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Discontinued fragrances!

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lalawalkonby · 05/09/2023 21:47

Lighthearted, but in the past month I have discovered 2 of my favourite fragrances have been discontinued! One a perfume, one a home fragrance:
Jo Malone Orris & Sandalwood
Kew Gardens Damson & Jasmine
I'm so sad as both fragrances have strong associations for me and smell is my most powerful sense.
Anyone else had any fragrances discontinued they wish weren't?

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evtheria · 05/09/2023 22:01

Stella McCartney 'Stella'
the old YSL 'la nuit de l'homme'
Gucci 'Envy Me', I didn't wear it but loved smelling it on others

anxiousannie63 · 05/09/2023 22:02

I absolutely loved Stella by Stella McCartney and Dolly Girl by Anna Sui. In my youth I also liked Escada Magnetism but I think it would give me a headache now!

smooththecat · 05/09/2023 22:02

MadisonAvenue · 05/09/2023 21:54

I’ve still not got over Body Shop discontinuing the perfume of my teens, Dewberry.

Lush discontinued Orange Blossom for a few years. It was a favourite of mine and evoked so many memories. They’ve reintroduced it but only in a 100ml bottle at £100 and I can’t bring myself to pay that much for a bottle of perfume.

Definitely try out the lush one first if you do buy it. They have been reformulated.

Purpleavocado · 05/09/2023 22:02

I still can't believe it about the Stella, I am eeking out my bottle

martha4clark · 05/09/2023 22:03

Overthinkingperhaps · 05/09/2023 21:59

New West by Aramis.
Baby Rose Jean's versace

Both take me right back to the 90s and I wish I could still buy them.

Absolutely loved New West!!! Would love to smell it again.

QueenMegan · 05/09/2023 22:03

Bergamot & Patchouli body oil spray I think it was called by Body Shop

White musk oil the modern version smells like cats piss

EufyProsser · 05/09/2023 22:04

Clinique Wrappings
Body Shop Roma
Illamasqua Freak
Mac Velvet Teddy

All much missed.

rookiemere · 05/09/2023 22:04

Sicily by Dolce e Gabbana , I'm still eaking out my bottle of it from must be about 2006 now Blush

Fabellini · 05/09/2023 22:06

New West by Aramis
and two that were very cheap and cheerful but I absolutely loved when I was a teenager…
Lemon Drench by Boots 17, and one whose name I can’t remember but was from Miss Selfridge. I reeked of either one or the other for several years!

selfishjeanss · 05/09/2023 22:06

Overthinkingperhaps · 05/09/2023 21:59

New West by Aramis.
Baby Rose Jean's versace

Both take me right back to the 90s and I wish I could still buy them.

New West is mine too..annoyingly, they still make the aftershave. I read recently that Crabtree & Evelyn's "la Source' is similar ...but of course that's discontinued now too...sigh typical

SatelliteStomper · 05/09/2023 22:07

notlucreziaborgia · 05/09/2023 21:56

Traversee du Bosphore by L’artisan Parfumeur.

It hurts 🥲

I hear ya. I lost out on a half-full bottle on ebay recently. Gutted.

Tyrannosaurusdrip · 05/09/2023 22:07

Ted Baker did a purple one? I wore it on my wedding day and its discontinued. I still have the bottle so give it a sniff when I come across it. Its talcy and gorgeous.

Jean Paul Gaultier Ma Dame
Lemony and summery and just yu. I bought this when we went to Italy. Loved it

BranchGold · 05/09/2023 22:08

estee Lauder - beautiful sheer.

I feel so much nostalgia just thinking about it, and every time I’m in a department store with an Estée Lauder stand I mooch around hopefully that it will be sitting there on the shelf.

TheGrimSqueakersFlea · 05/09/2023 22:08

Ysl Nu. Never found anything close to it

SatelliteStomper · 05/09/2023 22:09

@EufyProsser Wrappings is usually re-released every Xmas, it's just not available during the rest of the year.

PrincessHoneysuckle · 05/09/2023 22:10

"Gio" by armani.Gutted .
Can still smell it now its the smell of early 00's nights out.

PrincessHoneysuckle · 05/09/2023 22:11

Exasperatednow · 05/09/2023 21:57

Gio.

Not Aqua di Gio

Gio....sigh....

Yes! Noone else remembers it

Whowahway123 · 05/09/2023 22:11

Grass by Gap
stella Peony
😒

but I did find an unopened bottle of michael kors signature in the velvet cover in my wardrobe last week 😍

Lemonyyy · 05/09/2023 22:11

Body shop Moroccan rose.

It was the first perfume I bought myself and it was the only rose I felt wasn’t too old lady ish or prim. I have tried many rose perfumes since but no such luck!

And whilst it continues to be rereleased in new formulations, L’occitane the vert is not the same, it is less complex and less full than it used to be. Not to mention they released it as half the volume for the same price….it was my wedding perfume, and I kept the bottle so I could wistfully sniff now and then!

sleepyscientist · 05/09/2023 22:12

DKNY delicious nights was the fragrance of my uni years.

Some of the above are on essence vault.

happydivorcee · 05/09/2023 22:13

Benefit’s Maybe Baby, that matched the Bathina products.

Another vote for the Ghost Summer Moon of 2003!

nickdrakeslovechild · 05/09/2023 22:14

Dune summer sun, loved it

GlitterDragon · 05/09/2023 22:14

Gucci Flora :(

Pebblesflintstoneandbambamrubble · 05/09/2023 22:14

Wild musk by coty

I'd sell my soul for another bottle of that stuff

I used to save up my wages as a teen to buy it-musky but with a twist

I've seen it for sale but the reviews say it's not the same and doesn't last

Miragelifeguard · 05/09/2023 22:16

Armani Elle City Glam… the pink one 😢