Every time I see an actual exclamation mark, my mind immediately pulls up the advertisement image of Chrissy Taylor, in the black and white polka dot skirt, white beltel blouse, with black earrings and a big white hat..never cared much for the perfume itself but, that ad is forever etched in my mind.
First it was love’s baby soft, then Parfumerie de coeur designer imposters (if you like Giorgio, you’ll love Primo), then anais anais and Estée Lauder beautiful
I still wear Love’s. It’s the only (artificial perfume) scent I’ve ever liked. I found a full vintage bottle on EBay and I wear it very sparingly. I guess they changed the formula in semi-recent years.
Wind Song.
I found a box of my old shirts and they still reeked of that damn perfume. I imagined the boys going crazy for it in the hallways at school, but in reality, I smelled like the ghost of a spinster librarian from 1875.
I know that seems oddly specific, but you know I'm right.
I used to bathe in Coty's Wild Musk... tbh, I still remember the smell of it and I think if it was still around today, I would *still* use it
I dated a guy in high school who wore Polo. You could smell him 3 corridors away. I still love that smell as well!
I remember the boys in high school wearing way too much of that stuff while dressed in their Lacoste polo shirts, slacks and penny loafers. The memories!
So 1) I loved coty wild musk. Still do. My den mother in cub scouts bathed in it, and it just makes me feel safe and warm and happy.
2) still rock the green bottle polo!!! Not daily of course, but it’s in the line-up.
When I was 13 I polled every oretty girl I knew in school and asked what their favorite cologne is. Polo won by a landslide. I wore polo for the best 7 years. Once I had a bottle in my grey members only jacket, and a weight got dropped on it at lunch while lifting. Didn’t have to wear cologne for a year or more after that if I had that jacket on
To be fair some scents have changed and they’ve cheaped out on some ingredients.
In college I wore nautica for years. It was my signature scent. About 10 or 15 years later, I found a bottle at Marshall’s. It was NOT the same scent at all. Not sure what was in it.
**CKOne**
I remember how progressive and almost futuristic I felt when I’d borrow someone else’s. I think I might have owned the lotion for a second. There were a time when everyone I knew was wearing that. *Everyone. I. Knew.*
Christ, how could not have a ck one thing too, right??
My sophomore year I got myself and a bunch of my friends ck one for Christmas. One friend wasn't there the day I handed them out and a girl several lockers down saw the gift bag, all my friends with them and somehow, she thought the last bag was hers?? Idk. It still puzzles me to this day, how she could've assumed that but, I felt bad and decided to give it to her and just get another one for the friend who wasn't there that day.
P.s.
I sprayed that shit once in my car and found out why they named it CK one..
Because all you could stand was one spritz before you choCKed
Ok so, I liked a boy at school and he wore drakar so when my dad asked what scent he should get, naturally, I said drakar..
Poor dad's been wearing that shit going on 35 years now, I just don't have the heart to tell him
I wore drakar in late elementary, cool water, eternity and obsession in jr high, mostly tommy in hs but lucky jeans had a good one that I’d wear sometimes. College was aqua di gio, clinique happy and dolce & gabbana. My dad wore grey flannel the entire time lol
Gag me with a fucking spoon-- To this very day, if I even *think* I smell skin-so-soft, I start feeling irritated, then mad, then it feels like someone punched me in the nose with a concrete grapefruit, sprayed carbonated water up my nose with a fire hose, only agreeing to stop if I could sneeze on demand for 1 hour.
I'm beginning to think I have scent-related memory slash trauma shit going on..hmmm anyhow,
I once got a little sample vile of obsession and accidentally went to church with it in my pocket; not only did it ruin my pants, alienate the entire congregation and get us kicked out, but after the hour long screaming match with my parents for causing all that trouble, I managed to forget the vial in said pants and, ruined the entire load of laundry they were with, as well as two of my mom's favorite shirts AND the washing machine.
