Vintage classic perfumes you remember and love!

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Just invested in some Rive Gauche and it smells gorgeous!!! Also recently bought some Red Door and love that too. Which of the older classics do you remember and still love?

Glassgarden, Eau Jeune, green bottle, ginormous, sort if frosted glass. Sooooo lemony.
Helena Rubinstein Apple Blossom and Heaven Sent. Both banned from the house by my Mum because they were so heavy. She had Caleche, Emeraude and Miss Dior.

Not exactly vintage but I would love to get my mitts on Les Belles de Ricci, the green one. Gorgeous!

My mum used to wear Soir de Paris, blue glass bottles.

I loved Anais Anais and another one the same brand, can't remember the name. I think the bottle had a black design and a blue lid....??

It was Lou Lou

Eau Jeune, green bottle, ginormous, sort if frosted glass. Sooooo lemony
yep that was it Thenlaterwhen :o

I dont know what perfume my mum wore but it was always really heavy and headache inducing

my nan was just the same

I have a bottle of aromatics elixir by clinique, I cant wear it because it gives me a headache but now and again I smell it and when I do my Nan sort of materializes right there in the room

Opium in the 80,s !

Vent Vert was lovely - I didn't have it but loved it (didn't know it had a banned ingredient!) and I think I bought a bottle of Eau Jeune for someone as a birthday present. Apple Blossom was pretty heavy, someone in school had that!

Fidji was another one.

I still wear Anais Anais most days. I thought it was very glamorous when I was younger but couldn't afford it. (Although had cheap knock offs everytime I went abroad) Then my Grandad bought me some a few Christmases ago as he used to buy it for my late Grandma and thought I'd like it. I haven't let myself run out since.

A lot of the Clinique perfumes that I love have been killed off and yet Aromatiques Elixir remains. Incomprehensible

I don't know if it's old enough to be considered vintage (1989) but I only wear Samsara by Guerlain. It's the notes of sandalwood and jasmine that I especially love. I use it very lightly, just enough so that I can catch a scent of it. It really gives me a psychological lift.

Apple blossom was lovely... A posh friend of my mum's bought me the talc for Xmas when I was about 13.

I often wear Rive Gauche, Mitsouko, Clinique Wrappings, and my "signature scent" is Chanel 19.

One that took me through university was Carolina Herrera in the white box with black polka dots.

Hartnell In Love

Cotswold A lot of older ingredients in perfumes have been banned on environmental/ health grounds (my mother was wearing Vent Vert in the 50s/60s) , or replaced by synthetic 'smell-alikes' or they just get too expensive so the perfume houses tamper with change their formulae -- although they don't admit it!
Aromatiques Elixir is ...strange.

Je Reviens, mum used to get me a bottle every Christmas. Still have some, it must be 25 years old now. Also still have some 25 years old (at least) Rive Gauche and O de Lancome. Also have Safari ,which I adore, Eau de Givenchy, Gloria Vanderbilt and Eliz Arden's Splendour. Don't wear perfume very often but it is nice to know it's there.

Not sure if it classes as vintage ....... More that I just first bought it 20 years ago when I clearly had more money than sense as a student

But I've just bought 2 bottles of Pengaligon's Love Potion No. 9 ...... Hoping I loving it as much as i did 20 years ago!
£35 for 100ml in their sale right now, instead of £92!

Penhaligon's that should say.

Judy- that Carolina Herrera was always grabbed for a spray when I walked through Kendals in Manchester or JL in Nottingham. Thank you for reminding me, I'll put that on my memory-box-of-scents list to get hold of!

I love Aromatics Elixir. One of my colleagues wore it, and she was that sort of person, only had 6 items of clothing- but each so fabulous you wanted to snatch them off her back and the AE just topped the whole thing off perfectly!

Also agree re Anais Anais. It's my comfort food scent. I realised recently that the little samples I grabbed had been confusing me because they weren't AA originale. Now I've got a bottle of that.

My colleague wears Tommy Girl. She got it in TK Maxx recently.

I wore D&G Feminine as a young thing, and my boyfriend at the time wore D&G Masculine

I miss both scents. D&G Masculine was the best aftershave ever...sexy.

Also loved Oscar by Oscar de la Renta

Tuscany per donna. Loved that. Sniff.

Another 'real' Vent Vert lover - the modern version is not the same as the original and I really dislike it.
I also used to like Nina by Nina Ricci and the original Diorella. Nina has gone, and none of the Dior perfumes seem to smell like they once did, to me, anyway. Oh, and one called 'Antilope' by Weil - but that's also been reformulated, alas.

I used to love Diorissimo, and Tendre Poison.

My perfume memories are dewberry from the body shop, rive gauche, oscar de la renta, tresor and l'eau d'issey.

The smell of Paris reminds me of my mum and my sister's fragrance was always opium. Both of these smells gave me a headache.

I rarely wear perfume these days but this thread has set my nose twitching and I may need to see what I can find

Boys always used mandate or kouros (showing my age ).