1980s Impulse fragrance

[FleetwoodRaincoat]

I'm aware that this sounds ridiculous but I've got a real craving to smell an Impulse body spray that I used to use in the 1980s.

It may have been a special edition, would definitely have been around 1981 or 82. It was in a can that was yellow and purple. Can anyone help with a name please?

I've contacted Unilever but they need more info, so not very helpful.

Obviously they probably don't still make it, but to find something similar would be great.

I remember one called 'Oriental Dream' that was in a purple can, but that would have been from 1986 at the earliest, so probably not the one.

I've just googled "impulse spray 1980s" and loads of images come up (click on images tab). It might be worth you having a scroll through to find the one you remember?

Jeunesse??

I used to love Gypsy but that was white, brown and yellow as far as I remember. I'd like to get some again. I also remember the one you mean but can't remember the name.

I loved the orange one, smelt oddly like cigars! Nicer though!!

Any of these? Maybe it was Gypsy. I remembered the colours wrong!

And how to spell it

Thanks all. I've Googled it, but can't seem to find the right one. I remember that everyone used to have the brown one (first one in that pic).

From what I can remember, the yellow kind of merged into purple at the top, or the other way round. Maybe I should just go into a shop after lockdown and try them all out

Might buy some Anne French at the same time ...

@fleetwoodraincoat mine I loved was the orange one.. Loved it!!
Any chance it was the purple one next to it?

And now you've got me wanting my old one and malibu musk.. (diff make) Loved that spray!!

You're reminding me of the funk in the locker room at school. Feeling a tightness in my chest. Also getting flashbacks of very puffy hairsprayed fringes

I used to love Captivation. Pink bottle.

@GreenClock

I used to love Captivation. Pink bottle.

Captivation is me au-pairing in Spain in 1987 💕

Hint of Musk was obligatory at my school.

Was it free spirit?

Impressions was my fave, back around ‘87.

On wow, Gypsy was my favourite.
I used to save my pocket money to buy it (along with Constance Carroll Juicy Fruit Lip gloss roller!)
Looking back, that was the start of my beauty obsession

I liked Vanila Kisses. White matt bottle with butterflies. A bit later, probably mid 90s.

Free Spirit was early 90's I think. 13 and drenched in that and Charlie Red!

I miss Free Spirit. ☹

Chic by Impulse was my 1980s bag. Red can. Oh god I can smell it now. I felt impossibly French. I also remember the TV ad was a little bit risqué but also involved the model spraying herself dangerously close to her 'womanly parts'. My close reading of Mizz magazine meant I was acutely aware that this was a recipie for a thrush disaster.

Was it Impulse Dynamique?

@Malin52
Oooh Mizz - I lusted after that magazine but my mum wouldn't let me get it. I had to settle for Girl. I also wanted Just Seventeen but mum took the title literally and said I couldn't get it until I was 17. By 17, I'd moved onto More and Cosmo

Haha yes - Just 17 was a misnomer really - we’d all moved up to Cosmo and More by then.

I remember the Impulse ad with the well-dressed man chasing a woman up am escalator to give her flowers. Would seem a bit twee and odd to young women and teens now I think, but I found it terribly glam.