To ask what your favourite perfume of yesteryear is/was?

[BowieFan]

Inspired by the other perfume thread, it got me thinking about what I used to wear as a teenager. I will forever miss Tramp, Moon Drops and anything by Yardley!

What are your favourite scents from years gone by?

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Another vote for Max Factor geminesse. I loved that :( My signature perfume is obsession. I bought a bottle with my first wages back in 1989 and still love it now.

Tommy Girl and the body spray, o2. I loved them!

Anais Anais
Blue Grass
Charlie Original

I had a little sample bottle of something called Air, can't remember who it was by but I loved it! Not been able to find it since.

Some of these are taking me right back. Pretty peach reminds me of Christmas morning when I was about 8.
Exclamation
Anna sui the one with a handbag shaped bottle. Got this one for Christmas and it's still nice.
Contradiction

Paris
Champagne
Opium
Obsession. The bottle had a tassle on. My mums bottle leaked & burnt the paint off the bathroom windowsill!
Issey mistake
Acqua di gio the men's aftershave I used to wear a lot!
Body shop oceanus

YY Geminesse and Cachet

Madame Rochas

Ma Griffe - so edgy!

The much-missed Coty Chypre

A gorgeous cheapo - Stowaway's Orient Express

Oh Rainflower, my mum had a bottle when I was little and I loved it, great name too. I am so glad you said it LyingWitchinthewardrobe
Mine were the same as a lot of people have said but I also loved one that Miss Selfridge did in the 90's. It was called Ten I think it was in Roman Numerals on the bottle, I think about it a bit too much. I always go back to Coco edp in the end.

Benetton Colors and CK one
Still wear the latter.

Does anyone remember the perfumes in tap shaped bottles called hot and cold? I thought they were the business

Fuzzy peach from The Body Shop, and Exclamation.

Anna Sui in the shape of a handbag
All about eve by joop

Someone mentioned it upthread, Les Belles by Nina Ricci, the original one. Sadly discontinued but I absolutely adored it (still get given an internet sourced bottle occasionally and its just as lovely.

Original Charlie
Laughter ...I think it was a Yardley one
Panache

Tommy Girl
Oh de Moschino
Gucci Envy (the original one, not Envy Me. So hard to get hold of now )

Also, a pp mentioned Hot Couture by Givenchy - Boots sell this still, noticed it in a big store near me quite recently!

Oh forgot Aromatiques...wore that when pg with DD1..
O de Lancome
Magie Noire..I still love it
Tresor
Dune
Obsession

I loved and still love Coco and Cinnabar. Chanel No 19 reminds me of my late teens/early 20s. Tom Ford did something called Youth Dew Amber Nude for Estée Lauder a few years ago and I still have some - goes for big bucks on eBay now.

Oh I totally forgot about Chique...used to dowse myself in that going to school in late teens ...smelled like a whore in distress...

At school it was always dewberry, white musk or exclamation.
My first Saturday job was on a perfume counter so I bought loads. Lou lounge which I hate now. Jean Paul gaultier. Loved issey miyake l'eau d'isse as well.
I worked there when CK1 launched bought a bottle recently for nostalgia after I smelled it on someone else.
Loved gucci envy was gutted when they discontinued it.

Tom Ford did something called Youth Dew Amber Nude for Estée Lauder a few years ago and I still have some - goes for big bucks on eBay now.

Doesn't perfume go off? How long do you use it for? I discard it after 18 months or so in case it's going off.

Gloria Vanderbilt. Got through bucketfuls of the stuff. Think it was discontinued. Also LouLou and Channel No 5.

Clean cotton from Avon, I now love Ck 1

Anyone for Fidji? I used it a lot in late teens early twenties.

Marking place for a wonderful catchup later!

I am obsessed with old/vintage perfumes, but to keep it brief today, the ones I associate most with my childhood were:

Ma Griffe
Je Reviens
Chantilly

All worn by my Gran

June (teeny tiny bottle- worn by my other Gran)

Moonwind, Timeless,- favourite Avon ones

I was given a bottle of Apple Blossom (Helena Rubinstein) and Heaven Sent (ditto) by my next door neighbour, my Mum let me keep the HS but poured the AB away as it gave her a migraine.

Mum herself had Emeraud, Caleche (still does) Mystere de Rochas and all the other usual suspects.

I asked for Elle (Faberge) one Christmas and was given the parfum, another teeny bottle.

The Impulse of my choice was the black one, Nirvana, or the pink one Captivation.

I grew into Givenchy III, Anais Anais, Ysatis, Obsession.....and still have bottles of all of them.

Perfume doesn't go off if it is kept properly- I snagged vintage bottles of Dioressence and Diorella recently, from the 70s and they are perfect.

Dowhatnow - this one hasn't gone off - I do keep my perfumes in a cool drawer, so they are not exposed to light. I did have a bottle of Happy "turn", but I've just finished a bottle of Mitsouko that was years old and still smelt fine.



Loved and bathed in this stuff aged 16!
Also loved Tommy Girl, White Musk, Dewberry and quite often for birthdays and Christmas got bought those multi-pack vials from Next! Think they all smelt pretty much the same though...