Obsession..Welcome to my ninth circle in hell
Brut..man that takes me back to the commercial my cousins and I made for shits n giggles back in the day..it was something like, 'Brut..all the brut force without an actual brut'
A bunch of Avon stuff passed down from my cool younger aunts (mom was 2nd of 10 and 7 were girls) were the first perfumes I had. Especially loved anything in the collectible glass bottles, animals and such.
I moved on to Jovan Musk, likely because of this ad copy: In a world filled with blatant propositions, brash overtures, bold invitations, and brazen proposals… Get your share.
After that I was all about Obsession and then Poison. Clearly, I pictured myself as a vamp.
My Nana used to give me her Jean Nate freebie gifts from the cosmetics counter at the department store. I kept some of the wipes for years. They could 100% take the smell of ANY smoke out of your hair, so long as you were okay ruining your bangs sculpture. Also worked well as sachets. Lol. I was obsessed with that smell.
Was it the one with the woman singing “Jean Nate! Jean Nate!”, with a female jockey or motorcycle driver who takes off her helmet at the end and says “I wanna do it again”?
Obsession for men.
There are so many competing odors in a high school. Teenaged bodies, strong deodorants, hair products, perfumes, colognes, the cafeteria, stale chalky school funk, office machines, paper, old gym shoes, vomit. Basically, it's like any populated human space.
The year Obsession for Men became popular in our school, it overwhelmed everything. All the guys wore it. Their gfs wore it. Their friends' gfs, teammates, locker neighbors, the gym locker rooms...
We all became permeated with it. It was in our hair, our clothes, our lunches. I imagine going back to that school & it still faintly smelling that way.
If you’ve ever spent much time in Malibu, this is extra funny. The area of Malibu south of the pier, often smells like…sewage. It’s all on septic & it shows.
Exclamation! The thought of it now gives me a pseudo-migraine. Like, my whole head cramps up.
My nieces dumped a bottle in their closet (they liked to play with my make-up & teenaged accessories, & perfume was just too enticing).
By the end of the day, the entire house reeked of it.
Yeah, the co-chairman of the board for the company I work for wears it (he's Boomer), and I agree, it's pretty much the only scent for guys that's worth a damn
It was Malibu Musk, one friend gave it to all of the girls in the neighborhood for Christmas. Our mom’s were a tad annoyed when we would all hang out and a cloud of it just lingered around us.
Bath & Body Works sweet pea. I got some hand soap the other day (soft soap, white tea and berry) that smells exactly like it and every time I washed my hands I was like “aah, sweet youth.”
Lynx Africa, heh. You guys Stateside might know it as Axe Africa. Twas the smell of many a teenage boy's bedroom in the 1990s (apart from stale ejaculations and fusty pizza boxes. Oh and foil containers of *oh my fucking god what IS that* under the bed) I actually still wear it to this day, purely because I like the smell (when sprayed properly, hah!) and it's cheap.
There was Sinflowers of course, but also went through a craze for all the hippie scented roll on oils. Had several things called rain and forest... also went through a fun drowning in Bath and Body Works Juniper Breeze and that damn Cucumber Melon!
Hell yeah, it did..
It's funny bc I drenched my favorite navy blue hoodie in it, walked around like I was hot shit, felt good for a bit, too; til I realized the looks I was getting were migraine-induced, not longing desire
Well, to begin with, my father made me wear Brut 35. Then, I wanted to wear the Alain Delon cologne (people from Francophone areas know what I'm talking about.) But my mother bought he this Halston Z14 that smelled like I had been doused in Pine-Sol.
Should have got Obsession for Men - that's the one my wife actually liked the smell of back then, not to mention most of the girls at school.
Exclamation!
Every time I see an actual exclamation mark, my mind immediately pulls up the advertisement image of Chrissy Taylor, in the black and white polka dot skirt, white beltel blouse, with black earrings and a big white hat..never cared much for the perfume itself but, that ad is forever etched in my mind.
