Aibu to return to the perfume of my youth?

[TheoneandObi]

This dates my youth to early eighties I think but the only perfume I've ever truly adored was Anais Anais. I'm now 54. And I can conjure the scent in y imagination. Is it the fragrance version of mutton dressed as lamb if I wore it now?

You should go for it. I loved Anais Anais too - it was my first ‘posh’ perfume as a teenager and I treasured it, but find it gives me a headache now sadly. One word of warning though - I have noticed that pregnancy, post partum and menopause all affect your body chemistry so some perfumes, even if not reformulated, can smell very different to the way you remember.

AnaisAnais, CKone, Dewberry & White Musk from the Body Shop and Exclamat!on for me.

Someone mentioned Cerrutti 1881 which I loved too. Unfortunately that’s another one that now gives me a sinus headache! However, Elizabeth Arden White Tea (the original one , not a flanker) smells almost identical and is lovely.
Like the OP I too have an age related perfume dilemma. I keep looking at Estée Lauder Youth Dew wistfully as I love the smell but am wondering if it is too ageing ...

If you’re getting some of that, I’m getting myself a bottle of Tribe !

I loved it - everyone else hated it, but now I’m passed caring what others think anyway

I used to love Anais Anais in the 80s and White Linen by Estée Lauder

Oh gosh I loved White Linen too!

Classics are
Fine!instill love Mademioselle coco and Prada ... and still wear them, as well as the Tiffany fragrance which I also love -
Worn all of those for years!

This takes me back. I loved LouLou and Anais Anais.

I bought the perfume of my youth last summer. It was Ocean Dream by Giorgio, and it had a little pearl on the bottle. I loved it then and I was really happy wearing it last summer too!

Estee Lauder - White Linen always smelled do lovely and fresh. I liked Private Collection as well.

Samsara in the winter since I was 17. Clarins in the red bottle for summer for many years now. Gio D’acua in my twenties, but I won’t buy that again as my ex used to buy it for me. Noa by Cacherel possibly. 4711 definitely.

Going through old boxes of stuff in the garage recently I found an old bottle of Monsoon perfume, took me straight back to 1994!

Givenchy III (sigh)

Remember the first time I smelt it. Walking through perfume counters with my mother and elder sister. I was just beginning to be interested in make up and stuff. A demonstrator stepped to offer me a spray of Givenchy III. First time they had ever targeted me rather than my sister or mother.

And she was right, I loved it, they liked it on me but not in themselves.

Often wonder whether that was just a coincidence or something more woo-woo

As for the travesty that was the reformulated version, the less said the better.

I still wear White Linen!

Can you still buy it?

I'm.still wearing Exclamation and white musk . The one I really miss is Deci Dela by Nina Ricci, can't get it anywhere at all many more (apart from the 1 bottle on Amazon for £414!!)

@FinallyHere totally with you on the reformulation, complete travesty.
@Maireas wow, private collection, haven't thought of that in years! I was 20, why was I wearing a perfume suited to a 40 year old woman??? Ditto Samsara, which gave me a migraine every single time, but I still wore it 🙄. Also used to love an Estee Lauder or possibly Elizabeth Arden perfume called (I think) Alize,.

@DameCelia 🙁

p.s. love your name

@FinallyHere, I haven't strangled any moles for a very long time. The other heavy hitter perfume I was trying to remember was Alliage.

The beauty of perfume is that it can be worn by anyone! its a matter of taste.

However perfume fashions change and it is not a modern scent, think of it as a classic!

FWIW Its beautiful. My mother was never without a bottle, she wore it into her 60s (but not exclusively)

Buy some! its not expensive - but you must do a smell check first to avoid being disappointed.
Our tastes evolve and reformulations occur with depressing regularity in the perfume industry.

Does anyone remember Ma Griffe perfume?

My favourites were Apple Blossom (Helena Rubinstein)
Fidji (Guy la Roche)
Rive Gauche (still wear it)
Aqua Manda
Alliage

I used to love Ma Griffe!!
Aqua Manda, very orangey. Nice bottle.

Blasé! I got a sample with a magazine (Mizz?) at an impressionable age

Ma Griffe, very fresh and green. My colleague wore it back in the day. I wore mostly Coco (which has definitely been reformulated, it's a shadow of it's 80s self). Another girl wore Calvin Klein Obsession.

Jeez our office must have reeked!