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?

The original Miss Dior. How could they mess with it? It is nothing "like" now.

Eliza- you need Miss Dior originale- it's the mossy chypre. The new one is a sweet fruity floral.

Yes, have tried it. I guess it could be me that's changed. It just didn't "warm" the same in me.

Sorry, I thought you meant the modern Miss Dior- the fruity floral. Miss Dior Originale has been reformulated, although it's nearer the old Miss Dior than the new Miss Dior, so it's not you!

. Why mess with a classic? Beyond me!

They re-formulate them sometimes because a lot of the older perfumes contained now-banned ingredients, sometimes for cost, sometimes to make them more in line with changing tastes.

The old chypres are un-formulateable now

Amarige, anyone?

No, just me!

I LOVE Amarige, even though it's louder than a megaphone.

I used to adore Tendre Poison (the one in the green bottle) which was discontinued.

Imagine my sheer joy finding a bottle of it randomly in an old antique shop in Hastings last year. DH couldn't understand why I was so happy!

It smelt wonderful and now I ration how often I wear it

Would love to find Safari and Polo sport for women though. Wore them to death. Then had a chanel No5 phase.

Feeling all nostalgic for those now

I've just googled polo sport it's still available unless it's changed.

I have a huge bottle of Tender Poison that dh gave me - I didn't know it was discontinued! I'll go easy with it now I know

www.perfume-parlour.co.uk/tender-poizon-for-women/

Tender Poison perfume oil!

Lulu - I thought that blue bottle was so sophisticated

Ah, Cat... Didn't know that!

catfromjapan is correct. IFRA regs mean that genuine oakmoss has been banned now, so only synthetics are used. It explains why vintage chypres do so well on ebay.

many people find their old favourites smell very different now, sadly.

Anais anais

Rafinee

Poeme

Vanderbilt

Does anyone recall Giorgio?

You could smell that a mile away!

My Mum used to say Amarige smelled like an ashtray.

I quite liked it, without feeling love exactly.

Ooo another one YSL Champagne. I think they changed the name when a child DRANK IT!

These are vintage 1960's. The blue/white is Guerlain Shalimar. The gold/white are Madame Rochas. Heartbreak! They stopped making refills (and completes of these many years ago). I still love and wear Shalimar.
A niff of Helena Rubenstein's Apple Blossom would evoke a great wave of nostalgia for me - I'm sure that I still have some talc knocking around - circa 1970!!

My Mum also had Madame Rochas and Mystere de Rochas (which I always thought was Mr Rochas )

Aren't they all wonderful?

This thread has inspired me to reread Luca Turin's Perfume - a brilliant read. (He makes me snort out loud with his opinion on Amarige!)

Eliza (hello, it's me DrankSangria, your beauty stalker!) A half full bottle of vintage Miss Dior ended unsold on ebay just yesterday. I've been humming over it for ages. It looks very genuine to me. It will probably be relisted.

Love Paloma Picasso. I've been wearing it for years and couldn't imagine wearing anything else. I'd love to find a vintage bottle as I gather from reading basenotes.net, etc. it was even more heady.

I used to wear Opium when I was a teenager but having smelt it recently it's nothing like the heavyweight glam Oriental it used to be!

I liked Christian Lacroix's C'est La Vie but it didn't seem to be available for very long.

Maybe not classic (and not classy) but I loved the blue Limara body spray donkey's years ago. Can't remember the name but it contained patchouli and leather notes. Have yet to find a perfume that's a more grown up and sophisticated version of it!

My DM always wore YSL Paris growing up and if i smell it now it transports me back!

I am in fake (perfume parlour) Paloma Picasso today!

I had Impulse Nirvana (black pot) and I think, a pink one called Captivation.

What about soaps and bathcubes? Boots Lemon Grass was my favourite. (after Moonwind talc and Midas bubble bath!)