To ask what was your first perfume and what memories it evokes?

[SmashingBIouse]

I've recently gone down a bit of a nostalgia rabbit hole, possibly because I'm turning 50 this year and I'm feeling a bit reflective. In a fit of said nostalgia I ordered a bottle of Body Shop White Musk which arrived yesterday. It was the first perfume I ever bought with money from my Saturday job in 1986 and oh my god the sucker punch of memories I was hit with when I opened the bottle! I'm 14 again and have huge hair and I tell everyone that the Smiths are my favourite band but really I prefer A-ha. I still live in my home town and I have ugly glasses and I'm starting my GSCE coursework. I'm in love with Jesse in the sixth form because he reads poetry and has a quiff but he would never notice me and anyway he's going out with one of the cool drama club girls who has a bob and smokes. She probably wears some dead exotic French perfume though, not White Musk.

I wore WM for several years and it brings back so many memories, including my first gig (obscure rock band nobody remembers)/kiss (not Jesse sadly)/drink (Taboo mixed with lemonade).

Who wants to join me on an olfactory trip down memory lane?!

(By the way White Musk is still lovely and I plan to wear it regularly!)

@ANameChangeAgain

Lulu, it smelt like plastic somehow but me and all my girls friends in the 80s loved it! It reminds me of watching trash on the TV with the girls, eating Philias Fog crisps and drinking Taboo!

Ahhhh Lulu me too

Eau Folle. By Guy Laroche. My parents took me into a parfumerie in France and the lady in the shop helped me choose it. I was early teens.

It came in a striped plastic ball. I loved it but unfortunately discontinued

Corruti 1881

White Musk then I moved onto Anais Anais and also LouLou.

I had a sniff of M&S Florentyna in the shop the other day and it transported me to the 90s when everybody’s mum seemed to wear it.

I remember that Monsoon perfume blue bottle with the copper top too.

Burberry Weekend. Before that I had Red Diesel that belonged to my mum and So Kiss Me

Way back, 1968. Hypnotique (in a cat shaped bottle!) Max Factor I think. Used to buy it from my babysitting money.