Do they still sell these retro perfumes anywhere?

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I'm feeling a bit nostalgic and I was wondering if the following perfumes are still available in high street shops/department stores in the UK:

TAMANGO by Leonard
LA NUIT by Paco Rabanne
MUST by Cartier
MAGIE NOIRE by Lancome
ANAIS ANAIS by Cacharel (think I've seen it in a John Lewis)
CACHAREL POUR HOMME by Cacharel
EAU SAUVAGE by Dior

They do Anais Anais in Boots, along with Eden Lulu etc.

Sauvage is the one Johnny Depp advertises. I know because I said a brilliant meme where they changed it to Sausage.

Anais anais is all over the place. I even saw it in Morrisons. I love it and still wear it. It was the first proper perfume I ever got in about 1984!

Anais Anais - my favourite and I wear it often. It's in Boots, John Lewis etc.

I think the cacharel pour homme is still about too?

I used to love one called Vanderbilt I think... would love to smell it again!!

B&M have had some retro fragrances.

Thanks. I must get myself to a larger Boots. Our local one is small and they don't sell it. Or I can order it online. I like to see and touch the perfume bottles before I buy them though.

I got Anais Anais in the early 1980s and I still love it too.

@ReallyExhaustedLlama

Oh I used to have the Gloria Vanderbilt perfume too. It was given to me by my then boyfriend. I think I remember the bottle was made of 'frosted' glass or something.

I’ve just looked on Amazon, and they’re all listed there. Though didn’t see if in stock.

@Longdistance

That's brilliant. I'd never thought of buying perfumes on Amazon. Good idea. Thanks.

My first boyfriend bought me Vanderbilt too! It has a swan carved into the bottle.

I used to love one called Vanderbilt I think... would love to smell it again!!

The one in the flat oval bottle with the swan on the front? Came in a pink box? They still sell it lots of places in Aus, for about $20. It was my absolute fave too, in about 1990! Loved it.

@HuskyMcClusky

Yes, the swan and the pink box. Now I remember! Oh happy days.

I can recall events of the past by smelling certain perfumes. Can anyone else do this?

I can recall events of the past by smelling certain perfumes. Can anyone else do this?

Absolutely! I love it.

Sadly some perfumes eg Lulu have been reformulated and are nowhere near as nice as they once were...I know because I have a small bottle from the early 90s and compared it with one currently on sale in Boots.....the modern version is harsher and doesnt jave tjw same sexy dry down. I don't know if the likes of Anais Anais have also been cheapened?

Anais Anais doesn't smell the same as I remembered. Would that be fair to say? My best friend used to wear it as her best perfume, her everyday perfume being Body Shop White Musk.

Anais Anais, Magie Noire and Sauvage are still widely available, although the latter two have definitely been reformulated.

If you want samples of original formulations - ebay is your friend.

You need Anais Anais with "originale" on the box. It was reformulated but "originale" is as near as you'll get to the 1980s one. I am never without a bottle, it's one of my comfort food perfumes.

On another thread i read original Sauvage is now Sauvage Extreme, for the proper version.

I bought some YSL Paris recently (in the 80s I wore that or LouLou ) and the Paris didn't smell the same

Paris has been slightly reformulated, and of course there are now eleventy billion flankers.
You can.luckily pick up 80s Paris on ebay quite easily. Look for the black/pink more matte boxes.
Oddly the (iirc) Premieres Roses (I'll check later) flanker to me smells more like the original than the reformulation of the original.

Eau Sauvage and Sauvage are different fragrances.

I've seen vanderbilt in B and M.

Why won't Coty bring back Wild Musk ?