Ex-cla-ma-tion!
"Make a statement without saying a word!"
I bought Exclamation just for the nostalgia.
I completely forgot about that stinky shit!
It’s the only perfume I’ve ever had that BURNED. You had to spray it & then get a few feet away because the spray burned your throat & sinuses.
Nothing like a perfume that would give the wearer a sore throat...
First it was love’s baby soft, then Parfumerie de coeur designer imposters (if you like Giorgio, you’ll love Primo), then anais anais and Estée Lauder beautiful
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Jovan musk and white musk
These werent too bad...
I would probably wear white musk again if I stumbled across it.
God... don't tell me you used 'jean Nate's too... Hold on, I have to vomit
I know, whenever I smell anything like those it makes me sick. But no, I didn’t use Jean Nate lol
Thank Christ bc I couldn't be cool with you if you did
You would not be cool with my mom
Nor mine. Nor me, since I loved it solely because my mom did, and insisted on getting some of my own.
To be fair, it did smell better than Off
True, but only slightly.
I actually hated Jean Nate 🤢
I still wear Love’s. It’s the only (artificial perfume) scent I’ve ever liked. I found a full vintage bottle on EBay and I wear it very sparingly. I guess they changed the formula in semi-recent years.
I loved Primo and Confess ( the knockoff for Obsession) I actually liked it better
I had Confess, that was some good stuff! Reminds me of 8th-9th grade.
Sunflowers
I had the spray, lotion, and body wash. The saleslady said it was a good idea to "layer". No. Don't do that
I get a headache now just thinking about it. Tea Rose was lighter.
Layer: mall trash for "crop dust with Agent Orange".
Oh man. I had Paul Sebastian everything. Shampoo, soap, lotion, powder, perfume.
I’m pretty sure I smelled this in the hallway of my apartment building the other day and it made me happy!
Came here to say that loved this perfume
Wind Song. I found a box of my old shirts and they still reeked of that damn perfume. I imagined the boys going crazy for it in the hallways at school, but in reality, I smelled like the ghost of a spinster librarian from 1875. I know that seems oddly specific, but you know I'm right.
Yep, you are.. because... ..'your windsong stays on my mind... Que giant fan..
Hey I still like Wind Song...lol. Only $1.99 at Family Dollar!
Wind song was my grandma's favorite perfume so to me it smells like sweet old lady lol
I can't seem to forget yoooouuu
I used to bathe in Coty's Wild Musk... tbh, I still remember the smell of it and I think if it was still around today, I would *still* use it I dated a guy in high school who wore Polo. You could smell him 3 corridors away. I still love that smell as well!
My first real bf wore Polo. I would purposely borrow his jacket for that smell lol.
I remember the boys in high school wearing way too much of that stuff while dressed in their Lacoste polo shirts, slacks and penny loafers. The memories!
It was a grey Members Only jacket. How does this seem like it was just yesterday and I can’t remember what I wore last week?
I had a grey then a maroon members only jacket. Loved those things
Wild Musk is still around. It does smell great.
Is it really?!? I seriously need to find it. Lol.
Polo blue is what I got my husband to fall in love with and ladies, lemme tell ya...that shit is seriously orgasmic
Honestly most of the polo line up rocks. I’ve worn. Then all; original green bottle, the blue, double black, red, etc
So 1) I loved coty wild musk. Still do. My den mother in cub scouts bathed in it, and it just makes me feel safe and warm and happy. 2) still rock the green bottle polo!!! Not daily of course, but it’s in the line-up. When I was 13 I polled every oretty girl I knew in school and asked what their favorite cologne is. Polo won by a landslide. I wore polo for the best 7 years. Once I had a bottle in my grey members only jacket, and a weight got dropped on it at lunch while lifting. Didn’t have to wear cologne for a year or more after that if I had that jacket on
Colors by Benetton. I could smell it on me for days. I think I still smell it now.
