Old perfumes I'm loving!

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Currently obsessed(!) with CK Obsession! It's an oldie but a goodie! Anyone else revisiting older perfumes?

Shalimar by Guerlain
Joy by Jean Patou
Goya by Aqua Manda

I do remember also having a bottle of "Sunflowers" when j was a kid and used to spray it on my Barbies in farrrr too large quantities and would stink my room out... I still get flashbacks now

I'm wearing Cerrutti 1881 now. My friend sniffed me and asked why I remindedher of 1998!

I miss Ma Griffe. My aunty used to wear it.

I took a little notion for older perfumes again recently.
Have been wearing; cerutti 1881, Nina Ricci premier jour, Lancôme miracle and issey miyake l’eau de issey

Ysatis. I think it fell out of favour a bit, but I'm not quite sure why! I like it — floral at first sniff, but lots of depth under that.

Madam Rochas. No longer do perfume, just eau de toilette and it's not the same at all - nasty old powdery compact smell. Poor DH tracked down and there is a teeny trace / reminiscence but not the same.

CK Obsession is lovely and not that old.

My idea of 'old' perfume is Charlie & Tweed, neither of which I ever used but remember others doing so.

When I was younger, Opium and Anais Anais were popular.

I bought my all time favourite perfume last week that I first got in 1996!

Poeme by Lancôme.
It came out in 1995 and was marketed as attracting people to you! 17year old me liked the sound of that

I still get strangers asking me what I'm wearing so it must sort of work...
Bloody love it and £30 a bottle for the Eau de parfum is pretty good.

Polkadots- Ysatis has been reformulated out of all recognition- I have an old bottle from the late 80s and it's spicy and magnificent- the new (purple packaging) reform is a travesty.

I also snagged a bottle of old Obsession and again, no comparison to the over sweet reformulation- when I smelled the reform a couple of years ago, I thought it was me that had changed, then went to ebay and got a bottle of the old stuff. It was my signature in the late 80s and a real groundbreaker and gamechanger.

I miss Armani White and D&G By. Both gorgeous, but discontinued.

I used to wear Bodyshop White Musk perfume oil in my youth and got SO many compliments on it. Tried it again last year and it smells nothing like it used to. Either I changed or it did.

OMG the Kangol one! So glad someone else remembers it it came in a little set of 5, can’t remember what the other were.

I also loved one I used to buy in Boots as a teen. Tall glass bottle with a green exclamation mark on it. It was amazing.

Aromatics too by Clinique - brings back many memories. The blueberry one at body shop also reminds me of school!

There was a dirt-cheap one called Exclamation back when I was about 12 (in a bottle styled like an exclamation mark, obvs) which I loved. Pretty sure they don't make it any more but smells can be remarkably evocative and it would take me straight back to the early 90s if it was still around. My mum always used to wear Opium, so that has much the same effect.

If we're talking defunct perfumes that I wish would come back, it would be Kingdom by Alexander McQueen.

@Gracemarks I think we are talking about the same one! Ahh it was lovely. I did a quick Google and it was by Coty and you can buy it online, the bottle looks different though.

I've been thinking recently about getting a bottle of Ralph Lauren Safari. I had a miniature bottle of it about 20 years ago (part of a gift set) and I loved it. Haven't smelt it since then though so might not like it anymore but would love to try it again.

Gracemarks - I had a bottle of Exclamation also and loved it! Might try to get a bottle for my 12 year old dd.

@MessyBun247 I bet it smells like arse though... I loved sweet smells back then and used to be obsessed with Angel by Thierry Muegler, but now it makes me feel vaguely sick!

I loves Wings - think it was by Georgio Beverley Hills.

Ahhhhh Dior addict, pack rabanne ultraviolet (both still widely available) remind me so much of my younger days!

Also loved cerruti 1881 and benneton had a perfume (maybe called colours?) that I would LOVE to sniff again.

Oh! And Tocade! My all time fave !

I wore Estee Lauder White Linen all through the 80s. I know it's a classic but blimey! I couldn't wear it now.

I used to love Floris Carnation which is long gone - you can't use the ingredients that made it so spicily wonderful then.

ohholy I was going to treat myself to a bottle of By... Then saw the eBay prices!

I'm sure I saw exclamation in superdrug not long ago. Although tbf I don't wear my glasses as frequently as I ought.

I still love the diesel red.

Cabotine, Fidji and Anais Anais are bloody lovely. Yay for (bargain) old style perfumes!

Estee Lauder Beautiful. Worn it for 25 years and I still another bottle every christmas.

L’air du temps - my mother always used to wear it. Nothing else comes close!