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?

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I am such an enabler.

Look at that, cheap as chips.

Yes lostscot that's Polo Sport - apologies I've only just seen you replied!

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I agree with you - Rive Gauche and L'Air du Temps are in my top ten AWFUL Perfume list.

My favourite perfume ever was Versace yellow jeans. I so wish they still made it.

I used to wear Stevie B and Smitty and Tramp as well. My next door neighbour bought a bottle of Chique and it bloody honked. I used to spray meself with that as well!

cannot remember the name of the Ted Lapidus one I wore at all but smell is probably changed anyway

anyone used to wear Magie Noire by lancome? I loved that one for going out on the razz

Funnily enough, I tried Magie Noire today and fell in love with it.

I loved RL Safari, it was how my Mum smelled for the majority of my childhood. It was a very sad day in our house when that was discontinued! I'm happy it's back now (one sniff and I feel 8 years old again!) but my Mum has now moved on (to Chanel Chance). I'm irrationally upset that my DS will grow up with a different scent memory of my Mum than I have!

Gatekeeper...did comment re the Ted Lapidus perfume mentioned further up the thread, but nobody answered. Was it called Rumba ?

Or Creation? That was the Ted Lapidus I had.

My mum wore Chantilly Lace. Would love to buy her some

Not sure if it's classed as vintage yet but my all time favourite going out perfume was kingdom by Alexander McQueen. I struggle to find it nowadays as sure it's been discontinued so I'm being very stingy with the bottle that my mum managed to find off eBay a couple years ago.

Slinky, it wasn't Creation or Rumba. Wondering now if I dreamt it. It was in a selection box of miniatures I got for Xmas one year- same box as the lovely J'ai Ose- and I went out and bought a full size bottle of both as they were so lovely

Shalimar by Guerlain was my first 'grown-up' perfume. It smells really too sweet to me now, but I loved it and no one else I knew wore it, so it was 'my' smell.
I also loved YSL Opium - too strong for me now, and when I was at school Aqua Manda, cos I could afford it on my Saturday job wage!

Nowadays I wear Jo Malone Cardomen and Mimosa, or Chanel Allure.

My mother always smelled of Gardenia, but I don't know who made it.

Anais Anais was reformulated in the 80s and it became a sickly shadow of its former self. However, last year Cacharel took it back to its original formulation and it's absolutely beautiful once more. If you remember it as being cloying and awful, you may well be thinking of the 80s version. It's currently £25 for a 100ml bottle at Superdrug, so I've stocked up

Yes Anais Anais smells true to how it used to. However, beware of the flanker, Anias Anais Delices, as it is a fruity floral. Fine if you like them, but not fine if you were expecting Anais Anais, which by the way, is a bloody classic.

Yes, I also stockpile Anais Anais original, my last bottle was a whopping £10 from Amazon!

I love it not because of how it smells necessarily, but because of where it transports me to. It will always be the one, because of that.

Reg - Goya (of Aqua Manda fame) did one called simply Gardenia, which was quite popular in the 70s. Both my Mum and Gran had some.