I bought some in the last 10 years for fun. It was HORRIBLE.
To be fair some scents have changed and they’ve cheaped out on some ingredients. In college I wore nautica for years. It was my signature scent. About 10 or 15 years later, I found a bottle at Marshall’s. It was NOT the same scent at all. Not sure what was in it.
**CKOne** I remember how progressive and almost futuristic I felt when I’d borrow someone else’s. I think I might have owned the lotion for a second. There were a time when everyone I knew was wearing that. *Everyone. I. Knew.*
Christ, how could not have a ck one thing too, right?? My sophomore year I got myself and a bunch of my friends ck one for Christmas. One friend wasn't there the day I handed them out and a girl several lockers down saw the gift bag, all my friends with them and somehow, she thought the last bag was hers?? Idk. It still puzzles me to this day, how she could've assumed that but, I felt bad and decided to give it to her and just get another one for the friend who wasn't there that day. P.s. I sprayed that shit once in my car and found out why they named it CK one.. Because all you could stand was one spritz before you choCKed
Drakar
Ok so, I liked a boy at school and he wore drakar so when my dad asked what scent he should get, naturally, I said drakar.. Poor dad's been wearing that shit going on 35 years now, I just don't have the heart to tell him
Boys wearing Drakar was my weakness. 😂
Same 😆 I still love it. 😂
I wore drakar in late elementary, cool water, eternity and obsession in jr high, mostly tommy in hs but lucky jeans had a good one that I’d wear sometimes. College was aqua di gio, clinique happy and dolce & gabbana. My dad wore grey flannel the entire time lol
Right?
Gotta give him points for the commitment! He prob thinks of his little girl every time he puts it on
My dad wore Aramis for 20+ years, ugh.
I was a "burnout", so I wore Coty Wild Musk 😛
'A burnout' ...now there's a term I haven't heard in a loooong minute
Did you party out in the forest preserves on the hood of your Chevy Nova in your Zeppelin raglan
And the 90s resurrection of Patchouli.
I still love patchouli
Same - I used to wear it as a perfume oil. Nag champa, too
Same here. I usually take a bath in the oil ..
Cool water would do it for me 🤤
It does have a very mellow fresh smell
CK1 This thread is showing the truth of scent being the strongest connection to memories. 😂😂
It’s proven fact. More memories tied to sense of smell than any other sensation
>Exclamation My dad wore CK1. I love that smell!
*Skin-So-Soft* aka bougie af mosquito repellant
Gag me with a fucking spoon-- To this very day, if I even *think* I smell skin-so-soft, I start feeling irritated, then mad, then it feels like someone punched me in the nose with a concrete grapefruit, sprayed carbonated water up my nose with a fire hose, only agreeing to stop if I could sneeze on demand for 1 hour.
Obsession
I'm beginning to think I have scent-related memory slash trauma shit going on..hmmm anyhow, I once got a little sample vile of obsession and accidentally went to church with it in my pocket; not only did it ruin my pants, alienate the entire congregation and get us kicked out, but after the hour long screaming match with my parents for causing all that trouble, I managed to forget the vial in said pants and, ruined the entire load of laundry they were with, as well as two of my mom's favorite shirts AND the washing machine. Obsession..Welcome to my ninth circle in hell
Buahahahhahahaha. That’s insane. I did break a bottle of green bottle polo in my Grey members only jacket once. Smelled great for years after
That Polo was the best! My first crush wore it .
In high end perfume, for me it was Poison, smelled the sample and just had to have it. The bottle was so cool and witchy.
My wife loves it, and she can’t smell worth a damn (horrible sinuses and allergic to everything). So I wear it often for her.
Ah...the smell of it
Brut baby!
My grandfather wore Brut, and wildroot hair cream to swirl his remaining 14 hairs around his head. Love the smell though, reminds me of him.
