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Fragrances of the decades!

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fluoxe · 08/10/2024 12:14

For me the 90s are Sunflowers - Elizabeth Arden, but I grew up in the US so not sure if it was the same in the UK? Every girl I knew doused herself in Sunflowers.

What about the other decades?

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HÆLTHEPAIN · 08/10/2024 12:15

Georgio Beverly Hills - early 90’s for me, along with Red, Lou Lou and Beautiful.

Later 90’s was JPG original and Issey Miyake.

VWGal · 08/10/2024 12:17

Body Shop Dewberry as a tween/ young teen.

Charlie Red.

Tommy Girl.

CKOne.

HolyMoly24 · 08/10/2024 12:22

The 90's smells like CK One and Jean Paul Gaultier because those are the two my mam wore when I was a kid. I love them!

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the80sweregreat · 08/10/2024 13:54

Charlie in the 80s
It was cheap and had some cool adverts for it once.
Can't wear any smellies these days at all

quantumbutterfly · 08/10/2024 14:01

4711 (70s)
Hartnell In Love (70s/80s)
Le jardin (80s)
Anais Anais (80s)
White Musk (80s/90s)
Rive Gauche (80s/90s)
Issy (90s)
Dior Poison (Lord that one lingered) (90s)
Joe Malone French Lime (discontinued 😥) (00s...still my favourite)

That'll age me.

AutumnLeaves1990 · 08/10/2024 14:05

Poison by Christian Dior 1980s
Obsession by Calvin Klein 1980s
CK one 1990s

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 08/10/2024 14:09

quantumbutterfly · 08/10/2024 14:01

4711 (70s)
Hartnell In Love (70s/80s)
Le jardin (80s)
Anais Anais (80s)
White Musk (80s/90s)
Rive Gauche (80s/90s)
Issy (90s)
Dior Poison (Lord that one lingered) (90s)
Joe Malone French Lime (discontinued 😥) (00s...still my favourite)

That'll age me.

I wore Anaïs Anaïs the other day, several people asked me what my 'lovely perfume' was. After that I'm ordering some L'air du Temps too 😂

Ridingthegravytrain · 08/10/2024 14:09

Cool water and eternity (for men and women) late 90s

Lavenderandbrown · 08/10/2024 14:11

In the eighties I started wearing Jessica McClintock. She had a fancy dress line initially called gunne sack(spelling?) then called Jessica McClintock and introduced fragrance. It was a white floral and I STILL
wear it today. And I still receive compliments on it. Every time I try to change over to a
newer white floral I just can’t. It’s less available so following MN threads advice I have a bottle in reserve in a dark temp controlled cabinet. I still love it. It’s truly my signature smell

AutumnLeaves1990 · 08/10/2024 14:16

Exclamation circa 1990

AmeliaEarache · 08/10/2024 14:19

The late 80s were big on the heavy, headache-inducing perfumes, weren’t they?
Poison, Samsara, Ysatis

quantumbutterfly · 08/10/2024 14:24

AmeliaEarache · 08/10/2024 14:19

The late 80s were big on the heavy, headache-inducing perfumes, weren’t they?
Poison, Samsara, Ysatis

A little went a long way 😂
But I also had Issy & Tommy during the day, they were much lighter and Issy disappeared very quickly.

Body shop white musk was pleasant and ubiquitous.

mewkins · 08/10/2024 14:27

CK eternity was very much the mid 90s for me. I still like smelling it.

Dontlletmedownbruce · 08/10/2024 14:27

Tresor in 1990s for me

quantumbutterfly · 08/10/2024 14:32

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 08/10/2024 14:09

I wore Anaïs Anaïs the other day, several people asked me what my 'lovely perfume' was. After that I'm ordering some L'air du Temps too 😂

Le Jardin & Anaïs Anaïs (c&p'd your diaeresis😉) take me back to cars full of friends on nights out. The atmosphere in the car was a heady combo of hairspray, shower gel, perfume and whatever other scented cosmetics we'd used.😂We were probably a bit light headed by the time we arrived.

WhyamIinahandcartandwherearewegoing · 08/10/2024 14:36

Elizabeth Arden Green tea was a late 90s fave. Did love a bit of CKone also. Not - I REPEAT NOT - a fan of the migrainetastic Poison, Opium etc…

Cool Water was a solid thumbs up on the menfolk 👍

PatsyPatsysaid · 08/10/2024 14:37

fluoxe · 08/10/2024 12:14

For me the 90s are Sunflowers - Elizabeth Arden, but I grew up in the US so not sure if it was the same in the UK? Every girl I knew doused herself in Sunflowers.

What about the other decades?

My favourite! Wear it every day

TeaAndCakeFTW · 08/10/2024 14:38

Early 90s - Benneton hot/cold, charlie, exclamation

Late 90s - ck1, red jeans, very Valentino, Gloria by cacharel

00s - Dior addict, Ralph Lauren glamorous, hypnotic poison, Hugo boss

10s - hypnotic poison

20s - ck1, hypnotic poison

AmeliaEarache · 08/10/2024 14:39

Mid 80s - Insignia marketed for young lads. Body wash, deodorant, aftershave, cologne, the whole works. My teenage cousin would have the air shimmering around him because of the thick fug of product smell
😂😂😂

Which made a change from Brut (lads only, fathers wore Old Spice)

AlaskaThunderfuckHiiiiiiiii · 08/10/2024 14:39

I was a teen in the 00s so it was Britney Spears fantasy, J Lo glow and Hugo boss deep red

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 08/10/2024 14:39

quantumbutterfly · 08/10/2024 14:32

Le Jardin & Anaïs Anaïs (c&p'd your diaeresis😉) take me back to cars full of friends on nights out. The atmosphere in the car was a heady combo of hairspray, shower gel, perfume and whatever other scented cosmetics we'd used.😂We were probably a bit light headed by the time we arrived.

My phone did it automatically 😂

piscofrisco · 08/10/2024 14:40

I still wear the classic issey miyake every day. I'm
Hoping it's now considered classic as opposed to dated.

Sunflowers was my signature scent aged about 15 to 21 so 95 to 2001 so I agree with your there op. Dd2 has some and she wears it occasionally now, which I love for the nostalgia.

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 08/10/2024 14:40

AlaskaThunderfuckHiiiiiiiii · 08/10/2024 14:39

I was a teen in the 00s so it was Britney Spears fantasy, J Lo glow and Hugo boss deep red

JLo Glow is SO sweet ,smells awful on me🤢

evtheria · 08/10/2024 14:42

90s-2000s kid/teen:

  • Davidoff 'Cool Water'
  • cK one and two
  • Impulse sprays, esp the one in the black tin
  • Clairol shampoos in the yellow and pink bottles
  • The Body Shop White Musk and the little pure oils they used to do in strawberry, and vanilla
  • Thierry Mugler 'Angel'
  • Acqua di Gio edt
HazzleMcDazzle · 08/10/2024 14:44

90s for me were Poison, Opium, Body Shop Dewberry, CK Escape and Amarige (which I still love)