Enko · 21/11/2022 16:46

Charlie was my first. Then Anais Anais

JaninaDuszejko · 21/11/2022 16:47

White Musk (my best friend wore Dewberry) then Clinique Happy.

Stropalotopus83 · 21/11/2022 16:47

Red Jeans - Versace - I think they even still make it so might buy a bottle for old times sake!

AnaglyptaBandersnatch · 21/11/2022 16:48

Chanel Coco

Newwardrobe · 21/11/2022 16:48

My first one was Blasé.

isthismylifenow · 21/11/2022 16:51

Lace

I still have my old bottle of Anais Anais. It must be over 30 years old.

Every now and then I'd use some of my mums Moon Drops.

Megifer · 21/11/2022 16:55

First proper one was Lou Lou Blue. How I love that perfume ive got about 5ml left in a bottle i got off ebay a few years ago and I can't bear to use it.

Also had samsara, Venezia, Tendre Poison (another one i could weep for), sun moon stars, monsoon....all my faves have been discontinued 😩😩

OldTinHat · 21/11/2022 16:55

YSL Paris. Still love it.

TabithaTittlemouse · 21/11/2022 16:56

Just had to google as could remember the bottle but YSL Rive Gauche.

brownbeauty80 · 21/11/2022 16:57

Can't remember the name but the box was yellow and white stripes

Megifer · 21/11/2022 16:58

brownbeauty80 · 21/11/2022 16:57

Can't remember the name but the box was yellow and white stripes

Giorgio Beverly Hills?

trampoline123 · 21/11/2022 16:59

Cerrito 1881 - still wear it

BamBamBilla · 21/11/2022 17:00

The original classic Ghost. It's still my signature scent that I buy today.

Blueberrycreampie · 21/11/2022 17:00

fussychica · 21/11/2022 16:34

Aqua Manda
First proper perfume Ma Griffe by Carven

Aqua Manda 💕

brownbeauty80 · 21/11/2022 17:01

@Megifer
Yes.... thank you... gonna put it in my Superdrug's basket now..!!

Blueberrycreampie · 21/11/2022 17:02

Think mine was Estée Lauder Youth Dew. You could smell me a mile away. My friend wore Tabu and was equally pongy!

SingingSands · 21/11/2022 17:03

Red Jeans by Versace - all my friends had it too

Porridgeislife · 21/11/2022 17:04

Clinique Happy

Ginisatonic · 21/11/2022 17:04

Tramp - in the seventies. But why did anyone think that was a good name for a perfume! Either of the meanings of the word.

cookiecreammmpie · 21/11/2022 17:04

I had Tommy Girl and an Avon one with a Butterfly lid.