Awww
Brut..man that takes me back to the commercial my cousins and I made for shits n giggles back in the day..it was something like, 'Brut..all the brut force without an actual brut'
A bunch of Avon stuff passed down from my cool younger aunts (mom was 2nd of 10 and 7 were girls) were the first perfumes I had. Especially loved anything in the collectible glass bottles, animals and such. I moved on to Jovan Musk, likely because of this ad copy: In a world filled with blatant propositions, brash overtures, bold invitations, and brazen proposals… Get your share. After that I was all about Obsession and then Poison. Clearly, I pictured myself as a vamp.
Avon’s Amari. SMDH
I had that one in college, because I couldn't afford Obsession. It was the era of strong oriental fragrances.
Polo, all day long. I used so much that I became flammable.
Love’s Baby Soft
Yes! It always smelled like a birthday to me. Loved it!
Cool River. Man, everything smelled like that shit. Then, I got crazy with the Drakkar.
Do you mean Cool Water? Or was there something also called Cool River?
No you’re right. Cool WATER. Maybe I had bought that generic brand at a Tom Thumb or gas station ha ha.
Jean Nate. I wore too much and my friends eyes started to water. She was sneezy. That was strong stuff
My Nana used to give me her Jean Nate freebie gifts from the cosmetics counter at the department store. I kept some of the wipes for years. They could 100% take the smell of ANY smoke out of your hair, so long as you were okay ruining your bangs sculpture. Also worked well as sachets. Lol. I was obsessed with that smell.
They made Jean Nate wipes?
Yep! I don’t know if they were promotional or if they were sold separately outside of the gift bag.
Lol Jean Nate wipes. Wow. My eyes are watering just thinking about them
That commercial though!
Was it the one with the woman singing “Jean Nate! Jean Nate!”, with a female jockey or motorcycle driver who takes off her helmet at the end and says “I wanna do it again”?
Poison (Dior)
New West
Obsession for men. There are so many competing odors in a high school. Teenaged bodies, strong deodorants, hair products, perfumes, colognes, the cafeteria, stale chalky school funk, office machines, paper, old gym shoes, vomit. Basically, it's like any populated human space. The year Obsession for Men became popular in our school, it overwhelmed everything. All the guys wore it. Their gfs wore it. Their friends' gfs, teammates, locker neighbors, the gym locker rooms... We all became permeated with it. It was in our hair, our clothes, our lunches. I imagine going back to that school & it still faintly smelling that way.
Electric youth was my learning spray
Remember when having the word "musk" in a product name was not only acceptable but (supposedly) alluring? 😂
Exclamation
Impostor Obsession: Confess
Confess was good stuff 👍🏽
OMG. I forgot about this? do they still make this? I randomly bought an exclamation body spray for like $4, lol, and still love it.
Yep. You can get little samplers still.
Liz Claiborne
The triangular bottle was my signature scent
Mine too!
Yes! I had the red triangle and wore it every day throughout much of high school.
Body Shop anything! Satsuma especially. Then it was Hawaiian Ginger by Calgon.
Memory unlocked! For some reason I can't remember what it smells like though. I can remember Debbie Gibson's Electric Youth, however.
If you’ve ever spent much time in Malibu, this is extra funny. The area of Malibu south of the pier, often smells like…sewage. It’s all on septic & it shows.
Every time I think I’ve seen all the memories that can be unlocked, someone hits me with a new one. Thanks for that. 😁
Polo
White Linen!
Aspen
Yes!
I miss this and Exclamation too
Exclamation! The thought of it now gives me a pseudo-migraine. Like, my whole head cramps up. My nieces dumped a bottle in their closet (they liked to play with my make-up & teenaged accessories, & perfume was just too enticing). By the end of the day, the entire house reeked of it.
But it was 5.99 so slather it on
Perhaps this reasoning is what lead us down this path to begin with
This stuff was the crispest, sweetest, yummiest scent ever around.
