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Living*Doll*Vintage

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I bumped in to THIS website just now.

OMG~ I can still smell the Love's Baby Soft and Coty Sweet Earth I wore in high school, the Victoria by Victorias Secret I alway wore around the time I had my first baby...

I wonder if my daughter will think back fondly on the J Lo Glow she wears now :wub:
 
I'm a BAKIR woman; but at $350 for the cologne, I don't think I'm a buyer. It was an extremely heavy Egyptian? scent that I'm sure was designed specifically for ladies from newly oil-affluent countries in the 80s. Went well with the blue-white skin, grey lipstick and lavender assymetrical bob in the day.
 
Am I allowed 2 silly stories?

Sometime in the 90s, I was trudging around Clackamas Town Center, a mammoth enclosed mall....and had a scent epiphany. NEEDED some patchouli oil, something I hadn't owned since the very early 60s.

Bought some, dabbed it on....and everywhere I went, heads popped up, nostrils twitching. People I'd never seen before sidled over to confide war stories of the 60s. Protest marches. Freedom Rides. Woodstock. The Haight.

Mind you, this was before 60s nostalgia; hippies were WAY out of style....the tales were whispered, like guilty confidences.
 
Bring on all the stories!!!

Scent is such a powerful memory rattler~ I'll get this lost look on my face just standing in line at the grocery store because I smell the same cologne my favorite aunt wore and am back in her kitchen listening to her and my mom laugh and talk~
 
I can't smell Windsong without remembering my mom's birthday. My dad would come home from work with a huge bottle of Windsong every year. My grandmother's scent at age 90 is still to this day Chantilly. My own scent is Shalimar and I wonder if my girls will remember the scent when I'm gone.
 
My mom has always worn Windsong too~ My dad would always bring home a bottle at Christmas and have us kids help wrap it and give it to her. I keep the tradition going by having my kids give grandma Windsong for Christmas too~
 
I absolutely cannot STAND the smell of cigarettes, but I love the smell of cut tobacco. My Grandpa has smoked a pipe for the majority of my life, so the smell takes me back to sitting on his lap as a kid, smelling his tobacco bag in his shirt pocket.
 
My sister got a bottle of Emeraude for her birthday when she was around 10 years old. A few weeks later she broke her arm (okay I broke her arm but that's a story for another day). The cast started to smell after awhile so she kept spraying Emeraude in there. It smelled so bad!! Later on in life, a tiny whiff of the stuff would make her gag!!! My Grandma sent her some as a gag gift one year, it was hilarious!!!
 
I too loved the smell of my grandfathers pipe tobacco, it was a lovely sweet smell not like cigarettes at all!

I remember Evening in Paris, when I was a little girl, the cobalt blue bottle fascinated me, although I was never that keen on its actual scent.

I remember wearing Love's Lemon Scent and for a time wore that men's cologne called Canoe by Dana in my teens.

One of my all time favorites and I still use it from time to time is Guerlain's L'Heure Bleue, I like a lot of Guerlain's Scents, Shalimar is another preferred one.

Yves St Laurent's Champagne was nice and I liked Todd Oldham's as well.

I like the very heady somewhat musky scents in the winter and prefer light scents in the summer.
 
This isn't so much a scent story, but sort of similar. Ok, well maybe not.

When I was little, my sister had just gotten a brand new Sugar Plum Bonnie Bell Lipsmacker chapstick, and apparently I ate it before she could ever use it. It's long since been discontinued, but to this day she reminds me of how mad she was. I always keep a lookout for it, because how cool of a present would that be?
 
:hysterical: Kim - my youngest sister did that to my Dr. Pepper Lip Smacker - not the little chapstick sized ones they sell now, but the HUGE 4" x 1" tubes they made when they came out in the 70's!
And I was the one who got in trouble for leaving it where she could reach it:duh2:

If I find a Sugar Plum LS I'll send it your way - that would be a STITCH!
 
oh boy!! i'm a fragrance-aholic!!

yes, yes, remembering Love's Baby Soft. also in the 70's ( i think it was) i found a fragrance by Givenchy called Yram (mary spelled backwards!) and i LOVED it, (not made anymore tho) also wore another earthy fragrance, um, ambergris, think it was called (something to do w/sperm whales, and musky scents like that) (sounds gross, but i USED to really like it ) and another one by Coty, hmm. not remembering the name anymore and it's another one not made anymore, either

i found that i tend to wear masculine fragrances better than "girly" ones, i actually wore Chaps for a while, and got so MANY compliments on it from MEN!! back when i was single and club-hopping 3 - 5 nights a week, that was a very "successful" fragrance... :wub: also, Paco Robanne.

but a couple of my all-time favorites (on me) are Nocturnes de Caron, Chanel No. 5 and Filigree.

oh, and Mark (my younger goofy brother) used to use Pert shampoo for years, just loved that fresh and clean smell on him!! he also wore Pierre Cardin successfully, which i still love to this day, it reminds me of him :)

loved the scent of old spice after shave/deoderant, reminds me of my dad when we were kids and would go on family vacations, being in a hotel room and "smelling" dad first thing in the morning before we'd hit the road! loved it

mom wore many fragrances over the years, so can't really pin one down for her...hmmm, that actually seems odd, she loved them so much, too

whew! what a drive down memory lane!! thanks, Sharon!
 
I just remembered Hai Karate for men!! The commercials were a hoot too!

When we were about 16, my girlfriend had a party in her rec room and someone spilled alcohol on the rug. Well, one of the Italian boys pulled out a mini bottle of Hai Karate from the back pocket of his flares and squirted it on the spill so her parents wouldn't smell it!! The things you remember!!!
 
DH works for Givaudan Fragrance Company and when he comes home he always smells of whatever perfume they were working with that night. When he first started working there he was feeling rather upset and we were trying to figure out why. He finally figured it out. His grandfather worked for Conagra Products in Lyndhurt, NJ and the reason he was upset was that he was smelling the scents that his grandfather came home smelling of all those years ago. Once he figured it out he took comfort from those smells.
 
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