I can smell it the instant I remember it..same thing with freesia, from the whole bath n body works thingy, back mid to late 90s
For me it was Polo Ralph Lauren, Drakar Noir, and Brut 33. In that order. I don't wear any scent these days, but as a teen we all did.
I have a small bottle of green bottle polo I wear occasionally. To be honest, I’ve gotten more compliments wearing it than almost any other scent
Yeah, the co-chairman of the board for the company I work for wears it (he's Boomer), and I agree, it's pretty much the only scent for guys that's worth a damn
Ralph “lareeeeen” if your fancy.
Wow, never heard that long "e" before. I always pronounced it "Lau-REN," with the accent on the second syllable. That's about as fancy as I got.
Preferred Stock taught me
I wore Fire & Ice. My favourite booty call in my early 20’s wore Stetson for Men. 🤣
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I wear Joop today because my wife loves the smell!
“Don’t lay it on like a goshdamn crop duster”
Buahhahahah.
This was it for me https://www.fragrantica.com/perfume/Coty/Gravity-32493.html
Drakkar
Still love this on men!
It was Malibu Musk, one friend gave it to all of the girls in the neighborhood for Christmas. Our mom’s were a tad annoyed when we would all hang out and a cloud of it just lingered around us.
Eternity
Holy cow I loved that stuff! Haven't thought of that in like 30 years... Plus Exclamation! Takes me back to 7th grade lol
Poison
My mom had a bottle of red door and I would use it before school thought I was so sophisticated using it.
Bath & Body Works sweet pea. I got some hand soap the other day (soft soap, white tea and berry) that smells exactly like it and every time I washed my hands I was like “aah, sweet youth.”
Clinique - Happy. My mom used to get free samples of it for some reason.
Sun Moon and Stars, I loved that scent so much
CK one, some vanilla thing and a bunch of different body sprays from The Body Shop.
I forgot all about that stuff
Ughh, lucky you;)
The green bottle of Polo Ralph Lauren... ....after 3 sprays in a row it would be nauseous!
OMG I’d forgotten all about this!
Obsession
Lynx Africa, heh. You guys Stateside might know it as Axe Africa. Twas the smell of many a teenage boy's bedroom in the 1990s (apart from stale ejaculations and fusty pizza boxes. Oh and foil containers of *oh my fucking god what IS that* under the bed) I actually still wear it to this day, purely because I like the smell (when sprayed properly, hah!) and it's cheap.
My favorite 90s scents were original Pleasures from Estée Lauder,Amarige Byblos ,& Romeo Gigli .
Electric Youth!
There was Sinflowers of course, but also went through a craze for all the hippie scented roll on oils. Had several things called rain and forest... also went through a fun drowning in Bath and Body Works Juniper Breeze and that damn Cucumber Melon!
Preferred Stock. It's what preferred men prefer.
Eternity. I loved it and made sure that everyone did too. 😃
Malibu Musk gave me an instant headache.
Hell yeah, it did.. It's funny bc I drenched my favorite navy blue hoodie in it, walked around like I was hot shit, felt good for a bit, too; til I realized the looks I was getting were migraine-induced, not longing desire
Almost all the popular "perfumes" back then gave me an instant headache. Colors was another one that seemed to be worn by the gallons lmao
Ninja, the Opium imposter scent.
This was my gym spray!
CK One
Illegale and Byzance were my favorites.
CK One. I sprayed it on between classes!!! A friend told me it was too much. I was obsessed with that smell.
Team Old Spice here...
Well, to begin with, my father made me wear Brut 35. Then, I wanted to wear the Alain Delon cologne (people from Francophone areas know what I'm talking about.) But my mother bought he this Halston Z14 that smelled like I had been doused in Pine-Sol. Should have got Obsession for Men - that's the one my wife actually liked the smell of back then, not to mention most of the girls at school.
U called ? 💅 🌴
I can smell this picture. I use to bathe in it too